Friends and Family,

We miss and love all of you very much and are looking ahead to when we are together again.

Four of the Guys on the our Swazi team were given permission by a local
priest  last Monday to come into the
local boys high school (Salesian High School) and preach/teach for
eight different class periods every
week until we leave! This is a phenomenal opportunity and the Lord is
leading the way. He has already been preparing us and is providing for
us information, community support and resources
to pour into our planning time.  We are all very focused on this
opportunity and while we are now beginning to see the magnitude and
challenge before us we have been assured that our Lord is going ahead
of us and we are eager to go with Him.

 Upon receiving the invitation we began to plan and schedule almost
immediately but there remained a sense that we actually still had not
received permission and blessing from the Lord to go ahead with this
ministry into the school, valuable as it seemed. We conversed over
Saul's impatient mistakes and King David's faithfulness in inquiring of
the Lord while making descisions. (1st Chronicles 14:9-11)

We then took the time to pray and also asked a leader and friend from
last semester, who is now in Canada, to pray about it and let us know
if the Lord had spoken anything to her. She was not given any
information or any update whatsoever as to the inquiry or  the
situation other than

"maybe pray for the boys school and see what ya get."

The reply is as follows:

Prayed for 'the boys school' and got a strange reply from the Lord..
well, hopefully only strange to me. Simple really, it began with Him
emphatically saying 'YES' and then He added later, 'move ahead'.. Hope
that means something to you.

  We will be moving ahead, totally on
faith that God will use us to build a gospel based boys leadership
program. Stressing the urgency of the Aids crisis, gender roles,
responsibility, discipleship and the freedom available from the cycles
of temptation, sin and death through a deeper faith with Jesus Christ.  Its about fellowship.

They
need to know Jesus is more than just a superficial, intellectual recognition of
heaven and hell. They say the gospel in Africa is a mile wide and an
inch thick. Very shallow.

The Population in 2006
was about 1.1 million only last year in 2008 it sat just over 900,000
and know that there are many, many people being born every single day.

His Conviction and His Redemtion.  Freedom from the enemy, harmfull culture, hopelessness.

His Guidance and Encouragement.   Renewal, Rebirth, Revival.

We as a Church can choose to come together on this now. We need your prayers.

Use post its. Reminders. Tell everyone you know. I would encourage you to copy this link and send it to someone.

 Pray for the boys to be open with us, for relationship to grow, for
the light of the Gospel as the only true salvation for this country and
for their very own souls. Pray for our lesson planning.

Pray for Delivery, leading and for great zeal in seeking a holiness and fellowship with our God as we walk this new path with Him.

 Thank You all,

 Siyabonga,

 Davie, Ryan, Blair and Tyler.