Archive for July, 2007



July 29-August 3, 2007
Tygerberg Mission Week, Cape Town, South Africa

We’ve had some pretty big things we’ve been praying for recently - both personally and for our workers.  We’ve needed to see some “impossible” things happen!
A family has been making plans to come from Germany to join the ministry here.  Although the Home Affairs department in South Africa had granted their visa, the embassy […]

A Reflection About an Interaction With a Resident of Masiphumelele, a A Community of Beautiful People We Seek to Serve - Written by a team member named Karen Strickland
“I’ve been living here on these wetlands for twelve years now. We have been forgotten and overlooked. People come in here and raise our hopes […]

I have gone through a metamorphosis in my understanding of church in the last few years. The best way to illustrate the change in my understanding is to tell you about our involvement with Nash Sports Academy and the youth of Ocean View.
Nash and Joann Booysen are co-workers with us in Ocean View, a […]

George…..and friends!
I recently had quite a surprise when I looked outside on the living room deck and saw a large baboon walking along the railing. I had heard of “George,” as he’s called by everyone in the neighborhood, but this was my first time to “meet” him. Baboons normally move around in […]

We’re in a season of hosting a number of short term teams from overseas who are coming to minister here. We’re often asked if groups of people coming into a new culture can really do much good in 2-3 weeks. We always say emphatically “yes!!” Recently we had a small example of […]

July 22-28, 2007
TUKS Mission Week, with Carl Medearis, Pretoria, South Africa

July 7-8, 2007
Manchester, England with Andy Hawthorne




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Our Vision

Justice. Community. Hope. Discipleship: Our vision is to establish a training and outreach community in Cape Town that impacts Africa from Cape Town to Cairo. Our vision is for a multi-cultural community that exemplifies the kingdom of God and brings heaven a little closer to earth. read more

Books We Like

Starting a House Church

Starting a House Church
by Larry Kreider & Floyd McClung

Awesome Flicks

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
directed by Michael Apted

What Others Say

If we neglect what we have to grieve what we have lost, at some point grieving becomes an indulgence.

Anonymous

Why Africa?

It is Africa's hour: Africans are rising up in great numbers to take hold of the promises of God for their continent. The president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, says there is an African renaissance in the making. Everywhere you turn you find a spirit of entrepreneurship and vision for new things. read more

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