As I mentioned in my previous post, we had set dining times.
Last year we had a specific food team which organised and set the menus for each meal time and each team was rotated on a cooking and cleaning roster.
This, year however due to the smaller team size we weren't able to have a dedicated food team. Instead we'd elicited the help of this amazing couple - Billi and Sam who also brought along their two cute-as kids on project. Eliza (4) and their baby girl. For days I was so awestruck by the fact that they had put their hands up to voluntarily plan and cook for 20 randoms they had never met - what's more is that they had never done anything like this before.
One thing they as a couple really impressed on me during the two weeks I was able to spend getting to know them was their trust in the Lord in all things and their consistent and seemingly tireless heart to care for and joy in serving others through an out-pour of love which could only have been borne from a love for God and a desire to share Christ with others.
and. so. many. times throughout project....
I remember passing though the kitchen to grab the first-aid kit on my way out to afternoon or night activities, as you peered around the corner, you could pretty much bet that either or both of them would be offering excess food to Nick (one of Robbo's temp workers) or be deep in conversation over drinks with yet another backpacker who had come in to stay for the next few days.
Occasionally when they weren't busy looking after their two beautiful girls they would come along to our droppo and got to know some of the schoolies that visited us.
One night, Billi had decided to tag along with us as we walked down the streets
Armed with one chuppa-chup, she just randomly walked up to a group of girls and excitedly yells out:
'I'VE GOT 1 CHUPPA-CHUP LEFT TO GIVE OUT TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ANSWER MY QUESTION!'.
The question she asked was:
What is the think you value the most in your life right now?
The girls paused as they thoughtfully preceded to answer the question.
The main recurring answers were mostly: Money, Jobs, Security, Family and Friends
One of the girls then suddenly flipped the question back onto Billi and in little more than the space of 5 minutes she was sharing why God was so important to her and role He played in influencing her and Sam's decision to move the entire family over to Mozambique.
yeah. i know. mozambique.
I hadn't even had time to process everything that was happening and nek minit, she was exchanging shoes with one of the girls who couldn't get into the hotel because she was wearing thongs.
Who does that!
WHAT EVEN.
I was flabbergasted. (never thought I would ever get the chance to use this word)
This degree of sacrificial love for a complete stranger, reflective of the way Jesus loved randoms he came across played out in present-day reality was something I had never single-handedly witnessed before. It was ridiculous.
Sigh. And I have not even begun talking about Sam yet.
Such an amazing couple which in general are just awesome at life.
Had been such a blessing having them both on project.
On the last night, Jase and I wrote a song for them sung along to the tune of 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' from Mulan. Hopefully James will upload it and i'll be able to link it here later!
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Edit 2:11am,
Whoops, I just realised that this post was meant to be about the food we ate and instead I got a bit carried away raving about this amazingly Godly couple.
The food was great tho - incase you were wondering.
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