Kransoek and Plettenberg Bay

Kransoek 1 week:

Almost every place we went during outreach there was rain at some point in the week. This week unfortunately was VERY rainy, it limited our ministry a bit. The highlight for me was when we did an openair, I think it was Thursday but man this day our team bonded so much haha this day was a huge highlight for me when I look back on outreach. An openair is like a church service outside, so we did dances dramas and testimonies. After our program we all split up and prayed for the crowd, whooo it was powerful, many people came to Christ. I had kids running up to me asking CAN YOU PRAY FOR ME, sometimes all these kids need are just loving arms.

Other then that day this week was one of the toughest emotionally and spiritually for me. I felt very uncomfortable with some situations, I was fighting with a girl on my team and felt pretty hopeless that we were ever going to work things out. During this week I read through the book of Acts and one story that encouraged me was a story about Paul in chapter 28. A viper snake comes and bites him, “He however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.” (v. 5) He just shook off the snake, it made me realize that when I am connected with God, spending time with him and something like a snake comes and attacks me I should not fear just shake it off and move on with life.

New Horizon Plettenberg Bay 1 week:

House visits was the biggest way we ministered, that and church services. We do devotions as a team every day and the beginning of the week we realized we had some serious problems as a team that we worked through. This week I still was fighting with the same girl, but it was a silent fight, as I was in quiet time one day praying I remembered a verse I read earlier in Romans 2:1, 3

“Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things...Do you suppose, O man-you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself-that you will escape the judgment of God?”

whoooo that hit me hard, I realized man I have been focusing and judging this girl so much it was blinding me of the things I was contributing to the situation. For awhile I thought it was only her that was doing wrong, then I read that verse and it slapped me in the face. So I prayed that God would give me the words to speak to her, I took a third person and spoke with her. After that we were able to realize both of our OWN wrongs, we decided to focus on ourselves which really helped us. During house visits we were even able to use our whole ordeal as an example to other girls.

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18