So we figured out all the outreach teams for next semester. There is a group of us who are staying In Jefreys Bay, some are going to PE (Port Elisabeth) and some are going to Swaziland. I'm staying here! I'm really excited; I love this place so much. Before we got to Jefreys I really wanted to go to Swaziland just to get out of South Africa, because SA is so westernized, but I really fell in love with the people here. I have already made amazing relationships with some of the people here and I couldn't stand leaving them already, God still has a lot left for me to do here. As most of the team is getting ready to pack up and leave Jefreys (there's only 16 days of ministry left), I've been praying about what my ministry should look like next semester. Ithemba has a huge youth group; most whom wouldn't consider themselves believers and I really feel like God is going to put some girls in my life that He wants me to disciple. I'm pretty excited about that.

I have a sweet story about one lady that we met during the first or second week of Ministry, Theodora. She was one of the ladies in September that randomly walked up to me and asked me to pray for her to get a job and then we ended up praying together for her to receive salvation. So we've been consistently visiting her since then, praying with her for a job, talking about what she is reading in her Bible, and just hanging out, playing UNO. I've really been praying for her because I can see God is so clearly doing something in her life and she has been stepping out in faith and trusting that God is going to provide for her. Just the other day, she got a job! This may not sound so amazing in Alberta, or in North America, but it's really hard to find jobs here and she got a good one! She's a waitress at one of the restaurants in town. I was so excited when she told me, I nearly pounced on her. The Lord answers prayers!

Other than doing ministry every afternoon, I've been going out on Tuesday and Thursday nights to feed the street kids, just hang out with them, get to know them and show some love. It used to be every time we passed them on the street; they would ask us for food and money. It really bothered us because we can't give them money all the time, or go buy them food all the time, but we really wanted to help them. There is a lot of politics with the street kids that we don't really understand, so we were trying to figure out how we could best help them. Going out to find them and feeding them on Tuesdays and Thursdays is the best thing we came up with. Now when we see them on the streets we can call them by name and talk to them. Some of these kids (ages about 8-18) have crazy stories about how they ended up on the streets, and some of them just ran away from home because they wanted to be able to smoke and drink whenever. Hopefully God is using us in there lives for more than a peanut butter sandwich.

There's a bit on Alexis' life in JBay.