Up Date!

First of all: Thank you for your prayers; we had a safe journey and were already blessed in many ways!To those who don't know all of us: Our outreach team consists of eight people which 8 different nationalities, 6 students and the leader couple. The students are Kimberley, Barbadian, Krista, American, Julian, Jamaican, Justine, Canadian, Suzie, English and Sarah, Swiss. The Leaders are Samuel, Korean, and his newly married wife Kezia from Saint Lucia. Eight hours after leaving Barbados we arrived in London on Saturday morning. There Suzie's parents picked us up to their house were we spent a good time, hanging around and enjoyed internet access and good food. They were very kind and brougt us back to the airport later on. So we entered the airplane for a 2nd time and landed early the next morning, safe but tired in Johannesburg. AFRICA! Except Sam we all stepped on the african ground for the first time and one girl was so excited that she even kissed the ground...We could really feel the time difference (6 hours ahead from Barbados) and were quite exhausted. Fortunately, Julian has a friend in Johannesburg and we could enjoy abundant hospitality again! He picked us up and invited us into his home to be refreshed and well fed:-) So now there was only a long bus journey left. We drove in a nice bus through a hilly, nearly vasted area to the other end of South Africa. At 1.15pm we finally arrived in Cape Town. Arno, one of the Beautiful Gate's staff member, picked us up and brought us to the base called Beautiful Gates; our new home for the next two weeks. Our accomodations are really comfortable and make us feel blessed.For New Year's Eve we went to a public concert in Cape Town. A lot of people were there and it was a multicultural society. Today we all slept (too) long. Later on, we were introduced to the Beautiful Gate's project and what we are going to do here in Cape Town. We then started preparing for the childrens program, which we are going to run for the next 3 days. It is similar to what we've already done in Barbados. But we just learnt that the kids we're working with cannot speak English! So we have to see, how we are going to handle this. Please keep praying for us. Some of our prayer requests are:-Strength, protection and health for all of us-A good interaction with the children (communication, response, able to bring love and fun)-personal growth-discovering and using our spiritual gifts-stepping out in faith
Love From the Africa Team!!!