We had another great week in Greytown and again we are amazed at how God has orchestrated a way for us to connect with kids in spite of the government employees strike which is being honored by the teachers.
As a result of the strike, one team had access to the school bus from Shalom Ministries to move some students away from there school to place where it would be safe for them to meet. This was at a preschool (Creche) across the valley. It was a very steep climb in that old bus and it took about an hour to drive the distance. We had to borrow a generator from a neighbor to have electricity to run the video equipment. Shalom Ministries is the church founded by Angus Buchan of Mighty Men and Faith Like Potatoes fame. The second team also had to drive a long distance over very rough roads to reach there teaching destination. There was no electricity in the building and a long cable had to be run from a nearby building to get electricity for the equipment to show the videos.
We also got to spend the evening with the children that live at the orphanage founded and run by Angus Buchan. These kids all appeared in the Faith Like Potatoes movie. Pastor Patrick Zondi who is the pastor we are working with in Greytown used to be an Elder at Shalom Fellowship and is still actively involved at the orphanage.
We have come to the end of the first two weeks of our mission activity. We are spending the day today at the beach front in Durban to wind down and relax after a very full two weeks of ministry. We started out by an OD (Ocean Devotion) on the beach. We took our devotion books with us but ended up just absorbing the glory of God's creation on the beach. We spent the rest of the day buying African curios and walking along the sea front. Some of us were handing out tracts and witnessing to people we encountered. Some of us spent some time in the food court at the casino on the beach front since that was the only place we could find a WI FI connection. Some walked over to the new stadium that was just built in Durban for the Wold cup. Tomorrow after breakfast we will be heading back to the King Shaka airport to turn in our rental van and head back to Johannesburg. We will say farewell to most of our team as they head straight back to the USA. Four of us will rent another car and and head to Pretoria where we will be staying for the next four days. Each day we will drive out to Soshanguve to minister with Zodwa and her teams.
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