The Flores Journey

Yesterday we hopped into Andy & Leigh’s vehicle and made the ten to fifteen minute drive to Khayelitsha for an Africa Jam meeting. This meeting was primarily for us to get our feet wet and kind of know the schedule of events that are coming up with the organization. There are several opportunities that we will be checking out.
1. Men & Woman’s Bible Study/Prayer Meetings (This is held on Friday nights in Khayelitsha where men and women gather in separate groups and have their bible studies and prayer times.) We won’t be able to join them this week but next week we will be there.
2. School Outreach (We will be participating in an event that lasts several days at one of the local schools. We participated in a similar event last year when Andy and I visited the organization. Games are played with the kids, bible stories are acted out as well as discussed in small groups. Music is played and the kids get to dance and sing. We are praying that it is sunny and not rainy so that the kids aren’t stuck inside.
3. Parentless Kids (We will be working with some children that have been abandoned and or orphaned. I am really looking forward to simply loving young kids that have been simply abandoned orphaned or rejected. I can’t imagine what this communicates to a child. We really want to love these children by simply taking time and coming down to their level and hearing what their hearts are desperately crying out. I can’t wait to post some of the experiences we have in this area.
4. IGP (Eventually we are to meet up with the IGP or Income Generating Program to see how this is doing and how we can assist. We don’t have a set time yet but in the next few weeks we should know.)
These are some of the events coming up that will keep us busy in the upcoming weeks. There are also plans in the works for taking out a group of young men and women from the Khayelitsha area that have been coming to the bible studies and going on an outreach into the rural areas surrounding Cape Town. They have done it once before and saw a woman that was lame healed in front of them. They go into these rural areas sing and help out the poor with whatever they need. Cleaning yards, doing laundry etc… I am very excited about this! The kids are going to begin raising funds soon, which I am shocked at, because they live in such a poor community. But somehow they have pulled it off before and will do so again. It seems we have arrived in God’s perfect timing. There have been a handful of the Africa Jam leaders who have just left. One has gone to Minnesota to help out A.J. there and the American, Ryan, will be going to the States to work on getting some bible training. We keep hearing that our arrival is very timely. Though I was very zealous to get here earlier, the Lord had everything lined up perfectly.
(Bryan)