Week Three

This week we officially became Youth With A Meeting.

We started out Monday with a team meeting to discuss our fairly flexible schedule. After some desperate pleading in the heavenward direction for the right opportunities and all that jazz, we had times and dates set for meetings and orientations. This happened about 10 minutes after our prayer sess – you do the math.

So we spent a couple of hours Tuesday night working out what to do and when. We went from a few set things to a million possibilities in one day – literally, we counted them all.

One thing we started this week was our human trafficking awareness demonstrations. Three people (from the team, not random passersby - we’re not that strange. Yet) had ropes tied around their wrists and ankles, duct tape put over their mouths and a large barcode taped to their chests. The rest of the team handed out flyers and talked to people about human trafficking: if they know anything about it, ways to protect their community and details of a helpline number. Some people walk past and ignore us but the majority wants to know what’s going on. We’ve met people who have never heard of human trafficking, people who can’t believe that it still happens, people who are concerned about the children in their communities and people who may have had family members trafficked. One of the most interesting responses – one woman who thought that we were trying to “shut all the women up for the new year” (or something like that – it was hard to tell, she shouted alot). Lesson learned – tie up a guy aswell.

Something else we started this week was going to Mfuleni (a nearby township). Half the team helped out at a soccer clinic and the other half did some door-to-door ministry. Fear not, we didn’t just rock up to Mfuleni and start kicking around a few footballs and knocking on people’s doors – we went with a local Pastor called Gabriel. He guided us around the area getting us to jump out the van when he saw a house he thought we should visit. He gave a brief intro on who we were and what we were doing and then gave us the opportunity to speak to the people there. We then prayed with them before we left. We visited about four homes and spoke to about 25 people in total which was cool.   

Sunday afternoon we hit the beach to test drive our Sunday Soccer Service àfurther details shall be forthcoming.

Week Three – over before we knew it.