Praise Items and Prayer Requests

This blog is my attempt to help keep you better informed of what God is doing here in South Africa. No promises about how frequently I will post but I do hope to keep you better updated with prayer requests and praises.

Its been a great week. I was able to spend the first part of the week with a mission's team from Grace Community in Los Angeles as a game park. I've been to a game park several times and I am always amazed by the awesomeness of our God and the truth of Psalm 19. This time was by far the most exciting though. We managed to come up on an unsuspecting elephant who in turn got very angry and began to come for us. There was a moment or two when I wondered if our car was going to be squashed or overthrown. It was a pretty scary couple of minutes.

We have a team that arrived yesterday from The Bible Church of Little Rock. They will be holding a Bible Club next week at our church and at the church plant in the settlement. We're excited for the opportunity to reach out to our neighborhood. Please pray that kids would come from the neighborhood and the settlement and that they would respond to the truths of the gospel that will be presented. Additionaly, the team will be running the children's program at our church camp next weekend.

Thanks to so many of you who prayed for the conferences we had a couple of weeks ago for the Lambano staff. The days was an answer to prayer. The women seemed to be really receptive to the teaching and many of them commented that they wished they had heard this 5 years ago before they had gotten into financial trouble. Many of them are feeling overwhelmed and wondering what the point is of trying to apply what they heard now that it is to late. Please continue to pray for them and for me as I help them practically work through the application of what they heard.

You could also be praying for a single mom (Jeanine) and her two daughters (Crystal and Cherri) in our church whose house was broken into last week and they were help hostage for several hours. While we praise the Lord that they weren't hurt, please pray that God would give them peace and encouragement as they work through the fear that often follows an experience like this. Please pray too for Cherri's salvation and that God would use this experience to draw her to Himself.

Please be praying for my brother, Josh and his family. He arrives next week and I am very excited to be able to see him and spend time with him. He and his family hope to move to South Africa next July and start an orphanage in the Pretoria area. Pray that his time here would be profitable as he works on his dissertation for his doctorate and meets with people about the orphange. Pray also for his wife and daughters who will be home in the states while he is here.

Thanks so much for praying!