Second semester has begun! This week has been fairly relaxed. We just found out which ministries we will be in for this semester. Here's a look at my schedule:
Mondays and Wednesdays will be discipleship in the mornings and working at Ithemba in the afternoons. While I'm not sure exactly what Ithemba will look like, here's the brief overview. I will most likely be working with either the creche (preschool age) or grade R (kindergarten age) for the majority of the time. This is my "internship" for the program, so it is the main part of what I do. I am at Ithemba Monday through Thursday afternoons from 1pm-5pm.
Tuesdays I will have Ithemba in the afternoons and in the mornings I will be at 7th Heaven Children's Haven with Sama. Thursdays will also be Ithemba in the afternoons and Virginia's creche in the mornings. This is where I worked last semester and I am absolutely elated to be able to go back! Megan will be with me at Virginia's and I am so excited to be able to work with her as well as to be able to pour into Virginia and Monica and love on the precious children there!
Fridays are our free days, so they are open for what we would like to do. This is just time to relax and get refreshed to do more ministry! Saturdays are a little different, we have family ministry in the mornings, meaning our entire team will be working together on different ministries throughout the semester, then we go to Intentional ministry. Basically, we get to choose what our ministry for that day looks like. We had one day of intentional this week and Ashley, Sydney, and I were able to go hang out with the street boys. It was an amazing and eye-opening experience! Since I only have one morning a week at 7th Heaven, I will most likely spend a lot of my intentional ministry there, helping Nelly out as much as possible!
Sundays we have church in the mornings and Nation Celebration in the evenings like last semester.
I am so excited for what God is going to do this next semester, and I am so happy to be back with my team! This is definitely where God has called me to be for this time, and He is making that more and more evident in my life!