First day

I have been sitting here for 30 minutes waiting for a picture to upload to this page and I'm finally giving up!! I'll just have to do it another day. This was the caption..."The first home-cooked meal in our flat…Zana, pasta, and Seinfeld on the laptop. This is living!!"

I wish I had time to tell you of all the interesting things that we have encountered- but that would take too long! One of the oddest things is that we have to buy electricity for our apt. at the BP station down the street. We found that out after we lost power!!

Today was my first day at Living Hope. I was excited to meet Jess, the social worker that I’ll be working with. She is a very busy lady- working for all 5 LHCC centers- but she only really has time to effectively serve the Health Care Center. A couple of weeks ago they hired another social worker, so I also got to meet her- she’s still in the orientation phase. I got to go with them to a meeting with some support group leaders in a very impoverished area called Capricorn. It was there that I got to see some familiar faces of ladies that I’d met when I was here in Feb. They remembered me!! Isn’t that crazy!

The rest of this week, I’ll be kind of following Jess around and watching and learning from her. She said that after I get acclimated to tell her the areas that I’d most like to work in. I was glad to hear that from her- please pray that God would give me insight and wisdom to see the areas of which I can most effectively serve.

I’m almost done, but I want to tell you a quick story. When I arrived this morning, I met a young man named Enoch. He is from Malawi and came to Cape Town to find work. He got very sick and was somehow referred to LHCC for medical care in Sept. The doctor and nurse all told me that Enoch ahs been quite a handful- he ran away several times and had frequent hallucinations. However, with the care that he received from LHCC and strength from God, he has gotten back to good health. This morning he left LHCC for a 3-day bus ride back to Malawi! What an exciting thing to witness on my first day! I was almost in tears as I stood with Enoch and the staff to pray that God would protect him on his journey home. Say a prayer for Enoch’s safe journey- that He’ll make his bus transfers, take his medicine, and that his family will meet him in Malawi.