travelling... so far

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26/06/07
Hey im writing this in Gatwick airport trying to kill some time here.

OK, so… yesterday my flight from Malta was delayed 2 hours due to bad weather in UK, (yay!), so I just had to wait stare try not to sleep for 2 hours. We left at around 11:30 and landed here at 1:20 pm UK time. Throughout the flight I just tried to sleep but I don’t think I managed to doze off for more then a few seconds while the plane was approaching Luton airport.

Went to get luggage but there were 4 different places to pick up luggage from and I wasn’t sure which one there wasn’t anything on the ticket, so I just followed there others from my flight then I remembered it would be better if I got trolley so I went for one and got the baggage, “rushed” out (im sure abby knows what my rushing is like) to get the bus we had missed it by 10 minutes (was pre paid and booked) so I asked a driver there and he told me I could get the next one at 3:40 using same ticket.

I went inside coz it was cold and a bit rainy. Bought a bottle of water for a staggering 1.39gbp and just sat on my baggage in the trolley for an hour, set the alarm just in case I went out at 2:20 again some kind of attempt to keep my self awake I guess. Went back inside at around 2:35 sat in front of a TV so I could check the time, and set an alarm just in case. Ate a bit.

At 3:25 I got ready to go to the bus so I went there met with a couple of gozitans who work here and were getting the same bus. Got on the bus no problem wrote a not to myself not to forget baggage on the bus, set an alarm a couple of time I guess didn’t hear either of them. I slept quite a bit near the end apparently barely slept at all for the first bit.

Got to Gatwick around 6/630 found my zone right away sat there wondering what to do for the next few hours. Went downstairs round a bit ate a bit and im sure u know what else ok ill give u a hint p__. Went up again ate a bit more stared around heard some music. Checked in at 7:30, got inspected me through and through including shoes through the machine, at least I didn’t have to strip or something.

Went round shops here trying to kill time filled the papers for my arrival in the states and now im writing this. Its 8:55 here, should be boarding in around half an hour. Peace

Btw any of u got ideas for the blog so I set that up?

28/06/07

So after I wrote the last part I went through the gate, I thought it meant I was boarding but I guess not as I found out later. They checked through my bag and asked a lot of questions like “as far as u know has anyone tempered with ur bag?” “did u pack yourself?” stuff like that, I think he realized I thought the questions were strange so he told me don’t worry its standard questions… he got me to unzip the hoodie a and he checked if I was carrying anything, I think my mum called me at that point, not sure if it was only a msg or a call, but I know for sure I received a few msgs while he was inspecting me.
Ok so then I walked through, then I was like I wonder y all these people are waiting up here and didn’t go down I came to the conclusion they were waiting for another plane, so managed to get myself through the different seats with people and was going to go down, then I looked up from writing a msg and found a metal bar right in front of coz the gate was still closed. So I waited and went down a bit later.

The flight was long and relatively boring most of the time I was just trying to sleep, when we got to the first glimpse of land I got a bit excited although there were still 4:30 hours left, it took an hour until we got on the mainland. So at that point I left the TV on the map which shows u where u are and how much longer u have left…

From above it all looks the same pretty boring, fields houses and a bit of green, I thought there would have been much more space between one town and another, it’s still pretty crowded (incomparable to Malta but still).

Landed here at14:30 and it took me about an hour till I got out. Went quite good the guy asking questions was very cynical and stuff like that but it was ok.

Yesterday we drove somewhere between 5-6 hours to Miami Oklahoma (not the same one u see on TV) this is a pretty small town. We went straight to the church coz we didn’t have time to go to the house. Pretty good and intense stuff, we were there from 715 till bout 1030, Fabian (my cousin) probably spent an hour just praying for people, not sick or anything just boldness, love and passion for lost filling of the Holy Spirit stuff like that since we go on the streets today There was some sharing and worship, the worship team looks pretty cool (the drummer looks like lead singer from blindside, and the bassist looks like the bassist from blindside hairstyle wise) and u can sense their passion. As soon as we got to the church we heard some testimonies from the last time Fabian was here in May. This one child (Austin) 6 years old used to be demon possessed or something, very violent, cutting himself and stuff like that, now his mother told us “that’s not Austin anymore; maybe I should change his name”. As soon as he saw Fabian he came to hug him, before if someone tried to pray for him he would fight him off. So that was pretty sweet.

So tonight I have no clue what to expect what will be happening, I know they set up a pavilion (ma nafx x inhu imma hekk jghidulu nimmagina xi tip ta palk jew ek) in the fair ground and Fabian will be preaching together with the local pastor there.

