I’ve been in South Africa now since December 3rd. I’ve been here at our ministry site in White River since December 5th.
We are partnered with a church here called Manna Church.
It is planted on a huge property where we are living in our tents and are doing lots of things to work with them. So far we’ve painted, done artsy things, done set up for the Christmas play, gone out to the villages for orphanages Christmas parties and mostly we’ve been gardening and getting ready for our performance of the Hoedown Throw Down as a part of the Christmas Eve play.
You should see the size of this garden, but mostly you should see the amount of weeds in this garden. It basically looks like a jungle. Underneath all of these weeds are some cabbages, leaks and such. As for our hoedown, you should see our dance moves. I’m not really a fan of choreographed dancing, but man do we have this thing down.
Last month I had a really hard time blogging. Which was weird for me, because month 1 and 2 I found it quite easy and freeing to just sit and write and it all just came out in the form of a blog. Then month 3 in Macedonia I couldn’t come up with words, so I posted a video for you guys.
The work we did in Skopje, Macedonia was incredible, The Lord really showed me how much of a heart I have for youth ministry the past few months. Then, especially month 3 when I saw all of these different ministries working together in the city of Skopje and I just saw the perfect place for a youth ministry to fit in there.
It was super cool to see God moving in that way in Skopje, and I do believe that I will be back there at some point.
Now here we are in South Africa. 10 days in. 8 days at our ministry site.
And again, I have no words to put together for you all.
Yet I feel like I have so many words.
And following Thanksgiving and it being December and the month of Christmas and giving and everything I wish I could say that most of the words I have to give are bright and cheery. But they aren’t.
The truth is that I am struggling this month.
I like to think that as my supporters you’d like to know about the ups and the downs.
This is a down.
This ministry is awesome. Our host is incredible. Being here this month with just the women of our squad is so cool.
But when we flew into South Africa, we stayed at a hostel in Johannesburg for 2 days and I kind of felt the Lord trying to tell me something.
Looking back I see what that was. He was trying to tell me that this month was going to be a month of spiritual battle. And as always, He was right.
I don’t really know what else to say right now, I’m kind of learning it as I go. The Lord keeps reminding me that He is good. That phrase keeps popping up. He is good.
So I will sit in His goodness and you better believe that I’m gonna fight through it.The enemy doesn’t get hold here.
So please pray alongside me against this. Please pray for strength. Please pray for truth to come out of whatever darkness is here. That James 4:7 will prevail. “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
My God is good. He will continue to fight for me as I fight for Him.
