So a little update.
I just finished my first week and two days of CPx. The first week was mainly orientation. We got introduced to the staff, and our schedule, and where we will be spending the first 3 months doing outreach. I will be working in the community(township) OceanView. Which I will give you a little more of an update and idea of it later. More to come on that! The last two days of teaching have been on how to rapidly multiple churches. and my mind has gotten blown. I felt like I just went through spiritual brain surgery. it was intense and so amazing. I already feel so challenged. The man who taught the workshop is named David Broodryk (www.discipleship.co.za). He gave us the overview of how to facilitate and disciple people of peace to rapidly multiple churches. And then the next 3 months will teach us how to practically do this model of "church."
I live at All Nations main team house, called Africa House. And I LOVE it! Half of the students in CPx live there as well, and the rest live in a house right across the street. I live in a room with the Whitney and Rachel (the Norman girls) and a girl from Florida named Nicole. There are 42 students in CPx and we represent 12 different nations: USA, UK, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Colombia and Canada.It has been fun slash interesting to live in a community with so many different races. It is challenging and so exciting! I really love having people around all the time, but the property is big so it also allows room for alone time!
I just finished my first week and two days of CPx. The first week was mainly orientation. We got introduced to the staff, and our schedule, and where we will be spending the first 3 months doing outreach. I will be working in the community(township) OceanView. Which I will give you a little more of an update and idea of it later. More to come on that! The last two days of teaching have been on how to rapidly multiple churches. and my mind has gotten blown. I felt like I just went through spiritual brain surgery. it was intense and so amazing. I already feel so challenged. The man who taught the workshop is named David Broodryk (www.discipleship.co.za). He gave us the overview of how to facilitate and disciple people of peace to rapidly multiple churches. And then the next 3 months will teach us how to practically do this model of "church."
I live at All Nations main team house, called Africa House. And I LOVE it! Half of the students in CPx live there as well, and the rest live in a house right across the street. I live in a room with the Whitney and Rachel (the Norman girls) and a girl from Florida named Nicole. There are 42 students in CPx and we represent 12 different nations: USA, UK, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Colombia and Canada.It has been fun slash interesting to live in a community with so many different races. It is challenging and so exciting! I really love having people around all the time, but the property is big so it also allows room for alone time!
Two of the students in our class are from Masiphumelele (Masi), the township community that I have worked in the last two times I have come. Vovo who is around my age who has fully given her life to Jesus and is on FIRE and the other is Lucas, a former Rastafarian who has encountered the Holy Spirit and rests in God's grace and love. It has been amazing to witness the fruit of the short term teams that have come here! And it is even more exciting to watch, especially these two step even further into the Lord's destiny and will for their lives.
This past week was Whitney's 23rd birthday. So we spent all weekend celebrating with her. We went to Boulders Beach and jumped off boulders and swam with African penguins. It is moments like that that I can't believe that I get to live somewhere so beautiful for five months. We all got super fried because we were in the sun all day, but Whitney got her first birthday sunburn! woo.
And for all the LOST freaks out there. Where we live in the valley in Capetown looks like scenery right out of LOST. So it makes the with drawls a little more tolerable.
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteFun reference, Chris and I are LOSers! Wow, lush and dense it sounds like.
I love the picture on the top of the blog, did you take it?
Thank you so much for the update and enthusiastic report from SAfrica. I hope you continue to be challenged and encouraged by our Lord and where He has you. Bless you, Keil