I stand up but i get knocked down again,

its only been one week, but it could have been a year or maybe longer, not so much spiritual growth as explosion.

church now involves falling over laughing, which is pure brilliant, there is a sort of mad simplicity to Christianity out here.

Jesus loves you, all thats going on in the world is a little to much for comprehension, so simple trust in God and enjoying Him is all that is required. Compared to the stern nonsense of much of my attitude to faith, its a total breath of fresh air.

I went on outreach last wknd, which involved packing up a truck of westerners mozambiquen pastors, a sound system, projector and generator, driving two hours into the bush and getting involved. it was a truly humbling experience to live alongside those in absolute poverty even if for only 48hours, seeing women pound millet for half an hour to get a crap rice substitue which, will not even nourish her 5 or 6 kids. The ground so dry and hard, the people so beautiful yet desperate, i ended up crying my eyes out, broken. but then that night when we showed the video and people understood that jesus loved them and that that meant he could heal them. A bold statement from a western perspective, not so bold as you watch an old man touching his toes to try out his newly healed back, or you watch a man could fingers from his 10 minutes earlier blind eye. Yes miracles happen, I have seen it with my own eyes, you and can see it with yours. Not everyone was healed and it was hard to understand why, but the healing is Jesus business, all we do is pray and the longer i am here the less understanding seems to matter, only trusting.

mozambique pt 1

alright the world
just landed in pemba after a bit of a monster journey
its all good out hear, just how i like it sunny, no running water for the last three days, eating rice and beans with my hands, carrying blocks and meeting new ppl
seriously but more pastors graduated from their school than have probably trained in ireland in about 10years, then there were about 10 batisms, then feeding the local communitythen distributing food to widows. its pretty immense but in a very normal way, met some cool people, a dude who sold his house to buy a plane to be a missionary,talking to a guy from norway who the last time he was flying through dubai (where i flew threw) was to smuggle bibles ;)its like a world select of hardcore christians out here.
but yeah all is good, its a bit of a mission to get to internet so might be a while before i do this again....

chineese with mista jam, dj hix, pete and oliva

last night at about 3am i went for chilly fried squid with misterjam (radio 1 xtra dj) hix (an AMAZINF local hip hop /rnb dj - and you know he's good for me to apprciate those tunes) pete ( a super hero who introducted me to hix and this night) and olivia (who was running the front of house with pete) it was after my first gig in my new vj residency (YOOO) at a night called vibe in the sugar rooms at the pothouse.

it was all a bit short notice - i was only back from london on sat and heard on sun, and had major complications from my vj laptop being the one that got stroked in london, but it was alright on the night and i definately played my best set to date, it was another 3hr marathon but i generally lloved it :) so get down there on a thurs if you are in the 'fast

althogh i wont be there again for two months cause im off to Mozambique next friday, awesome.
its a training school with iris ministries who generally roll like Jesus, miracles, loving the poorests of the world and all. i imagine it will be quite a trip, physically mentally and big time spiritually. i cant wait.

thats about all except to say that my profile photo is a lie and i now have hair longer than most girls, which when it isnt getting in my eyes is also most excellent and i would recommend it to all guys who have the opportunity