catching up

1/10/07



Hey there s a lot of catching up to do at this point. Since my last email a lot of things have happened I’ve been to 5 countries after leaving the states.



Ok so I left the states on the 17 September got an 8 hour flight to UK, didn’t sleep at all just watched a couple of movies and unsuccessfully tried to sleep. After landing in Gatwick I took a bus tide to Luton, I had been hoping to go to the Guildford boiler room but I was really tight with time. I slept quite a bit on the 2 hour bus ride, got to Luton 2 hours before check in started so I went around looking for something cheap to eat, and for the place I was supposed to check in. all that was done in the first half an hour or so, so then I put my baggage opposite the check in desk and slept on them. After checking in I went to the gate upstairs and slept again. I got home all safe and all that got to meet my family after almost 3 months, and good pasta, I also got to have pastizzi and maltese bread, by the next day.



My cousin, his family and Heath arrived on the same day, the next day David and his wife arrived. Wednesday night we had our first meeting where Fabian spoke, got to meet some people I hadn’t seen in a while. Friday night we had a youth meeting which was really good, I don’t think I had ever seen so many Christian youth meet together. A number of people committed their life for the gospel, I wonder if they truly understand what that means. Friday night we had another meeting, Sunday we split up into 2 groups David preached in one church and Fabian in another. I got to translate for David. Oh Saturday morning we did some witnessing at city gate, we met one of the first 2 Christian who got saved in Malta in recent history, he was passing out tracts when we got there, so it was encouraging for him when we joined him, Fabian was late as usual but He still managed to meet him, he was excited coz he had known Fabian since he was 5 or something.



Anyway Thursday 27th we flew to Tunisia we walked right through the border without any checks which was awesome considering we had probably around 30Kg of booklets with us which we were to take to morocco. We met with Brian who took us into his place for the time we were in Tunis. That was a huge blessing.



Things in Tunisia were slow, we only met the first Tunisian church on Saturday and we were leaving Sunday, so Sunday we met some in a church building, and in the evening we got to go celebrate a birthday party with them in a coffee shop type place. It was cool meeting with people and even they started doing some worship one of the songs was “like a rose” so everyone in this place and it was pretty large was just staring at us. Sunday David preached in one of the churches, they were really encouraged, they were even encouraged by our attempts at speaking Arabic let alone the message, which even the pastor had to stop translating at certain points to absorb it in.



At the party I met a guy who was asking for help, he was in a city further south, He was the only Tunisian believer there along with a foreign couple, there is a university in this city so while he is a student he also talks to students and gives them gospels, I didn’t understand everything he said about that, but I know he does it, he also told me that once he went up on a mountain and saw a village which had probably never been reached with the gospel. So he was asking for help and since then I’ve been considering going there for a month to help him out, I would like to do that before January, it’s very hard from certain aspects but I’m a son of the King He will take care of all I need. So I need to pray about that it would have to be after the end of Ramadan.



We did some witnessing but not that much, people are very hungry, well curious wanting to learn more about what we believe and stuff, we gave a few tracts to people we met and a couple of new testaments, we prayed with a crippled guy and gave him a tract we also tried to give him a gospel but he refused. With Ramadan there is a lot of activity going on at night so that’s where we usually got to witness, even though it wasn’t really that much.



Sunday afternoon we got a flight to Barcelona, we had to spend the night there and get the other flight the next morning. Barcelona is expensive, it’s beautiful in architecture and graffiti all over, everyone dressed in differently European fashion, beautiful clothes but very expensive. We spent a long time looking for a hotel or hostel that was affordable, after finding one with a halfway decent price we spent some time looking for cheap food, we just ended up eating at Mc Donald’s. the next this morning we left the hotel early got a bus to the airport and left for Casablanca.



We got through customs really easy they didn’t check us at all for the second time (we are favoured) some people who had a lot of luggage we checked we didn’t have that much. We got a taxi (Huge rip off, 30 euros from airport to centre) he took us to a hotel, which is pretty expensive but we were told to get something cheaper it would have to be a rubbish hotel that is not safe. We met with a local and negotiated a cheaper price 10 euros less per night plus breakfast at 6:30 pm (coz of Ramadan). We also got rid of all the booklets which is a great blessing, not having to carry all that weight around. They were also blessed by it, we went to their house had mint tea and something else (some kind of pastry) talked a bit with them. On our way to the hotel he drove us past the second largest mosque in the world right up the road from where we live. We were planning to go out tonight but it seems everyone has fallen asleep. Tomorrow we are going to another town further north.



I think that’s it for now

Peace to all in the Name of Jesus Christ our bridegroom King

15/9//07

Hey today we are moving out from Dallas to Fort Worth, been a busy week I wish I sent an email earlier but we were really busy, I wasn’t so much packing as doing other little things here and there. I was still pretty busy with doing some stuff on Fabian’s site, researching and reading stuff for the article about Sudan (so unimaginable, it’s so different reading about it I kind of wish I knew what they went through more closely)

Last Saturday at Miami, Ok while Fabian preached I got to take a few others with me to a skate park where I preached a bit, talked more one on one and prayed for a couple of people. It was cool because a few of them where telling us why they left church (blaming God for something, letting people get in the way).

Oh yeah the guy who was an alcoholic the day before Saturday he came out clean, well dressed and all that. Sunday morning he also came and was even better dressed than I was hehe. Sunday morning Fabian preached about redeeming the time, starting with showing some pictures from Vietnam. Sunday evening he talked about the Holy Spirit and at the end everyone went up for prayer to receive more or receive for the first time, sweet stuff, there was at least one who hadn’t spoken in tongues since she was a child and spoke again for the first time that evening, she’s 21 so that’s still a long time.


Part 2

Hey so I had to switch off to pack my computer up. Now its 21:16, it’s been a long day. We had to go to pick a fridge first coz the new place didn’t have one, then we had to go to another place and pick up (oh we used a truck) Fabian’s tent from someone else’s house, that’s a lot of work good thing we were four guys and we also had a wheel barrow which was very helpful.

That took just under an hour to load. We then went to Fabian’s apartment where we picked up all the stuff from the house, which took about 3 more hours the other 2 other guys help us out, we had a pizza break in between, oh yeah we also heard 3 gun shots and after a short break we heard 3 more, didn’t see anything just heard it and saw people coming out to have a look. That sort of thing was part of the reason they moved from there.

On the way between Dallas and Fort Worth I slept even though I was supposed to read directions. When we unloaded we did all of it in about 2 hours which is great, a couple from Fort Worth came to help us out. I’m tired now it’s good to relax a bit.


Ok so now back to what happened throughout the week. Monday morning we left Oklahoma relatively early by Fabian’s standard (meaning 9 am). We stopped at Tulsa on the way went to the offices of TL Osborn’s ministry offices. We bought a few books, they were really nice to us, we didn’t know our way home so one guy just took us into his office showed us where we needed to go on a map on his pc and then printed out the map with details.

Through out the week I helped out pack a bit, did work on Fabian’s site, ripped cds, put stuff on my site (oh we set up a chat room you can go to from the site with the help of John from Arabs for Christ) check it out I probably won’t be on much till I get home but probably John might be on and maybe some others if you go on u might be able to write /list and there u will find a room called Malta. I’m actually the host of that room. Been talking with John quite a bit, things in Malta might start happening sooner than expected because he had to leave Iraq. So we’ll see.

Yesterday I went to Christ For the Nations it’s the school Rick Peno came out of I think, they had a worship night, it was very good with a mixture of a whole lot of different styles. I then went out on the streets to the gay community; I really wanted to preach when I got there, there were people from heartland with doing worship and gathering people to pray over them. I met with Joseph first, then I met Angela the street preacher who usually comes with us. She came out with Heartland so she had to stay with them.

We then asked permission to go to a different place to minister we went to a good place to preach but a band was playing across the street so it would have been very hard for me to preach. So we walked back to where the others were to ask permission to go to a different place. Before we crossed the street Angela stopped to talk to 2 guys inviting them to prayer and a security guy just came up to us to stop us. Angela doesn’t take that sort of thing she was kinda nice but you know “thank God for freedom of speech” as she put it, she offered to pray for him and he started to get really nervous, he was different Angela said she thought he was on crack I think he was just a gay who stammered. Then 2 people came from the heartland team to stop us and take us back coz apparently he was flashing his torch at the police to come stop us.

So we went across the street where they were then we asked to go to a different spot, I think they told us not to stir any trouble, so we went to another spot, a guy came asking for money he was shaking he said it was his way of breathing because of cigarettes we both thought he was on something, so while I was looking for money which I couldn’t find angela prayed on him, while praying a demon possessed guy walked up quietly when angela finished the guy asked him for money the guy grabbed him from his head and screamed “body I come back” I think he was calling out demons or something, we just walked away, maybe we should have confronted but we didn’t (we later saw the demon possessed guy with the worship team well not with them but dancing around them).

