Destination: Cedric's House, South Africa

Still in Johannesburg. just moved about 15 minutes down the road. There was one main difference about this routine outreach re-location. we moved into this guys place july 9th. and the next morning the other two outreach teams that we were apart from for the last 2 months. this was... extremely exciting. seeing our friends, swapping stories and living crammed 3o in a house never felt better. cedric is an ex-cop who is in connection with ywam Melbourne through his daughter. his is opened up his killer house to us for a week and set up some great stuff too. enough mattresses for all of us, a usually hot showers (best you can ask for on outreach), and the raddest rooftop hangout spot. his place was great. And in the week is primarily intended to be for debrief, we got some ministry chucked in there as well.

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my stomach just grumbled and it reminded me of one of the best things in south africa. and specifically Cedric's house. The place: SPUR steakhouse. boasting the nicest steak you could imaging for under 10 bucks. or a 2 for 1 wings deal on Wednesdays that results in a plate of fries and 30 wings for like 60 rand. (about 8.50). so Spur because a favorite, quickly, amongst the guys. we would be at our neighbourhood Spur within minutes whenever we were provided with dining money. As well, Vidar and Matty, with cash to burn, would never leave a man behind on a spur trek if funds were the issue. vidar led the campaign. spur always on his mind. i advocated strongly every Wednesday. and matty, raf, jon, and jordan were always, always game. more than that we loved spur evangelism. we would share the gospel to every waiter and hostess, cook and bus boy. we handed out dvd's with Kaka's testimonies and a few people accepted Jesus.

all in all. we loved SPUR. and were super thankful for it.

oh ya. they did breakfast's too.

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now that i just grabbed a plate of leftovers from dinner, i can continue. during our time, Cedric set up some ministry for us at a local township. essentially townships are illegal squatter camps where people take up residence, in shacks, by the thousands.

we helped with their churches soup kitchen ministry. everyday from about 11 to 3 we would set up outside the church tent, and provide lunch for whoever wanted it. the soup -delicious. the bread -baked fresh. and I'm not going to lie. it was one of the nicest lunches we had in south Africa. and the people enjoyed it the same. it attracted a good number of people, and we usually kicked a ball with the guys waiting for the food. sharp.

and the main priority as well for this time was debrief week. we had it with this hilarious guy named Dave something, at his local church. cant remember his name, but I'm not gonna say the same about his teaching. i got a ton out of this week. learned about going home. processing everything that happened on outreach. and best of all, we re caped the months of lecture phase, and basically everything that i thought i missed out on, for whatever reason, i got in these few days of final lectures.

this destination was also home to the Cedric's cup of champions - gentlemen's league. and one of the funnest soccer games at the Portuguese soccer ground, which was, of course, followed by spur. this was the last stop on our African adventure, and now that I'm back in Australia, its great to be back. but its hard not the miss places like Cedric's house.