Pictures WONT load in Africa. . . FORGIVE ME!
Coffee Bay South Africa
(Measured by weeks)
This month 4 teams are doing ministry together along with
our squad leaders and REAL LIFERS [College aged people interested in the WR so
this is their exposure trip for one month they join us on the field]
36 people in all.
It’s the end of week one and I’ve made it through all of the
hectic scheduling! We will start ministry tomorrow and that means we will start
our soccer camp and our surfing camp.
I’ll be surfing. . Not real life right? Surfing the coast of
South Africa, I may just have favor with the big man!
PS. We fall asleep each night to African drum sessions-The
backpackers place we are staying has a live band EVERYNIGHT, yes I mean every
night. . just as you start to fall asleep the tribal music begins!
T.I.A
(This is Africa)
Well, week two has come to an end and so has the terrible
weather! We are all tenting this month, yes that means living in a tent ALL
month. . . and Thus far, it’s been freezing and hurricane-like rain storms. . .
I’ve heard multipul times that it does not rain during the winters but once
again God’s pulled the trump card and has been stirring things up here!
Speaking of stirring things up, as I previously mentioned,
we are tenting. Well, I no longer can ‘tent’ due to wild pigs. My tent has been
demolished, thrashed, vandalized, ripped to shreds (along with many of my
things) by wild pigs. One again, God showed up and I took a deep breath and
thought. . hm, my pack will be 2.5lbs lighter now I guess!
*Truthfully, the worst part about this whole thing was not
that the pigs ate all 10 of the apples I just purchased, or that they ate the
only bag of sunflower seeds I would have had in the past 4 months. . my real
lifers brought me some from the states. . . No the biggest issue was that ALL
of my freshly hand washed ‘clean’ clothes were now covered in mud.
It’s week three and that schedule thing I thought we’d
figured out week one is still changing just about daily, good thing I am a
WORLD RACER and I left my expectations back in the states.
BAPTISIMS
This last week we are going to see the kingdom down on
earth! Each day we’ve met the kids from the surrounding villages on the beach.
We start each lesson with warm-ups to stretch, but also to legitimately warm up
that water is FREEZING, we then share a message/children’s story and then pray
over our time together.
It’s time to see what God’s been doing in the hearts of
these kids outside of our time together!
Praises!!
More than 50 children gave their lives to Christ this week
and we were able to dunk-em. . . .Moments like this make destructive pigs worth
it.
God is moving here in Coffee Bay, he’s absolutely visible
everywhere you look!
