Mark Driscoll is coming to town!

So to give a little update on my days, Monday and Tuesday I'm at UWC for classes. On Wednesday and Thursday I am volunteering at Jubilee. We got a desk and a computer all set up for me yesterday...well, by "we", I mean Liam (an fyp-er) putting it all together and me telling him good job. I will mainly be doing admin and prep work for March 9-10, when Mark Driscoll will be here at Jubilee! It's a multi-church leadership conference called Urban Force here in Cape Town. Jubilee is hosting the day events, and I am going to be able to go! I'm so excited that I a) Get to help with the work for this conference, and b) that I get the opportunity yo listen to pj Smyth and Mark Driscoll and other leaders!

On Fridays I'm working at the health clinic at Jubilee. I've only been twice thus far, but I really love it. The staff meets about an hour before the clinic opens to pray and encourage one another; those mornings have been really strengthening for me. Then the patients, some with appointments, some walk-ins, start arriving. I go in with the nurse and just observe during the consultation, praying for the patient silently. At the end,every patient is asked, "What would you like Jesus to do for you?" This is based on Mark 10, when Jesus asks the blind man Bartimeaus what he wanted Him to do for him. We then pray for them. This is my favorite part; the thought of just asking a stranger in the US what I can pray for them for is mildly terrifying, so I know exercsing this spiritual muscle and learning to stepping out in faith here will be really good for me.

So that's what my days Monday-Friday look like. It's nice to have a bit of schedule now; I'm making friends but it's really easy for loneliness to try to seek its way in my heart, especially with my housing situation. I'm really learning to rely on God and that His time for me here may look different than I expected, but His time is the best possible time I could have here. Overall I'm really enjoying being here! I don't know how to end this, so to quote my sister Shannon, "Onward!"