Lovely weekend with Kimberly back

I just got back from Just Ginger with the roomies and of course our dear Martin! He's unreal, seriously! Way too kind to us all and that whole SA chivalry is beyond in him! Thank you! We had the coolest day, went to church, then he took us all to the Cecil Rhodes memorial which was amazing but meant nothing to us we were trying to figure it all out. Have lovely photos from Martin there as well!
Then we went to mall and grabbed some grub, had a picnic at the beautiful Kirstenbosch Gardens, and then with an absolute packed out crowd, we were right up close with our blankets watching Just Ginger! Loved their sound and we all, Grace, Lydia, Kimberly, Kate, Martin, our other friends I've met through Martin as well all joined. Spectacular day. Now Im' stressed having no idea what is next or how to organize it.
The sermon was also termed "bucket list' an dhow to live in the moment, and i tried really hard all day, but now, oh now I am back at it in the mind set of what the heck do I do? Where do I go from here?
We have our vision/etc done, but truly I don't know where to start with fundraising, writing proposals, getting people on radio working, writing articles, doing our website right, settin up membership, getting film guys together to brainstorm, also finding celebs adn creating our film, then gettin adverts designed and made, and actually getting this dang thing out!!!! I'm so scared it's time that's not on our side. EVen Global Day of Prayer coming up this coming month to advertise it through. Ahh, oh Lord please help me gain control. I don't know how to organize a team when my team isn't even always here to organize. I tell Prosper, we meet every mornining at 9 to pray and begin to see where to go from here, he always apologizes and asks when is next meeting so I've given up. Then Cladie is joined, but then she knows we said Cristian an di meet every morning and she hasn't come. It's hard.
THEN, my outreach team will be back this coming week, which is so exciting but I feel a bit of a failure because I have not a single pieces of paper to show them, HEY I have done this while you're gone! Yet, so much has happened and my walk with God has been unbelivable what he's taught and shown me and the relationships!
ALSO, they'll be here and asking, what can I do, how can I help and i want to have them, but I don't know where to point them in the direction!
I know God is powerful, and for whatever he's doing this for, I'm here to try and do my best. I can't think I haven't done enough or I'll not have lived right. Sean a confident challenged me the other day saying, if this was taken over by someone else already doing this campaign tomorrow, would you be ok? Knowing it was going to happen just by someone else, or some other organization? I was like WHOAH! AM I ok? This isn't life, God is life and I must remember to stay in and with him. Being ok if he took everything out from under my feet tomorrow. Yes living for today. BUT, being ok and right with him.
I have to share this little story of what happened to me last night while on facebook. I was speaking with a friend from Concordia who I haven't really known and heard from in a few years, and he was like hey Noel. I thought strange, but ok I tlaked with him and sensed something wrong. He said yes no one is here to hear me and comfort me and in my pain. So I urged him to go on. He was hurt by his x and best friend and this and that and basically I was like YOu know what, I am not physically there but I want to pray for you right now over facebook. I typed the words I prayed out to him and after it was all over, he couldn't shut up. Well stop typing. It was my assurance that he needed to be ok with God that everyone is human and will let him down but HE"S there with him. I said you have GOd keep calling out and he said he had and stil felt alone until I prayed that prayer for him. It was such a cool thing! God works in amazing way! He's just incredible and even through the spirit and technology we had a God moment. Thank you Lord.
I wanted to try and backtrack and share a bit of what i can and can remember of the week since it's been crazy.
This whol process God's brought me through to get to the conclusion for this campaign for his heart was daring. We were ready last weekend to pretty much can the whole abstinence for everyone and look towards men, and then I met with this Steve Johnston from Unashamedly Ethical, which is the 2nd part to Global Day of Prayer, and he was incredible! Yes businessman. Fusi set it all up which was great and yet super frustrating being african and all because we missed him at the radio station, not my fault!!! And then we had to catcht he train to meet him at the mall to have coffee there. I utterly thanked him for his time. He was so cool and strait forward and definately a left wing Christian. But I was explaining ot him our situation and where we were at, and the whole point fo rme was to ask him if he or Graham could/would endorse this campaign, and he stopped me after I said, "and it's unbiblical to ask Christian married couples to abstain from sex" an dhe said "no it's not."