So then I started to preach, after a bit people from heartland came and told us the leader wanted us back with the worship team, so I world angela to go and I stayed for a couple more minutes, when you preach ur supposed to be at least 2 people so if people come to talk to you, you don’t stop preaching and keep on going, even if police come they don’t talk to the preacher but the other person, so it felt weird being on my own, I started to get a bit fearful but it was ok I guess (not enough to stop). Then Joseph came so I had a bit of back up, but then I stopped coz he was suggesting going to another quieter place so I went with him we also went to the store to buy a drink and do our business.

The place he had in mind was too quiet there weren’t any more people there. We started heading back to where the others were at the corner where we were going to preach earlier it had quieted down so I was going to preach but before I started I saw a guy and started talking to him it took quite sometime, the usual they believe they are right with God and yet they choose to live in sin, it’s painful they believe we are deceived and there is no biblical backing for what they believe

Romans 1:22-26
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

It’s so hard considering the fact that they believe that Jesus died so they can keep living in sin and have a free ticket to heaven. But he died that we might be freed from sin not freed to live in sin.

James also said James 2:18-20
18 But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.
19 You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.
20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

(sorry bout KJV style earlier it’s the version I have on the PC this one here is easier)

While I was thinking about it later, first I thought about all the people who justify sin and call themselves Christians and this includes pastors, prophets (we actually across both of these in the gay community), apostles…

The encouraging thing was I was seeing how much bolder Joseph was getting, he wouldn’t even give me time to speak sometimes, he used to be just a conference going I think he went out on the streets for the first time when I got here 2 weeks ago, his brother preached for the first time since I’ve been here as well. That’s encouraging.

I thought id soak up a bit from the worship out there and then go to preach again coz I didn’t have anything else to preach on. But after a while Joseph needed to go home coz he wasn’t feeling so good and he was giving me a ride home because Fabian had to go home and keep preparing for today so he only dropped me off. So we left I was out only for an hour or so.

Ill see most of you soon, I get home Tuesday night at 9pm

I guess that’s it for today, I can barely keep my eyes open

peace

3/9/07

Saturday night we went to Fort Worth and street preached a few others went to another corner and worshipped and talked to people. It turned out to be hard but good, I preached for about half an hour, while I was preaching I saw a guy crossing the road and I told him that Jesus wants to set him free, I did follow where he was going but apparently he went straight to the cross (oh yeah we carried a large cross with us actually 2 but one of them was self standing) leaned on it and I think He was praying, Kimberly one of the girls with us went up to him and talked and prayed with Him.

The police came a few times even with reinforcements but we stood our ground, apparently some one from the residential area close by called them I was ready to move because I understand if you are trying to sleep you do not appreciate people shouting, but it’s downtown, there people shouting any way, loud vehicles and loud musicians on the street, so Angela who was preaching the first time they came felt like we should stay because they only wanted to stop the message.

Later the lady who reported us came out to talk to the police on the other side, after the police left her I noticed she was crying so I told Kimberly to go talk to her she went but she started shouting at her and said she was ok. A couple of Pagans came to talk to us they had been hearing us preach for 1 ½ hours, they talked to Joseph’s wife and sister, they said it was an interesting conversation. Another guy came to talk to us after Fabian was done preaching, he was a Christian and he witnesses as well he was encouraged by the simplicity of the message.

Yesterday morning we went to Well Spring church (Jack Deere) it is connected to Morningstar in fact Rick Joyner preached. Worship was very good, you can tell the worship leader was influenced by Morningstar even from the way she dressed and danced. Rick preached about a new kind of army a people who are not visible generals but their decisions would change the course of the whole war. He talked about such events in history like civil war and world war one.

Last night was rough we went to the gay area again Samuel Joseph’s brother preached for a whole hour, unfortunately his voice was very low, I was about 2 meters behind and couldn’t hear him. Then I went next, then Fabian and then Angela. We had some people who came who actually wanted to be free, the first person to come up to us was actually a gay pastor and his assistant or maybe he was another gay pastor. It was rough they are so deceived they accept God’s love but reject his hatred of sin.

People kept coming up to us claiming to be Christian some saying what we were doing was wrong others said that it was right but because some gay people were not saved but they still denied that God could change them and believed that God made them that way. They classify homosexuality in a completely different branch fro other sin, they also justify other sin as well. It was hard some people just screamed at us and cried as they said it probably it shows they were hurt either by Christians, their family members and members of the opposite sex. It was very hard for me not to take some things they said personal and not to wonder on them.

Before we started I went with Joseph to some Hispanic houses a couple of blocks down from the gay clubs, we talked to a few people and gave out a few tracts we prayed with one guy and with a couple of women with a bunch of kids, it was good. He had already been and a Puerto Rican gave his life to Christ.
While I was preaching the mayor of the gay community came up to me introduced himself was just making sure people were treating us ok, that was a nice thing for him to do. He had a firm hand shake, he told us we like people being tolerant of us so we should be tolerant of you.

The police came a couple of time one group of three stayed on the opposite side, like they were waiting for a false move from our side, to more came up to us from behind us because the owner of the restaurant complained but he said we went into his store to talk to people or something of that sort which we did not I know Samuel was leaning on the rail and playing guitar and 3 guys went to talk to him but that is no reason to complain. Anyway the police told us to make sure we don’t go onto his property and that’s ok. These 2 were not gay but at least one of the ones on the other side was, even last time at least one of the police was gay, that’s probably because there is a high concentration of gay people living in that area.

When I got home it was hard I found it hard to sleep even while sleeping I was struggling it was like I was under attack by the demons over that place, Fabian told me his first time he had the same thing but it was also hard for him to sleep this time.

This morning I woke up very tired I went to pray and ended up sleeping for a couple of hours. Today I was contacted by a guy a friend of a friend of Fabian’s I had to talked to about starting a drugs rehab in Malta. Oh and on Monday I was contacted by a guy I know (a missionary in the mid east) about starting a discipleship/training centre for people wanting to go to mid east and North Africa.

The cool thin about that was that first God asked me to give Him my desire to go to North Africa to focus on Malta then he gave me the idea for the magazine five days later, then 5 day later I was contacted by the this guy, then a week later I was contacted by this other guy so it was like God asked me to give Him one part of my dream and He formed them a bit and gave them back to me.

I hope you are al OK, be blessed

1/9/07

Yesterday morning we didn’t do much just looked up different flights and stuff like that. Please pray we might still go to Algeria, David one of the guys coming with us feels we should go to Algeria, I found some chap flights between Tunisia and Morocco just in case we don’t manage to get in. there is an air line called Clickair, it’s very cheap.

In the evening well at night we went out witnessing (Fabian, a friend of his (Joseph) and a friend (Angela) of his friend)at the gay community, first we did some one on one then Fabian and I preached (I lost my voice). While I was preaching a policeman came to stop us Fabian started talking to Him coz legally he has no right to stop us, he knew he couldn’t stop us so he called in more police, 2 more cars came and 4 policemen showed up, they were more polite but they were looking for an excuse to get us in trouble, when they found out we knew enough of the law about street preaching they brought another excuse saying we gathered a crowd which we later found out wasn’t illegal either.

There was no crowd before they came so I asked where the crowd was and they pointed to us 4 we were not a crowd because we were dispersed before the police showed up so that was pretty lame. Anyway we agreed to move to the opposite side, we didn’t want to move because we would be their puppets and then if we moved they could easily kick us out of the other side also.

On the other side we didn’t preach, the other 2 sat down I wasn’t sure what was going to happen while Fabian and I were talking about that 2 guys from Heartland (Steve Hill’s church) and they told us they had around 40 people coming out just to worship and witness. So we were pretty excited we were stopped and then God sent us reinforcements.

So what happened was we just formed a circular crowd with a drum and guitar in the middle and just worshipped with the same song from around 10:00 to 1:30. And what they did was (there was normal one on one witnessing) but they also just asked people if they wanted to experience the power of God and if they said yes they took to the centre of the circle and everyone just prayed over them and worshipped.
It was so cool there were 2 guys slain in the spirit. First there was this one guy without a T-shirt and he got slain, then I went to pee when I came back there was another guy on the floor and the other guy was standing, after a while I didn’t see the second guy but the first guy was back on the floor. They later helped him stand up but it was a bit hard, so sat him down talked, prayed.

Later they called me and another guy to check something out coz we were close, we went and he started showing us his ring, he said this was a plain silver band (ring) and He showed us how in the bottom of it there was cross carved out. He was like “I was a gay atheist, I wouldn’t wear a cross” basically God gave him this sign, he branded him.

While he was showing us this stuff, a guy and a girl started talking to me they were just playing around kind of making fun, I could tell from their voice but I later even saw them wink at each other, anyway they were saying something and this guy just stood up started talking to them for about a minute coz he couldn’t stand very long and telling them how they needed to have an open mind. I left and ignored them soon after that.

