Mike’s mom and sister have come and gone and BBC is here

We had a great visit with Monna and Shay. The weather held out for us. When we planned to be outside sight seeing it would be a beautiful day and when we needed to rest it would rain. They got to visit all the local spots and see all the places where we work. Now they really understand our ministry here and know how to pray for us.
When we took them to the airport on Friday, we walked them over to the departure gates kissed and hugged goodbye and literally turned around and walked over to the arriving gates and met the Brentwood Team arriving for a week. We have had a great time when them so far and today was their first day of ministry. We have a construction team that is redoing the kitchen in Muizenberg at Living Grace. A landscaping team at Living Grace, a smaller construction team at Ocean view working on repairs, a retreat team taking the healthcare workers overnight for some TLC, 2 IT guys working at all the branches and about 20+ Vacation Bible School teachers working with all the Life Skill educators during holiday (kids) clubs this week. There are 31 people in all.
Once again it is always such a blessing to have our extended church family here in Cape Town. It is so neat to see God at work in the lives of the people who come here for the first time. They are so amazed at what they see. I get just as excited about seeing God at work around us and we have been here 8mths now.
Our entrepreneur class is turning in their assignments this week and we are getting geared up for the next class in a couple of weeks. We still haven’t heard about the property for Living Way, but we are still praying for it. Great things just keep happening. One of the team members brought us 10 laptops to be used for our mobile computer training class that we will now be able to get started. He also brought 2 other computers to be used for volunteers that come and for Living Way. We serve such a cool God!!!!!!! Thanks for believing in us.........until next time.

Seems like forever

Ok, so it seems like forever since I wrote anything. I know it has been 3 weeks or so. After returning from our long adventurous drive, we jumped right back into our ministries head first. We have had 3 teams here and another individual volunteer to come in during this time frame. Pastor John had asked me if I would cover for his PA while she was on holiday for 2 weeks and I told him I would. What I didn’t foresee was all the work that was about to come over me. A US AID conference was planned while Tracey was away and I was the person who had to be sure all the I’s were dotted and T’s were crossed. It was a 3 day conference with some high profile people and needless to say the pressure was on. With the help of a lot of people it was a great success. The conference itself was helping to network existing HIV/AIDS organizations with the funds from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and US AID. It also gave some of the smaller organizations an opportunity to link up with bigger organizations to begin sharing the same information on a new database that would help them to gain knowledge and understanding of how the funding works. All of this ended last week.
This week we have started our second Entrepreneur class. We learned a lot from the pilot class we completed in August. We have 10 people in our class this time and we are setting different boundaries with them to be sure they really want to be entrepreneurs.
The biggest news for Living Way right now is we may finally have a place we can call home. (This is the work creation, & economic empowerment program for those that don't remember) We are in prayer for this awesome property that has been put before us but we have to go through a lot of hoops to be able to call it ours. It is unbelievable and words cannot describe it! The fire marshal came to our offices at Living Hope last week and sited us for numerous things but one of the big ones was the sewing class and computer class that we have in the multi-purpose centre. They basically shut the class down because of the wooden flooring and all of the extension cords running to the computers and the sewing machines, but we at Living Way, wanted to work hard at figuring out a way to allow them to still be able to have class. Mike and Richard have worked diligently with John to try and get temporary residency for these 2 classes at the new property. We received the go ahead today to move in temporarily. However, this doesn’t mean that we have the property because there are other people still trying to bid on it. For those of you who know the history of all the buildings of Living Hope, this would be another one of those miraculous stories that we tell on our tours. Richard, Mike and I have already picked out our offices, so you could say we have named it and claimed it!!! We will keep you updated but right now we need your prayers for the property. They will let us know in 4-6 weeks.
Lastly, Mike’s mom and sister are flying in this Wednesday to stay for 10 days so we will be flying under the radar at work and spending some time with them. We are very excited to see them and look forward to sharing with them all of the things that we love about Cape Town. We thank you for your continued prayers and support. Blessings!!!!!!