Yo Famz,
tnx for the encouraging words and blesses. Tings here are moving well by God's great grace. The AE Int Film Fest is coming along, made some really good contacts yesterday. I'm trusting God to open wide the doors of funding!

THere is a gentleman by the name of Bryce Anderson who fellowships at our church, except he's always on the road and so we hardly see him. He is a prolific musician and this year won Best R&B Album from the prestigious South African Music Awards - hype eh? His album is called Undescribable. He came through with his band this past weekend and helped us out with worship and our church choir. They're nyyyyce! Looks like i'm gonna have the opportunity to do some work with them, looking forward to that.

And that's wut it is. Every blessing! Luv

Do you need some of dat? Me 2.

Well i been stupid busy as per usual, actually trying to slow down a bit cuz in fact there's more i want to do! I'm relearning the whole thing of putting God first, Family next and Work after. It's a big release attempting that balance but someone once said that balance is trying to hold a tray of glasses steady on the shifting deck of a boat - you never really arrive.

Ya, well nuff a gwan.....but most recently something pretty amazing happened. My passport expired yesterday and South African visa expired early in May. i couldn't apply for another visa until i had received my passport back and i only realized the visa expiry date......after the expiry date. So i was in a tight situation and getting kinda stressed out but all the while doing my best to trust Him and leave it in His hands. Well i got my passport to the Canadian High Commission only to realize that i needed my citizenship card which i had lost. So i now had to apply for a new citizenship card all the while my visa had expired (thick eh?). But i have to say the Canadian High Commission was really good - it takes months to get a new citizenship card so as soon as i applied for it they began processing my passport and had it to Canada and back in about 2 weeks!

Next ting was SA Home Affairs. I needed to somehow get them to extend my visa so that i wouldn't have to take any expensive and inconvenient trips across borders, etc. On my first trip there with a letter of motivation from AE's Team Leader, Uncle Gregs, dude told me i had to go back home without reading the letter! ANyway, on my way out this guy from the UK gave me a "pssst" and furtively motioned me over - fraudlent visa's? fake passports? nope! he told me you just need to pay a fine when leaving the country.

Anway, i ended up going in with a colleague who does a lot of ministry in Home Affairs and after a conversation with a lady we had the way forward. I went in this past Tuesday morning and they gave me my visa right there and then - no fees, no photographs, no applications - all praises to Him who sits on the throne!

keep blessed!

Check this lynx from a local zoo sort of joint, kept hissing at me!