South Africa

Hi Friends!
We are having an incredible time here in South Africa. I can’t believe that the time is so quickly coming to an end. We take the bus from Durban on Tuesday night to catch our flight to Uganda.
The opportunities here in SA have been so varied and I feel like I’ve learned so much. We’ve been staying with YWAM Durban where we have made so many new friends, enjoying the company of several other teams from other places!
Much of our ministry time has been spent in a Children’s home about a 20-25 minute walk from here. We have had our fair share of walking this leg of  the trip! We fell in love with the beautiful children and got to speak a lot of truth into their lives, but mostly we just loved on them! It was such a blessing. We were an answer to prayer to the leaders of the home as they were taking on this program for the local kids during the World Cup Vacation and had a lack of volunteers.  I loved watching the kids expressions as we did puppets. Most of them just wanted to be loved and held.
We also have gone down town a few times into the red light district to reach out to prostitutes. The girls are so young, it breaks my heart because this is all they know. We saw several of them come to Christ and 2 of them chose to come out of the places they were in, but then when they were taken to the safe home they still chose not to stay.
Some of the times we have gone down to the beach front near the fan parks  and held signs for free prayer. People are so open. They always think there is some gimmick or something, that the prayer isn’t really free, we must be up to something, but then when we offer to pray, they readily accept. People from all over the world we have had opportunity to minister to! Several times we have done dramas on the walk ways as well.
I have loved South Africa. I was able to go to the Netherlands and Japan world cup game, it was totally a blessing. I have really been growing to love soccer! I’m cheering for Brazil, all tho’ of course seeing the USA win would also be exciting!
Today was our  day off, saw some BEAUTIFUL beaches! Absolutely love it. It’s a bit breezy, but I went in to say I’ve been in the Indian Ocean.
I’ll try to post again soon. In the mean time check out Sara’s blog to see some photos as I haven’t had a time to put any on. Here is the link to hers:
www.saratress.wordpress.com