where to from here..?

Discipleship Training School (DTS) just ended. Many days ago when all this started i didn't really know what i was doing here or why i was here but God had a plan and i was in it or should i say i was "It". 
I got to Muizenberg not so long ago, when i got here one of those things that i couldn't stop thinking about was "now I'm here how the heavens I'm i going to go to out reach? " i still don't have an answer to this question but God came through for me not just for outreach but for lecture phase too.During this time i learnt how to be intentional with God and how to go up to him and sit on his lap, without any fear of him being too occupied.

During lecture phase i discovered God and our reason for being. but these last few days i have been discovering what God has for me, but with it i had to lay down what i want to do, and within a short space of time things have changed a lot, i went to outreach with a zeal and longing to go into the eastern cape as soon as i come back from outreach. i wanted to go while i still had the momentum from all what we had done Through Christ In Thailand..

But this Morning i went to a Spiritual check up,and i got a lot of things on how pace is picked up, and this makes total sense to me. for even cars have to start on lower gears before going to the fastest gear.. as much as kids have to crawl before walking . its think this is all because they have to get used to the idea of getting around,on their own,
I believe that's exactly what God said this Morning when i was being prophesied over one of the Guys from the "prayer and worship department" said you have to be pregnant for nine months before giving birth. at that time because i am still excited about my eastern cape vision i did not see what was coming my way.
 I told my self that he meant its not going to be easy, and i was contant with that. and today as i was talking to God, ohh! this is one of those things that made no sense at all before DTS but now it makes total sense,God is relational and he wants us to talk with him.
anyway what i got there was i need a foundation before laying down bricks for the eastern cape vision i need to do a SBS (School of Biblical Studies) I'm still at a cross roads here for i wanted to staff a dts and then do all these tings that i had been planning. but all i need at this point are prayers for i need a lot of confirmation from about this...
i want to Thank everyone who has helped me with this outreach to Thailand, weather it was spiritually or financially or you were there when i needed to Get my head out of Thailand.... Thank you for your prayers and above all Thank you Jesus for the Work you Did in Thailand and all that your doing in me and Through Me.... "Your Beautiful"

Living on the Foot of Burma

We are now in Mae Sai, a small city just on the border of Burma, and this is a hot spot for human trafficking and Child labour is a hit here, over the other side of the border life is harder because of the Military regime that is in Charge of the country. Burma is known as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and that does not surprise me, i have been here for less than a Month but i have heard how people are mistreated in their own mother land by their own fellow country man, By what people say woman have no rights but woman can be in the army just as sex slaves. The Junta army can come into any one's house and take what ever they want to take. and do whatever they please.

its a also a country flooded by tribal wars. and they have been going for years and years. Freedom is a little swim on a not so tiny river that divided the two countries, regardless of the risk of drowning people do it anyway, One can be given a week in Thailand as a Refugee and after that week one can be taken to a refuge camp. i know that police are only doing their Job, but every morning when there is a road block they would always harass someone who doesn't have the right papers for being in Thailand. and for me this really looked like Apartheid that happened in South Africa about 15 years ago. and i really got angry when ever this occurred, but while all this is happening i can see what God is doing within small groups off Burmese people,
one of those things that i observed was that this country has people who put all their trust on these Gods that they have, even thought most of them are Buddhist i could see how passionate they would be about Christ. listen to this about 100 years ago there were Wars between Burma and Thailand and they fought over those Big Gold Buddha Statues that they have all over the country.

please pray for the people of Burma/ Myanmar is its known Today but i like the name Burma i think its cool...

Today i heard good news, on how our team did while in the village. for we spent two weeks there staying with the host families.  and the good news is that the people who were hosting us in the village really saw a difference in our team. for our host mother said " she misses her Black Sons and that they were Black on the out side but White on the inside" well this broke my heart. because while staying with her she would show no emotion or whatsoever. and and it was hard for her to even smile,even when she was happy.and if i am correct by saying they were "white" i think she meant that spiritually pure. or it could been what was our intention going in there and that was to love the people and through that they will see the love that Christ has planted in us.

and above that was a picture of her,and that was her husband driving and he was an amazing man, we were not able to speak a single word but we loved them and they loved us back, but one could easily see that they were not complete. they had a few statutes on their property, which is a very common thing in the Thai culture.
we had a little sister who also didn't say much but she was amazing, one thing i have learnt there was "love is never taken its given" and i believe that all these things that are happening here are just a piece of what God has planned for all of us.

This has nothing to do with the village but i have had a great week, working in the Red light district.this is our last week in Chiangmai and but it has been the best, i had a huge negative attitude towards Lady Boys. and i still do, but this week i met a Boy who Goes by the Name Rose, first let me explain where i am coming from, i will try not to generalize here but, i was shocked when i heard what they do just to be Woman, and as old as i am i never knew people really did such sick things, a Sex Change here is not that big of a deal, amazing but disgusting.
Now let me continue with the Rose Dude, well he was different compared to other Lady Boys. he was more of a lady. and he had so much respect for us and he did not see us as Business. like others do, with in a weeks i can say have grown in knowing Her/Him, and he was open to everything He had the best questions.and the one question that made me Happy was when he asked why am  in Thailand and why Do i waist my time with her? it was at that point where i saw that God was doing something greater than i could ever imagine..
God is Good and will never change...... i will continue on this story..

