I.Journey..."Global Poverty Prayer Week"

"Is this not the fast that I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free and remove the chains that bind people. Share your food with the Hungry and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them and do not hide from those who need your help - Isa 58:6-7"

What God requires from us is so straight-forward.
Believe me, when you start asking "to see Justice flow like a mighty River", you are reaching out to the Fathers heart and I have experienced this and the truth is that His Heart moves for "Justice", "Righteousness" and "Freedom".

OK, Spend some time this week praying for "Injustice"/"Poverty" and the likes. Ask God to give you a heart for the things that cause his heart to beat and just see him move in you and through you to the people around you.

Log on to "The Voice"

I.Journey..."Lungisani Indlela" again :)

July 2009. Amaoti Primary School. KwaZulu-Natal Province. Durban.
I found skills that I did not realise I had e.g. "Learning to Paint without getting the paint in my hair (look at picture)".

Follow the link to read about these amazing people (Thanks Tich & the amazing community - LOVE always).

Lungisisa Indlela Village
Lungisani Indlela

If you are in Durban, Join LIV-VILLAGE at the Durban ICC on the 7th of April 2010 for a Banquet where they present the LIV plan and vision for widows and orphans in the local area. The Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda, Rory Dyer speaking on "The Father Heart of God", Tich Smith on "Watoto Villages in Uganda", Shaun Pollock - Former Protea Cricket Captain & John Smith - Captain Springbok Rugby team.

Website - www.liv-village.com
Email - thebanquet@lungisisa.org

Exciting. Churches. Business. Government

YEBO!!

I.Journey..."Creation Fest 2010"

Another SUMMER 2010 Festival. CREATION FEST 2010. Only 155 days from today to go until CF10!

Little Information off the website,
"Creation Fest is a FREE Christian Music Festival and Bible Week held at the Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge, Cornwall, from the 7-13 August 2010.

The vision of the festival is to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ through contemporary Christian music. Creation Fest offers something for all the family with a full programme of music, Bible teaching, seminars, workshops, sports activities, films, 'Creation Kids' and family fun (programme). We also have a massive skate / BMX park with Pro skate demos throughout the festival (skate)."

So Click CREATION FEST 2010

Remember, Yellow Highlighter on that Year Planner, 7 - 13 August 2010

I.Journey..."Colour Blind"

"Where's your Red t-Shirt?" was a regular question I asked a friend and His reply "It is not Red, It is Orange". A simple answer of "In the Laundry Basket" or "I don't know" would have been just OK but I think he had enough of me constantly mixing up the Blues with the Greens and the obvious Orange with the Reds. Personally, I had enough explaining that I was obviously "Colour Blind".

A few years back, I can see myself swinging my feet while waiting impatiently for the hospital results of my tests, I clearly remember the Doctor saying "You failed your Colour test - you are Colour Blind". I sat there thinking "Who cares?".

It took me a while to accept that I was indeed Colour Blind and I seem to have inherited this from my Dad who is still unaware that the Blues are actually Greens and carries on winding up everyone who fails to understand what he actually wants - the Blues which do not exist or the Greens.

I'm Colour Blind to a lot of things.
I believe it is a state of mind in some ways.
I choose to see "Colours" how I want to see them and I can choose to see "people" or "situations" in the way that everyone else does or create my own "Colours" of who/what they really are on the inside.

I find life easier this way.

Sidetrack - Here's an article on the BBC on Passport Lottery

Why can't we go where we want when we want?

"In ancient Africa, I am reliably informed, tribes carried masks to identify themselves, or marked their faces in certain ways. But human beings being human beings, this obviously became a signal to identify friend or foe and much blood was spilt at the sight of a wrong looking face or mask" - BBC Africa

I.Journey..."Change"

If you look back on life, there are always moments that define change. I've had loads of mini-change-moments but only a few of the big ones that kind of mash everything you thought you knew and then you find yourself on a new path, one that you never dreamed you'll ever walk on, one that you never dreamed you had the "qualities" needed for the Job. In July 2009, I had one of those defining moments and everything changed (for the best).

Sitting at a Soul Survivor meeting
Getting on a Plane to Durban, South Africa
& Sitting on that bus, driving through plains of dry dry land, getting lost looking for hippopotamus (I always have to sing the HIP for the HIPPOPO song to get the correct spelling), covered from head to toe in brown dust with its taste in my mouth, I knew that a Change of Heart was taking place and a new path was stretching out infront of me.

