Floods....................

Coming here i knew it was rainy season but i had no idea what that meant.
Last few nights have really made it clear to me and the rest of my team, I have always asked my self why the houses are on stilts here and i didn't need a local to answer that question for me.

the Boys working it out. we were filling up a sand bag. BOTTOM. a passage leading to our house is flooded and the streets filled so much that water was just bellow my knees.

 we are still in Asia. right so they have bicycles.

i will let the pictures do the talking. from here. but wanna ask if you all would pray for the people who live in the slums, if i am correct this country is 40% water, and there are rivers everywhere. and if you live there these times are not picture as picture perfect as they are foreigners.
this is a misery they have to buy food and save in-case they get stuck in doors for a few days. while every thing will be floating around their houses.

also pray that our team will have more opportunities to help rebuild what ever gets ruined in these hard times. Thank you Nceba Africa2Asia

life in pictures

these were a few woman from the red light district here in Thailand. we are working with them this time and it seems so easy when you have some one who has done that type of ministry in your team. and i am actually enjoying it there even though i am called chocolate man.

just on top is a picture of a good friend of mine who i am hoping to share the gospel with before leaving this place. His name is Rose yeah i know it doesn't make any sense, its a Boy or was he got a sex change at the age of 19.and he is open but i want to be lead by Holy Spirit not my own desire to see what God will do with and through her/him.

just on top here is a family that lives, off fighting Chickens.. from the Slums we are wishing to get to know these people even though we do not speak the language.

Right, that was a Boy from a village that we worked in last year. and we will be working there with this team and we will need a whole lot of payers. the place is ready to hear the gospel.
the people are amazing there food was fun and funky but no running tummies there....

this is just half of our team we are really excited for what God is Going to do with our team here in this place, we did a temple tour so that we can get to know more about the people we are reaching and not  
work on assumption and what we learnt from other places. but to reach the people in a way that would make sense to who they are..

They love me here, no matter where i go everyone wants a piece of Me here, going through the Slums mothers want me to kiss their babies...no really but i thought this lil baby was the cutest thing out there and the mother for some reason trusted me with her Beautiful Baby....













please pray for our team on these few points..

• Unity
• Purity (red light district is heavy )
• Energy (its very humid and hot)
• Focus
• Finances (myself and two other Students)
• Growth
• Hunger to see God Move.

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