This Beautiful Mess

Jet-lag is hitting me bad right now. Slept for several hours today... still feel like I could sleep more and more. Did an awesome outreach today in a community called Imizamo Yethu, also called Mandela Park for any of you having trouble pronouncing that (as I am, ha). I would like to list off the languages that I encountered today on our outreach: English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Spanish, and Portuguese. Imizamo Yethu is a black township, most the children spoke Xhosa, the JAM staff primarily speaks Afrikaans and English, and the Brazilians speak Portuguese and a broken Spanish with me and the other Americans. It was amazing because in the midst of confusion across the languages, God's love felt so strong. It was a beautiful mess. At one point a Brazilian woman was using one of those little block things that folds in different ways with pictures on it of the Gospel message, trying to speak in English and reading off a cheat sheet to a bunch of kids who only spoke Xhosa and only showed any response to the words "Jesus" and "love." It's awesome out here. God is doing great things. Thinus, JAM's second hand man was telling me that a lot of people have been prophesying over the country lately saying that a great revival is going to start in Cape Town and work its way northward over the whole continent and eventually the world. Let's pray for that to be true. God is moving a lot of interesting people into interesting places in this country before the World Cup and I can only imagine that if we are faithful to serve He will do something truly great. Keep it real. Love God and love others.