As I’ve said, I arrived in Cape Town without much of a clue of what I will be doing. God knows what He is doing and has provided for me to stay with the best family possible for figuring out where I can work to gain more experience working to support families as well as orphans and vulnerable children.

I knew that I would be working with a social care project run from Khanyisa that works with orphans and vulnerable children, doing support groups, discipleship and home visiting, but it turns out that won’t really fill all of my time, and as for my placement time I need to be doing full time work, at least for those 6 weeks. So Jo (the mum of the family I am staying with) in her wisdom has suggested volunteering with an Anglican project called ‘The Warehouse’ that runs many schemes working vulnerable people and the poor, one of which is similar to the social care project at Khanyisa but just bigger. There are apparently loads of volunteers there as the warehouse works with a lot of the local churches. I think it is really close to where I am staying too. So we are going to go and check that out next week and see about the possibilities of doing some work there, sort of splitting my time between the 2. That is really exciting, and it will also be great in helping me get to know more people and maybe building links for the future.
I have been here for around a week now, and haven’t really done much. I went to church on Sunday which was really great. It is amazing how even worshipping in a foreign language and not having much of an idea what you are singing (apart from knowing it is glorifying God!) doesn’t stop God from really moving...SO encouraging!
And on Tuesday I went to a staff meeting, just really to do introductions to all the people on the church team. There seems to be so much running out of the church into the community, it is really encouraging, and has spurred me on to see similar things in Leeds!
Other than that I have been slogging away at all the essays I have yet to finish (4 in total!!) but I have nearly finished 2 of them. So this spare time has been a real provision from God, which I keep reminding myself when I begin to feel frustrated that I haven’t really ‘done anything’ since I have been here....the essays are a bit of a priority I’m thankful for the time to do them!!