Cape Town!!

Like Doug said, we had an amazing time working with Ignite South Africa this past week.  Click here to read more about our time there.

http://ignitesouthafrica.org/2011/05/love-in-action/

As we pulled into Qwa Qwa on Wednesday for the conference Chris Tomlin’s ‘God of this City’ was playing.  It was the perfect start to the day to look around and see such a huge city that God loved so much knowing that “greater things are still to be done in this city”.  All of the pastors and church leaders seemed really receptive of the messages and it was overall a great day.  After we packed up everything from the conference we rushed back to Harrismith to grab our stuff and drove to Johannesburg so we could make our flight to Cape Town this morning.  

We’ve only been here a couple of hours, but its been great so far!  I’ve been dying to get to Cape Town to see Casey and Sarah since I fell in love with South Africa two years ago and I am so excited that I FINALLY found an opportunity to come.  My sister, Christine, beat me to it and visited them earlier this week, but she was only able to stay for 2 days while we’re here for a month, so I think it all evens out.  I know we’re both hoping that this will be the first of many trips for us to Cape Town.  Its been over a year since I’ve seen Casey and Sarah so we’ve spent some time catching up and getting settled in.  We’ll be spending the month helping the Prince family and Casey’s organization, Ubuntu Sports Ministries, and we’ll live down the street from them with one of their neighbors.  

Casey decided to throw us right into life here by making Doug start driving so he could get used to driving on the left side of the road.  If that isn’t enough to focus on, its also a stick shift and our sense of direction is awful since we’re unfamiliar with the area.  He’s done great so far and we’ll pick up the car we’ll be using while we’re here tomorrow.  I’m technically supposed to also learn at some point, but...I might just stick to navigating and let Doug handle this one.

I’m sure its going to be a busy month, but we can’t wait to see what God has planned for our time here and how we’ll be able to serve this crazy family.

-Alison