Happy Valentine's Day! It's been a while since we updated. We hope that your 2016 has gotten off to an
awesome start! We celebrated by getting dressed up and enjoying some food, live
music, and fireworks with thousands off beautiful people downtown Cape Town! Then we got
back into the study grind.. We do enjoy weekends, though. Uriah went to the
Mumford & Sons concert a few weeks ago and got a deal that couldn't be passed up!! Last night we got the chance to go and worship with 30,000 other Jesus lovers at the stadium in Cape Town! We've also been swimming in the ocean and really been blessed by our friends to partake in life outside of the crazy world of Biblical studies. Also, I was able to get an amazing new haircut (Uriah added in the amazing part)!!
The New Testament
studies are finished for now, and we have moved on into studying the Old
Testament. Studying the Pentateuch has been really different from our New
Testament studies, but it's so awesome to get to see God in action. Before we
started studying, I thought that God changed his mind about people in the New
Testament: Old Testament God was angry and just killed everybody, New Testament
God is nice. But for the first time I am really seeing the same God throughout
scripture. That’s really cool.
So our studies are still taking up most of our time. We study
and are in class 40+ hours/week. Aside from that we participate in weekly
intercession (prayer for others), weekly worship, and participate in weekly
local outreach. Uriah is totally in his element talking and praying with people
he meets on the streets! This last week my new local outreach started and I
LOVED it! Five of us are going each week to a Christian after-school program
for 8-11 year olds in a place where a majority of the students are Muslim. We
are excited to teach the students more about the Bible and we really felt in
our preparation time that God wanted us to teach them about prayer and life in
the Spirit! It's so awesome to see what God has been doing in Cape Town and to
be a part of it.
We are doing great with housing and all this work and
everything. At this point our biggest
need is financial. We have about
$4600 that we still need to finish out the
school. We are praying that God will provide the remaining balance, and that we
can purchase our tickets this month!! Thank you for your continued prayer and
financial support. We wouldn’t want to do it without you!
