Quick Update
Scott Lycan
Just a quick update to say thanks for the e-mails and updates from you all. We are well. We’re on our way to Maputo today to visit with Katie McGill, the woman who has been getting prostitutes (princesses) and child prostitutes off the streets of Moz. and South Africa since she was a 19 year old student at the African School of Missions in White River, South Africa. We will be visiting her living and vocational centers and sharing the Samaritan’s Purse HIV/AIDS Curriculum with her. We also are going to pick her brain about the issue of prostitution in the townships. As you know, South Africa is hosting the World Cup in 2010 and the underworld is busy in the sex slave industry preparation for that. Nelspruit has just built a huge soccer stadium not far from where we live. The issue is that we want to be able to step in where young girls and children might be targeted for this evil thing.
Things are going very well in the area of the Discovery Bible Studies in the townships. We had not planned to do anything in the area of food distribution but… we’re working with teenage and young adult orphans some of whom do not eat very often. Part of the Bible Study is that we, as a group, identify people in the neighborhood who have a need and then decide, as a group, what we can do to help. Food is generally the biggest issue. Many people may have shelter but no food or little food. The townships are sprawling, dusty, crowded places. So… the Lord has made a way for us to glean food from a number of South African Farms in the area, receive dozens of free eggs from an egg farm and oranges from an orange grove. We told the group that we would bring this free food (that is a free gift from the Lord for all of us), to the meetings. They as a group must decide what the group needs are but then they must distribute excess food to the most needy that they have identified. It’s really a “Hebrew” definition of community and prosperity. You have all your needs met with some to give away, without anyone having to fill the role of “sugar daddy.”
Things are going very well in the area of the Discovery Bible Studies in the townships. We had not planned to do anything in the area of food distribution but… we’re working with teenage and young adult orphans some of whom do not eat very often. Part of the Bible Study is that we, as a group, identify people in the neighborhood who have a need and then decide, as a group, what we can do to help. Food is generally the biggest issue. Many people may have shelter but no food or little food. The townships are sprawling, dusty, crowded places. So… the Lord has made a way for us to glean food from a number of South African Farms in the area, receive dozens of free eggs from an egg farm and oranges from an orange grove. We told the group that we would bring this free food (that is a free gift from the Lord for all of us), to the meetings. They as a group must decide what the group needs are but then they must distribute excess food to the most needy that they have identified. It’s really a “Hebrew” definition of community and prosperity. You have all your needs met with some to give away, without anyone having to fill the role of “sugar daddy.”
Cool, eh? Amazing how God makes creative solutions if we just give Him the time and opportunity.
