Week 6: In which we are a little bit poorly.

Hello all. 

I have some bad news: I'm a little bit poorly.

Not really poorly, but just a bit. I'll soldier on, but I did think it was worth mentioning.

This week's been a bit more of the same, really. We've been looking at 'The Freedom Manual', which involved a lot of learning about exactly who God created us to be and then being it. I've heavily abridged the week's teaching but that was certainly the gist. It's been another encouraging week, probably more spiritual than intellectual. Once we'd established God's 'original design' for us, we looked at the things that stop us from being the people God created. Things like anger, rejection, apathy and unforgiveness, that can develop into mindsets that stop us from stepping out in faith and embracing everything God has planned.

On Wednesday we went to Masi again, and we played with some children in a nursery-type environment. It was a little bit manic, but we turned up, sang some songs about Jesus, played some games and then just played with the kids. They were mostly probably about 4 or 5, and they were very sweet. We had some wild times.

Rik (Dutch) and a girl child.

As I mentioned last week, we've started planning for our outreach, and we're going to need to do a bit of fundraising over the next few weeks. We don't want to make a massive deal of it, but if you'd like more information or feel like you would like to support us please get in touch.

The other thing that happened this week is that we went to the beach today and missed out on a shark sighting by about half an hour. We were very sad about that, but we sat by the sea and had a coffee and a sandwich and, Lo! In the distance we saw a murky, sharky shape scything through the water, a bit beyond where people were surfing. Nobody else really noticed it and we didn't want to disturb anyone, so we watched it for a bit and then went away. I think that was the right thing to do.

Proof of shark action.

That's it for this week. Please do get in touch with us - we miss you all (if you're reading this from England and not just having a cheeky peep from another part of Muizenberg. If that's you, we don't miss you so much. We probably only saw you today), and we'd like to hear about your lives.

Lots of love!

Sam and Heather

MJ News: We taught him about air quotes. He spent most of this week shopping online for a new pen. Whenever he buys cake, he buys enough to share, even if he doesn't know who he's going to share it with. I have benefited from this policy.