We want to share a glimpse into our new ministry season with you.  Of course, every week looks a little different, but we are starting to develop some healthy rhythms and are enjoying many wide open doors and invitations. 
 
Rather than give you a list of all the things we are doing now, let me just say we have been blessed with incredible favor – it truly is the Lord!  Many people have been praying for breakthroughs for years into these various areas of the community and we have been uniquely positioned by the Lord to connect to certain people which has resulted in invitations to minister at several of the local schools, at church, helping with a variety of things at the local orphanage, with building projects, speaking at conferences, networking with local pastors, and more.  These are all at the very beginning stages but we are filled with joy and expectancy for what is to come.  It is going to be a great year and we are so thankful for this new location and season.
 
Many of our current opportunities are to minister or help develop things for the youth.  
 
We are renting a home on the New Horizon College campus (grades 1-12) and our landlady and her parents have been so helpful in getting us connected to campus life next door and have given us a wide open invitation to minister to the 800+ students.  We met the leadership and the teachers there and already Dan has shared a devotional in assembly to the high schoolers and counseled four people.  We hope to begin a ministry to the kids living in the dormitories in the weeks to come.  Miesha and I were invited to a dance on campus and dressed up with shweshwe headdresses and had a blast dancing with 150 other ladies for the evening.  It was a bit out of our comfort zone, but we definitely enjoyed it.
 
Dan was invited to speak for 7 hours at a YWAM class recently on how to minister in the area of addictions – what an amazing connection!  Also this past Thursday, he drove a couple hours to the town of Welcom and will spoke to 120 students on addictions.
 
We also have some invitations to minister at Caritas College which is the school that was founded by our church.  We also met their leadership and know several people on staff from church connections. I teach a weekly devotional to the grade 5 learners and Dan shared in their chapel recently.
 
We are helping a bit with planning for the next youth camp and again, because of our landlady and her parents, there is now an option for utilizing their beautiful farm for the outdoor adventure parts of camp.  We had a lot of fun scouting that out!  
 
We are hoping for approximately 200 youth to come this time, which is a big jump from the 40 students who came to the last 3 camps!  The cost is $70 per student for 4 nights of camp and we have been so blessed by many of you who gave scholarships in the past.  Many students have been saved and encouraged to reach their friends for the Lord through these camps and we are hoping for a big crowd to minister to this time.
 
We would love to be able to offer scholarships again to some of the students whose families are struggling financially.  This time the students are also “working” for part of the scholarship by helping with some landscaping projects around the church grounds.  We love the idea of them serving and “earning” their way to camp.  If you would like to sponsor some youth to go to camp, it would be a massive blessing.  Please donate through the link below and put “camp scholarship” on the memo line.  Any amount is welcome.
 
Dan and I feel that we have fallen into this beautiful pocket of grace and we are so thankful to be in this community for such a time as this.  Thank you for your prayers for us and for your support of our ministry and the extra gifts to help students go to camp.
 
Titus is doing awesome and Miesha is slowly getting acclimated.  Friendships are slightly harder for middle school girls, but she is connecting with some of the girls in youth group and is going horse riding with a couple gals this afternoon.  Please keep praying for her in this transition.
 
With joy, 
Dan and Janell