He also started turned round and said no when one lesbian started screaming at them that this stuff is s**t. That was very cool. In the mean time the police showed up, first one guy then 2 more cars and then they kept on coming, I know there were 5 police cars there all the time and maybe 6 at some points. First they tried to stop us but the guy had been the proper research that same day so they knew they even wage a protest as long we didn’t block the way for people to walk they couldn’t stop us. So they just stood there and told us to stop at 1 or 1:30 I guess coz we stayed till 1:30.

It turned out to be a good thing they were there some people got really aggressive, one guy started running into are crowd with fists in the air, when they tried to hold him coz he was going towards 2 kids he started crying for help from the police, it turned out the police had seen the whole thing so they arrested him, one of the leaders had gone to get more police before as he was getting aggressive by the time they came the other policeman had him. He went to jail for 8 hours I heard.

The weirdest thing was when I was witnessing to one guy and he was looking at me like a piece of meat and hitting on me. I saw at least one other guy checking me out. One girl got onto the face of the guy with the camera who was there filming, she was trying to get the camera I went up to them coz they were 3 girls and one guy, then another leader came as well. She was like “why are you here?” and she kept repeating that, then I told her “we are here because you have just as much right to here the message of truth and freedom as I did” then she said ”whatever”.

As we were leaving we also prayed for the lady who came out with us, mostly for financial provision and work coz she has been struggling and also for her knees, was really blessed. There was a lot of activity last night; we got home at 2:50.

30/8/07

Ok so what have I been up to?

The trip was good landed and took off 6 times total and by the 4th time my ears were crackling every time I did some weird thing with my mouth, ate or something. It was a bit painful.

On the flight between LA and Dallas I had 2 older people next to me man and a lady and I was in between, so I had a couple of interesting conversations bout general stuff. I was asking God for a prophetic word for one of them. I then felt I had something for the lady so I told her after about an hour of thinking about it. That went good and I got to pray for her as well. After the flight she gave me her business card coz Fabian didn’t show up for a while so she said “if he doesn’t show up just call me I live close by”

But he showed up there was only some traffic on the way.

Since then I’ve been at his house helping him with his web site, working on mine and playing with Micah (his son) (irrid! Lol ). Yesterday I went a bought a pair of jeans cause mine were falling apart, I had sown up one side but then the other side started falling apart too.

Ok so the site is now online with a message board, a blog, e-books and all the other stuff. You can start coming up with subjects to write about on the blog, there is only one post so far which I have put on there. I also put a few ads, free, just to promote different stuff like voice of the martyrs.

Have a look and start writing on the message board:

www.prayermissionjustice.com

Peace

25/8/07

Hey I’m back at Redding been here for a couple of hours. San Francisco was really cool we stayed at the JHOP house which is a large flat with a lot of rooms and a lot of people living there including one with a child. In a week or two they going to have interns there so all the rooms will be full. I was there just in time to meet Jesse Engle cause he will be moving to JHOP KC and get involved with The Call Institute there, It was such an honour to get to hang out with him as well as the other guys there, I’ve looked up to him for all my Christian life after watching or hearing him pray at the Call Washington often times his prayer along with the girl’s prayer would provoke me to tears, well any way.

I only to got hang out with them late last night cause we got there around 8 or 9 or maybe 7 I dunno they were out eating Pakistani food they were all half asleep except Roger who’s the guy who will be leading right after Jesse leaves, the other guy ended up falling asleep on the floor while supposedly hanging out with us in the living room. (Oh yeah there’s a lot of great art in their living room and Jambes and guitars lying around everywhere). So after an hour or so we went to bed.

This morning I went to the living room to get my laptop and I found 2 of Lou Engle’s books and 3 of his CDs with a note that they were for me. That’s so amazing not only did God allow me to meet these Kingdom people I look up to (even considering all the places I’ve visited and people I heard teach and preach and worship some of the top people of our emerging movement as well as older people) He also keeps blessing me with book which He knows I love and will use. The 2 books he gave me I already read but I didn’t own (Pat did u get ur Elijah revolution book? In case you can have mine) same with 2 of the CDs I had a copy of them. It’s funny to hear Lou sing with his coarse voice.

The house is right in Haight street so we went around that street just past Haight n Ashbury (The origin of the counter cultural revolution) there’s nothing to it just 4 normal street corners. But one thing that’s different is I’ve never seen so many eastern gods for sale in shop windows in shop windows along with Crystals and stuff like that, it’s really bad, there’s also a lot of homeless people all over I think some of them might still be left over from the summer of love (which by the way has it’s 40th anniversary on the 2nd September).

There’s a lot of cool shop windows graffiti all over, the wall to the side of the JHOP building is known world wide apparently Cause they call in all the Pro graffiti artists to work on it and people come to take photo shoots here, I took a couple of pictures from the window.

Oh I forgot I got to talk to Roger this morning cause I didn’t really get to talk last night and he started talking to me about all these books I should read and gave me his contact info, He also has a heart to do some work with a magazine or something of that sort “Revolutions always started with the printed media” (He’s the 3rd person I’ve talked to or heard of who wants to do a magazine) and he’s very much into Justice obviously he wouldn’t be at Justice house of prayer if he wasn’t. He started talking to me about white slavery and human trafficking…

Anyway later we went down to Mission Street which is where “all the free thinking young people are” it wasn’t really that great there’s some sculpture and stuff but maybe it’s also cause we didn’t walk through it we just drove through. We went to eat at a Nepalese Restaurant it was good, I saw the first Buddhist monk ever I think. After eating we started our way back home over the Golden Gate Bridge, I saw Alcatraz I tried to act like a tourist and took a few pictures. So I have something to show you guys, didn’t get a good picture of Alcatraz only from a distance the railing on the bridge was too high for our low car.

I think that’s it for today peace to all of you maybe you be blessed with the ever lasting love of our Father.

23/08/07

Hey this should be just a short email (Hopefully). did i send the last email yesterday or not? yesterday i spent the morning at the prayer room and the cafeteria at the church. Finished reading red moon rising and started reading 'Dreaming with God' yesterday morning, it's a very good book and dealing with some of the things im facing at the moment where im praying or worshipping and ideas keep coming up about stuff. someone should borrow it when i get back even red moon rising.

Yesterday evening i went with michelle to a park and met with some people to worship well the some people wasnt really that many only three more and what michelle didnt know is that they were all girls well more like women. anyway. it was a good time of worship, we did some sponatneous stuff together with normal songs. one gut sat close by to listen while he smoked his cigarette, then another guy came to compliment us and asked if we were in a band, one of the girls told him we were just worshipping and he's like oh my brother is an indian travelling preacher he came and gave us an indian hand shake then he left after a bit, then another guy came offering us weed lol.

Today i stayed at home in the morning i 'prayed' meaning (i tried to pray but slept for 2-3 hours) which is good as well then i watched part of a movie and read most of the day, i researched a bit about Darfur and Sudan, so i can write about them. also intervied the 2 guys im living with for the revival section. oh btw one of the girls i was with yesterday also had God speaking to her about starting a magazine mostly focused on revival and testimonies and stuff like that. Oh i just remembered yesterday i didnt really read that much coz a designed an idea for the website for the magazine, then i spent about 3-4 hours working on a logo but in the end i just ended up playing around with a picture and having fun afteri got over the point of frustration coz i wasnt achieving anything. I later did another idea whic is more my style, the imagery is not really related just used squares which is typical for me but i kinda like the idea, if someone gets an idea for it send it in.

I might start working on the article about here right after i send this email even though it's getting a bit late.



Oh i wanted to let u guys know 24-7 are holding a gathering at seville spain for all those involved or who would want to get involved just in case anyone wants to go here's a link with more detail. http://www.24-7prayer.com/cm/general/feast-2007



Have a good morning while i have a good night on the other side of the world



btw i don t know if i told you but tomorrow evening we might go down to JHOP san fransisco but im not sure, things arent clear yet, i would go down tomorrow and return saturday night



peace

20/8/07

Hey hows it goin? I’ve had a relatively good couple of days a bit of a struggle at some points but it’s been good. I keep dreaming and imagining things I want to see done, like different jobs people coming off drugs or prostitution could be taught to do which would support them and the house. Coffee shops (maybe even mobile), sowing one off creative clothes which could be sold at bugibba or PV or Valletta, and even producing crafted objects made out of anything from clay to metal which are then sold either on a web site or at city gate or something.

At the same time wondering how and when is it going to start, who is going to be involved and where are we going to be (we would need a building) so druggies and prostitutes don’t go straight back home and to their friends but rather stay somewhere until they are solid. Where is the money going to come from? I know some one who said they might help with stuff but since there is no communication it gets hard to depend on someone who doesn’t respond, but maybe it’s a question of timing, who knows. Been thinking of doing dreadlocks but I don’t know yet.

Sunday Jim Goll spoke in the morning at Bethel, I don’t remember most of what he said, I only remember some stuff but I had teary eyes through most of the first part when he was mostly prophesying over Redding and Bethel but I wanted those words for Malta.

