Day Seven

Today was great! First off we went to the local Baptist church with Ray Motzi, the local pastor & heard all about his visions for the church. He is well respected in Zim for his church planting & standing up to the government; he has been arrested several times. He then took us to the Theological College where he lectures Social Theology, we sat in on one of his lectures and before starting he got the students to ask us questions about Australia.
After a quick lunch in the car we went to a hospital in a poor part of town called Mpilo. This is where the abandoned babies up to three years old are taken. They just craved human touch, we held them & took in balloons for them to play with (they loved them). There was one little boy with such an infectious little chuckle that we just wanted to bring home. (we both wanted to bring a few of them home). They have two disabled boys there & one who is so sick with the chicken pox, he just cried & cried when he was put back in his cot.
These children & any other abandoned children will eventually go into the house which the Baptist church has bought & has made part of there ministry. This center is not open yet as they are caught up in the bureaucratic web, awaiting approval from the government first, then from Social Welfare (at least another 6 months before opening). This center will be so beneficial to these children as they will have workers from the church loving & caring for them instead of nurses in the hospital who just do it because it is there job. These children are so neglected it made me angry to see the nurses sitting back not caring for them, but I suppose it is much better than leaving them to die.
It was in the evening that we went to see the house the Baptist church has bought for their ministry; it is a huge house with loads of potential, but needs a bit of work done still.