Team up-date

Goeie dag, Molo (Good day in Africaans and Xhosa)Our bodies are slowly getting used to South Africa and we're doing better. Different people catched infections, food poisonings, diarrheas, sicknesses, cramps, colds and headaches. Saturday was the worst day when 3 of us has been staying in bed and one person got hurt before the ministry had started . We then weren't able to do anything on Saturday. In the evening we met as a team, prayed together and listened to what God wanted to say us. We realized, that we had been neclecting our daily team time.Except on Saturday, our ministries have been going quite well. The time with the children in the slum was great. Language differences meant we had to skip some parts of our program like stories and devotions but we were still able to do a lot of things with them like games, crafts and songs. Three women from the slums were helping us and also served as translators. Initially we expected about 25 children, at the second day more than 50 came to join our program. It was crowded in the modest container but the atmosphere was really good. We had a lot of fun with them and were able to recieve love as well as give it, even when it was hard to see all the misery in the slum we were surprised about the joy, hope and energy these children have.On Sunday we visited our first African church where we had communion and, of course, a lot of dancing. We were invited afterwards by people of the church to eat lunch at their houses. We then split up in teams of two and gained a lot of funny experiences...In the afternoon we had street ministry with the local church and two other DTS Teams from Hawaii and Orlando . We as a team performed two skits, gave testimonies and danced with the children for hours to worship music.This week we took part in a project called "Straatwerk" (Streetwork). It gives homeless people a chance to work and make a little bit of money. We joined them as volunteers and helped to clean the streets by picking up all kind of garbage, covering grafiti and cleaning the drains. We heard a lot of sad and unjust stories but could also learn from their work attitude. Following this we visited a children's hospital where we played and prayed with some of the children.After all those things we really enjoyed our day off yesterday with a tour to the coast and time in the shopping mall. During the next days we're going to an orphanage, to a juevenile detention centre, to the prison Mandela stayed in and again to the hospital. Thank you for thinking of us and all your prayer, we're glad to have supporters like you!Stayed blessed,loveyour Africa Team