Another varied week, including: helping at Living Grace, football, face painting, dinner with some Koreans, worship & intercession moving to the YWAM base, hiking Table Mountain and hanging out with the kids at Sibongile.
Living Grace is a ministry for the homeless in Muizenberg. Every day they provide breakfast and lunch for around 30-40 people from the community.The food is served after a short time of singing and a devotional. While everyone is eating we've been able to talk with some of the people who attend which has been great. A few members of the team have also been able to give devotionals. We've also been able to brush up on our veggie prep skills helping prepare the food they have delivered. The singing is always fun, especially a couple of verses of 'Give me oil for my lamp' --> 'give me petrol for my Ford, keep me driving for the Lord' and 'Give me wax for my board keep me surfing for the Lord' The downside is that these verses have been stuck in our heads for most of the week (so annoying when you've managed to forget it but someone else starts to sing it).
A couple of times during the week we were able to hang out at the beach and the park playing football, face painting and getting to know some of the community. A few of the guys who played football even came back intentional to see if the team was there which has been really encouraging. Face painting started slowly (and a bit weirdly - five 'white' girls sitting on a beach drawing on each other)but eventually picked up and we were surrounded by kids. Shooting stars turned out to be a Big Hit.
On Tuesday we had a big dinner (read: FEAST) with the other YWAM team we were sharing the hostel with - a group of Koreans on outreach. It was a great time of food, translation and (of course) Korean style prayer.
On Thursday we moved down the road (literally) to the YWAM base. Thursday night was Base Worship (worshiping God, not the base) which kicked off with all the different nations one-by-one coming up the front to dance. The team did good - we got mad dance skillz (maybe from watching Step Up 3 - Minsoo's favourite movie of all time. Forever).
We finally got a van last week and so some of the team were able to Sibongile. Sibongile is a day and night care centre for children with Cerebral Palsy in Khayelitsha (one of the nearby townships). We were able to take some of the kids for a walk - something they were SO excited about. We will be going to Sibongile two afternoons a week.
On Saturday we climbed up Table Mountain. The fitter (read crazier) contingent of the team took a guide and went on a 8 hour hike. The less fit/crazy half took the 'tourist' trail up to the top (and then the cable car down). Ten points to whoever can correctly guess who did what.
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