One thing a few of you might be interested in would be his ministry is starting a Global Moravian prayer watch on 11 September they will launch it on their site and whoever wants to can sign up for an hour slot anytime anywhere in the world you enter the time and time zone and join how ever many people will be praying at that time around the world.

In the evening service it was a meeting mostly aimed at people who live here since school is starting soon and that means around 700 new people which they have no space where to put considering even yesterday they had to over flow room but that only seats a few hundred so they are going to use the university hall where instead of 2 service in the morning they will have three.

So he spoke about the inconvenience it would be for everyone, he also spoke a lot about being a community and being hospitable helping everyone who comes in from anywhere. He also urged people to pray and pursue God for a cancer free zone as well as pursuing a corporate anointing to see ALL healed not just a few.

He has a beautiful heart like all the people here seem to have, Kris and Jim Goll also spoke a bit on the same themes mostly.

Last night after service I moved to a new house, and Dan and michelle either moved out last night or today, not sure. The guy I’m staying with is nice, he is Kris Vallotton’s assistant, interning with him.

Peace to u all

18/8/07

Hey yesterday I went with Michelle to the Friday night service, Rick Peno was doing worship. It was Amazing! A major part of the worship was like this, he would see a picture of something and he would just sing it out like He saw Jesus with a bucket of oil so he started singing about Jesus smearing His name over us.



I danced and danced for the most part I just didn’t care what people thought and let go, at some points id get a bit conscious and would slow down a bit. The best and fun(est) part was when he started singing this song:



I’ve got the best dad

in the whole world

in the whole world



I’ve got the best dad

in the whole world

in the whole world



I’ve got the best dad

in the whole world

in the whole world



the other part was something like this but not sure of the exact words



My dad can,

beat your daddy up



My dad can,

beat your daddy up



there was another part at some point which said im not afraid of no bully



any way it was awesome, and there were a lot of people drunk in the spirit so at some points that made the whole thing even more fun. Here’s a good and fun place to get drunk in the spirit. There’s this one girl she laughs so loud and she laugh kinda like a mixture between a donkey and a chicken so u can just try to picture that. I had seen her last week before homeless outreach and I actually thought she was handicap but it turned out she is normal just has a lot of joy and laughs very loud and all the other stuff with that.



I noticed that part of the drunkenness is letting go, like you can choose to control yourself or you can decide to just let go, obviously not all react the same, I for example don’t get that maybe some day I will. But even if im dancing I can choose to control myself or I can choose to just let go which is ultimately more fun and more powerful.



After worship I joined the others for the night strike, it took us a long time before we left the service had already finished, we just prayed over each other before we left, locals over visitors and visitors over locals and people prophesying over each other, people drunk, Erika was leading and she was basically drunk but she can sober up quite quickly.



We went bought some doughnuts and went to the greyhound station. Before the bus came we hung out inside and talked to people there. Erika and someone else were talking to this man and his mother. The guy had just been talking to his mom about how he had fallen away from God the day before, so he re-committed his life to Christ there and then and he shared his testimony out loud in the station.



Some went on the buses gave out doughnuts, talked with people, prayed with people. One lady sang for the people on the bus, it was very good apparently. There was one guy who had just come out of prison and was going back home, he got saved in prison and was going back home where his old friends were, so he was a bit worried about that so Erica just prophesied over him and prayed and stuff. His girlfriend was a few seats back on the bus, he used to beat her up and stuff and she still had stitch marks and stuff from what I heard, Erica spoke to her about how she needed to forgive him but it didn’t mean she would have to trust him… By the time they left the bus these 2 were on the same seat crying.



There was quite some stuff that happened there but I wasn’t there so I don’t know al the details. I stayed inside the station since I started talking to this one guy before the bus came. Some people had tried to talk to him but he was really hard. He had just come from an eastern orthodox monastery, but he said he didn’t know how to pray spontaneously so I asked him what he thought prayed was. He couldn’t understand my accent so I told him I that I was a foreigner and that’s how we started just chatting and stuff.



So we talked about why he had converted to eastern orthodox, traditions, what it was like to be in a country where everyone else is from a different religion, travelling, Europe and here, politics, anything. The most important part was when he started talking about struggling with sin so I mentioned Romans 6-8 and talked about freedom from sin in Christ. That we are holy not because we make ourselves holy but be cause he comes to live in us and his holy nature takes over our sinful nature. And talked about when you are just struggling with a particular sin the best thing to do is not fight it off but to look to Christ meditate on Him and he will do the fighting for you. Talked a bit about holy Spirit asked if I could pray to Him about it but he wouldn’t let me so I asked if I could pray when I was home and he said yes.



After that I went outside and around a bit, met a homeless guy outside who told me he just got out of prison because he had a seizure so I asked if I could pray for him to get healed from that and he said go ahead so I did. He looked kind of drunk red skin and red eyes and stuff but he said he was on medication so he couldn’t function properly. A friend of his came out and I talked to him for a bit and asked if there was anything I could pray for him about and he said his girlfriend gets seizures all the time and that she had already had three that day. So I called the lady that had been singing and we prayed while we were praying she got another seizure so we kept praying and worshiping with them but then we just let them go cause they needed to go somewhere for the night.



The others all came out ready to leave at this point, James the first homeless guy I prayed for got prayed for by everyone else and he committed his life to Christ, I hope that was sincere and God does a great work in Him. Another lady a friend of his who had been out of town for a few months came with her drink cursing at him in a friendly manner, and he asked her if she wanted to pray and she said they had a date for Friday at church. Some prayed with her as well. She was telling us how she remembered Erica because some months ago she had Gone there with brownies for everyone and how she was blessed by that. Then we all shared some testimonies and prayed and went home.



This morning I went out with the homeless ministry to California apartments, nothing much happened we just fed people quite a few kids which can be fun especially when they keep coming to ask for more brownies (I don’t blame them). We went back with leftover brownies and some salad so I dug into the brownies.



Tonight we are eating pizza with Michelle’s siblings and the couple we went to yaks with this week from Austin Texas (they don’t have such a strong accent just in case you were wondering).



Peace



Oh yes I just remembered yesterday during worship I kind of felt God tell me that for now I should let go of North Africa, start things going in Malta and then we’ll see what happens from there. I’m still not sure about that yet, but I wanted to let you guys know. I might start working on the drugs rehab thing or a discipleship house, don’t know yet. Yeah pray bout that and for all the provision needed. (and maybe a passionately supportive wife lol)

17/8/09

Hey it’s been a long 2 or 3 days since my last email. Same as last few days been at home a lot reading and writing and stuff. I started a new blog (www.prayersmeditations.blogspot.com )which im using as the title states for prayer and meditations iv been working on. While doing that I realized I could actually put some ads on the blog so maybe I can fund myself a bit.
I wasn’t really keen on the idea of writing for money, I just want to write coz I guess it’s a passion God is growing inside me, but I know God gives us gifts for a reason and for now ill be experimenting with writing and stuff with some return maybe, might start a couple more blogs actually for different issues, coz I keep getting ideas about what I should write about or for different uses such as Jesus vs Mohammed maybe coz the book im reading at the moment is about that and it would be good source to have on the internet (might be a bit controversial though but I don’t mind truth is truth). I also thought of having one with just spontaneous writings, ones iv written in the past and ones I could just start writing

I don’t know this might be just an experiment but maybe it might turn out to be fruitful. Iv been praying a lot about what im supposed to do when I get back home and how I should make some money and where should I live and stuff like that so maybe this is some kind of answer, or maybe not and its just a distraction.

Im doing some writing and meditation on psalm 119, might do it even in audio, it’s really amazing how the writer seems to just fall in love with the law of God. He must have had such a revelation already of God’s grace because it’s easy (sometimes it’s still not that easy) for us to love the law now that we know it’s use and how it fits into our lives but back in the old testament most people live by the law (if they did) because they felt they had to not because they knew God’s love in liberating them from sin.

Yesterday afternoon I went to a lake close to Redding in Whiskey town with Michelle’s brother and 3 sisters, was fun and relaxing water was nice but I had a taste and it didn’t taste good. The water was deep not like the spring I had gone to so I had to actually swim which I enjoyed but it’s much harder to float in a lake in comparison to the sea.

In the evening there was the backpack give away organized by Bethel church in our neighbourhood so we went there, it was good there were a lot of people but there wasn’t anything we could do to help so we just watched and chat with a few people for a while and then we left.

Wednesday we went out with a couple who are going to be students at Bethel to a cafeteria at vineyard church called Yaks. It’s a very nice place relaxing and all, there was a whole lot of art all over, it’s one of the nicest cafes in town apparently. I had a pineapple smoothie, was going to try pina colada smoothie but I thought pineapple was much more safe.

