I can hardly believe it is already July! The jewelry workshop was finally started up a few months back. Christina with House of Hope Safe House, whom I have been partnering with since I first moved to SA, has allowed us to do the workshop in her Wendy House (this is a shed/cabinish bldg in her yard). The main people whom are working with me are the same ladies whom I had worked with when doing the greeting cards project. I am training them to be able to run things.
We started with just 2 ladies, the next time we had 4, then we jumped up to 8. The numbers continue to fluctuate, but there are always enough of us to get some jewelry made. We have had numerous volunteers come to help out and mostly work with women whom are staying at House of Hope. A safe house in Muizenberg (30 minutes away) has asked if they can start bringing their ladies, too.
The ladies are amazing! Seriously, I can not express that enough. I thought I would have to train them for quite some time, but really they are quick learners and have a basic idea what to do already. So many of them have made amazing necklaces their first or second time making them. They are naturally talented! When I have bandwidth again, I will have to post pictures.
The workshop is set up to make jewelry for the first 2 hrs, stop for lunch and to read a devotional, then another 2 hrs of jewelry. I have to force the ladies to stop making the jewelry, they love it that much! Susan - the woman I am training to run the project - is an amazing marketer and we hope to sell some jewelry soon. (She sold our first piece ;-)
The ladies have asked to start up the greeting card workshop again. I am working to get our supplies again and hope to start doing the cards this next month. We will be starting to make Christmas cards, so be sure to get your order in now. I will be in the States for Christmas, so I can personally deliver them to you!
My heart is so blessed by this workshop. Mostly due to the amazing women I get to work with! They constantly teach me so much. I also get the pleasure of being with Christina's 7 foster children often, now that I am working at their place. I love those kids so much! I wish you all could meet them and be blessed, too.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Terraforming
I participated in a 4 day terraforming training this past weekend. It was SO incredible! Unfortunately, it is near impossible to explain if you don't already have a know how. I will tell you that it provided the keys that were missing for me to do ministry the way that God has been telling me to do it, only I was confused in some places as how to do it.
Terraforming is about healing the land. It is allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us and show us the wounds of the land. The roots that caused them, so that we can pray forgiveness, wash it in His blood and release the blessing and covenant that was intended for the people, area and world.
We had much teaching and then did personal terraforming, which allowed each and every one of us to get personal ministry to shed light on our wounds and what the roots are, then releasing them. Then we had a day where we got the pleasure of doing practical ministry. We formed teams and went out into the land. We had a ground control who stayed and interceeded, smsing us with all that the Lord spoke to them. These were mostly short, to the point words i.e. horses, pain, whipping, children taken from mother's arms, man in red shirt, etc. Some of these words explained situations and others gave us direction in which way to go and what we were looking for.
I was on the flight crew who went out into the land. We both listened to the messages sent from ground control as well as the voice of the Lord and what He was showing us. Together we were directed to specific locations; sometimes a well known place and other times a random cul-de-sac or building. Each place the Lord showed us the wounds of the land - what people had done on it that needed to be forgiven and washed clean (by Jesus, not by us). We then dismantled the enemy and released the Lord. We opened gates in the Heavenlies for His power to come down, realigned broken covenants and released nature to operate how He intended it.
It was quite amazing! We would see things just as GC sent an SMS that would say exactly what we saw, both in the physical and the spiritual. There were many huge things we saw that had happened that was confirmed by the leader who knew some of the history of the area that we did not. Other things were confirmed when people googled to see what it meant. One example is 30 and 3 silver coins. This was given to one member of GC and was sent to FC. We had just seen slaves being sold in the spirit and knew it meant this represented the buying price and meant betrayal (silver coins represent Judas betraying Jesus). One of GC googled this and found out that the price to buy one male slave was 30.3 silver coins. Amazing!
I could tell you dozens of stories - just from 3 hours of our going out. We will be going out every week and I can hardly wait to tell you the stories that come. If you feel inclined, be praying for us and the healing of South Africa... reaching out to the world. Just keep in mind that we can't send anything on that the Lord doesn't release us to send on. We are global and get to also send our emails, sms, etc to other countries involved any time the Lord reveals something to us. Talk about unity! What an amazing way to unite the world by the power of Christ!
I will be using what I learned to Terra4m the area of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking (where my mandate is). I believe whole heartedly that we can and will see these things completely leave the area of Cape Town, branching out to the Western Cape and on to South Africa. You get the picture. Our God is mighty and able!
Terraforming is about healing the land. It is allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us and show us the wounds of the land. The roots that caused them, so that we can pray forgiveness, wash it in His blood and release the blessing and covenant that was intended for the people, area and world.
We had much teaching and then did personal terraforming, which allowed each and every one of us to get personal ministry to shed light on our wounds and what the roots are, then releasing them. Then we had a day where we got the pleasure of doing practical ministry. We formed teams and went out into the land. We had a ground control who stayed and interceeded, smsing us with all that the Lord spoke to them. These were mostly short, to the point words i.e. horses, pain, whipping, children taken from mother's arms, man in red shirt, etc. Some of these words explained situations and others gave us direction in which way to go and what we were looking for.
I was on the flight crew who went out into the land. We both listened to the messages sent from ground control as well as the voice of the Lord and what He was showing us. Together we were directed to specific locations; sometimes a well known place and other times a random cul-de-sac or building. Each place the Lord showed us the wounds of the land - what people had done on it that needed to be forgiven and washed clean (by Jesus, not by us). We then dismantled the enemy and released the Lord. We opened gates in the Heavenlies for His power to come down, realigned broken covenants and released nature to operate how He intended it.
