October Newsletter

OCTOBER 2011
VOLUME1, ISSUE 7
ON THE GROUND NEWS


DE NOVO AND OTHER NEWS!

In September there was a new intake of clients who are on the Rehabilitation Programme at De Novo. This meant that it was my second time doing the workshops.
We started with seven of the ladies already in mid-programme so they did only 3 lessons before they could leave for home.
The Managing Director of De Novo is requesting that Cross-Roads trains all their staff. This is because after 3 years of workshops at the centre, they have realised that the curriculum is very effective and successful.
De Novo is a Youth Centre for women and men. It specializes is drug rehabilitation. Cross-Roads (Campus Crusade for
Christ) has been conduction life skills and character build-ing workshops for the past 3 years.
In the Gauteng Province, CrossRoads held their first “Quest for Significance” Semi-nar. This seminar was attend-ed by 80 Headmasters and Businessmen. The following step for the Gauteng province is to have a “Teacher Train-ing.” This is going to be the first ever training in the Gaut-eng province, please pray for that to go well.
Since the “Teacher Training” that happened in Cape Town, two schools have requested CrossRoads that they want their whole schools to be

PRAYER POINTS AND PRAISE POINTS
Praise God for the growth of CrossRoads.
Praise God for the interest that people have on this ministry strategy.
Please pray for exponential growth for CrossRoads.
Please pray for more fulltime staff at the Western Cape of-
fice of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Please pray for my MPD, to reach 100% status

STAFF NUMBER
(SA) 11480
STAFF NUMBER
(US) 2868173
WEBSITE
HTTPS://GIVE.CCCI.ORG
A youth that has good character and love for one another is what we hope to have
POINTS
 Let God be true and every man a liar
 We don’t preach ourselves, but we preach Christ
 Obedience is better than sacrifice
 Owe nobody anything but love

Skeptik

It's hard to be in a situation that is not desirable. I am thinking about the possibilities of such situations.

Currently I am in a situation where I want to get out of but its not easy as it looks. I am developing ministry partners and I need to have them as soon as possible. The thing is its not going as fast as I would like it to be.

I am emotionally drained. I am physically tired. I need to get out of this situation.

I only can trust in God, its hard to trust in self at the moment.

forgiveness

just jotting down my views on a misunderstanding and then a path to reconciliation. what most people find hard to say is sorry. such a difficult but necessary word to say, not just that but mean it. recently witnessed a situation where clearly there was a clash of people dynamic, a misunderstanding was inevitable. the biggest was talking about it, where the other party went around telling people what was done to them. even though i did not agree with the communication style i had to understand we have different backgrounds and we handle different issues differently.

saying sorry and showing remorse are two different things. i don't know who came up with the term; "actions speak louder than words." this is very true. it is a sticky situation as work must go on but trust has been lost and respect has been lost as well. trying to make building blocks in a manner such as this is hard.

my hope is that a path to reconciliation is a swift and smooth one. time is against the ones who toil. there is work to be done and this is a serious statement. one's thoughts and feelings have to be placed aside as there is not enough time to accommodate such.

grace and peace

taking a stride in the tides

...so we all grow, we all leave the teenagehood spent hating our parents because they know so little. they just don't get it. we tell ourselves that if they could get on with the game, then it all would be okay. we enter a life of adulthood where we become adults, when we realise that whatever ideas we had about our parents were all wrong. we spend the first few years of adulthood apologising in our actions to our parents. we think, if i act right then s/he will know that i am sorry and i didn't mean any utternaces i may have said in my teenage years

after leaving varsity, we set out for the 'real' world. and a real world it is. i'm still asking myself if this world is merciful to its inhabitants. i've just heard it's not. but the research is not done. before a memoir gets out an extensive research has to be done. varsity is a well coated shell. of course that is my opinion based on careful observation. (and this particular blog is will never be done until a book is out. so, this is a work is progress. )

tides are very strange, some a beautiful, some are very cruel, merciless and inconsiderate. some tides' cruelty is brought on by us, individuals or as a collective. the question i would like to get to is how does one take a stride in the tides? is it possible to?

as a nation and and the world we are currently facing the biggest tide in the history of the world. everybody is struggling. everybody is either drowning or trying by all means to keep the head above water, and i mean very hard. myself included. we are all facing it. we look toward the sky where we know the Lord is watching. hence the word, 'if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and repent, i come down from heaven and hear them.' this is of course a paraphrase out of 2 Chronicles 7:14. we all need the Lord.

as i said, this is a work in progress so i'm still thinking, let me know what you think. write to me

Summing it all up

Life's beauty and treasure are what you make them to be. The best way to live is to learn.
What am I currently doing about the dreams and aspirations that I have in my life?
Am I nurturing them the best way I can? Am I looking forward to the future? These are but a few questions that we all have but some never take them seriously. The best way to fight ignorance is to inject the masses with knowledge. But how will the get they power if they are not willing to use what they have?

