Dear Friends and Family,

For most of my posts I have focused on what the speaker has talked about the current week. This one I want to talk about our outreach and prayer requests for it.

We are going to South Africa; we will be in George, and Muizenberg. We will be working in orphanages, hospitals, townships, and also serving the local churches through dance, drama, and testimony. Pretty much anything we are called to do. They are going to give us an itinerary for our time and what we will be doing, but they have not gotten that to us yet. So I know just a little bit more than you do. Though they do tell us that we have to be flexible, because you never know what we may end up doing. So everything has a possibility of changing.

Some facts about South Africa:

·         Population – 44.8 million

·         Capital – Pretoria

·         11 official languages

·         Approximately 12% of the adult population is infected with HIV

·         The HIV epidemic has produced  large numbers of Aids orphans

Prayer requests (for me and everyone on my team):

Funds, I know I say this every week, but it is a big need. We have 5 days to get all the money we need. I think we still need at the very least $10,000 for all of us to go. It could be more, I am assuming it is more, I just don’t know how much. We just learned on Wednesday that we need $300 more per person than we thought; due to the cost of transportation in South Africa.

Vehicles, because we have 15 people we are having problems getting them, because we need at least two. And pray that someone would love to pay for gas money. That would be a great blessing to us.

Health, for obvious reasons. We have a family with a 1, 3, and 5 year old coming. Pray that we all stay healthy but especially them. And that nobody dies. We would all really like to come back alive. (Now I have just majorly worried my parents. Don’t worry, we should all be fine.)

That we will all sleep well. So of the people on my team have difficulties sleeping, and it is always harder when one is not well rested.

Team unity. That no matter what happens we stay together and support one another.

For the right words to say. We are going to be speaking in some of the townships there, and we want our message to impact them.

Safe travel, to there, while we are there, and for the way home.

That we all will be able to adapt to warm culture.

Peace, grace, and anything and everything else you can think of. We would be so grateful for your prayers.

I love and miss all of you greatly.

Haleigh

P.S. The speaker was still really good this week. I didn’t avoid him because he was bad, he was (as all the speakers are here) amazing.