Anna Cade
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April 19, 2010
So sorry that I haven’t had time to write in so long, I am going to try and catch you all up on what has been happening in South Africa.
These first couple months the leaders have been preparing us for ministry, they have been sowing into our lives and discipling us. We have had some amazing teachings. What it means to be single (separate, unique, and whole). We learned about honor. How to honor even in difficult situations and the protective covering you get by honoring your leaders, even the respect you get by honoring your peers.
Another teaching that was very important to me was a teaching on purity or a few teachings on purity. What shocks me so much is that purity is not taught very much in the church and it kind of upset me as well because if I had been taught about purity as a youth it would have prevented some heartache in my life. Purity is just so important I wish that churches would be more open with it. Those were just a couple of teachings that we have had if I tried to write them all this would be a very long letter.
Part of our training to be leaders is by taking turns being leader of the week. The leader of the week is responsible for taking charge that week like giving jobs out and making sure they get done right. They also do exhortations every class day in the morning before worship and prayer. Being leader of the week is fun and challenging and it has a way of moving you onto the next level in your faith.
These last 2 months have mostly been our training ground. We have been building our foundations, our unity as a class, and as a ministry team. Our Pastors have been diligently filling our spiritual tool boxes and getting us ready for ministry. They just told us on Friday that we get to do our first outreach on the 27th of April!!!!! We are going to Humansdorp secondary school, we are going to minister in the classrooms and then in the assembly which is 1700 kids. I am so excited! I would love it if you guys could keep my class and I in your prayers.
I love this place, and my class, and everything that I have been learning! I am so glad God has blessed me with this opportunity! I love you all and pray that God is blessing you as richly as he is blessing me.
Anna
February 16, 2010
Dear Friends and Family,
I just thought I would write a little something to let you guys in
on what is going on in Africa. I arrived safe and sound on Friday I
did have a few exciting adventures in the airports that I know I
would not have made it through had God not been with me…The first
one was when I flew to San Francisco. I had just gotten off of my
Spokane flight, and found my flight to New York when all of a sudden
across the screen flashed a notice saying that the flight had been
cancelled. “Sad day.” So I went to the customer service desk along
with every other passenger on my flight. I stood in line at the
customer service desk for quite some time as the clerk tried to
figure something out. Soon a man came up to the desk; I believe he
was some sort of flight coordinator. He spoke with the man for a
second, and then announced that he needed the person who was going
to Johannesburg and the first class business persons. We were then
led to a different boarding area given different tickets with
different and promptly put on a plane that had been sitting waiting
for a pilot for five hours! The previous pilot had flown over his
allotted flying hours so all of the people on this flight had been
on this plane for hours waiting to take off, and it just so happened
that as soon as I had gotten on the plane it was time to take off!
“Few!” I didn’t miss my flight from New York to Johannesburg. That
was just the beginning of my airport adventures.
In New York I arrived with plenty of time because my flight had
left even sooner then my cancelled flight would have left. New
York’s airport confused me a lot because I could not find the place
where I was supposed to board so I asked a lady where it was, in
very broken English she explained that I had to leave the airport
cross the road and get on a train. Wow! I was very confused so I
asked a couple other people and they confirmed what the lady had
said. So out of the airport I go hoping they were right because I
would not be allowed back in if they were wrong. I crossed the
street and walked to the elevator, it just so happened that I got in
the elevator with a lady native to New York, and she knew where I
had to go and which train I needed to get on. Another person God
just randomly put in my path to direct me. I made it to my flight
and passed out on the plane. I woke up about an hour later with the
plane still waiting to take off. Sadly it was about an hour and a
half late in leaving.
A long fifteen hours later I arrived in Johannesburg. We arrived
late for me to make my next flight. The kind lady that God had
placed next to me on the plane had offered to help me through
customs and rebook a flight so I felt less stressed praise God.
After going through customs I went to get a cart for my baggage I
was so tired that when I went to get the cart it wouldn’t move
because the breaks where on…. But I could not figure out how to make
the cart work… I worker hollered over to me telling me that I had to
do something with the handle, being so tired I absolutely just could
not figure it out. So the guy came over to me and showed me how….
All you had to do wad push the handle down….I was so embarrassed!
The guy laughed at me so hard…I can only imagine what was going
through his head about stupid Americans.
I found my baggage and the lady and I walked through customs but customs stopped her because she had a box, so I was on my own again. I asked a security guard where I needed to go for rebooking my ticket and he told me the wrong place but I was able to find out where I needed to go from another person. Yes it was another over under and around the corner direction. So I set out very tired and confused when I walked through a group of those guys who try to carry your baggage for money. I so wished at that moment that I had changed some money over but I hadn’t so I told them I had no money. One of them decided to help me anyways and said I didn’t need to pay him anything anyways although he would take an American dollar. He showed me exactly where to go and helped me with my ticket and everything. Praise God for that little man! I think I would still be stuck in the Johannesburg airport to this day if he hadn’t of helped me.
So that was my adventure on the way to South Africa I made safely
to the farm, and I am adjusting to the time zone pretty well. I do
miss everyone at home very much. Thank you all for keeping me in
your prayers, as you have read I needed them and felt every one of
them.
Love you all and God Bless.
Anna
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