Monday, January 19, 2009

Durban...thus far

Hey everyone,
We had some free time today so i thought that i would make a blog update.
We have been here in Durban for a few days but have been traveling for a week. Two Sundays ago I went to London while we were staying at the Ywam base in Harpendon, it is a huge city and i only had a few hours there so we walked by Big Ben and then down to London Bridge (tower). We left harpendon, bound for London early Monday afternoon. We waited anxiously for Jose and Arietta to arrive from the South African Embassy, hopefully with Jose's visa for SA. When they arrived we were sad to hear that they didn't grant Jose the visa, but jose was allowed into the country for 30 days.
So we left England and flew to Madrid, Spain. Shortly later we boarded the plane to SA. Once we arrived, we stayed in the airport for a few hours until our bus arrived to take us the 10 hour journey to Durban.
So since we have been here, i have swam in the Indian ocean, shopped at one of the biggest malls i have seen, worked with children in a slum near Durban were 45% of the populations has HIV/Aids and TB, Cleaned a woman's house who has spent her life being treated horrible by the white people she worked for, and i went to Church.
Cleaning the house was amazing, I'm pretty sure that the Gogo (Zulu for Grandmother) was in shock that a bunch of white people cleaned for her.
Its been amazing so far and i cant wait to see what Gods going to do here.
Cheers! Nate

Ohh PS, today Jose went to the home affairs office and got an extension for the visa so thank you to everyone that was praying, God really came through.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Cork

Hey everyone,  
   Im not sure how many more times i will update before i go to South Africa, i will probably not be able to update at all their.  So... Cork is real cool, its cold and its a busy city.  We have been volunteering at a coffee shop and Book store, and been working with a church in Cobh and here in Cork.  Sunday we led the worship service at Cork Community Church, it was a very cool service and the members and God enjoyed it.   We have also been prayer walking and doing alot more stuff.  Its very exciting.
   Update on Jose's (hosea)  visa,  we called the embassy in London, and they said that not all the right documents were given to them, however the embassy thought he was applying for a different kind of visa.  Corrections have been made but it will still take awhile and we leave in a few days.  So please keep praying, he really appreciates the prayers.  
      Two more months!!!
    Cheers Nate