Applications are in

Applications were due this past weekend and we have already had a few interviews to build the next RockHarbor South Africa team. I'm sure we will be very busy with interviews over the next few weeks getting a team chosen for the August trip.

Sweet Home Committee Training

The Sweet Home committee continues their training and we received this picture of their training event from Bridges Of Hope. This picture was taken during last week's lesson on Jesus Healing the Paralytic. Lulama (on the right) is the director for Bridges Of Hope in the Cape Flats area. We met her on our scouting trip when we toured the amazing church that was built in Phillipe. Phillipe is a township much like Sweet Home, but has a much longer history with Bridges of Hope. I believe this picture was taken in the building adjacent to the church in Phillipe.

Sweet Home Committee Selected

This is the new committee that has been selected in Sweet Home! They will be trained to oversee the Community Transformation work there over the next few months and it is critical that they grasp the fullness of the task they are being equipped for, so please keep them in your prayers as they begin their training. They are meeting in a shipping container for now.

Prayer Meeting

We had our second Prayer meeting last night. I just noticed that I never posted about the first prayer meeting. We are planning on having them once a month.

Last night we focused on the Uganda team which will be leaving around Christmas. There were around 15 people in attendance. We met for an hour and prayed and talked about the various issues facing Uganda and the team preparing to leave for Uganda.

And Jesus answered saying to them, "Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions.
Mark 11:22-25

RockHarbor adopts Sweet Home

RockHarbor has officially adopted a township in Cape Flats (just outside Cape Town) called Vlie (pronounced fleh) and nicknamed Sweet Home by the locals. Our first trip with a full team will be in August 2008. Over the next year, Bridges Of Hope will be raising up leaders and coming to a better understanding of the needs of this community as we at Rock Harbor begin to build teams to help address these needs and work alongside Bridges Of Hope and the community of Sweet Home.

Prayer Meeting November 19

We will be having our second monthly prayer meeting. This month we will be focusing on the upcoming Uganda trip. We will also continue to pray for Bridges Of Hope, Rehoboth, EBCAIDS ministry, Elias' ministry in Zandspruit, Boothlai in Soweto and Dennis in downtown Johannesburg. I'm sure there are a few others I missed. Please join us.

• When: Monday, November, 19, 2007 at 7pm.

We will meet at RockHarbor in one of the Mini-labs. Check back for more details.

Trip Dates Selected

Trip dates for the 2008 South Africa team trip to Bridges-Of-Hope in Cape Town.

August 1-17, 2008

We will be taking approximately 20 people. The dates will be during that two week period and may shift a day or two depending on travel arrangements.

Now we begin the long process of scheduling, selecting a team and training for our trip. We have heard through Dennis's e-mail list that the CHE training for the Sweet Home leaders was recently in progress. Sweet Home (or Vlee, prounounced Fleh) is the township we have adopted and will be working with through Bridges-Of-Hope.

For more information contact: monica - at - monicaharter.com

Previous Trip Blogs

I wanted to cross post links to our previous trips, to make them a little easier to find.

This is the website for the scouting trip in 2007. http://www.rockharborafrica2007.blogspot.com
This is the website for Team #3 and #4. http://www.rockharborinnamibia.com/
This is the blog for Team#2. http://rockharborafricateam.blogspot.com/