Prayer need

Please, pray for our team - as we are comming to the end of our trip. Pray, that God may give us strenght, as we all tired...

Drakenstain

We visited drakenstain prison another time. This time we did a programme for them. They enjoyed it very much.

They were older guys than our usual B4 guys, but it was a nice change - to get attentive listeners. We were just sorry that we did not have more time to spend with them...

On the end we had lunch with prison pastor and discussed the problems of bringing christianity into a prison. It was a nice to receive all of this information. The doors for Christ are open in South African Prisons.

Saturday 16th of September

De Novo detention centre

This detention centre is like a little prison for light criminals. The staff there is really friendly people. Kids were listening well to the programme. One thing I have understood. Many criminals are not stupid people. Even some of them are not able to read and write, some of them are really clever. The only problem that they are clever in a bad way…

Bbq at Justin and Ingrid

It was really good time of fellowship with youth leaders from St. Peters Church. Especially for me. Me and Justin discussed different subjects of life and ministry. Wow! It was great. You know, I started to find out that I really enjoy talking…

Johny

Bunnies – that is how gay people are called in prison. We have 3 of them coming for our programme. I do not know their stories, but from what I have heard they were raised as “girls”. The life is hard for them in prison – every one laughs at them, sometimes they beat them up…

But there is other point about it. I was talking to the guy named Johny, and he pointed at them and started laughing. And the theme of the day was “Sin”. We read the place of the scripture in Romans 3:22-23 “Because there is no difference…” . And I pointed that when God looks at him, He does not look at Johny any better as he looks at one of those “bunnies”. And Johny stopped laughing and had deep thought…

South African Lifestyle

This is the type of houses black and colored South Africans mostly live in...

Devotion in Medium A

It was so great to worship God again with guys from Medium A. But we also missed our groups from B4.



Summarizing the work done

On lunch time we went through the work that already been done. Praise God, everyone was enjoying their time ministering to God.

St. Peters Youth

We had another meeting with St. Peters youth, and it was another opportunity to share our testimonies.

Mans breakfast

We had to wake up at 6am, as we had breakfast in the church at 6:30am. To tell the truth I did not want to go for it, as I was really tired and wanted to have spare hour of sleep.

The message they guy was speaking on the meeting was not really relevant for our mission trip, but one thought really touched my heart. It was interesting idea: “What we do and how we behave have impact only on ourselves, but on our children, grandchildren down to 4th generation.” And the children you are having the impact are not only your children, but it can be your nephew, or the friend of your children… Really interesting and truthful thought.

Another B4 day

Those young people are amazing. It is really hard to believe that many of them have murdered someone…

They pretend that they are very open with us. But talking to different people you realize that actually they are lying to you. But from another side it is a strange feeling of God’s love inside in you – you still love them even you know they are not honest with you.

Small group

We went to the one of St. Peters Church small groups. It was really great to have fellowship with other believers. The group consisted of few middle aged and senior people, who were very pleasant. We shared our testimonies and told them about our mission. They were listening with real interest, asked many questions. Again, it was really great to have fellowship with the other believers.

Small group in B4

Today the programme went much better. We knew the people we were working with. We knew their names, a little beat about them…

Some of them were just kids, who were lost in this life. Some of them were people who were looking for God. Many of them know about God, but may be just one or two of them really know God. They were asking many questions, and we came to understanding, that many people know the facts, verses, passages of scripture, but they are not sure about how to interpret them… Some of them were saying that they wanted to change their life…

Ocean View

After lunch we went to the Ocean View, which is colored community not far away from Fish Hoek. Yes, it was real Africa. Africa I know. Africa I have been to before. Poor houses, dirty streets, many kids on the streets…

We visited white family, who decided to live in that colored community. They have shared their story with us.

They are kind of missionaries. They preach the Gospel with their life… They just want to show those people that God is the same for blacks and whites. They are living the life not many people would agree to have… But their life is the powerful testimony.

Tuesday 12 of September

In the morning we had another programme in the prison. Oh, It was great. The guys behaved themselves much better than yesterday, and there were more of them coming.

After general meeting we had small group time. It was really interesting to hear that they know very much about the Bible, they have many interesting and correct thoughts, but they do not know Jesus yet.

We discussed the topic of sin, some of them knew that they were sinners, but they did not want to do anything about that.

We set up the contact with many guys, and it is so hard to remember their names. Johny, Rhyno, Michael, Ashley, Clinton, Clayton, Usher, Carlo, Nicolas… Every one have their own story, thoughts, hopes…