Invasion 15 hours and counting

Amidst the madness of the past 12 hours and the ensuing 24 hours I find myself with a bit of a quiet time as I wait for a guy from South Africa who is delivering our inflatable games. Invasion is fast approaching and it is exciting to see the pieces falling into place. We are tired but pumped about what God is going to do. Just last night we had an awesome time of prayer. We are just so thankful that God chose us to put together this event. Tomorrow starting at about 10:30AM Swaziland is going to be rocked with an invasion of God and his Spirit.

One of our South African performers arrived and did sound check today. He's got some skillz and then Jordan, Kristen's brother, arrived Thursday. He is going to usher us into some powerful times of worship. God is going to show up, we're going to walk away changed, hopefully that can be said for everyone who comes. Thanks y'all for the support and prayers. Get ready for the Spirit to pour out...it'll be passionate, authentic and energetic!!

Invasion updates

We’ve had a flurry of activity the last couple of days with my family in town, Kristen’s mom in town and a couple of ladies from Household of Faith church. That being said my brother & cousin are busy working on some playground forts at two of the Carepoints as we also do preparation for Invasion. We’ve been hanging banners, making phone calls, talking to youth pastors, organizing supplies and getting the word out about Invasion 06’. We were extremely blessed by a couple large donations the last few days which freed us up financially to do a lot more stuff. Thank you Lord for your provision! God bless to everyone…thanks for your prayers!

Pictrues from Mozambique

Here are some pics from a recent trip to the Mozambique site. Roger & I went to help Celeste (our teacher) start doing the Mission of Mercy profiles of the children. It was a good time away and I really feel refreshed spiritually. The project is coming along and it is exciting what God is and will continue to do through the CarePoint & Church. It is cool to be a part of what God is doing. Take a look at some pics!




 

Invasion 06' Poster

We’re having a big youth event in Swaziland on the 18th of November. I’ll be writing weekly updates as we move toward the event. The event is called Invasion 06’! We want Christ to invade their hearts, lives, homes so that they can turn around and invade their schools, communities, country and continent. We are hoping to connect the youth to local churches and expand the vision of those youth leaders & youth groups. Here is our poster we’re starting to put up around town. We want to extend a big thank you to Rob Gros, from Healing Place Church, for creating a top-notch poster. It rocks!!!
 

Pepe

Pepe has been on Dave Ohlerking & Ben Rodgers heart for almost 3 years now. She is a tiny 9 year old girl that goes to the Ka Khoza Carepoint. Her life has spoken to all who have met her. Her lifes speaks of how we should life life to the fullest. Her frail body screams at all of us to not waste our time. She makes us strive to have purpose and reach out in love to make eternal impact.

Her body is starting to fail under the stress of disease. She has lost weight and can't keep food down. Please would you pray with us for Pepe. Pray that God would heal her, pray that she would bring Glory to his name, pray that she would be a testimony of his love. We have done all that we can do for this girl, we have confessed to God that we need him. In Jeremiah it says, "Return to me and I will restore you" We have done our part, now we are believing God to do his part, to restore Pepe. Join us as we cry out for God to move on the behalf of this girl that has taught us all so much. Pray with us in faith...faith that God is able, faith in the miraculous! Most of all pray that God would be with Pepe, that he would be real to her, that she would recieve all his love for her.


 

My Brothers, Sisters

I felt while praying the other day that these guys, the Swazis are truly my brothers and sisters. I felt like we were one, of one human race, truly family. I had one other instance since I’ve been in Swaziland where I truly felt this. I’ve always kind of felt foreign or out of place but God revealed his heart for the people here that we are all sons and daughters of God. While I knew this truth in my mind, it was only this past weekend and that one other time that I felt that with my heart. So, I don’t know what this means other than I should embrace others because I only have so much time on this earth and what is the use of holding back. I don’t want to be careful anymore, I just want to live life and live it on the edge, truly making the most of every situation. To put my heart out there and connect, to give my love away, my affection away, to give my friendship away, to give my deep heart away, no more surface level friendships, relationships, I only want the deep stuff, Lord have grace on me as I try to transition to this deeper way of life.