Dream and Reminder

What an amazing week this has been! I moved into the church house campus at Jeshua Community Church and became an official member of Team indiAfrique. We are five young people who are living in intentional community and doing outreach projects for the surrounding community and in area schools. There is one South African of Indian descent, one Black , one Colored, one American and one German.

         
As Team indiAfrique Craig, Robert, Elzemieke, Daniel and I went into three different schools this week. At Lenasia South Secondary School we met with thirteen grade tens who are very interested in doing community service projects. We encouraged them to see themselves as leaders in their own school. We are hoping for continued contact with them during the remainder of the school year. At Ennerdale Secondary School we motivated the grade twelves to work hard and to work smart so that they can have 100% pass rate in their class. We also met with the RCL students and encouraged them similarly as the students at LSS. On Friday we met with Dale Abrahams the Principal of Sierra Nevada Primary School about the possibility of offering workshops during the coming week. He was very excited by the skills we could bring through drama, teaching, games, and discussion. We will be at Sierra Nevada from Tuesday through Friday of this week.

          
We also had the opportunities over the last week to meet Christopher Jaftha, a working stage actor, clean the bathrooms with Aunty Elizabeth, open our home for visitors a few times, and take prayer walks through the neighborhood together.

I have absolutely loved living in community. We have to share the responsibilities of cooking and cleaning, but we eat together and joke to together and learn from each other and have become good friends very quickly. I am sad that we only have one more week left of this intentional community living experience. I truly value the lessons I have learned from Elzemieke, Robert, Daniel and Craig.But I know that this will be a blessed week of beloved community and personal growth. Your continued prayers are appreciated. I will leave you this week with a little phrase we've learned from Daniel, “Ich liebe dich.”