The A-Team
September 10, 2008
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:
- Adjusting to my new home and not feeling homesick
- Preparation and unity for our team as we begin our ministry
- That God works on the hearts of the people we will be ministering to
Love, Adam
hello my sweet adam I am so praying for you. I just woke up this morning and prayed for you. I GET SO UPSET WHEN I HEAR YOU ARE HOMESICK. I WILL PRAY FOR THAT. ARE YOU COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS? YOUR DAD SAID YOU MIGHT. I SURE HOPE SO.G.PA AND I WENT TO COSHOCTON TODAY AND CAME BACK THRU AUMISH COUNTRY. IT WAS SO NICE.THE WEATHER WAS BEAUTIFUL. WELL HONEY I WILL GO FOR NOW I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH. JUST REMEMBER YOUR DOING WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO.YOU WILL BE BLESSED!!!!!!!!! BY SWEETIE LUV YA G.MA
i love you amid.kiss every aids infected child for me,& tell every elderly person how much i would love them if i had faith like you.cuz id be there right by your side.love you,carl
adam i am so sorry i didnt get to see you before you left.i was waiting for mom to get home from indiana to come & get me & she didnt have time,i think it makes me miss you more,i pray for you all the time.i love you buddy.scotty
That’s so awesome thaat you’re blending with people from other cultures! It definitely sounds like God is sending special people and experiences your way. I know that the kids you’ll be reaching out to are going to love to get to know you. You have such a big heart and are full of care and love. Just as long as you don’t find any kids that like to go to five zoos and four are free and they were behind you on the plane but afraid to say hello
I’m still praying for you and thinking about you 
Go Defy Gravity! Love,
*Steph*
Hello there Adam. I am so excited I get to write to you and see how you are doing and how things are going. I love and miss you, even though I haven’t got to spend alot of time with you in the past.
I am very proud of you for what your doing with your life Adam. Well, I will be e-mailing you, so I will cut this short. Take cuz, Love you, Robbin (Tootie)
these are some great stories of how God is working across the globe in the life of someone who i know and look up to. your updates make my life better here in the states, too. take every moment and commit it to memory so you can look back on this later in your life and be encouraged by what God is doing in your life right now.
grace and peace be with you,
jesse scarcella
oh adam i lovelovelove you and miss you so much.
you are an amazing person!
i am so lucky to have such a great person as a friend.
i send my love, and good luck!
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Alexa.
Hey Adam,
Want you to know that we are praying for you. God will use you in mighty ways! Pull your strength from Him.
Love You!
Phil 1:6
Mike