Yeah I think that’s it for the day
Peace to all

dreaming

the last couple of days i v been "locked away" home throughout most of the day reading and stuff. monday evening i went for a walk with dan michel and aaron one of michelle's brothers. and yesterday i went to watch a movie with her family



these last 2 days i have been dreaming a lot,community, boiler rooms, discipleship houses for drugies and non drugies, orphanages (even schools but more for inner city kids in big cities), homes for abused peopleand prostitutes. kinda typical thing. reaching and changing community around us. dont have a clue how that stuf could be done, who would be doing it or how it would support itself. but im dreaming and he makes dreams come to reality, espescially when they are kingdom dreams.



while i was thinking bout writing this email i was going to read Psalm 1 but the page turned first to chapter112. Good stuff, you should try it (lol) ice cream to my soul and spirit



peace keep advancing the kingdom

13/8/07

Hey, Saturday night we hung out at some of Dan and michelle’s friends, unfortunately Dan had to go back to work for over an hour, so until he got back I was the only guy on the girls night out. It was ok they prepared brownies so I was happy. We watched a movie called Ghandi, it was very good, the day before Eric Johnson had talked about being a voice and that’s what Ghandi was he saw the plight of the people and he spoke it out.



We are all to be voices, but whose?



Yesterday morning I went to service Brian and Jenn weren’t leading the service, it’s weird I kept try to figure out who the worship leader reminded me of, his face reminded me of Valentino Rossi mixed with a bus driver who works in our area, his figure reminded me of Jeremy. It was good, something iv had these last 2 day during worship I get really distracted which is weird I don’t know why.



Bill Johnson spoke in the morning good stuff there was a lot of depth to it. About living for coming generations, pursuing God not only for ourselves but especially for generations we will never see.



In the afternoon we ate with michelle’s family it’s a huge family 2 brothers and 4 sisters, plus 3 visitors including me, the parents and Dan obviously. We just ate burgers and stuff.



In the evening Brian and Jenn led worship, Kris Valloton spoke, man he has such a revelation of the us as princes I had read a bit of supernatural ways of royalty it was similar to that, so good, we need to renew our mind to know that we are royals and noble people, sons of God and we should act like it. The way we see ourselves changes the way we talk, live and all that, it changes the way we act towards the poor, the rich, God, the enemy, family…



After the service there was a fire tunnel we went through twice, hehe. We then went to the supermarket bought a couple of things we met michelle’s family there again. We then went home and chat for the rest of the night, me and Dan were up till almost 2 in the morning coz he was building a model so we chat while he was doing that.



That’s it for today, good day

11/8/07

Hey umm, sooo. These last three days have been pretty good, very relaxed, stayed at home all day Thursday and yesterday stayed home till 2pm. So I quite some time to read, been trying to finish some of the books Fabian lent me so I would be able to give them back by the time I leave.

I dunno if I told u but Monday I bought 11 books from IHOP, so im well supplied with books. Some people also gave me books before I left fire and even before I left malta so I think I have 25 books im carrying around at the moment.

Im talking bout book coz today I went to bethel bookstore only had a look from the outside coz it was closed but there’s already a whole bunch of books id like to get. So what I thought would be a good idea is to ask u guys, if there are bethel books you have so I wont buy them, at least that will save me some money and weight. So please let me know which books u have from here so I wont buy, thank you.

Ok so what else?

Well yesterday I went to bethel for the first time it’s pretty big from the outside, but they have a lot of large rooms so the actual meeting place for services is not that huge, it’s smaller than IHOP’s at least, it fits around 2000 people. John Mark McMillan and his wife Sarah McMillan (formerly Kelly for those who know her music) were leading worship, they were just visiting, it’s good stuff, got into it right away and well u know just worship it’s not like a concert or something.

Eric Johnson (Bill’s son) spoke he’s really good talked about pursuing God’s promises no matter how long it takes. He is 85% deaf in each ear so he uses hearing aids, u can tell a bit by his voice as well, but this guy has seen a ton of people healed especially deaf people. And that’s basically what he talked about, every deaf person healed is a day closer to his healing, not because he is trying to get points but because his pursuit for healing (his pain) is what stirs him on to heal the sick, he made reference to cyclists how they use their pain to push themselves onwards. I recorded the msg but I cant put it online for now.

I wanted to go out with people for the night strike last night but I missed it, ill go next time.

This morning went a bit to the prayer room then I went to the main building to wait for the meeting with people who were going out to feed homeless and poor. I was a bit hungry so I tried buying a snickers from a machine but it wasn’t working, after a few seconds another 2 guys came and they were going to buy some I told them it didn’t work coz I tried, so they invited me to go buy something with them, first I wasn’t sure then I just went. We went to subway I got a foot long meat ball roll, was good but one guy wouldn’t let me pay had a short discussion until he said can I bless u and I said yes but and then it dawned on me what I had just said so I said ok.

Went out with the homeless ministry but they have 7 different groups going to different places, I went to Brookside apartment buildings, they are cheap apartments so people there aren’t homeless but very poor, so we set up a table with food and drinks. Two guys stayed with the table to feed people but for the most part there was only one guy there and the other just played with the kids from the apartments coz there weren’t that many people. The other three went door to door inviting people to come and also praying for people’s needs.

We prayed with one lady with flu another with a broken leg and another lady who had all sorts of stuff wrong with her: broken back, something wrong with feet, lost teeth and wrist. So we prayed for her back first then the other guy with me felt there was something wrong with her feet coz she hadn’t told us so we both prayed for her feet. Then we stood and asked her if there is something she cannot do so she can test herself, she said I cannot hold pans and she started telling us what was wrong with her wrist, so we prayed for her wrist and told her to test it, she went and held the pan, she said well there’s no pain at all, then after a sec she said well there is a bit but I couldn’t do that at all yesterday. So yay God we believe if her wrist was healed he also healed the rest.

We prayed with another guy not sure why coz I hadn’t been talking to him I just joined in prayer but it had something to do with football or something, I think maybe an injury, any way we prayed with him, he was really blessed, he seemed to me like he was holding back tears, but I don’t know exactly.

God bless u guys that’s it for today.

08/08/07



Ok. I got to Redding a few hours again. I’m living, at least for now with a couple and 2 girls living with them. None of them have lived here for more than 2 weeks should be interesting since it’s almost nobody’s home.



The trip was LONG, 40 hours in all. I saw some nice stuff but most of it was pretty boring, I saw the Rocky Mountains and tried to video them but I don’t think they came out that good, we’ll see. I went through Wyoming for 6 hours or so and that is basically wasteland. A grass dessert with nothing a few fences for cattle which for the most part u don’t even see, there was also 2 wind farms and 2 small towns. Went through Nevada with all the casinos… Reno (like sister act). Between Reno and Sacramento it gets really nice, with mountains and trees and stuff.



Anyway don’t know what else to tell u for now I’m sure I’ll have something to write soon but for now that’s it.



Thank You and Good Bye.

05/08/07

Hey hows it goin?

Yesterday I went to eat at Angel and Barry’s place (angel is eve’s sister and for those who do not know Ben and eve are an American couple back Home). The Kids are so sweet did get to see the youngest coz she was sleeping, the oldest (Emily) first wouldn’t look at me then asked her mum if I was a girl or a boy she told he to ask me. Then she turned to me and said “are you a girl?” I started shaking my head coz I could speak while attempting not to laugh. She drew 2 pictures and gave one to Dan and one to me. (how sweet)

We had good conversation talking bout living the Kingdom, healing the sick raising the dead… also talked bout Calvinism and armenianism which a subject that seem to keep coming up everywhere I go even at FIRE, I believe they are both extremes and there is something in between. It also came up while talking to a girl on the stret that evening.

Yesterday we went out with the evangelism team. It was intense stuff a lot more people came out then usual. But it was intense like there were 2 atheists attacking Paul who was preaching, lets’ call it debating not attacking. But it was so hard to reason with them coz when they used science we used science and they rejected it, when they mentioned other religions we talked bout other religions, when they talked bout morality we talked bout God’s law, they’d refer to history but if we referred to history it wasn’t good enough. It was really hard, another guy came later and they’re so closed minded even though im sure that’s what they think of us as well.

Prayed with quite a few people, there was a group of people interning at Heartland community church don’t know what that is but yeah we just prayed together with them and more and more people would join us in prayer, good stuff. Had a few good conversation even just with Christians.

There was one group of 3 guys, this guy who came out with us was like “My life was like this, I slept with any girl I could get into my team, smoked pot, drank as much as I could…” they were like “Yeah, Yeah” then he said “but now Jesus Changed my life, im married and don’t sleep around anymore, quit drinking…” then they asked a few questions, and I joined in, noticed they thought they were saved so I tried to focus on freedom of sin, that if u are truly saved u are no longer a slave to sin, they were like “Yeah, Yeah, we’re on the same page”, yes right, hmmm anyway we prayed with them that God would reveal himself to them, they left then.

