South Africa: Friday February 20 - High School, HBC and Youth

Friday February 20 - High School, HBC and Youth

Today was a fantastic ministry day. We started a bit early this morning to make it to a high school that Hearts of Compassion had never been to before. We had been told this school was pretty rough and, at one time, had the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in South Africa. We had a vision to simply make a chip in this but the Lord seems to have had other plans Twyla gave the aids education with Jenny's help turning the aids cube. The kids were amazed she is only 15 and she did the presentation flawlessly with Deli translating.

Then Debbie gave her testimony again about the choices she made early in life and the consequences of them. She let the kids know they have the exact same choices to make today. Her story brought a few gasps and a great round of applause at the end. She was overcome with her empathy for these girls some of whom she knows are being abused already. They don't speak about these things in the Zulu culture and so it goes on and on. Please pray with us for these messages to continue to open their hearts and minds that the consequences of bad choices not only will affect those that make them but their children as well.

We then had a bigger meeting with 35 other people in the community who receive the services of the home care. Jenny gave the aids presentation. I know this was new info for many of them. Joanne shared the message of salvation with the Evangecube. Erlo told them they can not have Jesus and ancestral worship together. We had 21 accept Christ for the first time. Praise God! We then served all the people lunch that Shaks made using some soup miX from Gleanings with extr meat and vegies. The team did not eat lunch so we could send the leftovers home with a few of them. We had time to sing and dance (Zulu style) which is an arobic exercise! Yes, we have no rhythm but it was fun. The Zulu ladies said Bevie was the best dancer!

 

We had a bit of down time before we met with the youth group and showed a Nick Vujicek video followed by Bevvie's testimony that God can use anyone of us. We just have to be willing to be used. It was very powerful for the youth to hear this and many wanted prayer afterwards. We all retired very tired but very happy to have been part of God's love for this area.