my muzu rant

Muzu
This is a sad story if I ever have to tell one. Well the Saturday after I had that sad experience with the little boy with the hurt foot things really got out of hand. The Muzu boys have a soccer team and they play in the COTN league. Well they are kinda pushy and violent and the ref (a COTN staff) eventually kicked them out of the league due to violence. They tried to beat the ref up, though he got away fine. The boys threatened saying don’t bring the azungus back here again. COTN feels the threat is worth waiting to talk to the chief. Well in true Malawian style no one has talked to the chief and there are only 2 muzu visiting days left. Ughhhhhh. This is my favorite place in Malawi and I have been kicked out and I didn’t even get to say goodbye… I am beyond mad upset or frustrated. I hope to get to go say goodbye to them because I don’t want to be that white person who said they would come back and just didn’t care enough to. Anyone can ask my directors I am fighting them tooth and nail on this one. So for the last Tuesday and Thursday I had to pick a new field. I went with my friend amy to her field that is walking distance and we do about the same things. Only its not with my kids and it made me more sad. Today we went there was this big bus there blasting music. It was a Christian group who said they organized a soccer tourni. Only they took the teams COTN created and had them play so they didn’t do anything at all. Then at half time they had a talk organized. Well we thought ok give it a chance and here is there talk: you are loved. Jesus loves you. None of you were a mistake. In John 3.16 it says for God so loved the world… Now raise your hand if you want to accept Christ into your heart. (picture little Malawian children just a few of them though raising their hand… their friends look around and raise their hand afraid they may not get the free stuff that might be coming) then they do a 10min prayer to save the children. Following that they direct the kids with hands up to the front of the bus and hand out flyers to the YC conference to a bunch of 4-10 year olds. Not sure how those kids will be able to get down town but yes please give them a paper in English they cant read. Then they plugged them in to Zero churches or organizations near by and gave them no bible in which to learn about who Jesus is and what he expects from us and what is right and wrong. But they did nicely treat them all as if they are an unreached population. Well if anything this area is over churched and under “gospeld.” Please don’t talk to them like they don’t know who Jesus is. Please ask who already does believe in God. Maybe even ask who goes to church. You could also find out who believes in witch craft… it’s a stretch but maybe find out which kids are gulus or whos parents are to find out what they struggle with. And maybe they shouldnt drive their dumb bus in blast their music so the kids cant sing their songs and hear their own beautiful voices and share a culture of beauty with you…and then hand out Canadian flags as if that has anything to do with Jesus and then drive off and never see these kids again. But Yes count hands and go to bed at night thinking 50 some odd children now believe in Jesus. I would rather have gone to Muzu and allowed some 18year old boy punch me. RANT OVER.