Off to Mozambique via Cape town the latest scoop

Hey hope you all had an amazing Christmas, Hawaii was fun but missing the family!


So God has changed our plans and we are not heading straight to Mozambique but heading to Cape town for three weeks to join another team from our class to serve in the township called Masiphumelele. We could not join Heidi Bakers team until 23rd January and so we cannot get into the country until then.

However it was clear God wants us there and I am really excited as this was originally where I wanted to go. This will be a necessary time for our team to continue our preparation to go into Mozambique.

Since this decision was made we have found out there has been a fire in the township in Cape town and many people died. Sadly this is not uncommon but this is the worst to hit in a long time.

The houses are made of cardboard and wood and because they cannot afford electricity they take wires from other houses and run them along the ground through puddles etc and so fires are easily started.

Because the shacks are built so closely together, every few months a fire will rip through the community leaving 80 to 400 people homeless and having everything they own burned up. They rebuild their shacks in one day, but it takes them years to regain the meager amount of possessions they owned. There are many floundering but needed initiatives to build real homes for the people of Masi, but research and experience has shown us that the average person in Masi cannot maintain a home due to a total lack of financial education.

It is no coincidence that we are travelling there at this time.  We will be many hands that will be desperately needed to help them get back on their feet. We feel that God has timed it perfectly that we can support the teams already there for this short period of time.

We are having to raise extra funds to cover the extra flights and living costs, $7000 for the whole team. Praise God and thanks to those who have given so generously I have half the amount needed within 24 hours. We are hoping it will all come in within 48. Everything is possible with God.

Hey hope you all had an amazing Christmas, Hawaii was fun but missing my family!




Thanks for all your support and encouragement I am so blessed to have friends like you.



Sorry for the big round robin but I have just received some news of a change of plans to my missionary outreach and a urgent need to raise some extra funds.



So God has changed our plans and we are not heading straight to Mozambique but heading to Cape town to join another team to serve in a township Masiphumelele. This was confirmed Christmas eve. It was clear he wants us there and I am really excited. Since this decision was made we have found out there has been a fire there and many people have died. Sadly this is not uncommon (blog has more details) but its Gods timing we can be there at such a time as this to give support to help them get back on their feet. This is the worst to have hit in along time.



Due to this important detour our team needs to raise £4550, an extra £455 each for for additional flights and living costs in SA . We are trying to do this in the next 48 hours!
We have seen God bring in $ 34,000 in our class one day in 20 minutes from between the whole class and a few visitors in 20 minutes which was awesome to encounter. Everybodys generosity with what they had been given by sponsors, family and friends was sowed into each other which meant everybody in my DTS got to go on outreach  This was $12,000 more than was needed and so as a class we were able to give it to our leaders Jeff and Beth with the blessing of YWAM so that they are now debt free!! So I know this amount is totally possible and I have faith in God's provision.x

I am sooooo excited for this time ahead and expectent that God is going to bless the communities we go to. He has loves these people and called each of the 10 people on my team speciifcally to go there. He wants to break into the poverty, withchcraft, slavery, HIV/AIDS. To see orphans and widows taken care of: fed and clothed. But the most of all to know the restoring power of his love.

I hope to be able to blog in Cape town but it may be more difficult in Mozambique. I may have to do some in retrospect but just if I go quiet it is because there is no internet.

Love to you all, happy new year. I think I will be spending mine on a plane as the whole journey with 4 flights and long lay overs will take 4 days. Our Sweden/Finland team got upgrades to business so hoping we might too!!


Happy New Year, may it be truly blessed.

God cares for the dying

I was walking one day and I saw this hospice and it was overlooking the sea, I thought to myself what a beautiful place to die.

As I was praying a few weeks later for Kona God really layed on my heart the terminally ill and dying specifically those at the hospice.

I felt that he said it may be paradise to people but when they don't know the love of God, the inner peace of Jesus and the assurance of eternity in heaven then they are suffering in hell.

I felt he wanted me to tell them he sees there suffering and he grieves with them. Even though they are dying they can know his love, peace and he can bring them a new eternal life!!

Jesus did it for the thief on the cross who was literally being held by death on a cross next to Jesus, he suddenly saw him as the son of God and Jesus says today u will be with me in paradise.

