Wow I just wrote a rilly long up date but just lost it and now I'm geting rilly sleepy so I guess I'll have to we write it later..
Sorry and I love you!!

HEY!!!!

Hey,
I can write to much. I'm in a internet cafe in Namibia. I'm doing rilly Good. We are working at the Beautiful Gats school... Keep me in your prayers. We are in the last lage of our time hear. Its not always easy. But I know God is giving me strangth to get threw every day..
With love Krista,

My Up date!!

Hey,
Wow, We are now finished our Working in Beautiful Gates, Cape Town now we are off to Beautiful Gates in Namibia. We head out to our next destination at 8:00am in the morning and have a 21 how. bus ride... That should be lots of Fun (just kidding)!
The time hear in Cape Town had been life changing for me. One of the biggest lessons I have lirned while being hear is that you can have Joy in the midst of struggles. That true happyness is not about what you have but who you have(God, family and friends). Life is beautiful don't waist it.
I have fallen in love with many beautiful children. I wish I could tack home and mack them my own. I don't know if I'm the one that has benefited more by loving on these children then they have. Because as I love my heart is growing bigger and I'm lirning from each one of them.
To give is so much beater then to receive. To give to the neddy even when you don't have much to give but to give it from you heart with love attached.
I worked next to individuals that have No place to lay there head but on road side bench. And fight to just mack a nuffe money to survive.
Our team reach out to the broken man of South Africa and shire the love of the one who has seat us free. That there soles don't have to be held in chains and forced in to a prison even if there body's are. Because God can set them free. Praise God!! I was so privileged to shair with the men just a taste of what God has for them and to shair the life I have found in Him.
I have Seen this Beautiful Country The munitions, Ocean and even pengunis.. Yesterday I watched the most beautiful Sun set...
Well this is onley a taste of every thing that I have been doing.
. I'm not shore if I'm going to be able to write so keep me in your prayers as I go in to a new Journey.....
Love you so much Krista Rose Parker

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

HEY,
I cant say much right now But just want you to know that Our team is geting back on there feat. I'm fighting but I still am not well. But God is giving me the strangth to get threw every day.. So for the past 2 days where able to go on the out reach prais the Lord!!
Thanks for all the prayers..
Love Krista :)!!!

Keep me and my team in your prayers I'm so not feeling well. And yesterday they took a girl to the hospital. But she is doing good to day thow..
Pray for health protection on this trip!
Love you all Krista,

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!!!