August 2023 Newsletter

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Hello Friends and Family!It has been an amazing summer (winter here in South Africa)! It is our busy season with teams coming through on short-term mission trips, and we had quite a few churches, colleges, and youth groups join us this year. Our Summer Internship has a strong leadership focus, and it is great to see our interns transition from the new guys around, into confident ministers of the gospel and helping the ministry train and lead our short-term guests. You’d be amazed to see the transformation that an 8-week internship here can have on an individual. 

Our Summer Interns arrived in early June, and recently departed. They were a power-packed bunch, and certainly one of our internship classes that had the most energy, and connected very well with one another on a spiritual and friendship level. Through their receptive and eager hearts, they saw many signs, wonders, and salvations over the course of their summer here. 

The heart behind the Impact Africa’s Global Internship (which Kindle and I direct together), is to equip these interns to do the work of ministry, and send them home with a heart burning for world missions and a desire to see their spheres of influence transformed by the light of the Gospel! Keep us in prayer as we prepare to receive our next batch of interns who will be arriving at the end of the month! We’re so excited to equip and disciple them, and alter the trajectory of their lives in a missional direction!

On a family note, we are doing very well and Evangeline is growing so fast. She is talking a ton, and can say a variety of words including: toy, mama, dada, Canada, and many others. Kindle’s pregnancy is also going very well, and our little guy(Yes, guy. We’re having a BOY!) is growing and doing a lot of kicking. She is due in December.


The internship department is growing, and we’re taking on two new staff members to help Kindle and I out(You guys prayed for this, so this is a huge answer to our prayers!!). They’re arriving in just one week! This allows Kindle and I to move off of the Impact Africa’s mission base, and begin renting our own place! It’ll be great to have space for the new baby. That being said, we will be needing to raise $1,000 more monthly to cover our new bills that will include rent, utilities, and the extra costs of having a new baby in the home. We also do not currently own a stick of furniture as our apartment on the missions base came fully furnished, so we need startup costs to purchase everything from bowls to a bed.

If you’d like to join our monthly team, or increase your support for us, you can do so here! Just choose the General Fund as the sub fund.

If you’d like to give a one-time donation to help cover our moving costs, feel free to do so here! You can select MOVING FUNDS as the sub fund.

Please be keeping us in prayer on these points:
1. Financial increase to allow us to step into this next season of our lives.
2. Continued health over Kindle and the baby.
3. For our incoming interns to be greatly impacted while here (they arrive August 28th).

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