I did not know what to do with this and so I did nothing for a bit, waiting for our DTS leader to ask if anyone had specific stuff for Kona. This did not happen and a few weeks later I kept just getting the word in my mind hospice again and again. I still did not know what to do.

Then God spoke to me through Proverbs 24 v 11-12
Rescue those being led away to death
     hold back those staggering towards slaughter
does not he who ways the heart perceive it?
 Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay each person according to
    what he has done?

I was suddenly convicted to do something and a sense of urgency came upon me. I contacted the hospice and liaised with the co-coordinator there.

We talked about different opportunities and I shared my heart was to pray for people and comfort those that needed that especially around Christmas time.
She was really open to this and also another opportunity for YWAM to be involved in a bereavement camp for 5-18 year old in the summer which would be amazing.

Unfortunatlely without specific training that all volunteers have to do we could not go to see patients.

However we were able to meet a specific need that they had to do their landscaping as they are so short of volunteers they had been unable to do it. So a team of us went and really blessed them by doing the gardening.

A group of us made some Christmas cards for them that we hoped would show them the love of Christ and that we had not forgotten about them.

I learnt a lot through this, mainly obedience to the word of the Lord and stepping out in faith. It was good to serve our community!

I am hoping that the work we did even though we were not able to go and speak to people and pray for them that we have paved the way for future opportunities.

That's My King Dr. S.M. Lockridge - [OFFICIAL]

This blew me away, words can't describe him but this comes close

Intimacy unto fruitfulness

Our main aim as a Christian is to have intimacy with the lord.

- Love the Lord God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all you strength. Deut 6:5

This has been my hearts desire for such a long time that I would love the lord as he has loved me, to know this love in fullness.

If we seek the lord then from the place of intimacy he can bring forth fruit.

What fruit have I to show for my time walking with the Lord? He has saved me from many things and the fruit has been mainly for myself and I feel in a place of fullness, peace and overflowing joy. I am certain of my purpose and my destiny. This is a gift from God and I am so thankful. The reality is that I have not shared that with others and there should be fruit in lives of others. There is no condemnation in this but an encouragement to move ever closer to him and share this love with others.
Where is the fruit?  Is a good question to continually ask ourselves. We can see how our intimacy is with the lord by seeing the fruitfulness of our lives!

He is like a tree planted by streams of water which yields fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Psalm 1:3

The water is Jesus:

He promises all who are thirsty can come to him and drink, we need water to survive and I have come to truly realise the need I have for Jesus in everything I do. I will always need more water!

The point of being a tree next to the stream is that our roots need to be growing near a water source in order to survive and bear fruit.

In order to continue to bear fruit we need to be cultivated. God in John 15 is described as the Gardener of the vine,he loves to create and gardening is creative, nurturing bring forth life. He plants us and continues life long to grow us. He is more committed to us than we are to him, he knows when there are things that need to have pruned off us so we can bear more fruit.

It might feel painful as things are cut off, it may be completely freeing to loose dead wood but the promise is always life and ultimately growth and more fruit. We are always connected to the vine when we are in relationship with Jesus. He says remain in me, this is really "hang out with me", not do this for me, strive for me but just be with me.

Jesus goes onto to say that if you hang out with him and let him hang out with you that what you ask for will be given to you. This is not about money, a house etc. You would not invite Jesus to hang out and then ask for something that is not about him and things he loves.  The things we ask are are for him. The fruit is a consequence of this intimacy, its not a requirement. Jesus invited us 1st so we don't need to beg either.

When we operate out of this place of loving him we can be confident of where we find ourselves.

This is weighty and I loved pursuing this during our prayer and worship sessions a 2 hour timetabled session. I was amazed at the clarity in which I heard Gods voice during these times, and he does speak when we allow him space!

One of the 1st things I felt was that Jesus was specifically saying how much he loved me and even if I was the only person on earth he would have still come down from heaven to earth to die on the cross, just for me. He showed me that there was a hardness in my heart that has prevented me from fully knowing the love of Christ and therefore being able to be fully loved.

His promise is to give us a new heart and put a new spirit in you, to take our hearts of stone and give us a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26

So how do we cultivate this intimacy?

We worship, hang out with Jesus, know his love, find out who he was, is and is to be again! 

Its for eternity!

Rooted in the word, we can find out a lot about who he is from the stories written about him, he was the word! He is the way!