Young women tirelessly prepared lunch each day for us and about 120 pastors and church leaders. Each day, a small wagon (pictured here) arrived with water barrels to facilitate the cooking, hand-washing, and dishwashing. The building, on the left emiting smoke, is the cooking “kitchen,” and the large pile of wood that has been collected sits ready as fuel for the open fires upon which the food is cooked. No chimney for the kitchen house means the smoke must find its way out through small spaces just below the roofline.
These amazing women produced cooked beef and goat in a broth, rice (2 varieties: plain white and broth- flavored), beans, cooked greens, and roasted potatos. . .with bananas and oranges for dessert. Yes, we eat right alongside the participants. And surprisingly, right on time for our mid-afternoon breaks they brought freshly brewed tea for refreshment for our training team. There was a tremendous amount of work in very primitive conditions performed by these quiet servants of the Lord.
