Sunday evening!

Hi all!!

Its been a really busy but good weekend. Saturday we ran a football tournament for around 70 kids in the bright sunshine for most of the morning. The football skills accompanied Biblical teaching and values, for example having completed a shooting drill we then talked about what our aim in life was and what we wanted to do (score a goal). The teams played a round-robin style knock out tournament whilst doing the skills too. It was a really great time of fellowship with the kids as a local mission team ran the event allowing us to get alongside the children and spend time with them.

Having very much enjoyed that I watched most of a local football game where a few friends were playing and then went out for a goodbye meal with many of the Living Hope staff and volunteers. An American couple are leaving here tomorrow having made a great difference in Masipumelele (a local township) that Living Hope works in.

Today has also been very busy, King of Kings (church) morning service was all about receiving the Holy Spirit and allowing Him to work strongly in our lives, a really great encouragement and challenge too! A few of us then went to join in the Global Day of Prayer celebrations with around 11000 other christians from Cape Town. This started in 2001 and has now gone global, with all 220 countries from around the globe participating in today's event which was broadcast online and on TV.
This evening's service was also focused on the Holy Spirit and has been really great.

Looking forward to the week ahead, I am doing more finance and budgeting work with the support groups, trying to coordinate Redhill's teaching and ministry a little better and might even join the ladies group in Capricorn (another township) on their thursday morning sewing class!!! Very excited about that one. Mum would be proud that I showed someone how to sew on a button the other day.

God Bless you all, more photos coming on picasa soon

Stuart