The Website of Miah and Michelle Collins

Hi everyone, this is Miah.

We don’t have a ton to report from the last month. From my side its been very exciting, but considering most of that is behind the scenes restructuring and planning for the future, I won’t bore you all with the details. I’m already humbled that with everything you could possibly be reading online you have chosen this!

I have 2 main news pieces to share with you:

I am in the process of booking our flights to the States for later this year! We will be coming flying into Houston on October 21 and leaving again on November 30. We will spend the majority of our time in Texas but are also planning to be in Michigan/northern Indiana for a time. We’d love to see as many people as possible so let’s start planning! I am reminded of Romans 1:12 where Paul looks forward to visiting the church of Rome so that they may be mutually encouraged by each others’ faith. That is something that really excites me about seeing old friends!

Secondly, J-Life Africa has a new website: http://www.jlifeafrica.org
It’s still a work in process but it might help you get a better idea of what is happening here and around Africa.

Michelle and I leave on Sunday and will drive 10 hours south to a coastal city called East London. We will spend the next week doing some vision sharing with churches on the south coast of South Africa and will end up in Jeffery’s Bay where we will be doing some of our youth ministry training at the national Son Surf conference. Son Surf is a great organization which reaches out to surfers all along the coast of South Africa through competitions, cell groups, and surfing schools. If you’ve ever seen the old surfing movie, Endless Summer II, Jeffery’s Bay is where they eventually find the illusive “perfect wave.” Although I’m excited to get in the water, I’m afraid the perfect wave would be wasted on me due to a lack of surfing skills. Regardless, we are excited to hit the coast. Our apartment here is right on the river which means it is very cold right now. It usually gets below freezing at nights (and for those of you in the States, we endure that without luxuries like central heating). But its not as bad as it might sound. The sun shines every day. And like all things, you learn to adjust.

Also, we got a hamster which my mom says is “lame” but that’s just because she hasn’t met him yet. His name is Jouage and he’s pretty cool. We’ll add a picture of him on here.

God has continued to be faithful to us, specifically in the area of finances over this past month. We continue to trust and praise Him in all things. As always, we would love to hear from all of you. Why not add us as a contact on Skype if you are into that sort of thing? My name is miah.collins

Grace and peace
Miah