We got back late, at 12:30 or so I was at IHOP, since yesterday they moved back to the actual prayer room which is very close to where I live, I stayed for the night watch till 4 am. Was good, there was quite a few people considering the time of night and people kept coming and going I saw people just get there at 3:30. There were even men and women with their young babies less than 6 months old going round the prayer room, one of the was the wife of Clay Edwards (Misty’s brother), she had a session at 4am and it seemed so natural to be there with kids.

Went home slept till 9:30 or so and got up started getting ready for church service, Wes Hall preached, powerful stuff bout living the Kingdom now while looking for the coming Kingdom not looking only for something in the future, expecting it now and living it now but also looking for the future glory. He made a comment about how people cannot be bothered with religion or Christ because it is not at all real. And that we need to start living the Kingdom, seeing the sick healed and dead raised as part of our daily life.

In the after noon I signed up for the prophetic rooms, I went and they prophesied over me, some of it just confirmed what I others had prophesied over me throughout the week, but other stuff I never expected and they all focused on the on the thing that I did not expect and see in me. I know they were right coz my heart went ablaze as they spoke but I just never expected what they said, wasn’t something I really pictured my self being. Any way its good.

In the evening I went to the Boiler room with a guy called Benjamin He is a Jesus stoner/ semi-hippie and a few of his friends, he is a good friend of Dan and Dan wasn’t goin to he offered to pick me up. He is a really sweet guy he is goin to be a missionary going throughout central America planting houses of prayer, so pray for that.

The boiler is such a blend of stoners, punks, junkies and standard people it’s amazing, I don’t think there is even one person over 30 years old, most have this weird style of clothes but they’re cool. I was there for worship this time which I missed last time, they have liturgies something we do not see in churches most of the time, but the liturgies are just praying of scripture together, one guy leads and the others join in for parts of it, like what they do in the catholic church. It was interesting, they also had a meditation on worship songs, or scripture, u know like the practice of the presence of God. They also had an old hymn, something you would not normally picture a group of 60 young adults doing.

Adam one of the leaders shared, and he played this dvd of a guy giving a message about the greatness of God and the smallness of man using pictures of the universe and how He created the heavens to worship Him and reveal his glory, and yet this God gave his life for us (ill add something myself here, this God who created this huge universe lives inside us). Adam then spoke bout how this God is always with us no matter what we are going through and that we should trust Him.

After we were done, I talked to this one guy who is 26 years old but seemed younger then me. He quit school at 17 and has been travelling ever since, he said that it is almost addictive because you don’t have responsibilities or ties, I think he was a bit grieved by the fact that he couldn’t set his roots anywhere. He has only been here for a couple of days. Pray that he might get more of the peace of God in his life and clearer direction from him.

I went into the prayer room, it’s a very simple room, they have a map of the world in there and they put needles in places where they know there are missionaries or other Christian who are making an impact for Jesus. There is a need le on Malta guess coz some of them know Ben an Eve.

We left there and went to Panchos (Mexican restaurant) for a Burrito. Was good but very greasy, the chicken tasted good but looked more like tuna.

Im at the prayer room now writing this, the internet is not working here so ill have to go around a bit to find a good spot. Today’s was a very long email sorry bout that.

Tomorrow evening I leave for Redding.

4/8/07

Nayong-Hoseo (Hello in Korean)

I hope I got that right, the two girls who came out yesterday witnessing were Korean and I asked them to teach me something in Korean, but that was last night so im not sure I remember correctly.

So Thursday I went out with the homeless ministry people, mostly I spent the night cooking (barbecuing hot dogs). Adam and I got to pray with this one guy, he had an accident in 1990 and was bound to a wheelchair, by now hw had stopped using the wheelchair and was walking using crutches but he wanted a job and some other stuff, so we prayed for his back twice and for a job and the other stuff. Didn’t really see much happen on the spot. Adam sensed he need to repent from some stuff and I sensed he needed to forgive so we told him bout that. When we got back to IHOP one of the guys walked up to me to let me know I should be careful with him coz he has been around a long time and is very good at manipulating people. So I guess it’s a good thing im leaving.

On my way there I was studying the counties and stuff so the guy who taught me them would be proud of himself for teaching me a foreigner, in fact when he started asking me stuff he got really excited and stuff. So that’s awesome.

Yesterday I went out with one of the guys here to Elephant Bar he just wanted to hang out, good food, pretty expensive for me but not too bad and in the end I ended up not paying either so it was a blessing. The place is cool, very kitch (not sure how to spell that) it looks like Africa, giraffes elephants and zebras all over with zebra marks on the roof as well as giraffe dots… the weird thing about it is that they don’t serve any African food, it’s pretty international food I guess but mostly American and Asian so im not sure where Africa fits in.

Then I went to Friday night meeting, Misty was teaching I recorded her ill try upload it for u guys, u know I just love misty so its good stuff id advise any to listen to.

After that we went out to a fair somewhere in Kansas to do witnessing there. Mostly we just handed out tracts. We talked to a few people but most people cut it short saying they r Christians, saved or born again, I didn’t press those people much, I probably should have coz everyone here thinks they are saved.

Talked with a Hindu lady we asked if typical stuff if she died tonight whether she would go to heaven or hell she wasn’t sure so told her that we are all sinners deserving hell, I might have taken a bit through the law but not sure, then told her that God became man and died that he might pay the price for us and all we have to do is repent and give ourselves to Him. She didn’t give much of a response, just listened, I encouraged her to repent and left it at that. I wish I would see people making that decision there and then but then again a decision is worthless if it is not pursued, so I don’t want to push people into a decision they r not ready to make.

Also talked to a Hispanic guy he was part of a group of 4 we had some Hispanic tracts so we went for them, he asked what the tracts were and I gave a short gospel. He looked like he had been drinking so I wasn’t sure whether he was mocking or serious when he talked but then in the end he kinda sobered up a bit and said thank you. We left then and went on.

That was basically it for the night, we drove home, oh yeah. When I got home there was guy outside talking to Dan, he has a heart for muslims and wants to go to Israel to witness to muslims, so we talked a bit ate some toast together and we both ended up with each other’s email.
Ok I guess that’s it for this broadcast. Monday evening we will be heading out of KC and i will arrive at redding California Wednesday afternoon. Stuff for accommodation there is looking good although nothing is confirmed yet.

God bless u all

2/8/07

Hey, yesterday we didn’t go swing dancing when we got there the guy remembered that on Wednesdays there aren’t enough girls so, its no fun dancing with ourselves. So we ended up going to Krispy Kreme (a doughnut place) so Eve will be proud of me. I had a chocolate something glazed and a classic glazed doughnut. Not much to comment bout that umm, sugar, sugar, sugar.

I didn’t get to talk to the guy his throat was in pain and there was another guy with us. I did get to talk to someone else before going out and that was very good, we talked and prayed for quite a while. It’s good to watch God bring situations through my path where he uses me to touch others.

This evening I should be going out with the homeless ministry again.

peace

1/8/07

Last night I stayed up late copying music onto my computer, well over 20 cds (abby will be proud of me).Some of the CDs are older and im sure Patrick has some of them like Morningstar, Don Potter, Kevin Prosch and Catch the fire 1995. There were also quite a few teachings. So then this morning I woke up late (at 8:30) I didn’t go to the prayer room till about 10.

This morning at the prayer room there was a lot of intercession mostly for countries with persecution was good. God gave me a word for some one and I wasn’t sure if it was him or not so I waited for about 5-10 minutes before I went to talk to the guy, he actually left(I thought it’s too late now) but then came back. So after a little while longer I went up to him. It’s strange how He gave me the word, I looked at this guy and saw the word ‘Chinese’ written in the air, just like when u stare at something long enough and then u look at something else u see an outline of that thing u were looking at. That’s partly why I really wasn’t sure, in fact I started looking all around that area just in case there was ‘Chinese’ written somewhere and that’s what I saw but there wasn’t.

So any way I told him and he said “Right on!” he started smiling and asked me if there was something else, I told him no im not even sure if it is from God or not. Then I left. Around 10 mins later he came up to me and said “I want to encourage u coz I know what it’s like, I have had china and specifically shanghai on my heart for a few years and was praying for a prophetic confirmation from others.” My eyes went wide open and I started smiling and I was like God is SOOOO amazing, (After last Saturday I started praying that he would help me grow in prophetic especially when witnessing) and the guy who prophesied over me yesterday mentioned prophetic, not sure bout the 2 the day before. So it’s encouraging how God uses me even though I’m so insecure and afraid of failing. He really is encouraging me to grow. It’s obvious that it’s not my own ability.

This evening Im going swing dancing, pray God would use me even there for His glory, the guy im going up with is a backslidden believer, I tried to talk to him yesterday but he couldn’t coz he had a sore throat or something. And also God would keep me from any temptation (I really don’t know what to expect there) and HE would also use me to Speak into other people’s lives.

