Community

“If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.” Ecclesiastes 4:10

Since our journey began, we’ve been tuned in to several different apps and books to follow for devotions. We feel this is a great way for the two of us to engage in the word and initiate dialogue. It just so happened that Friday’s verse from the “Devotion” app was right in line with a topic that kept resurfacing over and over for us. This was COMMUNITY.

It’s amazing how huge community can be and it’s also amazing how much you can miss it when you are not living in it.  There are many ways we can look at community. To some, it may be a large group of people: their neighborhood or their city. To others, this can be a smaller group of people: their family, closest friends, or maybe a small group from church. No matter how you view community, it’s typically always some type of group of people that you are close to and value.

When we think about community, we think of people we feel comfortable with, people we can pick up the phone to call if we want to talk or if we need help with something, people that will invite us over just to “hang out”—not expecting anything in return. We also think of this verse mentioned above; it’s the people in our community who will pick us up when we’re down.

If we are honest, we would say we miss our immediate communities back home a bit. By being removed from our community we see the importance to be surrounded by others that you feel you are in community with. We believe you can MAKE community wherever you are. We’re challenging ourselves to make more of a community here in South Africa.

Do us each a favor and think about what COMMUNITY means to you. Who is part of your community? Pick up the phone or send them a note and let them know that you’re thankful for them. This helps you identify these people and their importance but it will also bring a smile to their face. :) If you’re struggling with identifying your community, create one today!

Thanks for being apart of our community; we’re grateful for each of you! :)

With Love,

Ty + Michelle

This is the mother and child of the first adoption with SFCS-- we spent a bit of time with the mother hearing about her adoption experience.

This is a typical Monday morning-- we begin the week with devotions, prayer and a brief overview of what is going on during the week ahead. 

Ty's patiently waiting for the office to open up!  

Ty working with Tsoaniki catching some footage for a video he's creating for the organization. We worked with each of the ladies to gain a bit of knowledge on what they do for SFCS. 

Michelle and one of the babies at the CYCC. 

Michelle and Nthabiseng discussing the needs at the CYCC. We are working closely with the ladies to identify where the greatest needs are. We are working to create a curriculum with them to help stimulate the children who stay there.  Once we create the curriculum we'll go out and purchase the items that are needed. We're both very excited to help out here to ensure the children staying receive the quality of care that every child deserves. 

Doing a little inventory on what vitamins and medicine they currently have. 

We went and saw Paper Towns last weekend, it was a great movie!