My time to rhyme again...

Yo Famz,

after a long while i'm touching a poetry session this Sat, Oct 4th coming. I'm looking forward to it - gonna hit dem wit a poem and den me and my sistren gonna gi' dem a hip hop joint. Please do keep that in mind and in prayer.......all new stuff flowing out my experiences out here. I'm looking forward to it, will let you know how it goes.

Bless

A Time to Chill......

Wut up Famz!

I'm finally on my week off after an intensive 3 weeks with two different groups of Interns. It was a madd blessed experience - demanding, but blessed. It was also really my first time facilitating big groups as i was in Canada when the first group of 10 came from Australia. The experience really opened my eyes though concerning the parts of the programme that need to be improved and how much potential it has to grow.

In consultation with the groups that have been here i've realized that there needs to be more debriefing built into the programme (esp cuz some of the things people encounter out here hit you hard emotionally, etc.); we need to figure out a way of engaging people (kids esp) without giving them false hopes/expectations; we need to try to engage a wider demographic variety; we're thinking of creating a historical component and making the programme cross-country - bigga tings!

Something else i realized is that i really need to grow a team around me - i can't be managing, directing and touring people around all at the same time! That means working from am til pm and weekends as well; i told my last group i'm like their moms and the pops all in one! It was jokes, but it really is kind of like that.... It worked out okay for the past 2 groups but i was running flat out and as more groups come that will become highly....impossible. Much for y'all to pray into huh?

Much love to Malcolm and his group though as well as Jessy and her group; they're great peoples and i look forward to growing our relationship in the future.

By the way, the pic below was of Samson smiting the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.......nex time Steve, nex time.........

Until then, sometimes life is a like a mural - if you get caught up in the small picture you'll miss the big picture and even the small one, cuz the small picture ain't even relevant til it finds it's place in the big picture......... Bless up

Chek this out.....

Greetings Famz,

i'm now facilitating for the US group of 10 and by God's grace it's going very well so far. Yesterday, we visited a ministry called Zanini Bantwana which is a hospital ministry to children. They're basically engaged kids in hospitals through play, education and just caring. It's an awesome ministry.

Check out the pic below though, this scene blew me away. It's the children's playground for a hospital with now about 900 beds - that's a ball of barbed wire right in the middle of the jungle gym.....no front, the playground looks like a warzone cuz it's so dilapidated. I was really challenged, because part of me didn't really empathize and I really have been asking God to sensitize me afresh to the pain and brokeness of the world around me. Yet, the children are beautiful!


Wunluv