We just finished a week of children’s camp at Rifilwe… a community living project in South Africa. Praise God, over 200 children came. Jane and I led a small group with over 25 children most days! WOW! Here is a summary of pictures and stories for you! Enjoy!
It was so cold one particular morning!
Which only made it harder to see shivering children, knowing many of them did not even have a blanket to sleep under last night, much less a bed! We were teaching about God’s love! And this particular day we taught about how God always provides. As we were sitting there looking at shivering children. We gave them our scarfs to wear, we held them in our arms. And they never complained, not once! Later that day Allison and h
er team went to the nearby squatter camp where most of the children live.
NO KIDDING! There was a South African business woman there with a bag of kids hats and gloves!!! Divinely Random! She knew nothing of the camp, she said that she did not know how to distribute the items, she just felt God tell her to come! GOD PROVIDES!!! The next day we had hats and gloves for everyone! And, the sun came out!!!
Meet Katlego!
My little Man of God! One day we taught how God’s love saves. We made salv
ation bracelets with the kids and MANY invited Jesus into their hearts that day. On the rec field Anele (my little bully) and Katlego were arguing. Long story short, God took over my tongue and I started speaking about forgiveness, having each others backs as brothers, what would Jesus do. I was about ot encourage Anele to apologize to Katlego, when Katlego looks at Anele and says, “I forgive you Anele”… NOTHING, Nothing I could say or do, no song we sang, no game we played, nothing could have ministered to Anele the way that Katleg
o did that day! Everything changed, the Holy Spirit dropped, Anele got a big smile on his face, right then, right there, he knew what Grace was! And he knew what love was, he had a new friend! And he met with Jesus that day through Katlego!
He was still a hurting boy acting out for love and attention, but now he was a bully with a passion! A bit later the older boys were fighting at the water hose while Katlego waited, as he always did. Anele stepped up and pushed them all out of the way and laid down the red carpet for Katlego to have a drink. During bible story time they sat under a tree to work on their project together.
Then during lunch Anele searched for Katlego to sit next to him. As we handed out plates hungry Anele snatched one for himself. AND Katlego quietly and calmly said “No Anele” and he pushed Anele’s plate over to give it to the young boy sitting next to him. Anele started to react, then with a look from Katlego, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit, he bowed his head, grinned a little, a waited. Katlego then gave his own plate to Anele and himself waited to be the last served! HE IS ELEVEN YEARS OLD!!!
PRAISE GOD!!! PLEASE JOIN US IN PRAYER FOR ALL OF THE CHILDREN WHO MET JESUS THIS WEEK. PLEASE JUMP FOR JOY WITH US AND THE ANGELS AS THESE CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!!!
That’s all for now. We head to Alabanza in the morning. And next week we start all over with a new groups of kids! Pray for us!!!