Il-Paci maghkom

31/7/07

Hey. Yesterday I went out with the homeless ministry, it was amazing, especially what happened there.

On our way there I was in a van with 2 more guys and an older lady, there was another van with a lot more people. So u know typically they asked a lor of questions about Malta and Christianity in Malta (I wrote here but I remembered Im not there) so I answered their questions and stuff. The old lady was telling me that she is from LA, orange county area, she said that she never went out of that area until she was 71 when she moved to KC. That was quite interesting; she knew that God really wanted her to be here.

Nothing special I just talked to a couple of guys, not even witnessing, I just let them talk. They like to talk.

First guy I talked to said he was a historian (I think he mostly meant that he was in love with history). He is not homeless but lives on government relief probably coz of some kind of mental handicap. He was telling me how his favourite period in history was the renaissance, and his favourite family was the ‘De Medici’ who are also known as the godfathers or renaissance. He had the whole lineage of the family from the beginning when they started a bakery till Ferdinand II who was the Grand Duke of Tuscany in the period of Galileo Galilei. He was telling me about their connections to Galileo, Michelangelo and others. He also told me that one of them sent an assassination squad to kill the pope so that he could become a pope himself. Anyway it was interesting.

The other guy loved numbers memorizing and stuff like that. He memorized the amount of counties in each state and in some cases he also memorized the amount of counties starting with each letter of the alphabet. So the first thing he got me to do was to quiz him, it was amazing I think he barely got any wrong, actually I don’t think he did get any what he did get wrong was names after guessing the amount with each letter he would tell me the names, he got most of them but some he forgot. Still I was awe struck I mean it would be like memorizing the name of each street in a town in Malta. I don’t even know the name of the street next to our house (I don’t mean the one I live in). obviously it is all useless information and that’s why I don’t really care much to know that.

Then he showed me a kind of poster which he designed to help him memorize the amount of counties in each state and the date they came into the union. He put them in order starting with those that were colonies then the others starting I forgot the name but it has 14 counties and was born either on the 14 February or it was the 14th state to enter the union. He used a lot of symbols for example he used a triangle to symbolize 3, he used a 5 pointed star to symbolize 5, a heart to symbolize 14 (14 February), a pumpkin for 31st October, stuff like that which if u pay attention really does help u memorize stuff. For example I remember there are 254 counties in Texas, California was born on the 9th septhember and has 58 counties, North Carolina has 100 counties and Louisiana has 64. stuff like that.

He was teaching me this stuff, and drew a simplified map of the US then at the end he started asking the others there to quiz me and he was really proud of me coz he’s been trying to teach this stuff to the ones who go there every time he goes there and since most people aren’t really interested the never learn so apparently I learnt more in the 45 mins I was with him then most of the others who lived in the states all their lives. So this guy was a mathematician but unfortunately he cannot spell and since he lived before people tried to help people with dyslexia he ended up living on relief, there might also be some other mental issues but I dunno.

All the time im talking to these guys Im thinking of how beautiful they are, in fact Jason Upton’s new CD called Beautiful People has the face of a bum on the front cover and I kept remembering the song and thinking how beautiful these people are in the eyes of God and how they have been pushed aside simply coz of a small handicap.

On our way back I was in the same van with the same people so they started praying over Malta and then me and then they prophesied over me. That was really sweet. This morning another guy came up to me in the prayer room and started prophesying over me as well some things were also related to what the others said yesterday. Sweet stuff.

Today there is a day of fasting for the staff there were a lot of people in the prayer room between 10 and 12, for the last half hour or so the worship team started prophesying with their instruments they started playing something between jazz and tango, and I danced with all my might until I ran out of breath then had a couple of minutes break and started dancing again. It was so much fun and I could really sense the pleasure of God as people all over started dancing for him and simply enjoying his presence and the music which comes from Him through man back to Him.

Anyway ttyl

30/07/07

Hey all

So how have thing been goin for u?
Here umm. Its different. Even the fact that u can go to a pray in a prayer room with other people 24/7, its close to where I live so its even better. I love that, also the atmosphere is so creative, the fact that there is so much music going on 24 7 and also a lot of it spontaneous it spurs more creativity, like start singing new songs just like that I forget them by the time 5 minutes have passed but u know.

The day before yesterday I felt God tell me dance for me, I was like OK. Some of u know what my dancing is like, so its interesting, but then I little by little I kinda lost my awareness of people around me and just let go and started using my legs and feet which I never did before, it was sweet I really enjoyed it, he did it again yesterday. I guess it’s both intercession and worship.

Saturday night I went out with some people to do evangelism, it was good except for one event. I started witnessing to this one guy, and he came up with every single issue people normally come up with. Like other religions and stuff like that, I spent 20 minutes talking to him, then suddenly his eyes changed and he starting speaking to me with authority and then started speaking in tongues. It turned out he was a leader from ihop and basically he was just playing me. Or maybe he saw it as training me who knows. Any way then we just talked for a bit and we continued going round witnessing.

One thing I noticed is most people are individuals, I mean most people have friends and I heard its really easy to make friends and in some ways its true if ur the kind of person who just walks up to people which im not, so mostly I hang out with people from the house and also made friend with those that do evangelism.

Yesterday morning I went to the service at IHOP Mike Bickle spoke about purity in general but focused a lot on sexual immorality, he challenged us using Job 31:1 (among many others):

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

So he challenged us to make a covenant with our eyes, powerful stuff, he used a lot of other verses showing how lust is displeasing to God, and how we need to make a choice not to last and to resist temptation. He also mentioned how a lot of travelling ministers end up in sin, because first they are brought to exhaustion and therefore weakness and then using some emotional stuff satan lures them into giving in to sexual immorality, obviously this goes for everyone not just travelling preachers.

Yesterday evening we went to the 24/7 prayer boiler room, that something separate from IHOP, part of a movement that started in England, they aren’t doing 24/7 yet at least not in KC. Those who met Andy (Marty’s friend) he is part of this movement leading the urban monastery in Calgary Canada. It was interesting I never hear a sermon like that before. Mostly it was about beauty. Which she referred to as the awe of creation or of something else I don’t remember. She started by asking what is beauty, and challenged society’s views of beauty which change with time and fashion. She also gave a lot of details about a lot of different creatures like bees, different kinds of flowers, referring to the detail of design, showing both how impossible it is for them to have come by chance and also how when we live in awe of things around us we live in worship. Like we can live in awe of what we see, hear, feel, taste… we had actually been talking about the pleasure of eating before we left home and also the day before. And someone have mentioned that food is God’s love mad edible. MMMMMMM

This morning I went to prayer room early but ended up dosing off so I came to the cafeteria and started writing this email.

This evening I should be going out with the homeless ministry, I don’t know what that’s going to be like. Please pray about this stuff.

Peace

27/7/07

Hey all. So im safe at IHOP. The trip was long but easier than expected. I thought I had to change the bus a lot more times than I actually did I only changed the bus 5 times but at the back of the ticket other stops where marked and I thought those stops meant we were changing bus but they were actually just rest stops.

Before leaving concord I was really blessed Royce (the guy who owns the house I was in) gave me a book, then Rashied another guy living there gave me 2 more. Then in the morning before I left Royce gave me a map of KC.

Rashied was supposed to drive me to the bus stop but the car wouldn’t start, good thing we were leaving early, Royce tried to charge the battery but it didn’t work so he ended up driving me with his car. He prayed for me before he left the bus station.

One thing I really noticed on the trip was poverty, not just financial, that too, but spiritual and emotional poverty and attitudes of slavery. Especially among African Americans, they aren’t physically slaves but they look like it, their faces really show they are under oppression.

The Hispanics are really sweet especially older ones that grew up in their country. Those that grew up in the states have a different attitude altogether especially those that grow in the cities, u can tell from their faces, clothes and attitudes. It’s interesting I guess.

Yesterday when I got to Kansas city, there had been a misunderstanding (Daniel the guy im staying with didn’t read my email before yesterday morning) so I didn’t get picked up which was ok coz I didn’t think I was getting picked up. So I had to find my own way to his house. I had prepared a map with the shortest/safest walking route to they house, but then I realized it would take me between 4 or 5 hours to walk, and that’s without baggage so obviously baggage slows me down even more. So I thought id get the bus.

So when I got to the grey hound bus station in KC I went to the customer service to ask where and what bus to get to get closest to his house. The lady there was very helpful, she spent probably 15 mins on the phone trying to figure out which bus and time … the bus shelter was right across the road, so that was great had to take 2 busses the second one dropped me right infront of the door. There’s other detail I could go into but it’s unnecessary.

I went to the door, knocked waited a bit but there was no one there. I knew IHOP was just round the corner so I thought id better go there in the coffee shop (I presumed they had internet) go online and let abby and mum know im here. I found out from her that Daniel was at home so after resting a bit I went to the house. There I found a not from Daniel telling me to go inside and call him from the kitchen phone. Im like man that’s just weird (people leaving their doors open and im supposed to just walk in). so I went in and tried to call a few times but it didn’t work, later I found out (Daniel remembered) that the phone doesn’t work long distance. So basically I waited there at the house looking into their yard, saw 2 squirrels tried to film one but nothing can be seen in them.

