The A-Team

Well, I am finally here in South Africa. I apologize that it has taken some time for me to update my blog, internet access isn’t apart of our accommodations I have been living on the Training Base for a week and a half now. The adjustment has been a little more difficult than I had expected but still very valuable.

Our whole team is now together and we are beginning to prepare for our five month Outreach. We have been spending our days learning about creative ministry, children’s ministry, and aids training. We wake-up at 6:00 am to spend an hour and a half doing personal devotions. I really value this time to focus in on God and to start my day off in his arms. My room has 3 different nationalities with 3 very distinct cultures. Together we make up Korean, German, and American, it makes things fun!

We leave Sunday morning for Ga-Rankua, our first outreach. This is a town two hours from the base in the countryside. There we will spend one week doing practical work and children’s ministry. I am very anxious to get off the base and experience why I came here and too see the real Africa. After we return from Ga-Rankua we will be back on the base for two days and then head off to Swaziland for two weeks! This is probably the outreach I am most excited for.

While we are in Swaziland we will mainly be doing in home care for people affected by HIV/AIDS. We learned today that there is almost a complete generation in Swaziland that has been killed by this epidemic. This means the children take care of themselves because the elderly are not able and their parents have passed. So needless to say, we will also be doing a lot of Children’s ministry.

Thank you all very much for your prayers as I am being acclimated to my new way of life. I appreciate everyone’s support from back home! Also, if anyone has tried emailing me or sending anything to me on facebook I am not able to retrieve them here. Please write me at my new email address: adam.pittman@tt.rsa.om.org

Things to Pray for:

1. Adjusting to my new home and not feeling homesick
2. Preparation and unity for our team as we begin our ministry
3. That God works on the hearts of the people we will be ministering to

Love, Adam