My Sunday

I worked with children again today, a larger group this time and it was hectic! I enjoyed the challenge but I have learnt that being older does not qualify you to work with children. No, it takes a lot more than that! You have to first of all want to have an impact in their lives. That will be the driving force behind you when the children get difficult, because they will. You also have to be firm yet patient, and you have to understand how children think.

I am working with children from various backgrounds. Some of them grew up in Christian homes and some of them call the orphanage they come from their home. I have to bring them all to one level of having a personal relationship with God. Ok well, that's not what I have been asked to do but that's what I desire to achieve. I am actually assigned sort of as their drama teacher. I am supposed to identify the talented ones and help bring out their gift and prepare them to perform before the church.

I love art and it's an exciting opportunity for me because I get to work with a few other people who are passionate about art as well as saving souls! Together we will pray for these precious children and allow God to use us to reach them and introduce Jesus to them! Pray with me friends and let's all contribute our bit towards the ultimate assignment.

Love Tumisang

It's a new day. Make the most of it; love, believe, learn and explore! God has given you the gift of life, it is now up to you to live it!

Exploring Cultures

My grandmother told me she was Mozambican, my grandfather was Mokalaka from Botswana. That's on my mothers side. My other grandmother was Molete from Botswana, and I recently learnt that my grandfather was Ndebele from Zimbabwe. What does that make me? Well, I'm just a girl who grew up in Gaborone and came to study in South Africa where I met my Swati Husband who apparently looks just like me.

Aside from reading, one thing I absolutely love is exploring different cultures. I love to learn how different we all are and how very alike we are still. I like to observe a people from a distance and come up with my own assumptions only for me to get closer and realise that there is more, much more than my little ideas of who Nigerians are, who Zambians are, or Canadians. Those are titles of pieces of land surrounded by a fence.

There is more to a culture than national names. Within that large group there are smaller communities, they identify with one another some because of language, some because of religion and some culture. It is all so varied and dynamic that no book can explain a people to you. If you want to explore people, live with them, interact with them and learn from them. How pleasurable human studies are. I am talking about those one takes upon himself to broaden his mind. After you have begun you will realise that you have taken a climb out of the box and out there there are people roaming the world, not boxed in to a name or set identity.