Then I got a phone call from Daniel and he told me he’d be there in 25 minutes and told me that if I wanted to I could go help him help Leslie (his fiancée and eve’s friend) I was like “sure” then we told me but u don’t have to, aren’t u tired, I was ok so when he came we left to go help. It didn’t take as long as it took us last week, there wasn’t so much stuff and when we were unloading we unloaded to a room downstairs right behind the garage so it was easy and quick, while loading we had to go into a lift and through a couple of doors so we wasted a lot more time. While there I met another of Eve’s friends called Johnna who offered to take me to do my shopping today. After we were done leslie gave me some money, I didn’t want to take it u know what its like then in my mind I was like I need to learn to accept people’s gifts and not feel guilty so I ended up accepting. She said she didn’t want to abuse the foreigner, I think she did it for eve.

We went home I met 2 more of the room mates there. I went out with one of them to walmart just to hang out from my side, it was already 11, I didn’t buy much only some lip balm coz I was desperate since iv been sick my lips have dried up really bad and they hurt a lot. He didn’t find anything he wanted to buy for himself so he just bought a couple of things for one of his room mates. We struck up a conversation with a Kenyan employee there so we talked to him for bout 20 minutes or something, it turns out he used to go to ihop but then he moved to Kansas City Kansas so he stopped and now he just moved back here.

This room mate I was with is funny, he is sweet but he talks a lot he sounds excited all the time and barely has time to breathe, sometimes he has to think about breathing.

This morning I went with Dan to prayer room they were doing an hour or 2 hour session there, went in to the briefing before they started and then just went to the side when they started and did my thing. I left the prayer room at 11, got a shuttle to IHOP coz the prayer room at the moment is at FSM (the school and where they do conferences) went to the book store (man there’s too much stuff, good thing Patrick wasn’t here). I started part of this letter, then I met Johnna and we went shopping. Actually she paid for all my food for the time im here (I felt embarrassed but she told me she did it for ben and eve and for malta which she loved when she was here) btw both leslie and Johnna were in Malta, I don’t really remember them (typical well maybe not just really bad).

So now I finished this letter, ill go back to the cafeteria to send it come back to the house leave my laptop here and go to JHOP which apparently is moving here.

Peace to all.

23/7/07

Saturday evening we went downtown to preach and pray for the sick and that. Was good, we got to pray for a few people. I prayed for 2 guys who thought they could make it to heaven by their own being good, I had spoken to them for 10 mins so I told them let me just pray for u, so I prayed that they would realize the sinfulness of their heart and the mercy of God, that they wouldn’t sleep until they repent stuff like that and that they would get to know God.

Also prayed with one guy who had crutches, he had sprained his ankle playing basket ball, so I prayed for him 2 times, he was afraid to try it, I told him no matter what it felt like he was healed he crossed the road and I saw him try a few steps without the crutches but he put them back on.

There was one girl who repented on her knees and gave her life to Christ there on the street. Joel was talking to her and one of the Morningstar girls came across the street and started discipling her and telling her that some of her friends might reject her and talked to her about her boyfriend living with her. She got her number and she was goin to pick her up for church Sunday. They were talking to her for about 30 mins.

One of the girls spent like 20 mins talking to a girl until her friends made her leave but she had already prayed with her.

There was one guy who came to ask us for help, somewhere to live coz his wife had had an epileptic fitz and all their money had been stolen. We talk to some others and they told us it was probably a scam and that we should not go back but if he talked to us we should tell him to go to police station and talk to them since they would have the numbers to homeless shelters. So that’s what we did, we didn’t go but he came looking for us as soon as we left the spot we were in and I told him what we were told, he looked a bit angry but he just left.

We moved to another spot opposite some night clubs, Joel carries a life size cross around him to attract or push away people and he preaches of the foolishness of the cross. We had 2 girls come up to us before we started they said they were Christians but the way they were dressed u could tell they were religious not saved. They were there to get drunk, so Joel talked to them a bit and prayed for them.

He started to preach we got a few different responses more negative, someone gave Joel 20 dollars (lol) he was a bit shocked and he told us later its not the first time sometimes he feels he shouldn’t take it but sometimes he does. We had another guy start rapping about Jesus. We had a few people mock us, a drunk guy came hugging us and then left screaming “the devil has taken me! the devil has taken me!”. Joel asked me to take his place which I did but the cross was pushing me over I couldn’t preach for too long like that. I later preached with some of the other guys without the cross. Only for a couple of minutes in all first time I stood on a newspaper box (where people pick free newspapers and magazines) to be higher up get more range and more attention but then I was told to go down coz I could get arrested for vandalism so I stepped down. Later just before leaving I just told them to choose whom they will serve sin or God, coz there is no other choice.

On our way back we met another guy from fire and the street preacher we were with last week, they were next to Morningstar, they told us some testimonies of deliverances and that. But I didn’t hear the details coz I wasn’t talking to them.


Yesterday service was really good with a lot of prayer and worship, for most of the first half an hour or something I was really distracted, I was worship with all my heart but my mind was not there. The message by mike brown was good I was freezing to death and falling asleep so I thought it was a bit too long. But it was good. The message was from acts 18 and it was about not depending on ourselves but on God.

I met a guy (fire grad) whom I had met a couple of years ago in Sicily he was with John Cava, him and his wife are planning to move to Germany to do some work there. They took my email so they would be able to contact me if they were planning to come to Malta or something of that sort.

In the afternoon we went to play volleyball I hadn’t played in around 10 probably, so it helped remind me that I don’t know how to serve. The rest was ok but serving I couldn’t really do, out of 4/5 I did one that was good. Most of the rest of the day I tried to pray but ended up sleeping instead.

Today I don’t have a clue what is goin to happen might go to a prayer meeting this evening. I’ve got a soar throat and my nose was blocked for most of the night I guess from the street preaching and shouting.

Hope ur all doing well peace to all.

20/7/07

Hey hope uv all been doin well. This week the students had exams so I went to a few classes but not that many still, I only didn’t go to school yesterday. Lessons are really good, I made quite a few friends, mostly guys, its really hard to talk to girls here coz the separate themselves from all the guys, like if u talk to a girl she has to come up to u individually. Dunno it’s weird I think its probably coz of all the regulations they have here. Anyway that’s something weird here but it doesn’t matter that much.

Yesterday I started reading spiritual ways of royalty wow, its an awesome book. And its really easy to read although sometimes I ended up stopping to meditate on what he was saying coz it was so good.

Tuesday i joined my flatmates in helping a couple move house, it was very tiring, I expected to be there for a couple of hours but we ended up working from around 2 to 10, we ate and all but it was very hot and at some points it also rained so it was intense. At around 8:30 the wife went out and while on the road she had some sort of attack and she couldn’t breathe, she was in a lot of pain, she called we all stopped to pray and we could hear her crying on the phone, the husband went to pick her up while we continued to pray and unload the truck, he took her to hospital and she stayed there overnight I think she was ok at the hospital but the husband was in such shock that he didn’t really tell us much at all. She should be ok now but I forgot to ask about her.

After we finished unloading we went to swim in their pool for a bit, it was fun we stopped coz it started raining, we weren’t that bothered by the rain until we figured the clothes would all get wet. So we went to pick them up and sheltered ourselves.

Yesterday we had a farewell dinner, for some of the students that would be leaving. We had a buffet which cost almost $10 so I tried to eat as much as possible to make up, it wasn’t anything special but there was a lot of food and sweet stuff for dessert, I ate more than I actually could (so im hoping not to go to any more buffets coz ill end up getting fat). After that we went straight to the service, there was a lot of good worship and a lot of prayer but I was in pain the whole time so I couldn’t focus as much as I would have liked to.

Today went back to school met with the healing team while they were deciding where to go and praying for one of the girls who will be leaving the school. Im going out with them tonight to a mall to pray for people, after that im probably going to a farewell party for this girl.

Today at school we all met to eat pizza both as a fundraiser for some of the missions going on during break and also to celebrate last day of school.

Im starting to consider maybe I should come to school, coz ive learnt a lot while here and there is so much I need to learn but, even if I wanted to I would definitely miss the first trimester. So im thinking if anything I might take one trimester and just do something part time the last trimester or something. Im not saying im coming, but u know im still waiting for clearer direction for the next step to take, there is so much I want to do. I actually went up for prayer for clearer direction yesterday at service.

oh im trying to learn to allow pictires to b taken of me, so when i get some i might try send a pic or 2 of yesterday's meal. I moved house wednesday much later than i was supposed to just coz it worked out that way.

morningstar people on the streets of charlotte1
morningstar people on the streets of chalotte 2

more videos the call

taken by john one of the guys im living with