Its always an adventure with the World Race.
With our latest ministry mission, we have been conducting camps for the kids at an enormous squatter camp called Mamelodi.
A squatter camp is a town where people just move in, the government allows people to overflow into these areas.
Most of these areas are overrun with poverty, addictions, and hopelessness.
In our current location, there are an estimated 2 million people living in only a few square miles.
That is more people than most
US cities, and it doesn’t even make much more than a dot on the map.
People are everywhere, and the homes are mostly tiny shacks settled right next to each other.
Many children are orphans, or are the head of their household.
It is common that the children’s parents are alcoholic or are addicted to drugs and are consistently non functional as parents.
It is a difficult place to experience.
But there is hope here.
For the last two days, around 200-250 kids have been showing up for the vacation camp.
Many of the older kids help to translate the teachings and the games (as most kids only speak Zulu).
Yesterday was the first camp at this location, and I spent the whole day with a handful of older kids that came wanting to play soccer.
So I played with these guys for a while, and then I got to sit them down and share the gospel with them.
They were very interested in everything that I had to say, and they asked many questions.
It was really fun to hang out with these guys and to minister to them.
None of them made any decisions for Christ, but, they all came back today.
And today they wanted to not just play, but help with the other kids.
So we put them all in different small groups, where they would hear the gospel all day from the leaders.
Pray with me that these 5 guys would come to know the Lord.
Also pray for the hundreds of kids that are at these camps, many of them have never heard the gospel before.
We are praying for a revolution to happen in Mamelodi, and for it to start this week with all these kids.
