Musa is one of Seed of Hope 's staff. He is a special mentor to a group of teens meeting every Thursday after school. Les and I were invited to attend. Here we were faced with 20 teenagers both girls and boys in a circle and the session began. Musa asked everyone to tell about a challenge we faced in our lives. Most of the people mentioned drugs and alcohol, being lazy and not liking school. Then they asked me tough questions like what is love, how many girl friends I had and what would I do if I won the lottery. I said that God is love in the purest sense. They were just interested in having many lovers. There was only one who said she had the same boyfriend for a year. I was wondering how this attitude contributes to the high rate of Hiv in the community. I prayed for God's love to touch them so that they may feel good about themselves and not be tempted by Satan's offers of quick pleasures with painful consequences. Hope and encouragement is what they need.
The next day we had the pleasure to work with Goodman who is a maintenance man at Seed of Hope. He is 47 years old, gets up at 5 every morning to run before working all day. Then when he gets home, he works on his house, making bricks one at a time for walls. He has no help since all the men he knows just want to drink. Goodman is also a cyclist and will easily go 90 km in 3 hours. He runs an annual ultra marathon of 90 km from Durban to Petermaritz. I pray that this man can be a good mentor to those teenagers. There seems to be no sports activities. If there were maybe there wouldn't be so much drugs and alcohol abuse. This feeling of hopelessness would then be addressed. Lots of tough challenges.
Nico
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