Week one Muizenberg

We made it in at about 10pm. We had an amazing trip. The flights were smooth and no lost luggage! Sarah and James (Sarah used to be on staff in Nashville) picked us up from the airport and showed us the base and our room. Today they took us to eat fish and chips at the beach (there were seals swimming in the water) and we asked questions about South Africa, the Muizenberg base, School of Biblical Studies, and a local church planting ministry. Sarah walked us around the neighborhood and showed us the ropes a bit.

The weather is warm but very windy. It is supposed to get to 90 this week. We are surrounded by mountains and the ocean. It seems very modern here and there is a good mixture of people. Many rich and many poor. Over all it feels more like Europe in this part of South Africa.

We are going to sit in on class (School of Biblical Studies) this week starting Monday.

Since Last Week

We are down to six days before we leave for South Africa. We have been planning more details of the trip and are noticing all the little things we have overlooked. This week we got our vaccinations, bought travelers insurance, and did a lot of research on bus/train stations in South Africa and Zambia. YWAM Nashville will pray us out Wednesday, and our flight is Thursday afternoon. Please keep us in your prayers.

13 more days!

We have been back at YWAM for 1 week as of today, and have 13 more days until we fly out for South Africa!

Between work hours we are busy trying to prepare for this trip. Vaccinations come next week... visa's will have to wait until we arrive in the country & we are hoping for the remaining finances to buy a ticket to Zambia.

Married Newsletter

Bunch Wedding

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Honeymoon in Savannah, GA

We are home from our honeymoon in Savannah, GA. We fell in love with this historic city and wanted to share a little bit of our adventure and what we learned :)

We stayed 2 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean... we got up real early to watch the sun rise:)

Take a look at these mossy trees! This is what we think of when we hear about Savannah. We learned that the moss is actually an air plant that doesn't grow from the tree, but is drifted through the air and builds up on the trees.

When we arrived in the city we saw a lady making these flowers out of palm leafs. We were amazed as she weaved to create a rose! Being new to the city, we gave in and bought one not knowing we could find them throughout down town.

We ate on the roof of the Bohemian Hotel, and this was our view!

We ate at many great local restaurants. Uncle Bubba's is one of the Paula Dean restaurants. It was very good... we had shrimp, scallops and crabcakes! Other restaurants we ate at were: The Cotton Exchange & The Pirates House.

DeWayne had planned for us to take a carriage ride through down town. We trotted through the stone roads of Savannah learning about architecture, where certain movies were filmed, which places are haunted, etc.

This is the steeple that the feather flew by in Forest Gump. The part where he was eating a box of chocolates is also in Savannah. The bench isn't there, but the memory is...

If you went to our wedding, you would know that we love honey! We gave away honey as a wedding favor. In the city one of our favorite shops was called 'The Savannah Bee Company.'

There you could sample 6 different types of honey. They have two stores down town and one on the island.

-Shelves full of honey

Meet the waving girl. This statue is of a lady named Florence Martus who used to stand at the entrance of the harbor and wave ships in with her handerchief in the day, and a lantern at night. She did this for 44 years and it's estimated she welcomed about 50,000 ships.

The weather was perfect; in the 70's. We celebrated DeWayne's birthday on the 14th. We really had a great time. We have lots more pictures and memories to share if you'd like to hear them. Love, The Bunch's!

Short Update!

We have been busy planning a wedding and planning a trip to Africa. These next 6 months in our lives will be extremely crazy (crazy=good/busy). We get married next weekend (What?!) We are thrilled in God's timing and have seen extreme growth come from waiting on Him.

We will be taking November and December to travel ( 7 states total!) We will be visiting family for the holidays, and are looking for opportunities in between adjusting to married life, to meet with people and share our heart for Africa.

God has been faithful and our hard work has payed off. We are half way there! We have BOUGHT our plane ticket to South Africa and now need 2 round trip plane tickets to Zambia and need to cover living expenses when we are there. We will be doing a mixture of ministry, visiting friends while there, and honeymoon to Victoria Falls.

We arrive back at YWAM after our holiday travels to live for a month from Dec 27th- Jan 20th.
We fly out to Africa on January 20th- March 7th.