Monday, May 17, 2010

Guys Camp/Prince Albert

Short update for you'all: more to come soooon!

Two weekends ago, the guys on our team had a men’s camp with a bunch of ex-gang leaders from Sir Lowry’s. They played paintball in the mountains and rugby on the beach. Our team laid out the gospel, along with the warning that following Christ is tough and requires sacrifice. Three guys in the camp accepted Christ, including Night, (who we now call Neals) the biggest leader of the bunch. I’ve been so blessed to see God crash into Sir Lowry’s with His love, and I’m even more excited to see what happens these next few months. God loves to take rebel enemy leaders and turn them in to passionate preachers of God’s word. All of the guys on the camp committed to meeting with us every Wednesday to get discipled (which is the really important part). I’ve been learning about what can happen when Christ followers get that His gospel is powerful and lay it out for people with boldness, letting God do the rest.

This last week, a group of six of us went up to a place called Prince Albert to meet with the young people and train them to do sports ministry for world cup. Prince Albert is a small mostly colored town five hours north of Cape Town. We spoke in classrooms, churches, and school assemblies. We spent the nights in a boarding school with the students, which was super fun. We never had any definite plans each day, but God was really faithful to provide us opportunities to serve. One of the highlights of the week was watching Keith, one of our teammates who is from Prince Albert, speak and serve in his hometown. One of the needs and, therefore, the themes of our messages to the churches was unity both among churches and within churches, in order to work for God’s mission. We will be returning to Prince Albert next month during world cup to do a community wide outreach, partnering with the churches we trained with during this outreach.

That’s all I want to write now. I’ll send a longer post soon. Thanks for your prayers!

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