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Each year, the Americansummer (SA winter) is one of our busiest seasons. Withmany JAM interns coming infrom the States to spend theirsummer serving with us,hosting teams for short termtrips, and leading our SouthAfrican (winter) school holidayoutreaches all over thecountry... These couple of months always seem to behere and gone before we knowit! This year was no exception!In a period of 45 days, manyof us were home in Cape Town

for only 5 of them. We havebeen stretched, challengedand pushed to the very limits

of our own abilities only tocome back to the realizationthat none of it can be doneout of our own. Through it allwe have been reminded overand over again who we areserving and what the very rootof these missions are... Wehave been reminded of theHOPE that can only come from

Jesus, of a love so beautiful,so pure that it cannot beexplained in words but merelyexperienced and felt throughseless acts of service...through ones simple

obedience in prayer & worship.We were reminded yet againthat everything we try to do

out of our own has limits... wewill grow weary, our love willfall short, the challenges willappear far too great. But inChrist, there are no limits.His energy, His truth, Hishope, His Love is alwaysenough!

- Ashley

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DEFINED outreach a journey into true identity, through soccer On the Dened outreach, Ilearned that there are manydi f erent ways to spread theWord of God to people. I didntrealize that you could use soccer

as a door to talk about the Wordand Gods love. This opportunitymade me realize I can ministerin many di f erent ways by usingpeoples interests as an avenueto talk about Jesus. On thisoutreach we traveled throughSouth Africa leading soccerclinics and tournaments in the

di f erent villages andcommunities. With every drill orscrimmage we lead with ourteams we had scriptures to tiein. During our time in the

Transkei, one of the boys on myteam decided to give his life toChrist. At the beginning of theweek when we started, he didnot know Jesus at all. But we hada devotional book that we wentthrough each practice with ourteam. After one practice, the boystayed after everyone had left.

He was interested and payingattention to the devotional andhe wanted to know more. I toldhim about Jesus, that Jesus diedfor us on the cross and he's our

father. I told him what God hasdone in my life and then the boyaccepted Jesus. After that, Iprayed with him.

Jesus is truly alive and seekingafter His children. I know Godhas bigger plans and a future forall of His children.

-Masi

When I heard this outreach wasgoing to be about soccer Ithought: great. Better pack myinhaler and bandaids. I dontplay soccer. And that was my

mindset the rst few days Ispent on the team - that I hadto be talented to share Jesus.And that stretches beyondsoccer even. I thought I had tobe talented at ministry tominister. I thought I had to betalented at loving to lovepeople. I thought I had to betalented at Xhosa or otherlanguages to communicate. Ithought I had to be talented atunderstanding Jesus to share

Jesus. Newsash: It really hasnothing to do with me.I would say that was the biggestthing I learned on this outreach,which is ironic because it wasall about how we deneourselves.Our rst night in the Transkei, Ihad a horrible time because Ididnt have the right

perspective. I was still so

uncomfortable with the team,the ministry, the country, etcthat I was literally useless. Mollytook over with the soccer drillsand the practice and I was asmuch help to her as a block of wood would have been. I didntknow how to play soccer. Ididnt even know the rules. So Ibasically stood on the sidelinesand watched, occasionallythrowing in a go team! Yeahthat probably sounded dumb

too because we werent evenplaying a real soccer game, justrunning through drills.And then, when the sun wentdown, it was my turn to pullsome weight for our team. I wassupposed to lead thedevotional. I got really cockyabout it in my head all day. Itsministry. Im good at ministry.Ive been doing ministry for thepast six months; I love it andstudents respond well to me.Well, thats in America.It doesnt work quite the samein South Africa, where theydont speak your language, theydont have the same needs asAmerican kids, they dontrespond to the same things. Soyet again, I felt useless. Thequestions I was asking themwere really dumb questions that

wouldnt normally elicit good

responses. However, I thinksometimes God looks down onme and says, I just wanted youto see what a fool you wouldlook like if you didnt have me.And thats exactly what He did.Halfway through, in my head, I

just completely submitted. I wastired. I didnt like lookinginadequate in front of Schaunand Molly and Thabiso andKevin and Rene, and more thananything, I wanted these kids to

experience Jesus, not mespeaking about Jesus. Thatswhen God came to my rescueand started moving in the boyslives despite my second rateleadership. They started givingvery real and honest answers toeach question. Their answershad a depth that went evenfurther than the questionallowed. They talked to usabout the spiritual healers,drinking, drugs, disobedienceat school, all sorts of things,and this was just the rst timewe had met them. It was sospecial. After that I really beganto reconsider what it meant topursue Jesus. I realized that Ireally wasnt pursuing Jesus. Iwas pursuing things that wereLIKE Jesus, but I was completelymissing the real deal.

