Pray for Mirrabooka

First this link:  http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/7093845/one-dead-in-mirrabooka-street-brawl/  For more infomation on the Mirrabooka stabbing  recently.

As I was sharing in the last post we have been going into the suburb of Mirrabooka for the month of April.  Please pray that the walls would come down. There is still unrest and violence there. (Dont worry mom we've been safe.)

When we went to walk through the community we heard many times about the stabbing. Up until that point most of us hadn't been much on the news.. and we are like 60hrs a wk on the base -blog updates included.
Anyway,.... a couple people that returned from a full afternoon there saying that they met the family who were now dealing with the death of their loved one. They were encouraged that we would want to pray, but were at that moment working out the funeral details and the family was in a bit of mess. So we prayed later. My thought after the fact was; in that community, Im not sure that anyone as reached out to them yet.

Although it is extreamely diverse, containing a Mosque, a couple churches, many parks and plazas there is this very strong sence I get there of "walls".  There is an amazing amount of cultures there, and with those cultures comes prejudice out of nationalism or ties to each of the home countries represented there. 

Our bus full of YWAMers representing people from all over Europe, Australia, America/Canada, and some from Korea. About 20.

We split off into teams and went to prayer walk. (By the way-while we were walking if we met anyone who was a non-english speaking person we invited them to weekly classes we held at the base and in Mirrabooka.) I was paired with a good friend of mine Sidra who was just a little timid. This was her first time really stepping out and the neighborhood didnt look far from one in the States (where she is from). Its sometimes hard to remember not to treat a country, culture, or people group like your own especially when from the outside it looks soo similar.
"I dont want to come across like Im pushing a religion ya-know." She said.
I agreed.
The first lady we spoke with was really busy, so she wasnt interested in us praying for her. "I am a christian, Im just really busy right now, and Ive had a long day."
I was very interested in her story though. She looked a bit Nigerian or something close, with beautiful thin eyes, a round-pleasent face and dark-dark skin.
All and all we got to speak with a couple Australians who shared with us that there had been alot of violence in the community lately, and asked us to pray for a spouse who was transitioning in their job.

There were quite a few people we got to talk to after that,.. a few Asians that seemed VERY happy to meet us, but couldnt speak an ounce of english -we were able to communicate that there were english classes available. A couple of South Africans. (which excited me a whole lot for obvious reasons.) We actually talked to them for a long time. After praying for them they thanked us for what we were doing and thanked us that we were in their community and agreed that our work was needed.

So I thought "Hey thats cool."

Latest Facebook quote:
"... The week started off with doing interviews in the city for the Media department-Got hit on by a drunk guy, interesting. Working on sorting and designing some things.... Yesterday many of us met people... immigrants, refugees from all around the world in Mirrabooka. -Somalia, Sudan, South Africa, Bosnia, Burma, India, Sri Lanka, . . . wow and its just a suburb of the city!!!"