Hey HEY HEY!
Where do I even begin! I feel like I need to have a daily update to actually communicate accurately all of God's goodness! It's hard to even know where to start...How about by telling you how extremely pumped I am that the World Cup is in 2 days! Everyday at noon everyone in all of South Africa goes outside and blows their airhorn for at least 30 minutes. It is madness here! I was actually on the South African News yesterday! We matched around Cape Town as apart of a prayer walk and the news came and filmed us as I was jumping up and down with excitement! Then I was interviewed about what we were doing here and was on the South African radio for at least 10 minutes...everyone thinks I sound like Miley Cyrus, so maybe South Africans everywhere think Hannah Montana came into town for the World Cup, either way, it was amazing that the interview was broadcasted around the country and I was able to share the gospel through the radio waves! Don't worry I will sign autographs later :)!
In other news, ministry is really starting to pick up. Starting Monday, we will be doing soccer clinics in the morning, public viewing areas in the afternoon where we will be serving free coffee and talking with all the fans, and then prostitution/human trafficking ministry in the evening to late evening. Human Trafficking is such a huge issue, because just for the world cup they are bringing in 40,000 women and children as human sex slaves. Many of them have come here with promises of modeling jobs or a chance to star in a movie, only to be brought into hostels and drugged or beat into submission. We went through training on how to respond to this, but the worst thing on all this is 75% of those captive in human trafficking are from the ages 5-15. We have been trained to know what to look for and have even been working with the non-corrupt Cape Town police! I have developed a relationship with a girl who was raped repeatedly and almost sold, but was rescued in the last moments through a miracle. She has since become a Christian, and I have been visiting her everyday and helping her through the discipleship process and she is even going to do a Discipleship Training School with YWAM! We brought her the application yesterday!
Also, we have been able to talk with AIDs Victims, prisoners, gangsters, drug dealers, widows, children, youth, single parents, orphans and everyone in between about the gospel. We have seen guys be completely drunk and as we prayed for them they completely sobered up, and we have seen men with heart disease and polio healed! We have talked with witch doctors and done muslim ministry around town! We even have talked to a few crazy people which was very entertaining, one guy was convinced that Jesus was his mother and everything he said was a line from a movie, but he loved his bible we gave him and treasured it like he had never been given anything so great before. I wish so much that you all could come along with me and see what an amazing God we serve!
Just a few prayer points:
1. Safety. Soccer fans are more passionate than American football fans, so just pray for God's protection over our team and over the nation. We have had a few close calls with some of our team members, and nothing major happened, so I know that that had something to do with you prayer warriors out there.
2. World Cup team fans. It is amazing that nations are coming to South Africa! Can you believe that the world's biggest persecutor of Christians is North Korea, and their fans are coming to South Africa! We will get to share the gospel openly to the most closed country in the world! Just pray for opportunity to open up among these nations and they can be transformed here and take it back to their countries and transform their nations
3. Human Trafficking. That we will be able to have eyes to see and wisdom to fight against this as well as safety as we minister into the late hours of the night.
4. USA to not get completely smoked by England this Saturday, because we have some serious England fans around here and I will never hear the end of it if we lose! We did beat Australia in a friendly match on Saturday 3-1, so I enjoyed that OOOO SO MUCH! Also, If you are watching the quarter final and semi final games on TV, look for me behind the goals on the 9th row, because that is where my seats will be!! I will be painted from head to toe and if Brazil is playing, I have a jersey, a scarf, a hat, some brazilian flag sunglasses and some brazil jewlery, so hopefully they get a close up! My luck on getting on national tv has been pretty good, but I think I am ready for the international stage :)!
Well, that's all for now, I can't wait to see what God is going to do in the next few weeks and what type of stories I will have to share next update! We serve an AWESOME GOD! I love yall and I miss you! send updates on life in your world, I hope to send pictures soon :P
Bafana, Bafana!!!!