The people here are very hospitable, they gave us a house all to ourselves, with a fridge full of bottles of water and cans of pepsi diet and not diet. They took us out to eat last night had my first taste of Taco Bell Mexican restaurant. Was hard to make a choice with all the things I don’t like managed to get a burrito with chicken, rice and cheese. They also had melted cheese sauce which you could dip some crisps into, mmmmm. Out the whole meal that’s what I really enjoyed I think there rest was ok nothing special.

Btw I didn’t suffer any jetlag, woke up once at 7:30 and once between 6:30 and 7, which is standard procedure for me.

Names for blog would be greatly appreciated, im thinking maybe “letters from my pilgrimage” but it’s too long and a bit lame.

02/07/07
Getting closer to The Call, going to be amazing I’m sure. We are currently driving through Oklahoma back home well u know Dallas, we thought we might encounter some flooding but most of the flooding is in other parts of the Texas Oklahoma border. So far we heard a teaching about the power of our testimony by Bill Johnson, worship by Marcus Witt and now teaching from some other guy.

Miami was interesting to say the least it seemed to be completely opposite to what we expected. We were out on the streets witnessing but mostly inviting people to meetings. We went door to door which I don’t really like we also went to wallmart which was more my kind of thing I guess, it was pretty hard most people were polite but they didn’t really want to listen, Gregg the guy I was with there got to pray with an older lady for healing. Yesterday we went to a park where people were fishing, at first we were pretty lost didn’t know what we were supposed to do so we just walked and prayed, we saw one guy in a wheelchair we asked if we could pray and the guy with him said no, I said ok I felt a bit bad about that coz I didn’t try to explain to him that Jesus wants to heal him. We then moved on and saw two guys who just got there Benji the guy who was with me this time walked up to one of them and started witnessing to him, I joined in but only talked when I felt a need to talk, we got to pray with these two guys for freedom and a revelation of God. The guy who was doing all the talking had been in prison and on drugs he’s been off of drugs now for 7 months, he had a Judge who was a Jesus man I guess and he used to call him every 2 weeks or so to see how he was doing and share the gospel with him, he goes to his church sometimes but I don’t believe he is born again yet. Anyway he also told us to pray for the judge who had just had a heart attack, so we prayed for that and left.

So the meetings were supposed to be in a tent outside in the park, on the first day we went there and it rained and stopped right before the meetings and started again as soon as the worship started, we did 3 songs but then water stated coming in and cables were getting wet so we quickly dismantled everything, packed and went to the church building, the rest of the meetings were held inside, by the time we left the tent we were going to be in was 3 inches under water coz the river right next to it overflowed. Ill attach a picture of that probably.

The meetings were pretty good weren’t really evangelistic more building of the church and encouraging them to walk and live for the gospel, for the Kingdom people were pretty stirred and that’s partly why we had so many people on the streets, after yesterday’s evening people 2 girls decided they wanted to go visit hospitals, they had already been feeling they should go and when fabian mentioned it they took that as a confirmation. Another couple of guys really felt they should start going to the streets more often. So the main purpose of these meeting was to encourage a few people to live the gospel of the Kingdom. I filmed a couple of the messages and I might put those on you tube and send the link.

I got the new Jason upton CD powerful stuff, he’s got the cry of a generation. The CD is called beautiful people, with songs such as “I will ever leave you children” and “Lullaby for a petrified sacred society” haven’t heard all of them yet but there r other songs such as “mum & dad” and “Sons & Daughters”. I also copied a dvd of him at winter ramp 07 I think, I only copied part one ill try put it on youtube as well, the quality visually is horrible ill have to do it again next time im here but the sound should be ok. The visuals u only need to see how much more of a Jesus stoner he looks like now then he did a couple of years ago.

Something God was teaching me during this trip is that we preach the gospel not so much for the people but for Him. was reading jeremiah 20 where he's just complaining to God coz everyone mocks him and ignores him, but everytime God speaks he cannot keep from speaking His words. When we go people might not want to hear the gospel, but it breaks God's heart to see one sinner go to hell but sin enslaves the people and makes them reject the gospel, their eyes must be opend to realize they are actually slaves to sin, but under the illusion of freedom. like jews in the concentration camps who thought if they wouldnt resist maybe they could make it through the war, most of them did not. so God's heart yearns for even one of his sons to be freed from captivity to sin and shame and come under adoption.

GB may you all know more of the length and breadth and depth and height of his love


070707 5:20 am
Today is the long awaited day “The Call”. Haven’t slept for more than an hour this night. Not sure why was wide awake for most of the time. Been “daydreaming” most of that time. We r with the fire students here. Going to meet Bob Gladstone at breakfast this morning then we might make some arrangements and ride in the same car as Mike Brown since Fabian is like a son to him.