Funky food in Fang and hard work...

we have been in Fang a village that's three hours away from the city of Chiangmai. and basically what we have been doing since being here is serving the people in all aspects of their day to day life, and this is a farming community, of hard workers who work over 10 hours a day, for their lives are of the soil.
our first day was not very eventful for there was Funeral on that day, we were placed in different homes in pairs. well for me personal the biggest challenge has been the food its so funky that the one thing i have known is Rice,
we have spent our time working in the fields, ploughing soy beans, and its been hard work for we don't know the local language and the people don't speak English. besides that's we have had a kids programme where where we play games with the kids and then tell a story from the bible and the theme has been "intimacy with the father" i am not sure of how the parents are taking our presence here especially with the kids, for most of them think we are just here to learn how to work hard and every form of hard work has been given to us, its still okay but waking up has been an adventure, muscles sore back pain i think that's a deadly combination. and it can make one moan about the whole Target of being in the village in the first place. which is to Show the local people Gods Love through our actions and Worship.

Israel my room mate and I have served in the house, Chopping wood and assisting in whatever we can do, its all been Fun but for me personally the biggest challenge or obstacle is still time. I have small time with the Lord on my own since being in this Village, with hands that's have blisters and a sore back from hard work at the fields, i have used most of my free time soaking my self on my matters and that's been going well no mosquito bites from that one yet,

this place has a Buddhist temple right at the entrance, and it has got this huge shining pagoda i hope that's the right spelling for it,

Prayer request :

• Positive spirit within the team and individually.
• Team unity, some times we get agitated over the smallest things.

Next 2 Weeks

not really excited the next two weeks, we are to work with young and old people from the red light district, and the Slums of Thailand. well tonight we went to check the place out and do a prayer walk around it, going there i was easy about the whole thing for i thought i knew what i was getting myself into. when i got there it was nothing like i had prepared my self. this place was just thick, with filth, and no it was not the streets that were filthy but the kind of things that people do in that place. well in simple English this people were prostituting and i thing most of them are trafficked kids below the age of 16, but the one thing that made it hard for me was the, Gay people i find it very hard to love them i know its the sin that i should hate but its hard. what makes it the hardest is that most of them chose to be Gay, and this is not just Thailand.

God willing two weeks after this we will be staying in the mountains with the mountain tribes. the leaders told us that we will not have a translator and obviously non of us speak Thai of what ever the Mountain Language is, and we will have to show Jesus to the people by the way we love them and live our own lives. and we will do whatever daily activities they do, and i heard that most people work in the rice fields,and take care of cattle. this seems like it will be easy but that's just how every thing is like before you actually do it, its all easy and double but there are stresses of Misunderstanding or no understanding at all.
i think that's just the first one. great thing though is we wont tell them about Jesus but we have to be the deference we want to see, and that's from "Gandhi"
 

things i need prayers for are as follows

•  to see God in everyone
•  Love not Lust
• safety
• Not Judge

Chaing Mai

this is my first blog, but i expect it to be the best anyway, on Sunday the 19th i was in a air plane for the first, time and for the first time in my life i was on top of the world.
 anyway it took us approximately 9 hours to get to Dubai, in the Arab Emirates. well that was an experience that i will live to tell, we were stuck in the air port for 12 hours but luckily the air company we were flying with had a meal voucher there for people with a long lay over, well we flew to Bangkok and i will count that as a second time in a air plane.Lol . when we got to Bangkok i was amazed at how women do not have  enough fabric for their skits and all, and at that point i saw something that was going to be a problem weather i live to denial it or not. and it was at that point that i asked one of the brothers from our team if we can talk about Guy's staff together. well he is more like an accountablelity partner. and me to him, i don't know weather this was culture shock or Toilet shock but i was shocked when i heard that one can never flush a toilet paper down with number two but had to dump it in the trash can, if not one needed a plastic bag to take remains of number two with. and i though i was from one of the poorest places and there were didn't do anything this insane. well this culture has good and bad things like everything in life does, and one thing i liked about it so far for i have just been here for less than a week, is the fact that these people are fascinated by Black people and man i love it. Normally the Blondie Girls get all the attention but here its nothing like that.

we are only going to start ministering in the next few days. in a Red light district here in Thailand and people have a great expectation from westerners and that is for them to but SEX, and myself and few guys from the team have had a place recomended to us and we only have been here for three days.
 pray for the team to be united and that Lust will not be a thing thats the Guy's will be dwelling in, and Fianacial support.

Merry Xmas
Nceba  Africa2Asia