Since the blog has been a little jumpy so I started emailing more.
By the way this weeks study material is spiritual warfare. (if you don't know what that is read Eph. 6 for the inside track)
PRAYER POINTS: BASIC Practical- prayer points for Cape Town:
*AIDS crisis is still devastating the nation, and continent.
*'Apartheid' repercussions. This is like slavery in the US. Equal rights movement but in South Africa the freedom was only given to blacks in the 80's! So, the era we in the US went through in the 50's and 60's (with Martin Luther King.. and Rosa Parks) is what they are going through right now. Pray that our team would even influence the Christian's to love one another equally, and trust that in our diversity -as one body- there is strength.
*Huffing in really really popular among teenagers in the city.
Basic Practical Prayers for our Team: We have found out that we will be staying in churches and partnering with them with different ministries that we will soon be learning about. The 28th is when we will be leaving... whoa who! There are 3 DTS's leaving to go to Capetown. A regular DTS, a Media DTS, and a Surfers DTS. About 60 people in all. We have been divided into smaller groups with about 7-10 people per group including a couple leaders. Pray for our leaders. We will be coming in and taking the place of other groups that are there working now.We as a whole team are still waiting on 1/3 of the Gods provision (financially) to go.. its coming in rapidly but the miracle is most of it at this point people have no definite idea where it could come from. Our finances are due the 10th. God is amazing. We did some car washes this weekend and are waiting to hear back on how all those went. We have a promotional video for our team on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR_zoWWO5Lc and we also did some graphic designs for a website that people can buy things at www.cafepress.com/mediareach T-shirts and Thermos bottles and a lot of awesome stuff!! SPIRITUAL REALM direct battle prayer points. Relationships!
Matt and I,.. and our team... our 'family'--- We have felt God show us that he wants to hit the ground running and really just be whole hearted from the get-go. Ready to discern what he is calling us to do and just DO IT. We are expecting mountains to move and miracles to happen, divine appointments etc. Our heart right now is to allow God to be at the center of what we do, that we would just be the tools- the 'hands and feet'. And totally if you feel like God tells you ANYTHING... a scripture, a word,.. please pass it along. It is awesome seeing the body moving together in force from such a distance. Everyone is dependant on God in this scenario. You guys, and everyone else 'at home'. Matt and I. Our individual teams and our team as a whole. The churches we're working with.
June 9, 2009
June 5, 2009
quick note:
Sorry guys I have not wrote a whole lot on here, we have been trying to concentrate on emails because we have been so limited on time. We practically work, study, and research 6 days out of the week,.. and sunday is alot of recovery and reflection for our journals. Good stuff.
If you have seen our 'face book' we leave for CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA THE 28TH.
HERE IS AN EMAIL I was just sent from the director of our local base here in Perth, Australia.
Greetings from YWAM Perth!
I believe we are about to witness extraordinary happenings on the earth through very normal, “ordinary” people.
Peter, Jesus’ disciple, appeared to be the least likely to champion a cause. He was an ordinary fisherman who didn’t always catch fish but filled with the Holy Spirit he saw 3000 become believers, went on many missionary trips, and shaped a movement known as the church—which is spreading rapidly.
Earlier this week I sat down to read an email I had just received from a young student with the Discipleship Training School (DTS) on outreach in South Africa. He and a fellow student were out in the community walking the streets and praying when he saw a drunken man in pain. He had bad hip and back pain, they asked if they could pray for him. He said yes, so they eagerly began to pray and the man was healed. Another man in the same community saw what had happened and wanted prayer too. This man’s back was injured so they began praying for him and he was also healed. He asked them if they could come to his house to pray for his mother. He was explaining that she was crippled with arthritis and blind. As they prayed for this man’s mother she could move her body around and she was immediately healed of her arthritis—she could walk again. They continued to pray and her left eye was healed. As they prayed again her right eye was healed too! An amazing story, don’t you think?
I share it because God used two young people who had no experience in prayer ministry. They simply responded to need and God did the rest. He used two ordinary, inexperienced people to bring His healing power to a community in South Africa.
We don’t have to be big and powerful or the world’s greatest expert in a field; all we need to do is get involved. God made us to be and do our part.
Remember the boy who took on the giant warrior? It is in 1 Samuel 17, his name is David and the giant was Goliath. The odds of David winning that fight were hugely stacked against him. Picture the best of Israel’s army “paralyzed” with fear on the side line and little David standing beside them with no “real warrior” fighting weapons or protection, just a slingshot and a few stones. He would have looked like he was about to commit suicide or hugely annoy a giant and then be killed. But we all know it was different to that, wasn’t it?
God took this little guy David’s loyalty and faith, powered his little slingshot to super sonic velocity, and killed a giant. Who was he? Just an ordinary teenager, loyal to an extraordinary God! Young David only saw God. He acted because of the God he knew. By what standard do we measure our lives? David measured his life by the greatest, most powerful standard of ALL—God.
God asks a question in Isaiah 6:8 – “Who shall I send, who will go for us?” Isaiah overheard God saying “Who will go for us?” He volunteered, “Here I am, send me.” It’s really as simple as that to do things with God.
