Pray with me...

Please pray with the team and me as we approach some exciting changes, and as we celebrate what the Lord is already doing here in South Africa!

• Last week God really blessed our time on campus. Ali and I met some amazing women and had some great conversations about faith with them. These three women don’t know the Lord but have had some great questions about him. Nicole, Yugashree, and Cleo are curious about who Jesus is and what it means to have a relationship with him. Please pray for them as they walk through some hard questions about faith. Pray that we would have opportunities to work through these questions with them. Also, that we would get more time with these women so that we can get to know them better and love them well.
• This week we are the Durban team is flying back to Pretoria to evaluate our last month in Durban. The STINTer STINT to Durban and Johannesburg was intended to go for a month, and now that the month is up it is evaluation time. The nine of us will meet with our National Campus Director Jacqueline evaluating the split and its effectiveness. Basically we are going to see if splitting up for the remainder of the year is what’s best. Please be praying for our week together as we sort through some important details that could result in some changes over the year.
• Please pray that in our time together as a team, the nine of us would be able to connect and lift one another up. Please pray this time would be refining and encouraging for all of us. The Lord sent the nine of us here to chase after him together. I hope we can do that whether we are with one another or in different locations across the country. Please pray that we can connect and love one another well in our short time together next week.
• If at the end of next week the team decides to send our little team of three back to Durban, there are some important settling-in stuff that will need to happen. Housing and a car being the most important. Please pray that the Lord will show us where he wants us to live and how he wants us to travel while living in Durban. He has been so faithful to provide for our team, and we know that he will provide for our needs if he sends us back.
• One last thing. If we are sent back to Durban we most definitely want to partner with an organization that we can serve with on a weekly basis. We desire to develop a partnership here in Durban that is like the one we currently have with Beam Africa in Pretoria. Please pray that the Lord would lead us where people need us most. We are earnestly seeking the Lord and asking him to use us wherever he desires. I am excited to see where he leads us!

Thank you for all of your prayers. I am truly blessed to be a part of what Jesus is doing here in South Africa. Thank you for sending me, and praying for our team. It means so much to me to have all of you here with me. As always, I would love to know how I could be lifting you up in prayer. If you get a chance, please email me at Amanda.Arias@uscm.org, and let me know how I can be specifically praying for you. Thank you!