Coming Home...

I’m alive and well. I’m writing this as I’ve just booked my tickets home. I’m coming home on Thursday, November 13th, I’m coming home this week! The past six months have been full. As life has its mountain top exhilaration, it’s gut wrenching valley lows and then the in-between of whatever emotions…this has been a full time: encouraging dear brothers and sisters, spending a night at and Aids hospice, many discussions of the identity of Ten Thousand Homes, asking and listening the Father for guidance and wisdom, endless nights of laughter, seeing hope rise and fall…and rise again, and especially having to say ”goodbye” to many friends that will not be here when I return. The Farm crew: Nathalie, Laura, Dan, Hank, Hendry and Lize-Marie, I will miss you all. We’ve had some wonderful adventures and I will never forget them.
It’s been the end of many things, but also the beginning of many beautiful things. I’m not a big fan of huge change, but I’ve continued to learn that this journey is about a change and more change.
So, I’m coming home! I’ll be in the states from November 14 til January 22nd and I would love to hang with everyone. Some of you have already contacted, and I greatly appreciate that, but for the others, I’d love to see you again. Please contact me via email (dbonosong@gmail.com). Also, if there are any opportunities to speak, lead worship and/or share about the orphan crisis here in South Africa, for you and your church, I’d love to share. My schedule is very open right now, so please let me know. Ok, I love you all and the next time we talk, it’ll be face to face.

A Bridge to Walk on: By Dan Johns

I sit here with the enjoyable task to writing about a friend. A friend named Dave. Who is Dave? Well yes, he is Korean, but besides that, who is he?
As I have come to know Dave and develop a friendship with him, I have come too see a gentle man who trusts God. It’s that simple. Within the mess of the world, Africa, organizations, and life, Dave continues to be gentle and to trust God.
On many occasions, Dave and I have talked about his role in Africa and where he sees himself fitting in to this continent of at times hopelessness and yet amazing beauty. Dave has explained to me that he is a bridge. He has come to realize that God has called him to be a bridge for people in Africa and the west to connect. He realizes his calling and even around the pain and suffering and the struggle around him, he does not waver from what God has called him to do. He understands the important of being a guide for this continent. Being a person who can expose the west to a place of where there is poverty, orphans, and widows; A place where Jesus lives.
Throughout the past months, a lot has change in Dave’s relationship with Africa. There have been organizational misunderstanding, times of growth, times of contemplation, and times of pain. However, through it all, through all of the mess, Dave is still here. A lot of people would, and have been fed up of how Africa can sometimes work, or not work. However, Dave will not give in.
When it comes down to it, it’s about listening to the people here. Listening to what they need and holding their hand as THEY achieve it. Dave realizes that he cannot let go of that hand. Even within this beautiful mess, Dave will continue to fight for what God has called him to do. He will continue to be that bridge while Africa and the rest of the world walk over it.