South Africa Mexico Team

witness (English). ufakazi (IsiZulu). testigo (Spanish).

The name of my Mexico Outreach team is the South Africa team. This causes quite a bit of confusion when we are fundraising or promoting our team because a South Africa Mexico Outreach Team sounds very random. To clear things up we tell people that we are a group of Americans that went to South Africa and are now also going to Mexico to serve together.

As a theme verse for our Mexico trip, my team picked Acts 1:8 and we are concentrating on the part that says, "you will be my witnesses...to the ends of the earth".

When I went to South Africa, I felt useless as I tried to help out in the townships because there is so little that we humans can do to bring justice to this unjust world, but when we testify about the great love of our savior, he takes care of the rest.

I'm going to Mexico as the interpreter of my team and I'm feeling incredibly intimidated by that job. I am fluent in Spanish, but I always feel incompetent in communicating with others. There's not much I can do, but I can be a witness and share what God does through me.