Prayer Items

          There are so many things to be thankful for and to continue praying for, that it would be impossible to try and name them, but these are some of the things i feel are most prominent. Thank you so much for your ongoing prayers!

          Praises:

-the training I've been receiving over the last 3weeks has been so dense and packed with such good material

-being able to spend time with family for 5 days before training and this past weekend

-strength throughout training's hektic schedule to be able to do so much

-all the finances the Lord has provided to cover the whole of the MTP course fee and more

-so many God-fearing people that He has placed in my life to talk to and have uplifting discussions with

-a greater change of heart to seek God more and more what His will is, and a greater desire to read His Word

-Southern Sudan celebrated its independence on the 9th from the Islamic terrorism and warcraft happening there

-The opportunity to go to Zambia to be used there

-My gran is turning 90 very shortly!

          Prayers:

-this Zambia trip we're leaving for (switched from Sudan due to financing it for the whole team):

-----preparation and planning for the trip physically, mentally, and spiritually (a team of four of us, so we'll each be doing a lot of work and a lot of preaching while we're there)

-----That the people in Zambia would branch out and reach across the border into countries undergoing heavy persecution. pray that they would have a zeal, a passion and a fire to be used fully by the Lord to bring the Truth to all around.

-my own walk with the Lord to grow. I have so much to learn and sometimes feel inadequate for some of the jobs here (especially with preaching). So please pray that the Lord would fill me with courage and boldness, that I would be reading the Word daily to continue to strengthen my relationship with Him.

          Praise God, for He and He alone is deserving of our praise, our adoration, our thoughts, and our actions. God bless!

Great Commission Course Recap

          Finishing up with training tomorrow. This has been such an amazing 3 weeks of training the body, mind, and soul.

          This last week we got to do a few more outreaches, one handing out tracts to traffic as they passed by, and another was working at a mission station the whole day to dig out the foundation for a milk shed. When we got back that night, we had several Sudanese folk over to Livingstone House and celebrated the liberation of South Sudan from the Communistic North. Next day at church i was able to share my testimony and give a brief devotion. Then Monday, we had our course exams for a few hours covering the material we've discussed throughout the course. to end the day off we did another night hike up a river (this time also going through a water tunnel, so we had to work a plan to get all the backpacks through then the people).

Looking out over one of Table Mountain's gorges

          After some lectures the next morning we headed off to the shooting range to get some target practice. Got to fire a .22 rifle, a 9mil pistol, a shotgun, and a scoped 308. Lots of fun! Then after a braii there, 5 of us got an opportunity to speak on a radio broadcast (104 Radio Tygerberg) and give our testimony or a message for a 45 min slot! Such an amazing experience! Found out that there were 1.5 mil listeners! but definitely something i'll get to do more this year. Then today, we hiked up along and down Table Mountain. Absolutely stunning views! We started in the afternoon and finished coming down a gorge at 21:20.

          One of the things that has been a great impact to me has been going through the Way of the Master film series each day. I would highly recommend for people to get and watch through it. its widely changed the way i see evangelism and has had a good effect in deepening my walk with the Lord.

          Please pray for omy Zambia trip coming up: I'll be leaving for that shortly. Can't post too much detail at this point, but it's going to be a lot of work involved with preparing sermons, getting gear ready, etc., and its just a small team of us. Pray that the Lord would use us and increase the fervor and fear of the Lord within the people there. Pray that our own walks would be strengthened, so that in going in to Zambia, the depth of our love and knowledge of the Lord can flow out through our lives.

I'll post more items of prayer soon. 

          Thank you so much for your support. The Lord is doing amazing things...as is His nature. Praise God!

"If Jesus Christ be God...

and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -C.T Studd

What a man of faith Peter was...

to step out of the boat!! That would be like someone standing on a cloud and calling you out from a hot air balloon to come across the cloud to him.

GCC Outreaches

PRISON OUTREACH
          Praise God! Today's prison outreach went SO well. We split up into groups of three, and each group got to spend half an hour in each cell. Started in song with Amazing Grace, Alive Alive, King of Kings, and a few others, to which the whole crowd of inmates enthusiastically piped along. Then we read and discussed the parable of the prodigal son, followed by two of us giving our testimonies. Then we discussed the weight of 1 John 2:15-16, and the radical change of lifestyle it called us to. After that we went around and individually prayed for the inmates who wanted it (a large majority). It was amazing to see how open they were in sharing what they had done and what they wanted prayer for. Had some good discussions with some of the inmates. After each group had visited two cells we headed back. I know that the Lord was working in that jail today; praise be to God!


CHEETAH OUTREACH

          After that we went to Spier, a "Cheetah Outreach" where they take care of primarily cheetah and birds of prey to release them back into the wild. got to hold an eagle and pet a cheetah. awesome experience!

NIGHT HIKE
          Tonight we have another white-water walk where we'll be taking a hike up a fire station path once its dark, trekking through the river (tonight we're going upstream), then hiking back, theoretically without being seen. The idea is to simulate a possible predicament if being followed by armed Arabs in Sudan or other countries.