Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. It was a long flight but we all survived and are glad to be here. This being our first official day, we spent the morning at Living Hope learning about the organization and then visited their faciliites. It is truly amazing how they are transforming lives here and leading people to Jesus.
After visting the sites, we came back to the Team House for lunch. We spent the afternoon at Living Hope's Ocean Way sites. We were divided into three teams, one inside (thank goodness I was one of them) to work with children about 4-10 years old and another group for the 11-14 year olds. This latter group is the one I served in and the focus is an abstinence based prevention program. The other two groups were outside and ended up playing soccer.
Of course, the children here were very good at soccer and made our students (don't tell them I told you) look bad. However, we all learned something today and that was God provides and loves all his children. In our group, our leader Al, asked the students what they were studying then he asked me about the trip and I stated that our students were "learning while serving" and that is a wonderful thing. Seeing these wonderful people loving life and loving God despite their personal situations should make all of us here from Belmont realize that we are truly blessed in every sense of the word. So we are here to be a blessing to our South African brothers and sisters.
Until next time.
Bernard Turner