Dear Family in America,
I am sorry that it has taken a few days to respond to you, but I just
wanted to let you know how I am doing. I have arrived safely as have
all my team members! The travel was long but I'm fairly well adjusted
to the time difference and am starting to get into the routine of
things. This week is mostly orientation, learning what we will be
doing the next two months, and getting to know each other. I have been
greatly blessed with a very energetic and passionate team that is
ready to serve. I praise God for the girls in my cabin, as we are all
getting along very well. The people here have such a passion for
relationship evangelism and believe strongly that the best way to
share Christ's love is by befriending people and serving them.
Thrive's main purpose is not to create a revival but rather to
disciple people and teach them so that they may also be able to
disciple. The main church here in Qwa Qwa is called Zion Christian
Church. Although they call themselves Christians, they also believe in
ancestral worship and witchcraft. I will be going out into the
township of Qwa Qwa and exchanging lives with the people and sharing
with them that Jesus is the only One that they need. Please pray for
me and my team, as next week will be the first time that we go out to
ministry. Also, this Saturday, we will be heading to an orphanage to
play with children while the yearlong interns paint the orphanage. I
am very excited for this opportunity.
Just to give you an idea about the passion that my team has, we have
prayer once a week on Wednesday mornings. Yesterday, everyone liked it
so much, that we decided to wake up early before breakfast and pray
every morning. Also, last night we were planning on having a hoe-down
in honor one of our Texan team members, but when the music situation
didn't work out for that, we decided to just make it a worship night.
We prayed and worshiped for over an hour.
Throughout the orientation process, I have come to realize how much
God prepared me for this mission. There are many similarities between
the work that I am doing here and what we did last year in Rocky Boy,
Montana. The staff here at Thrive have informed us that the relational
work that we are doing in Qwa Qwa will not have a direct result that
we will be able to see while we are here. Instead, it will be help to
strengthen the relationship with Thrive and the Basotho people. Also,
although the natives of Rocky Boy and Qwa Qwa are very different, they
are similar in that they are both very cultural and attached to their
traditions. I am excited because I know that God has been preparing me
for this mission for a while now. Even last year, when I didn't know
what I was doing or why I was even going on that mission in Rocky Boy,
God had a plan for me and is now revealing more of that plan. Praise
God for his faithfulness! For he truly does have plans to prosper me
and to give me a hope and future. I can see all of it playing out
before me and it now becoming so real.
Lastly I wanted to share some things that I have learned. First of
all, this is something that Neil, the director of Thrive Africa, said
before our prayer time yesterday. He was talking about how Satan can
do absolutely nothing to stop the Holy Spirit from moving. When our
eyes are on Jesus, we cannot be moved. He can, however, tempt us with
physical needs that would have not have our atttention if we were
focused on Christ, but he tells us that we need them and makes us weak
by those physical things. It was a interesting to see and know that,
to know that Satan really can do nothing to God because God is so
powerful, and that God is our strength because when we look to him,
when he is with us, we cannot be shaken.
Another thing that I learned was during our worship time last night.
One of the girls in my group was talking about how all God did to
create the entire universe was breath. She commented on how easy it is
for us to breath and how we do it without even thinking. If that was
all God did to create the universe, then how much greater things can
he do in our lives when he constructs a perfect plan for us, when he
has said that he loves us above all creation. If we matter more to him
than all of the universe, and all he did was breath to create it, then
how much more can he do in our lives. I thought that was a really cool
picture of how great our God really is. How awesome is he!!!
Finally, I'm sorry I don't have a picture to send at this time, the
computer that I am using is not fast enough to be able to upload
pictures, but I will send them as soon as I can.
Thank you for your prayers! I will see you soon!
Modimo a o hlohonolofatse (God bless you),
Hannah Borcherdt
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