CHE.............Day 3..............

Let day 3 begin...........we spent a part of the morning discussing the story in Luke 5 about the man that Jesus healed. We discussed the role that his friends had in carrying him and letting him down through the roof top. We then discussed principles of working within the community and character traits that are needed.

Later in the day each of us had to take something from outside the classroom that represents a problem in communities that we see. We also had to return to the class with three leaves.

Each person had to discuss what their problem was and how it was represented. We then placed everything on the floor in a line.

Sophie, who will be living in Ethiopia, uses a napkin to represent mosquito netting used to prevent malaria.


Here Joanne, who is living in Africa, uses a dead branch to represent soil depletion.

These flowers were placed by Kristi, who travels to India, to represent that 1 of every 4-5 children die under the age of 5 years.

After all 21 objects were placed on the floor, each person had to take their three leaves and place them by the ones they thought were the most dangerous to the community.

When the leaves were counted, the top 4 problems were:

• Water problems-----which included dirty water or not having any water


• Malnutrition


• Sanitation issues


• Illness and disease

Here,Tim is trying to convince Carol of participating in a project in which she has no interest in.

Tomorrow will be more education, researching scriptures and learning how to educate a community on what they feel is important while also integrating spiritual concerns.