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Last friday morning Jessica and Derecia, together with fellow team members, set out to visit families in the local farming community that they were working in. Already feeling quite unprepared for what was awaiting them, they also learned that they would have to do these visits in Afrikaans. Since none of them were comfortable in Afrikaans they confessed to "being freaked out".

However God was with them and gave them the ability to converse in Afrikaans. In one of the houses they visited, two ladies opened up to them and shared about their struggles with sickness and also in their family. The team was able to pray together with them and also shared on a personal level about their relationship with Jesus. At the end of the visit they asked the ladies if they wanted to commit their life to Christ and they did want to do so. Derecia then did the sinner's prayer with them. Afterwards Derecia was quite surprised to find out that she did the whole prayer in Afrikaans, a fact she never realised at the time.

In the next week the team will still be visiting a lot of families. Please continue to pray for opportunities to share Christ and that the team will be able to do so in the language that the families understand!