Through my Eyes

As orientation has now finished, I have been placed here in South Africa, where I will be working with the Hazeyview Service Centre Team. What this means... I don't really know yet. I haven't quite figured that part out. All I've been told is that I'm to build relationships with the individuals that work within the service centre and encourage and support them with the work that they are doing. If they need help with some work, then I will help, but most importantly I am to follow them in what they do and to learn from them. I think that the reason that we are not told much is that they don't want people to go into this time with the Service Centres with high expectations and also they dont want people to go in thinking that they know everything. We are told to have "big ears, and small mouths." This next 5 weeks will be a time of learning, and gaining more insight into the work that the Service Centre does on a regular basis. One of my favourite moments...

"Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?" James 2:5  "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27  This past weekend, I had the great privilege of being welcomed into the home of one of our kids. I had the opportunity to live with them for a weekend and become a part of their family. It was an immense privilege that I will never forget. I was welcomed into the home of Cebile* who is 19 and her sister Edzai* - 24- who suffers from epilepsy. Edzai has a three year old son Jeremia*. He is one of the cutest little boys that I have ever met in community. When we got to the girls house on the Friday evening it was cold. Oshoek (the community that we were staying ) is t...