Back in CT

Hello Everyone,

Sorry that is has been sooo long since I have posted on my blog site. As most of you know I was home in Colorado for my sister's wedding (which was a great time). And I have been back for about 3 weeks in Cape Town but have been very busy.

The transitions of going home and coming back have been very smooth...not too much culture shock, and a lot of peace as I have felt God walking closely with me in both places. Since I have come back we have has a few exciting things going on here. First we had a visiting American group from a high school in Minnesota, who was accompanied by our American Director Ellen. We showed them around our projects, they participated/helped out, and they were a lot of fun to work with.

Also, we had my roommate/coworker Loyiso lead 5 of our youth to stay in the northern city of Durban to perform drama at a Red Cross Conference. As that has been happening, we have been continuing our after school programs and have been able to bring positive messages at a couple of schools. This past Friday was probably our most exciting event, as we had a kickoff celebration and indoor soccer tournament in the community of Lotus River. We had youth from both Khayelitsha and Lotus River playing soccer and we were kicking off a project of photography for some of our youth and microloans (to start small businesses) for our other youth.

All in all it has been great to be back so far. And I am looking forward to this week as we will be purchasing 8 guitars for our Khayelitsha group so I can start guitar classes with them, as well as two of my best friends Alex and Maria are coming to visit. I am always thankful for all of my supporters and especially people willing to travel this far to come visit me. I want to thank you all again for making this time out here possible for me. Please pray for 1) Continued relationships to deepen with the youth 2) God to really affect the youth and live lives that will affect their communities. Thank you and I hope you are all well. Peace
Ryan