I about fell over. I said what? He explained that if it's that important and it could be 1 of his 2 daughters, then yes he would ask his wife and join the cause. He would want to tell others about this for that sole purpose of a month. However he can't and neither can graham endorse any other campaigns but their own because they just have people everyday saying God told us you're going to endorse us and it would never end. SO, I understood his point of view. He went on and pointed out 2 Samual 11 where it talks about King Joab or something who was asked by I believes Samual to go home from battle and eat, drink and sleep with his wife. He refused by sleeping outside of the house. He said basically that there's battle and war going on and men are dying and the nation is not right! Since this is all happening we can't go on living and acting like it's not. We need to do something and have change. That's the similarity he said was like this campaign which my arguement all along. I loved to hear it from another married man's point of view.
So, I was stunned and he just looked at me and encouraged me and told me to not get overwhelmed and to stay strong and reminded me that I will have people telling me the rest of my life that this and this isn't right and non-biblical and everyone has an opinion. He said listen to God and go with it!
He left me with what he said he could do. He knows the Bulls, famous rugby team with lots of Spring Bok players on it, who are Christians and also he knows the chaplan and said those would be the guys to get to be on a commercial with their wives endorsing this thing.
SO, I enjoyed him so much!
Went back to being more confused because I was pretty much ready to have my mind made up. But that just reinforced what i had orignially felt. So then I held this little meeting for anyone who was interested because I still want people to be ablet o hear more nad give ideas and opinions and what not. So we had coffee bites open up just for us, showed a video to the few 8-10 people we had and then tried to share a bit and wanted them to give some feedback. BUT< it was actually quite rediculous because since we hadn't had our vision clear, still up in the air about who all we were going to ask, I felt I more confused people. BUT, a few good things came out of it, and had outside opinions, and also met Dave who is Aibe's roomate who is graphically good and he and I and Aible went back to his place to continue the support and help. He has great skills in these things which I'm ever tring to get to go see him tonight to look over document ot make sure it's right. So wasn't all that failure.
Tuesday, met with Cladie and Cristian and just prayed. We laid around Crisitan's living room and interceeded to ask God what are we going to do? We need answer and I didn't want to say God we have no time, but at the same time God can do anything so why do we have to say, no no let's give it time and try perhaps a week later. NO, I didn't think we have to set limits on God, I said we need otk now and move forward so let's get this out. I pretty much had my heart set on my original plan of EVERYONE abstaining and so was trying real hard to ask God to speak and not me speak. So it was tough.
BUT< Cladie felt we had a missing link. We didn't know what obviously but she felt that was what God was saying to her. We also found some scripture that talked abotu wisdom and Cristian read this one about the blind man calling out to God to give him sight. God said to take off his cloak and stand up. So Cristian said he felt like the cloak is the comfort level. Like we're in too much of comfort level sometimes, and that we need to step out and be bold.
I felt the same way saying I feel that everyone' stelling us not to go in this direction ebcasue yes it's bizarre, but if we're going to do this at all and ask for abstinence why not go big or go home? I mean it's for serious cause and we want serious response and even Steve had said that it take 3-4% to make things tip over the edge. He said your married couples would be the tipping factor. That would be powerful!
We we felt, heck with it! We felt God challenging us to go for it! Even if not everyone agreed, which they won't, we felt it was the strongest clearest message and to yes, try it!
We'd had that decided then we had a meeting with George Whitfield College students, 3 of them, and the best news came out.
Yes I think Imentioned that Geraldine had asked her prof about abstaining and he said it's Biblical however it's not great. He said that's a long time for a man and he was saying that he felt the results we're looking for could and would be more poweful and effective if we did it for 1 week. So to focus on 1 strong week of abstinence would then also much better for married couples and the efforts of all would be more doable. Especially for the group that we want to target!
We all heard this and loved the concept. We agreed and even picked the 3rd week of the world cup. God please be with us!
Ahh and then the next day with a meeting with the 2010 human traffic network people who have the lovely videos like I posted on facebook. Super great people and concept of putting together these celeb videos and children teaching video all on trafficking.
I love it! BUT< still not certain direction. I did love leaving tha tmeeting however and having those people totally hooked on this concept and loving every minute of it! They said it's beautiful and truly saw God's hand in it. saying the week will be a time of prayer and fasting and of course abstinence for the church people and pitch it to them like that as well. Fight this spiritual warfare specially here during that time.
Big things, yes and yet i'm so little. I need some strength, guidance, and time ;)
I must go and meet with Dave now, but I love you all,
Mom, Dad, tried to skype you tonihgt, sorry I'll catch you again!