I am overwhelmingly ecstatic to announce that I raised all the money I need! God is so good!
I had calculated that I was £100 short. Yesterday I went to see if I could pay part of my balance with the money that I had and turns out I owed a lot less than I thought and actually had some money left over! And then I went to rebook my flight home, and it was about £500 less than I thought it would be! I spent most of yesterday humbled to tears.
The YWAM team and I leave for South Africa on June 24. We will fly into Dubai and then down to Cape Town. The total travel time is something like 18 hours. After landing in Cape town we will make our way over to Worcester where we will stay for the majority of the outreach.
For the first month we will stay at a school and host week long youth camps for local impoverished high school kids. We will be mainly working with the youth in the area along with sponsoring the building of prayer houses on the school grounds and working with food ministry.
The second month we will move to another school, a college this time, and do some of the same things. There is a possibility that we might move to the Worcester YWAM base for a week or so before we leave but that is not determined yet. There will be opportunities to go into Cape Town, go to the coast and see PENGUINS (!!!), and reach out to the people in the slums.
Please pray for us as we work with kids and youth workers in the white, black and colored schools and communities. There is significant differences between the three cultures and we want to bring healing and compassion to these areas.
We will arrive back at The Kings Lodge on August 12 and debrief week will start on August 17. Graduation for the DTS class is August 20 and I am leaving for Columbus on August 22. August 22, @ 3pm I will be back in good old O-H-I-O. :)
I am so excited to see what happens in the next 9 weeks! God is changing me so much and teaching me so much. I am not who I used to be.
Please keep me and the team in prayer for unity, grace, stamina, encouragement, resource, enthusiasm, energy, joy and courage as we step out of our comfort zones a little more.
As always, please stay in touch! My Skype is annaelizabeth89, contact me on Facebook or send me an email. I will have to go into town to get internet in South Africa but I do want to stay in contact. :) I will need the encouragement. :)
Missing you all back home and those that I have met here in England,
Warmly,
Anna Elizabeth
