Jabulani Africa

Its been a while since our last post and a lot has happened. Most of what has happened as been different inductive studies of the Bible, so we can leave all of that out for now (although we're excited to share what we have learned with you when we return). The past few weeks have been busier and busier in an increasingly exciting way. A few weeks ago we went in to Cape Town to pick up our FIFA World Cup tickets. We hiked Lion's Head, a mountain in Cape Town, and got our first taste of the World Cup vibe at the V&A Waterfront. Last week we went to two games, England vs. Algeria and Portugal vs. Korea DPR at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. It was fantastic, so cool to be at a proper soccer match. We had two extra tickets to the games. We brought one friend from J'Bay and gave the other tickets to different people. One guy was a huge England fan, we met him first in J'Bay briefly, then in Dubai, and then again in Cape Town, so we figured it was meant to be. For the Portugal match, one of our friends didn't show up, so I walked up to a random, middle-aged man standing alone, asked him if he believed in God, and gave him the ticket for free. It was great, we spent the rest of the day with him watching the different games and talking about life. The atmosphere here around the World Cup is amazing, I wish you all could feel it, maybe our new videos and pictures will give you a glimpse.

So our time here in Worcester, South Africa has come to a close. This past week we finished our Bible Core Course. It was a great course, I would recommend it to anyone who would like to be challenged in their faith in a positive way. Tomorrow we head out for Muizenberg, Cape Town. We have rented a room in the apartment of a YWAM staff guy who works with the base in Muizenberg. We will be there for 17 days as part of a World Cup Outreach that is orchestrated by YWAM.

Our main focus during these next weeks will be with a ministry called Justice Acts, it is an anti-human trafficking organization that started in YWAM. If you are interested in what is going in South Africa at the moment and what we will be helping with for the next two weeks, please watch Justice Acts' short documentary video called Selling South Africa's Innocence. We will be volunteering with Justice Acts awareness/prevention campaigns, prostitution ministries and anywhere they might need help.

When we are not with Justice Acts, we will be working with Cape Town Baptist Church. They are hosting a variety of soccer and township outreaches. They are also one of the central churches involved with Justice Acts. They are located down town and are also running a coffee shop during the World Cup and screening all of the games for people on the street to come in and get a free hot drink, watch the games, and talk. Its quite cold here, not as cold as Maine, but here they don't have central heating. Some people have space heaters but for the most part its just as cold inside as outside. We will also try to be at FIFA Fan Fest, downtown Cape Town, for as many games as possible. Fan Fest is a free outdoor venue for fans to watch the games on multiple giant screens. We'll be there tomorrow for the USA vs. Ghana match, what goes around comes back around Ghana...

Thanks so much for sticking with us through this past year. We really appreciate everyone who has been keeping up with us and especially those of you who have been praying for us. Please continue to pray for us. We are heading back out for outreach, only two weeks, but we will certainly need your prayers, especially in relation to the Justice Acts work. There are so many of you that we miss so much. Over the past month I've been thinking about all of the people in my life and realizing that I must be one of the richest people in the world...