Thank you very much for praying for me!!! You don't believe how great part you have in my life. I would like to share two new prayer requests with you that define my 9 months here.
1. Driving
Jo'burg is a huge city but the public transportation is very weak. That's why it is so important and urgent for me to be practiced in driving so I can go to minister alone and I am not stuck in the apartment (there are big distances so walking is not even an option) or I don't need to wait for others to take me.
In Hungary I didn't have any experience in driving (except breaking car...) and the good side of this is that hopefully it won't be such a big challenge to get used to driving on the other side. My goal is to practice every day and to drive very soon alone.
2. Church
I didn't have any idea what kind of church I would like to attend before I came here. But God didn't let me wait too long and put one on my heart.
Past weekend I was in a Missions Conference
in my roommate's, Miriam's church. This is a pretty rich church which supports many missionaries differing from the South African practice (soon it can send out its very own missionary couple). At the meetings they got to share about their ministries. So I heard and saw a testimony of a Jo'burg church as well: what they are facing with, what blessings and struggles they have. Its pastor said - by the way, not really believing that ears would be open for it - that they need help. Not (only) financially but workers (the most urgent 
need right now is to teach kids reading in English). He also mentioned their outreach ministry which is a place where there is no running water, no electricity and every 5 house have one toilet.(This shows even more to me as well how huge extremes there are in Jo'burg. Our neighborhood is middle class and it is totally normal to have pool in the backyard, electric lines for safety and also having black people as gardeners and cleaners.)
The update is getting a bit longer but I want you to see how the Lord is leading me, tiny little junk. I would have the temptation to chat about all kinds of things but God is really pushing me what you sent me out with: PEOPLE NEED THE LORD. I have never experienced such a strong calling (for what I was praying a lot because I really missed it from myself).
So I have no idea if the Lord allows me to go to that church and to serve there and for how long if yes but for sure so far He has answered all my prayers with encouraging verses:
- Security questions: "The Lord watches over you, the Lord is your shade at your right hand." Psalm 121:5 + "A man's riches may ransom his life, but a poor man hears no threat." Proverbs 13:8- This church has only black members. God has reminded me of the picture: as they come to us and work for us, I should go to them as their white servant.
- "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." Hebrews 12:1-3
- "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." Jn 14:12
- Finally yesterday I got an e-mail from one of my friends. She reported on a preaching how much she was touched by that: "It was about the really well-known story what we have heard so many times: Peter went to Jesus walking on the water but from a different perspective. The point is that there are two kinds of disciples, one who stays in the boat and the other one who dares to step out of the boat." I was hit by it (again): I shouldn't be afraid but take the step in faith and walk in Jesus' footprints!!!
Please, pray for these things!!! Thank you!
