Rhini

For the last two years, every few months or so I’ve headed down to Grahamstown (or Rhini in Xhosa) to visit my fellow YASC missionary, Matt. Matt and I arrived around the same time two years ago, he stayed on a second year, and is now, remarkably, staying for a third.

Here are Matt and I after church on Sunday morning.
He goes to church at the Mariya uMama weThemba monastery where he works after-school with these four boys.
Nomamiesi is the Xhosa woman who prepares the snack for the after-school program Matt works at. She also is raising several of the children in the program at a farm outside town. On every visit, Matt and I pay her a visit, drink LOTS of tea, practice our Xhosa, sing, and generally enjoy the benefits the surrogate motherhood.
On Sunday, I drove her and a few of her large brood to church.
I’ll miss Grahamstown.