The heart of God!!!!

Hi guys,

Today's blog is pretty personal.This week has been about relationships and how much God loves relationship and restoring it!!! We've all been greatly challenged in many areas.

Personally, God has been doing a lot of work in my heart as well as many others. There has been a great drive towards sorting out our outreach so now we know that we will be spending at least 6 weeks in either Brazil or India. I have felt that God wants me to go to India - I'm super excited but very scared too!!!!Please pray!!!!

God has also been laying on the heart of everyone at the base that he wants to use us to serve the most vulnerable people groups - women and children. So my heart and as we have been preparing and praying many of us have been getting the same idea more and more.

In order to be ready many of us have been stepping out in their gifts. Tamara led us in worship yesterday, which was awesome even though she had never done it before. I got to preach and the guys started doing some awesome acting for the local HIV / Aids Community Support group.It was amazing and something I really want to grow in although this was the last thing I thought I'd be doing. Hagen is really stepping out in his gift of teaching.

We got to celebrate Mohau's 21st birthday this week and made her feel very special. She has never really had good birthdays and so this was a real blessing for her and awesome for us to share with. Relationships have been really growing here and all of us are really feeling that some of these friendships will really be for a lifetime -

I'm still on with the whole gardening thing and this week we got to clear out one of our neighbours garden. Next week we start a project with clearing a school field so they can have a rugby pitch. I can't wait!!!!

More details of what God is doing in here in the latest blog by the same title. I look forward to share more next week.

God bless and speak soon.

xxxx

The best is yet to come!!!!

Hey guys, this week's blog is pretty long but it's really cos so much happened. Life is so very exciting!!! This week we had a lot spiritual and emotional healings and spiritual manifestations of demons etc - like stuff that took over people and made them speak in different voices and sounds. It was freaky man but I was amazed at how unfazed I was. God really enabled me to stand firm and get behind the whole deliverance stuff and pray. It's been amazing!!! The team here really feel that as stuff like this has been happening so early on in the school that there really is something special ahead of us!!! I'm really excited - please pray that I continue to stay strong and really embrace everything God has for me here so I can be most effective.

Also, we got to do some awesome evangelism yesterday at the Billabong Pro Surf Contest. Got to pray with a Xhosa lady for her son who struggles with drug addictions and encouraged an english guy to read the bible again. Please pray that He too returns to God. His name is George.

Special concerns:
Unity of the group. the lady - moenira, I spoke of is really struggling to let God in to do his work.Please pray for her.

Health and safety of all the pupils and staff - many people who don't normally get ill are and we so feel that it's the devil attack so please pray.

My weight - I'm losing weight again even though I'm not stressed at all this time and eating loads - please pray against whatever is causing it as I can't afford to buy new clothes but also when we go on outreach - we may not be able to eat that much. Please pray.

Spiritual protection and discernment for leaders and pupils - there is a lot of change and breakthroughs and challenges this week. Please pray that it continues.

Please check out the "Latest blogs" section on the left of this post of the same heading for more detail and photos on Facebook will be up tomorrow.

God bless and speak soon!!!!!

Grace xxx

Welcomed with open arms

Hi guys,

Just to let you know I'm still doing great here. It's amazing and I love it so much!!! Everyone is still very nice even though we're spending almost every minute of every day together. All those who know me - know this is quite a feat for me but I have to admit it's not too bad.

So much has happened in this first week there's too much to say here so please do check out the pages section for more details. Key points though - We had an official welcome as DTS students where we were locked out of the base and then welcomed in officially - African village style with people speaking to us in lots of different languages. We were then treated to a range of traditional dances. It was amazing!!!

Also, there about 20 of us and we've all bonded really well even though there are some from South Korea, Cameroon, Ghana, USA and local J'Bay. It's so fab!!! We had a braii - BBQ at 9 o'clock one night for one of the guys birthday - Apparently this is normal?!? and very fun!!! Bring it on SA. Food here is so good!!!

Apart from various work duties (weeding, farming etc - yes, that's right I did gardening!!!)and lectures and worship - we have been able to start doing some evangelism this week. We got to speak to the local people and children on the streets and then had an awesome church service with loads of people we invited. One of the guys - johnson - a total druggy who actually used to supply one of the worship leaders whose life has been totally changed now -came and was asking for prayer to stop using himself and drinking and smoking. This is a real problem in the area so please pray.

Next week, We've been told we have to run 3 days from 5:30 - 6am. I've been up for a lot of stuff but for this, I am so not!!!!. I tell you people - I have not worked and been so busy as I have this week and I know it's going to get worse but in the midst of it all - God's been really speaking and changing me and all my perspective on so much!!! Next week we properly start going out and engaging with the community. I'm very excited about what God has in-store so will try and update you all then too.

Please think of me and continue to pray. Love you all!!!! Speak soon!!!! God bless!!

I made it!!!

Hi guys,

Just to let you know I finally made it to Jeffrey's Bay, YWAM Base in South Africa. I got my visa on Monday morning - no problem!!! Praise God. Thanks so much to all of you who prayed. I really appreciated it.

Jeffrey's Bay is really lovely and everyone is very, very nice. The peace of God is so here. I can't wait to start the actual school on Sunday. Only 5 other students are here so far - Caleb, Dako, Hagen, Moeniera and her daughter Zamar and Ashlee. They're all very different but all full of the Spirit. You can really tell. I love them all already. Check out the pages section for more info on the left of this post and pictures are on the left.

Sorry for the delay and hope to write weekly from now on. God bless and speak soon.

Lots of love.

Grace xxx