Already had some intense prayer before getting to hotel with the others we drove with. One of the guys we drove with whom I had met Wednesday, well basically, what he does in life is he sets up, leads, equips Christian drug rehabilitation centres. So I told him bout the need in Malta for something like that. And he was really into it especially since there is nothing at all. So any of u who would be into that pls let me know.

So that’s what I was day dreaming about. Might give more details after I talk to a few people individually.

______ tista taghtini idea x ikun hemm bzonn bhala permessi juen naf nies li irridu nkellmu u informazzjoni li jkunu jridu jafu?

OH the drive was long just over 10 hours and we stopped every 2 hours to pee. They have these rest stops by the road where stop, pee, rest, stretch and eat. They are really important here. One thing though is they use a lot of stainless steel in them which is a waste I mean imagine public toilets made of stainless steel. Most have stainless steel doors and stuff like that but one even had stainless steel toilets, I mean the actual toilet u pee in is made of stainless steel, it looks nice but I’m sure it’s very expensive especially for a public toilet. I also saw a young deer unfortunately she was stuck in between 2 roads and was pretty much panicking. I hope she didn’t get hit.

Any way ill write something later or tomorrow, not sure when ill be able to email this since the hotel charges money for using the internet.
PEACE

9/7/07

Hey all, so… the call was awesome there was a lot of repentance, crying weeping screaming and grief. That was mostly repentance over abortion and pornography. Like for porn first people were weeping… then mentioned a few statistics, then he said the youngest know child used in a porn video was 18 months old and everyone broke out crying and weeping. Its hard for me to even write about now. There was a lot of weeping about abortion, no need for statistics everyone knew. One woman stood repenting before us for having aborted a baby of our generation, there was also one who used to perform the abortions on people repenting and it looked like she couldn’t forgive herself so we all pour our love and forgiveness on her. Stacey Campbell went up to her and held her.

There was also Stacey and I guess Wesley Campbell who repented on behalf of the youth of their generation that turned to occultic practices and sexual immorality believing it was freedom only to find out it was more binding. And that they opened up a doorway that led to the immorality we have today.

I wept and cried a lot myself. I was at the front on the left side of the stage for most of the morning 8-2. Had two breaks coz the heat was too strong after the second break I ended up not goin down again coz it was too hot. A lot of people were passing out, I saw at least 3 who had passed out. They were even passing out free drinks to help and kept warning us to drink a lot of water.

I met with heath and David who r goin to come to Malta and then North Africa with Fabian and me. I also met Gordon Manche and his wife that was definitely unexpected. He had a flag of Malta so we prayed for Malta a bit.

Met Bob Gladstone at the call not at breakfast, which is ok didn’t really talk much to him (obviously) didn’t meet mike brown at all, not even fabian met him, I saw him but that was it.

So Sunday we left for Concord north Carolina. We drove for a few hours and then we found this small stream, found a hole large and deep enough and we swam there, it was beautiful, first time I swam in fresh water. The place was just amazing, almost mystical, like some scene from lord of the rings. Ill try get some pictures from the others cos I had forgotten my camera in the car when I went there.

We stopped at a parking area before walking to the stream as soon as we arrived there was someone with a walking stick (bastun) one of the guys went up to her and prayed with her while sitting in the car. After leaving there on our way home we stopped at Subway for some food. So basically after playing around with the servers trying to convince them to guess where I was from, from my accent, they didn’t manage, so they told them r u familiar with the bible where paul was shipwrecked on an island called Malta… and anyway we ended up witnessing wit them, one of them was a pastors son, there was another who was a pastor’s daughter and another Baptist, so we just prayed with them and encouraged them to pursue God, and seek Him not a religion. It was good.

The guys im with r really sweet, im basically staying at an international house, there is not one American here, 4 canadians, 1 from Ghana, 1 from Cameroon, 2 dutch, 1 italian. Yesterday my first night here in concord there were also 3 guests including me, well even tonight I believe the other 2 move out tomorrow. You can tell it’s a house for guys, its not exactly hygienic, guess it ok, some parts really stink and this morning they found food they had left for the weekend before coming to the call.

I got invited to go to a home group wednesday, im not sure if ill be expected to share or just be present probably somewhere in between.

Today we went to the school here and applied for the possibility to maybe attend a few of the classes. They weren’t sure since u r supposed to apply a week in advance and I didn’t and next week they have the finals.

Next Saturday im probably goin to an abortion clinic with students here to talk to people and stuff, in the evening we r goin downtown witnessing, im hoping ill get to street preach there coz iv been wanting to do it for a while. Other than that im not sure what‘s happening for the rest week. Next Sunday or Monday ill be moving to another house, and the following week to another house.

Grace and Mercy to all hope I didn’t forget to write anything.