Tuesday June 1, 2010

In the past 4 days I have commented maybe 100 times on God’s creativity, splendor and majesty. Cape Town is a magnificent city surrounded on one side by ocean and the other by mountains.

As we’ve gotten accustom to our surrounding we have had the opportunity to climb boulders for a view of the ocean, touch sea enemies (I think it’s funny when they curl up in a ball) not touch sea urchins because they will sting you, touch giant star fish, stand just feet from ostriches, peer out over Cape Point (the southern most tip of Africa) as we look at both the Atlantic and the Indian ocean... and maybe my favorite part, save two Holland vacationers a from wild baboon attack.

Today we got a bird’s eye view of the city and the people who live in it. We drove from some of the wealthiest neighborhoods, think celebrity homes, to some of the poorest, think tin roofed homes. The divide between the wealthy and the poor is truly heart breaking.

As part of our work with VOX city church we will be spending one day a week helping at a soup kitchen and one night a week building a relationship with people who live on the street near the church building. VOX truly has a vision of helping the city, not just starting a church.

This coming week we will be working on our vision and plan for the next seven weeks. Please pray that our vision would be the Lord’s vision.

Moments From My Life:

There was a point during our bolder climb where we had to crawl into a cave and then hoist ourselves up out of it. As I climbed into the cave I noticed a dead bird and a did a little “oh that’s so gross dance,” but then I looked around and noticed tons of little bird bones. It was pretty much like a bird cemetery, which reminded me of the elephant cemetery in the Lion King. It felt like I was living the movie as we climbed up out of the cave and onto Pride Rock!