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I still don't know all of the rulesof soccer. O f -sides has beenexplained to me at least twice,but I still only have a vaguenotion of the concept. Goinginto a soccer-focused outreach;I was worried about how I couldbe of any use at all. I feel mostuseful in situations where I amcomfortable and in control, butGod showed me over the pastfew weeks that He can use meeven when I am WAY out of mycomfort zone.

I struggle with the concept of praying "over" people andpraying for healing as well. Upuntil this outreach, I was ableto avoid those situations or letsomeone else do the praying.When our visit to LangutelaniPrimary School in Mavhuza wasnished, I planned to walkhome with some of the childrenand let others stay and praywith those who chose to stay.But when I asked a little girlnamed Tintswalo, who wasstanding next to me, if shewanted to go home or stay andpray, she said that she wantedto stay.Okay, I thought, I'll just join agroup with someone else andlet them pray. But I guess Godhad other plans - somehow I

ended up on my own, with atranslator I'd never met and awhole group of children. I triedto pray something that wasn'ttoo cliche - something thatwould be meaningful to agroup of kids. I don't evenremember what I said, but Ihope it was from God. Then,

just when I thought I was o f the hook, the young man whowas translating for me had allof the children line up and toldme that I must pray for each of them. What?! Overwhelmed, Itook each kid's hands, askedtheir name, and prayed asimilar prayer for each of them

- that God would comfortthem, remind them that He isnear, be with their families,bring them joy, and help themto be a joy to others. Some of the younger ones probablydidn't understand what I wassaying, but I hope it comfortedthem to know that someonecares about them, and moreimportantly that God cares

about them. Thankfully some of the other team membershelped me and prayed for lotsof the kids still waiting. Then,we started to head back to thebase. Once again I thought Iwas o f the hook, but suddenlyVictor remembered that there

were several women waitingbehind the school who wantedus to pray for them! For me,this was even moreintimidating, because several of the women wanted us to prayfor healing. In 2011, a womanfrom my church at home wasvery sick, and she died despiteour desperate prayers that shebe healed to remain with herhusband and baby girl. Eversince then I have had anextremely hard time praying forhealing, since I know that Godwill not always choose to healsomeone and I am almostafraid to ask and get someone's

hopes up. Thankfully I was ableto pray alongside Sarah inMavhuza, and I just prayed thatGod's will would be done,whether it was to miraculouslyheal these women or not.

I did not become a soccer whizon this outreach, and God didnot use me to do some supermiraculous instant healing.Honestly, I did not expectanything like that to happen.Instead, He grew me by forcingme WAY outside of my comfortzone, and I hope that He usedme to point several childrenand women in Mavhuzatowards Him as well.

-Xandra

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name,he gave the right to become children of God - John 1:12


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God, and he has such a gift withyoung children. Secret, who isnow called Reveal, has beendeepening his relationship withChrist and learning theimportance of fellowship andcommunity. Surprise, is also inthe process of turning his life around a nd running afterChrist, th e goal. Tsundukani, abeautiful young woman, hasbeen such a blessing. Her rootsin the Word and her silentstrength have been an anchorto many of us here in theVillage. Were hoping she joinsus for a JAM-Year next year. Ive been blessed to live day byday with this amazing group of people.

Hillside Primary School hasbeen one of the biggestblessings. I had the privilege of

working as their RemedialTeacher and I saw little miracleshappen in that school everyweek. I realized again thepower of prayer. I was alsoblessed to be able to use mygifts for the Kingdom in a newway. God opened my eyes toHis creativity and I found myself becoming more and morerefreshed in my calling.Whoever said you get more bygiving than receiving was right!During our time in Mavhuza, wewere able to put on severalleadership camps. Each campencouraged me more and morethat God is truly raising up amass of young people, ready tostand up for his Name and

impact the world. Seeing theseleaders develop made merealize how small I am, and that

even when we give the smallestof gifts, God can multiply andexpand it into something somuch greater, just as he didwith the loaves and the sh.Overall, the recurring theme isthat its always better to follow

Jesus. Its always better tochoose faith over fear. Itsalways better to chooseobedience. Its always better tostep out into the dark, if thatswhere God is calling.Sometimes following Jesusmeans just sticking it out.Wherever you are, follow Him.Im trying my best to do thesame.Now were onto the next

journey with God: Cape Town.

Thank you for joining us in thisadventure.-Lisa

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