Finally some sleep!

1/20/2011

For this morning’s speaker we traveled into a township on the boarder of Cape Town to talk to a pastor. The Way of Life Church  had spent the past few years holding services in whatever building they could get; classrooms, school auditoriums etc.  Three years ago they finally were able to buy their own property and start building a church. The church is still in progress and barely has four walls, and it doesn’t even have floors bathroom yet. But you can see how proud of it everyone was.

First we sat through a morning service. This was something new that they were trying to implement since many people in the congregation couldn’t make it to a Sunday service, so now they offer two short ones a day.  Then the Pastor talked to us about how important community and unity is for black and colored people. He discussed how the apartied might be over, but there is still so much segregation and judgment in South Africa. He also talked about how other nations need to stop coming to try and fix South Africa that South Africa needs to figure out how to fix its own problems.

After our speaker we were thankfully allowed a free afternoon. Most people went shopping. However, those of us who were woken up at 3am by the crowd of girls that came home completely drunk, decided we really needed a nap.  Our nap followed by supper, and then back to bed to try and catch up with sleep. Now that is a good way to spend a free afternoon.