It was quite amazing! We would see things just as GC sent an SMS that would say exactly what we saw, both in the physical and the spiritual. There were many huge things we saw that had happened that was confirmed by the leader who knew some of the history of the area that we did not. Other things were confirmed when people googled to see what it meant. One example is 30 and 3 silver coins. This was given to one member of GC and was sent to FC. We had just seen slaves being sold in the spirit and knew it meant this represented the buying price and meant betrayal (silver coins represent Judas betraying Jesus). One of GC googled this and found out that the price to buy one male slave was 30.3 silver coins. Amazing!
I could tell you dozens of stories - just from 3 hours of our going out. We will be going out every week and I can hardly wait to tell you the stories that come. If you feel inclined, be praying for us and the healing of South Africa... reaching out to the world. Just keep in mind that we can't send anything on that the Lord doesn't release us to send on. We are global and get to also send our emails, sms, etc to other countries involved any time the Lord reveals something to us. Talk about unity! What an amazing way to unite the world by the power of Christ!
I will be using what I learned to Terra4m the area of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking (where my mandate is). I believe whole heartedly that we can and will see these things completely leave the area of Cape Town, branching out to the Western Cape and on to South Africa. You get the picture. Our God is mighty and able!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Missing in Action
Wow! I can hardly believe it has been about a year since I have been on here! I apologize to each and every one of you. Allow me to do my best to explain my lack of communication.
While on holiday, back in the States last year I spoke many, many times about my ministry and all that has been going on in South Africa. I spoke so many times in fact that I got completely tired of speaking about ministry and anything pertaining to me. When I came back to SA I was completely judged on just about everything coming out of my mouth by numerous people. Add to that so many judgements that people have about Americans and you get a whole lot of hurt.
Since I have been back I have gone months of almost completely not talking to people other than what was necessary. I just stopped wanting to talk. It was like I took a vow of silence. This is something the Lord just recently showed me. That I made an inner-vow not to be seen or heard and caused misalignment in some areas of my life.
I came back into alignment with God a few months ago, but have still been seeing some back lash from these vows. So many times I have gotten frustrated with people due to the fact that I would speak and people would just talk over me as if I never even opened my mouth. It was like they couldn't even hear me. God would give me a vision and I would share it, but people would have no clue what I was talking about. It seemed that any time I shared information people were so confused about what I was talking about. It was like I was speaking a foreign language - which is a real issue for me at times, but this was more than that, this was with people who know and understand me well. I felt helpless.
I finally just stopped sharing my input, ideas, visions, prophesies, etc. I especially didn't want to share what was important to me. I recently joined the worship team at church and most people said they couldn't hear me. I thought I was singing loud and even lost my voice. I was afraid and I am not used to singing the whole service, so there was that. Again, it seemed like there was more to it.
I remember in my fear, being torn with not wanting to be heard and everything in me just needing to sing to the Lord. I asked the Lord for Him to shine light on this. He showed me the vows I had made and how over and over and over I repeated these thoughts in my head.
I have since asked God for forgiveness, washing me in His blood and to restore this gift He has given me called: My Voice. This time I choose not to be afraid of what others think about the things that the Lord gives me to share or to be heard. I also ask if you will be so kind as to allow me to share me and not only my ministry for I am coming to know the gift that He has made me to be solely as I am. In return, let me know who you are. Not just what you do, but the beautiful human being that He has created you to be - warts and all!
Thank you everyone for your grace and allowing me to have weaknesses. I will not wait a year to update this and do my best to do it on a regular basis. Thank you for caring about what is going on in my little corner of the world. Be prepared; revival is coming and it is coming from Cape Town and will spread across the world!!
Much love <3
While on holiday, back in the States last year I spoke many, many times about my ministry and all that has been going on in South Africa. I spoke so many times in fact that I got completely tired of speaking about ministry and anything pertaining to me. When I came back to SA I was completely judged on just about everything coming out of my mouth by numerous people. Add to that so many judgements that people have about Americans and you get a whole lot of hurt.
Since I have been back I have gone months of almost completely not talking to people other than what was necessary. I just stopped wanting to talk. It was like I took a vow of silence. This is something the Lord just recently showed me. That I made an inner-vow not to be seen or heard and caused misalignment in some areas of my life.
I came back into alignment with God a few months ago, but have still been seeing some back lash from these vows. So many times I have gotten frustrated with people due to the fact that I would speak and people would just talk over me as if I never even opened my mouth. It was like they couldn't even hear me. God would give me a vision and I would share it, but people would have no clue what I was talking about. It seemed that any time I shared information people were so confused about what I was talking about. It was like I was speaking a foreign language - which is a real issue for me at times, but this was more than that, this was with people who know and understand me well. I felt helpless.
I finally just stopped sharing my input, ideas, visions, prophesies, etc. I especially didn't want to share what was important to me. I recently joined the worship team at church and most people said they couldn't hear me. I thought I was singing loud and even lost my voice. I was afraid and I am not used to singing the whole service, so there was that. Again, it seemed like there was more to it.
I remember in my fear, being torn with not wanting to be heard and everything in me just needing to sing to the Lord. I asked the Lord for Him to shine light on this. He showed me the vows I had made and how over and over and over I repeated these thoughts in my head.
I have since asked God for forgiveness, washing me in His blood and to restore this gift He has given me called: My Voice. This time I choose not to be afraid of what others think about the things that the Lord gives me to share or to be heard. I also ask if you will be so kind as to allow me to share me and not only my ministry for I am coming to know the gift that He has made me to be solely as I am. In return, let me know who you are. Not just what you do, but the beautiful human being that He has created you to be - warts and all!
Thank you everyone for your grace and allowing me to have weaknesses. I will not wait a year to update this and do my best to do it on a regular basis. Thank you for caring about what is going on in my little corner of the world. Be prepared; revival is coming and it is coming from Cape Town and will spread across the world!!
Much love <3
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