This is what happens when you find a
random shopping cart on your way to town...
random shopping cart on your way to town...
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Wednesday February 22
Maisa, Julia, Ana and I
Proud chefs with our brigradeiros (chocolate Brazilian sweets, yummy!)
We raised 383 Rands (~about $50) for Maisa's outreach.
Sunday February 19
Camps Bay:
This beautiful beach town has both the Atlantic Ocean and mountains...
This beautiful beach town has both the Atlantic Ocean and mountains...
The water was way too cold to go swimming and there were sharks!
Saturday February 18
Look closely to see seals chilling at the end of the dock,
sunbathing with a view of Table Mountain!
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Thursday February 16
Litche Lessons
Ruan teaching me how to break the spikey skin
before eating the sweet grape-like inside!
Wednesday February 15
Welcome Home, Sandra!!
Joyful reunion with my roommate after she spent over a week
in the hospital with a twisted intestine.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Sunday February 12
YWAMers waiting to go on our prison outreach. The inmates we spoke to had amazing stories, I was so glad to meet and pray with them.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Thursday February 9
Today we did an exercise using styrofoam cups, balloons, and pens. We wrote on the cup everything that holds up back from experiencing freedom in the Holy Spirit. Then we "broke free." My classmates and I crushed our cups by blowing up the balloon inside, symbolizing how we can let the Lord expand us. We let our balloon (spirits) soar, showing that He can lead us to go beyond what we could ever imagine.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Tuesday February 7
A few of the soaps and disinfectants we used on our feet...
Like little girls we screamed in disgust as the smell of sewage hit our noses and we realize we were ankle deep in sewage water!!
Leaving our shoes behind in the muck, we ran back to the dorm as fast as we could and hopped in the shower, scrubbing our feet for an hour!
After tons of soap, screams of "this is so gross!," and nonstop laughter we sprayed our feet with perfume and finally felt clean again!
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Monday February 6
The view from my window:
If you look close enough you can even see the hail! Yes, hail! Cranberry sized ice clumps falling from the sky... such peculiar African weather!
Sunday February 5
Another beautiful day in Cape Town!
1. Sea Point Beach
2. Dinner at "The Train," an actual 1920s train
Saturday February 4
Bernard and I looking at urchins, snails, and other beautiful sea creatures.
Tuesday January 31
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Monday January 30
Rosa and I needed to gather the Avian Park children for dinner so we set out walking up and down the streets (running with sewage, litter, mangy dogs, tin shacks…you get the picture) when this blind man outside a house starting yelling like crazy. We just ignored him, thinking he was drunk. Then Falla (our missionary friend) went over to talk to him. This man was yelling for help, for us to call an ambulance because his wife was very sick, maybe even dying. Falla went into the house to see the wife and make sure she wasn’t just drunk (alcoholism runs rampant here). He came out of the house and told us to go in with the woman while he searched for someone with a cell phone to call an ambulance.
Okay, here’s the thing. I was very nervous in this neighborhood and didn’t feel safe going into this house. There were lots of drunk men outside it, no electricity so very dark, and just all around dodgy. Earlier that day in class, our lecturer encouraged us to walk in Faith not Fear. So I asked God for courage and protection, took a deep breath and went into the house with Rosa….
Boy, am I glad I did.
Immediately I saw the woman on the bed, curled up completely crippled. Rosa thought she was already dead because she was barely breathing. A neighbor was there too to explain a little, so we lifted her shirt and saw her back was completely askew… honestly I’ve never seen anything like it and don’t know how to medically explain it but she had very thin skin so you could see all her bones and muscles. She was very bony, with an odd growth that made her spine look crooked. We laid our hands on her and started to pray. The woman winced in pain at the very light touch to her skin… in such excruciating pain she could not even speak. We asked God to comfort her in her pain, to give her peace, to take away the disease and heal her, to give her new life in Him.
As we were praying, Rosa felt under her hand the skin move and soften, muscles contract and release. She couldn’t articulate exactly, but said it felt like bones moving beneath her hand. Suddenly the woman started crying in Afrikaans. I didn’t know what she was saying but I knew they were tears of joy. I looked down at her back and saw it was smooth, God had healed her! She immediately sat up and began walking, crying out “Praise God, I have no more pain!!” again and again.
The healed woman cried that she didn’t use to believe but now knows there is a God and He is alive! She said she will thank Him everyday for as long as she lives.
It was such a neat testimony because as we hugged her and walked out of the house together many neighbors had gathered outside the house because they knew we were there praying. Good news travels fast, and for the rest of the evening the neighborhood was filled with joy because of the miracle.
It was INCREDIBLE!! God is so good!
I never in a million years thought I would be a part of God healing someone like that … I’m still speechless. It was such an encouraging and humbling experience. :)
Thursday January 26
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Wednesday January 25
Sunday January 22
Saturday January 21
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