Am I scared? You bet I am!
However, I am more than content & hopeful in the truth that "I AM NOT but I KNOW 'I AM'"

I.Journey..."Soul Survivor"

This year is running way too quickly again. SUMMER 2010 is round the corner and everyone is planning holidays, Weddings (yes, weddings), Conferences, Weekend Aways or whatever we want to call them.

So, if you love "tents", "BBQ-s" PLUS hanging out with all your friends and hanging out with God, then "Soul Survivor" or "Momentum" (depending on your age/who you're taking along) is always top of my list in England.

Log on to Soul Survivor to make a booking. If you don't want to make a booking, Log on and have a look, listen to some music or read the mag for a few jokes/to get you inspired.

Here are the dates:

Soul Survivor
week A: 30th july -3rd august
stafford showground

week B: 11th-15th august
bath & west showground

week: C:16th-20th august
bath & west showground

Momentum
21st-25th august
bath & west showground

Oh, Summer 2010 is going to be exciting.
I'll keep you updated with loads more events so you mark those dates off in yellow (as I like to do) on your Year Planner.

Awesome!

I.Journey..."Natural Disasters"

"If you follow the news, it may seem like our world is getting trashed. IT IS.

...But we pray that the greatest disaster would NOT be our lack of response to those in need.

We can travel to these places, we can be absorbed by the beauty and diversity of culture and then we can leave. It's easy to be distracted by the next big catastrophe that has seemed to have greeted us each morning. But for the people in the nations affected; the dead were their family, the destroyed were their homes and the changed was their future.

We don't want to be a hotspot of bad news - but rather, a community of awareness and then action. For the most of us, we aren't in these nations, but there is still something that we can ALL do to help.

Below you'll be able to LEARN about the nations that have been affected lately by disaster. You can join with us and PRAY for the people; the rescuers and restoration efforts. And you can GIVE - While the media may have rolled on, there are still many organizations remaining on the ground, helping people back to their feet."

By the I-HEART people.
I am constantly challenged to be His hands and Feet as I-Journey.

Click on the link below
Natural Disasters

I.Journey..."The Climb"

I was not thinking straight. I should have put the details up for this a lot earlier. The weekend was spent in Sheffield at the 'She is Fabulous 2010' Conference for Women.

BEAUTY STRENGTH BEAUTY

To keep up with details for next year -

SHE IS FABULOUS Feb 2011

www.hopecitychurch.tv
She is Fabulous

Remember,

God wants to equip us to be bold, strong and mighty. The whisper from Heaven is..."Teach them to be brave"

Finally,

He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind.

I.Journey..."Megaslumming - A Journey Through sub-Saharan Africa's Largest Shantytown - STWR - Share The World's Resources"

Megaslumming - A Journey Through sub-Saharan Africa's Largest Shantytown - STWR - Share The World's Resources

In the words of STWR

"The existing model of development is not working. Despite the escalating food, financial and climate crises, the G8 and other wealthy nations continue to prioritise economic growth and profit over securing basic human needs. Only a small minority benefit from a global economy based on self-interest and competition...Sharing is not an ‘ism’ or an ideology but a natural law of economy – a simple process that, when implemented globally, can ensure that basic human needs are universally secured"

www.stwr.org

Completely Blown away by this Public Debate/Conference on "Slums" or "Informal settlements" (apparently you have to be careful in the context you use the word "Slum"). Eye opening on Informal settlements in Sub Sarahan Africa - "Kenya's Kibera" was the focus point. As always, in the midst of such, amazing stories always turn up!!!

xxx

I.Journey..."Surrender in Injustice"

'I love the way that your heart breaks with every injustice and deadly fate. Praying it all be new and living like it all depends on you. I love that you're never satisfied with face value wisdom and happy lies. You take what they say and go back and cry. Here you are down on your knees trying to find air to breathe, right where I want you to be again. Only surrender will help you now. The floodgates are breaking. See and believe'

www.flyleafonline.com

I.Journey..."Truth in Poverty"

…And yet now that I am older, less easily frightened by images of poverty, now that I know poverty can also contain riches - deep friendships, for instance, or a faithful, devoted love - I wonder more than ever about the inner life of those who have been up and now are down. There’s always the outsiders look at an impoverished life: it seems pitiful, a waste, a shame. Yet seen from within the poverty, perhaps a different reality might be sketched. A reality of lessons learned the hard, hard way that lessons are learned.

‘The way forward is with a broken heart by Alice Walker’