My prayer is that we hear our marching orders from God; that we do not allow our “size” to be a limitation in attempting great things for God. I’ll be praying that God’s mighty power will enable you to do exceedingly above what you have hoped or ever expected.
Thank you for being such incredible friends. We love to receive your mail. Many thanks for those who have been able to write and encourage us. It is a huge privilege to hear what you are doing and how God is leading you. If there is anyway we can help you, please contact us and we will do our best to serve you.
Blessings,
Shirley Brownhill
YWAM Perth
If you have seen our 'face book' we leave for CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA THE 28TH.
HERE IS AN EMAIL I was just sent from the director of our local base here in Perth, Australia.
Greetings from YWAM Perth!
I believe we are about to witness extraordinary happenings on the earth through very normal, “ordinary” people.
Peter, Jesus’ disciple, appeared to be the least likely to champion a cause. He was an ordinary fisherman who didn’t always catch fish but filled with the Holy Spirit he saw 3000 become believers, went on many missionary trips, and shaped a movement known as the church—which is spreading rapidly.
Earlier this week I sat down to read an email I had just received from a young student with the Discipleship Training School (DTS) on outreach in South Africa. He and a fellow student were out in the community walking the streets and praying when he saw a drunken man in pain. He had bad hip and back pain, they asked if they could pray for him. He said yes, so they eagerly began to pray and the man was healed. Another man in the same community saw what had happened and wanted prayer too. This man’s back was injured so they began praying for him and he was also healed. He asked them if they could come to his house to pray for his mother. He was explaining that she was crippled with arthritis and blind. As they prayed for this man’s mother she could move her body around and she was immediately healed of her arthritis—she could walk again. They continued to pray and her left eye was healed. As they prayed again her right eye was healed too! An amazing story, don’t you think?
I share it because God used two young people who had no experience in prayer ministry. They simply responded to need and God did the rest. He used two ordinary, inexperienced people to bring His healing power to a community in South Africa.
We don’t have to be big and powerful or the world’s greatest expert in a field; all we need to do is get involved. God made us to be and do our part.
Remember the boy who took on the giant warrior? It is in 1 Samuel 17, his name is David and the giant was Goliath. The odds of David winning that fight were hugely stacked against him. Picture the best of Israel’s army “paralyzed” with fear on the side line and little David standing beside them with no “real warrior” fighting weapons or protection, just a slingshot and a few stones. He would have looked like he was about to commit suicide or hugely annoy a giant and then be killed. But we all know it was different to that, wasn’t it?
God took this little guy David’s loyalty and faith, powered his little slingshot to super sonic velocity, and killed a giant. Who was he? Just an ordinary teenager, loyal to an extraordinary God! Young David only saw God. He acted because of the God he knew. By what standard do we measure our lives? David measured his life by the greatest, most powerful standard of ALL—God.
God asks a question in Isaiah 6:8 – “Who shall I send, who will go for us?” Isaiah overheard God saying “Who will go for us?” He volunteered, “Here I am, send me.” It’s really as simple as that to do things with God.
My prayer is that we hear our marching orders from God; that we do not allow our “size” to be a limitation in attempting great things for God. I’ll be praying that God’s mighty power will enable you to do exceedingly above what you have hoped or ever expected.
Thank you for being such incredible friends. We love to receive your mail. Many thanks for those who have been able to write and encourage us. It is a huge privilege to hear what you are doing and how God is leading you. If there is anyway we can help you, please contact us and we will do our best to serve you.
Blessings,
Shirley Brownhill
YWAM Perth
May 11, 2009
Week FIVE/ BASE LIFE
Just a short message about where we live.
If I hadn't of gotton numerously dropped off the internet connection then I would have more.. so sorry guys I will post more next.
On the base when we walk in
In the mornings people say "Goodmorning Bells" its quite cute.
Introduction to the Base. After walking down the block of industral buildings, random houses, and random (legal) brothels - yes we live and work right in the 'red light district' area of town.
Past a huge black-painted steel security gate you see this.
The alley and house where we live. ABOVE
If I hadn't of gotton numerously dropped off the internet connection then I would have more.. so sorry guys I will post more next.
On the base when we walk in
In the mornings people say "Goodmorning Bells" its quite cute.
Introduction to the Base. After walking down the block of industral buildings, random houses, and random (legal) brothels - yes we live and work right in the 'red light district' area of town.
Past a huge black-painted steel security gate you see this.
The 'base' is the space where everything happens. Where we do everything but sleep. As you can see it is a re-claimed industral building. Quite like the the JOY industral buildings in Franklin. Everything has been cleaned and painted and made fresh. This is just the outside. ABOVE
This is the Park between where we live and the base. BELOW
The alley and house where we live. ABOVE
It has 3 security keys/codes. Crazy -potentially dangerous side of town. Its "winter" here now- so it gets dark around 7 pm, of which for safety our staff suggests that we walk in pairs. Im lucky cause I got my Matthew.
More next post..
Thanks for looking/reading.
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