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.
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