African Paradis

Due to the fact that South Africa is super excellent and that the USA has a plethora of young people who want to do something other than loaf all summer we have been blessed each winter that I have been here in South Africa with a missions team from the USA. Word of Life New York has a program called Student Fusion, each year Student Fusion takes groups of students on mission trips around the world.  This year Student Fusion sent out 2 teams of people: one team to the Dominican Republic, and a team of 15 people to minister and serve here in South Africa for 2 weeks.  It is obvious that people like pictures much more than words so I will let the pictures tell the story of what we did. But the brief run down is as follows Saturday-Students arrive, Daveyton ministry, Rugby game Inside the church for meeting time Sunday- Church at Daveyton, afternoon with kids, meetings It is winter in South Africa now and that caught many of the students by surp...

Shortly after returning to Johannesburg from Durban we started a HBC at Sandton Bible Church, which is the church that I regularly attend here in South Africa. I was responsible for leading some 5th grade boys and was an actor in the drama. The kids are waiting to go inside to start the day  A small portion of the 150+ kids that attended each day Each day we got up at 5:30am so that we could be to church by 6:30 where we then had our morning devos and a quick drama rehearsal before the kids arrived and we went into a frenzy of crafts, snack, games, lessons and drama that lasted until about 12 when the kids filtered home. After they left we had lunch, a closing meeting, and drama practice for the next day. After all that it was nearly 3:30 by the time we returned home. Although the days were long and at times the kids were tough, it was a blast working with the people from my local church that I would otherwise only see on a Sunday morning. My co-lead...