Knowledge becomes futile if I don't live out what I know. the best weapon we all have is knowledge. It is a right, not a priviledge (a cliche would say)...let me know what you think? these are my thoughts, just writing what i like.

just wanted to sum it all up at once, not chronologically but just jotting down.

What Am I doing?

south africa has the highest number of people infected with HIV and AIDS, the new statistics reveal that there is an extra 2million to the 5.5 million infections......the questions is, what am doing about it?

nonsense

he most difficult thing is to move from being the wisest person to being the most foolish. this happens when we allow the crowns given to us stay with us. if you want to be among the wisest that ever lived do not claim any crown given to you, its your very own curse. Jesus was not a medical doctor but they called HIm healer. He did not have any formal education but He was called teacher. He did not not have any army but He deafeated death. as far as i'm concerned, He's the wisest Man that ever walked the earth. shake of the crown given to you and you will see how free you become because you no longer have to live up to it.my brothers and sisters, let us be better people by letting go of foolish pride, its the very thing that kills us dead. love you all

Leadership

(for those who don't know, i'm from South Africa therefore the way we write our English is different to yours)

perhaps my most favourite topic is leadership. i'm always intrigued by the way one would be able to recognise, train and groom somebody to be a leader....its only a God given talent because on our own we can do that. now you are probably thinking its not true because we have the secular world doing a great job in grooming for leadership. i totally agree but their basis for grooming is PRIDE. that cannot be good. the Word of God says that pride comes before destruction.....to them letting go of their pride is letting of the self. for the Christian, letting go of pride is receiving the self...i can write on and on but i need you guys to help with this, i'm busy writing a book about it and i need to really understand the topic

Hunger

i'm at work right now and i'm wondering which is good? hunger for Jesus or hunger food....you are probably thinking, its a stupid thing to even ask, believe me, i know....i left my wallet at home and its in the afternoon i haven't eaten anything yet, i'm really hungry....this gets me thinking because people out there are hungry, for Jesus and for food....what are we doing about it? do we idle in fancy offices or get out there and feed them with both the Word and food? you see, we have fancy jobs with great titles and benefits....some people more benefits than others...but, when we see somebody in the streets asking for food we act as if we didn't hear anything and we move on....last week while at home a young boy came my way, he could'nt have been older than 15....he asked for a 50c, i did the shoulder thing, because i was more worried about my safety than giving the boy what he needed. you see, a few metres behind me was a group of young boys and in my mind i thought they just wanted to check whether i would give so that they would rob me.....and i walked as fast as i could to get away from that situation, i had seen what i did was wrong, but the most important Person saw it all....this gets me thinking, what are we doing in our communities to help the needy to get food and the Word? should we worry about safety or what Jesus would say in the end?........you know the answer

My All

I believe God is busy dealing with me and all the things that could come up as obstacles in my life. Last night He asked me, "Can you handle it?" I said yes. He reminded me then that its no joke. Its not hide and seek game. Once I commit I can never turn back. I have to do the best way I can, allowing Him to speak through me. Its called MINISTRY. The word itself is very heavy.

So far, this is the most important decision in my life. I won't lie and say I'm not worried about what would happen. I also ask myself if it's the right time. I ask God, "Should I go in now or should I wait for later?"

One thing stands clear about God. His faithfulness is forever more. He will never let anything happen that is not ordained by Him. Complete trust and obedience in Him is what He desires from us

Buddy

.uhmmmm, i'm just pondering on the sweet benefits that come with having a buddy. then i wonder, who or what is a buddy? this is a term i never use. i don't have an indepth understanding of where the word iriginates or what it means.

my general understanding of the term, which is very limited, means a friend who you know very well. somebody who you can depend on and have mutual love for one another. this person will be there for you in your dark moments and maybe help you through those

if that's the case then I would to have Jesus as a buddy. i would like to know Him like I would know my buddy, love Him and and depend oh Him like would a buddy. but, according to what I know, He more than a buddy, much more. a buddy may leave you but HE wont, a buddy remembers your past wrongs but He doesn't.

but i still have a question, mybe you have answer....what is buddy?