Our small team of 10 spent one week in the Township of Du Noon in Cape Town, South Africa. This was the township where it is believed the xenophobic attacks in May 2008 began.
We had an amazing time of ministry there. We collaborated with an existing ministry, Boost Africa, and ended up spending much of our time teaching classes in the high school and primary school. We shared our testimonies and the gospel of Jesus at the high school’s assembly before about 1000 students and then followed that up with three days of teaching in more than a dozen classes. We saw many kids ask Jesus to become the Lord of their lives. We also bought the school libraries about twenty bibles in four different languages.
We returned to Worcester on Wednesday night and resumed our ministry there the next day. Interestingly, a police car pulled us over on our way out of town and told us that he wanted to escort us out of the city because the taxis were having “a war.” We were in the same kind of vehicle that are used as taxis here and he believed we were unsafe. We saw nothing and weren’t sure if he was looking for money or what, but he never asked for any and seemed serious about it.
We miss Cape Town a lot, but God has good plans for us here.