Jan 20
Tuesday the YWAM base Bamako had a meeting so the team had time playing, doing things together and having fun, Rebecca joined us. That the most of us discovered that there is a deck on the roof of the base. It is so nice up there! Nice view over the entire place. So we spent some time up there too.
In the night John invited us to his place to watch a movie. When we arrived Julie had prepared popcorn and brownies for all of us. We watched Evan Almighty and took a tour of there place and learned a lot about the area they live in. It was a very fun night......we all enjoyed it.
Jan 21
In the morning we had worship and intersession, then work duties with Daniel cleaning and organizing in the base. Later in the afternoon by special request of the team we went to the orphanage, this time for two hours instead for one. We all had fun playing with the babies and praying for them.
Jan 22
In the morning at the end of worship they prayed for our bus ride to Douentza. The rest of the afternoon we were packing our stuff and getting ready. In the afternoon Issouf drove us to the prison and there we had one drama. Daniel and John from the Bamako base joined us in the drama. Later Daniel preached to the boys and explained to them that we are leaving, but that the Douenzta base staff will keep visiting them.
Jan 23
This day was quite interesting. In the morning we were rushing around trying to get ready to leave the base(the bus was supposed to leave Bamako at 1 pm, so we had to leave the base at 12 o’clock Everything was happening so fast and we were a bit late, and then we tasted a bit more of African culture. About five minutes before we were supposed to leave the base and with all the team rushing, Issouf told us that we would not be leaving till the next morning. The staff at Duentza thought it would be better for us to travel only during the day time and not thru the night. So in the midst of us stirring around to get the bus loaded, all progress came to a halt. Suddenly all was so calm........we now had the rest of the day to just relax, we were not leaving anymore. We were all a bit stunned by the news and didn’t know what to say and so we all just laughed and sat down. After a while we just pulled out the playing cards and started playing UNO and SORRY all day. We were able to enjoy one more time of worship with the base that evening.