Hey everybody sorry for lack of postings we have had some late nights this past week. But man God has been doing some really incredible things! Since Wednesday we have been goin to a small Village about an hours drive from Pretoria call Kwaggufontane( Lord help me thats spelled right) to be apart of a church revival. And not like in a building, in a small tent with some plastic chairs, some wooden benches. But man we were priviledged to see God do an awesome work in their hearts and even more so we believe he worked in ours too. It was just incredible to see the peoples expressions and hearts change from Wednesday to Saturday. We felt so blessed to be apart of that.

Well for the past few days we have been doing some pretty random things.

Before our outreaches on Friday we went to a lion park! It was crazy! We played with some 2 month old cubs that were as big as a big house cat. Micah and I take back everything we ever said about wrestling a lion. Cause when we saw the beast itself the nose came to almost our shoulders...sooo...were second guessing ourselves on that one. We also fed some ostriches and a giraffe. It was absoulutely crazy. Were gonna put some pictures up later so you guys can see what went down.

On Saturday we were planned to go to some Mayors Convention, where we were supposed to minister to about 4000 people, but sadly it was very abruptly moved to a date in the middle of July so we were kind of bummed out about that but you know what they say T.I.A (This Is Africa). So since this event is cancelled and we have an orphanage to go to later that night, what do we do? Yeah thats right go to the mall. We ate at a restaraunt called Spurs. And just to let you know the theme was Native Americans. And its a South African food chain...yeah it was a little wierd, but the food was good. Later that night before our last night of the revival we stopped by an orphanage and this one by far touched us in the biggest way. I think by this point most of us knew what to expect because it was almost a routine for us: We go in, pray, sing some songs, give a testimony, and leave. But this one was different. This was not just an orphanage, it was a rescue shelter. For children wanting to escape every kind of child abuse you can imagine. And our hearts were immediately convicted, cause this was not a routine. It was amazing to see the transformation in their hearts and in their faces, I will never forget it. And just like everytime we have gone some place to minister God ends up doing a work in us as well.

Yesterday we all woke up and drove back to Kwaggufontane and we split up into two groups. Alicia and Micah went with Rogers to a youth service and then Melissa and I went to another Chruch service with Dirk. Melissa and I had a great time at our service. We didnt realize that we had been in there for almost 3 hours! God really moved in the service and just like He has been doing all week God has continued to stretch us in the way we think of worship and how we think of church, cause it is just so different here, but it is still the same God we all worship. And from what we heard from Micah and Alicia the other service went really really well. Where Micah and Alicia both got to share a brief message, and we heard they really brought the rain! We were all very excited to share our experiences when we met up again to talk about all God had done in our services. From the churches we left in a hurry to go see a play that our host, Anneretha, had written. It was so cool! It was in a theater where this ministry called 13th floor uses the arts to share the gospel and be Jesus for people. It was quite the experience. The play was amazing, and it incoporated music and dance as well. At the end of the show one of the head guys named Flaps came up to us (hes a 35 year old white man with dreads and a lip ring, yeah we felt right at home) and he immediately knew we were Americans. I dont know what in the world gave that away... anyways. We got to meet a lot of the leaders of the ministry afterwards for coffee.

One of the directors of 13th floor is a guy named Warren and he invited us to a Braai...thats right a Braai. For those of you un south africaners a Braii is a South African BBQ. So we of course accepted such an invitation and spent the evening over at Warrens fiancee's place with a bunch of other South African friends to watch the soccer match between Brazil and the US. It was really great we got to meet a lot of new friends that we are of course facebooking as we write this and it was also awesome to see other people our age who are passionate about Jesus half way around the world.

Well that should catch everyone up to speed on what is going on. We are leaving in about an hour to go to Potchefstroom today for a couple days, then Wednesday we finally head to Zambia!

Thank you for all of you who have been praying for us!

Ben