A Lapse

Sorry chaps.

I haven't blogged for a while, i'm not sure anyone will hear this even...

So, the reason is this... Having had my life changed by South Africa I want to carry on the spirit i was doing things there, in England, but it's not as easy (it's harder to see the need that people have...)

But... I have been given a one off, donation of 100 pounds! to use! how should I best use it in England to touch and teach???!!!

A Stolen Idea...

Morning all, yesterday was a bit of a restful day, A beautiful lie in and then just hoovering out the cars because they were a bit of a state.

I also managed to fit in a trip to the woodcutters (the pub!) with Phil which is always rather nice.

On Monday we had study group and a few simple questions were posed which someone else had posted on their blog... I thought I'd see if any of you oaks could come up with some good answers to the question!

Simple Question, Profound answer... (quotes please)

Why did Jesus have to die? Does that limit God's power?

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Easter Feast

It's Easter Sunday in the morning, Mary and the other ladies will have already found the empty tomb!

The privelege is mine this morning to lead the bread and wine service at Mariannhill this morning, I woke up early to read through some passages, I think I'm just about ready, God really answers your call for help if you trust in him, he will have something wonderful to say through me today i'm sure.

Yesterday was a lovely day, sharing a Braii with my Brothers and Sisters at Mariannhill, in a place called Shongweni, half an hour from the M-Hill... We would love to start a Good News Centre there, and interest was shown from a number of people when we invited them to our Braii and chatted with them, praised with them and prayed with them.

It's great to have a couple more people here with us at for the week, Simon and Anna James arrived yesterday and we all enjoyed a meal at Moyo's restaurant by the Beach in Durban Centre. Lovely. We then shared the days God moments on the beach :D

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Saffer-phile

It seems British Airways will finally let me fly today... So after an emotional roller-coaster of enjoyment back in the UK, great to see family and friends, I'm back off to the second hemisphere to begin all over again. A P2P week starts on friday, they're usually fantastic so ace man.

I'll get back to blogging when I'm there. I didn't think you'd want to hear about what I was doing in England (today I visited my mate, we had a beer... etc.) but as it happened it was really quite fun so maybe I should have done :D

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Thinking, Waiting, Drinking, Stateing

This blog is brought to you by my dear friend coffee. Just woken up for the first (and last for the moment) day in Durban, and found we now have Internet what a lovely system. smooth, fast, uninterrupted and two metres from where I sleep and where I brew my coffee. In 8 hours time, I'll be hopping on the plane to London baby, It will take a while. I have grown an "Africa beard" so that I surprise my family and make them think I've turned into a wild animal whilst I've been over here. It is actually partly true.

Bye Bye Jo Bo

10.20 Thursday morning, I've just packed ready to head back to Durban... then tomorrow I'll catch a flight back to England :D Excitement!

My time in Johannesburg has been fantastic as always, for me the stand out moment was finishing painting a Mural on the new community centre at Thembisa, it's a sort of symmetrical design of pairs of animals, all rather abstract, but meant in some way to represent God's Ark that Noah built. Phil designed the template and we all set to painting, we worked well as a team, the paint was the perfect ammount, the day was awesomely hot for the paint to dry, and the time we had to complete it was exactly the right time, so I have a feeling we were helped to finish it!

See you soon England.

What are we promoting? Fun!

We’ve had a great time in Johannesburg so far, yesterday we did the third installment of “street fun” in Esselen Park, it mainly involves organised chaos! With about 60 children turning up, we played football, sack races, singing and water balloon competitions!

It’s really a great thing to be able to liven up the days of these poor kids, we give them sweets and apples, so they receive a bit more nourishment than normal, and they sing praises to God too.

A little saying I heard today that I thought was fun “if the weather man says there is a 60% chance of rain, what he really means is that there’s a 40% chance of sun!”

Anyway, I am really excited to be coming back to England, even if it’s only for a week, it’s still going to be great to see family and friends, and to finally try my own home made beer out at last!

By the way if anyone has been trying to call or text then it hasn’t worked because my phone got stolen… If you want my new number then email me and I’ll reply, don’t really want to put it on the net…

God Bless x

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