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Sunday Day 1

by Cammy Brantzeg

The November mission trip team arrived at Saturday night.  After a quick bite to eat the team headed to bead to attempt to shift to the South Africa time zone.

Sunday morning started with the team going to Shofar church.  Louise Conradie (co-founder Mosaic) spoke at the beginning of the service about Orphan Sunday.  The congregation split into smaller groups and prayed before the service started.

After church, our team went to eat lunch at Under Oaks.  We had a beautiful view of the mountains as we ate.  


We then headed to visit Mosaic's community center for a tour and a short talk about Mosaic.




We then headed to the Mosaic community of houses so take a quick tour of a house and to meet some of the foster mothers and children.





Our evening ended at our house with a braai (cookout) with Meyer and Louise Conradie (co-founders of Mosaic), Wikus (Mosaic's COO) and Annemarie (Mosaic's fundraising coordinator).  I forgot to take a picture of the food cooking over the fire in the outdoor fireplace. :-)





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