I am settling in back here in Cape Town. I’ve been back for about two weeks and am enjoying getting back into a schedule. I am helping out with Alpha for the next three weeks, and am looking forward to that.
I’m moving in July! One of the girls who works at the church (Sue) has found a two bedroom apartment and asked if I would like to live with her – yeah! I am excited. We went and looked at the apartment this week and it is adorable and has an amazing view of table mountain. The cost of living will actually be very comparable to what I am paying now. I will miss the people that I live with and will miss family life, but have an open invitation to come here anytime… so I plan to do that often. ☺
Things at the bookshop are going well. I spoke with Stephanie, who is the one in charge of Beauty for Ashes and is my project leader while I am here. I am not going to be helping out with Beauty for Ashes too much anymore, but will be doing some admin stuff for them. I have mixed feelings about this, but trust God has something more for me here. I am hoping to get involved in planning some type of women’s retreat or day here and would love prayer in this… as I’m not really sure where it’s going to go from here.
I am helping out with the youth group and am enjoying that. I have been moved three times as far as which grade level I am working with – I am now with the tenth graders. The kids are absolutely amazing. Although the church has many cultures, almost all of the kids in the youth group are black South Africans. About once a month we meet only with our specific life groups (as opposed to the entire youth group meeting together). So, last Friday we had a guy come and teach the tenth grade life group salsa dancing. It was a blast! Please pray that God uses me here and gives me a love for these kids like He loves them.
Love you all and appreciate you SO much!!!
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