Why can't the keys just unlock

Wisdom to be heard

I have to say that I apologize now for this journey that’s you’ve been a part of that hasn’t been really clear, but definitely a growing in wisdom one. For me at least.

I want to inform you all after a few meetings with leadership today of where I’m at. It’s not that I want to be thrown around the ‘vision’ and ‘mission’ but we want to floodgates to POUR open, and we need to have many around us (supports) 100% because if they’re mostly 50%, then with time we won’t succeed.

I was called into a meeting by chance this morning of our YWAM base director Edwin, who has been amazingly inspiring for abstain2010. He was at a café meeting with the head guy that did the Silver Ring campaign here in SA and also other organizations who are networked internationally. Also, I briefly met Grace Sampson another apparently networker, who they declared, ‘owns this city’  They had been talking about my campaign before I came and that’s why Edwin called me to meet with this guy to at least share the vision and explain more. Grace had to go, but apparently they all were excited and said that we have passion and movement, it’s just that it could potentially just flop and be unclear.

So I came and explained it all to him, and said ok I love the marketing concept of attention grabbing, however let me play devil’s advocate. He pretended to be a reporter and asking questions like “well what if I’m a married woman and I want to choose to abstain for a week and he doesn’t and if I don’t then he will beat me.” Or “How do you promote sex as being a good thing in marriage when you just telling people to abstain.” He was more so warning me what will come about. He said that you may have the passion and heart, but if you aren’t clear or powerful, then in the end you may just have a few posters, and the media may take and pic what they want and butcher your campaign with their power in billboards, newspapers etc.

The few at the table were throwing around ideas and marketing tools of what grabs hearts and attention and my focus and purpose. I was SICK of ideas on marketing, like have petitions at the airports when guys arrive that say, “sign here that you won’t rape children in South Africa.” Shock value and yet message is there.

I was having a hard time because I feel like they’re all saying again, “Ok great idea and concept, but you won’t work properly, and if a table of great leaders who are super connected, have access to funding/voice/ministries/churches and much more, then you’ll have a hard time launching this thing off. Especially with time.

I am more than frustrated, but out of it I could see their point. Their point was, that your focus is great in prevention and awareness during the world cup to fight HIV prostitution and trafficking clearly, and 1 of the great ways to prevent is pushing them to abstain from sex outside of marriage.

I went backto my thoughts being ready to burst into tears because I’m truly sick of going around in circles and being told and asked to just halt, pray and seek God’s direction because I’ve felt like we KEEP doing that. However, if people haven’t been on board, if things haven’t moved, is it a lack of faith, or is it just the RIGHT keys to open the floodgates?

Our message has always been the same since the beginning of awareness and prevention. Perhaps it’s just the ‘strategy’ that is what needs to change. I meanit’s been such a focus on sexual abstinence, that perhaps they’re right that if we JUST focus on that as the strategy to fight and bring light, then maybe the strategy just needs to be a bit altered. I mean we still desire,
“abstain from world pain”
As I originally felt. So, please pray and think with me what can and will be most effective. They threw ideas of day of abstinence if that’s still something we wanted to go towards, or perhaps the week has something specific each day to focus on for awareness and time of reflection on those issues. It could be 7 things: (throwing this all out there to chew on for thought)
A Abstain from sex outside of marriage
B Be aware…
S Sex Industry…
T Trafficking Humans…
A Aids and HIV…
I I stand against… or Invest $ here or there….
N Now:..(you can do this or that) Network… (tell 7 more people what you learned)

Different ideas, ways to get awareness and prevention and all could elaborate much more in depth, but this could be something where we have 7 steps to awareness and prevention with stats in them, stories, links, things you can do or know, ways to help.

Just asking for your prayers, and true guidance because we want to walls to fall down and HIS truth to come out into bringing his Kingdom right back in line.