some rambilngs

Mashed up in the ireland:
went over to catch up with mozambique crew last night in coleraine, it was pure awesome, we ate, chatted and then on got blasted by the Holy Spirit yooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Rocky Balboa:
i accoumpanied a good friend to the press viewing of this on wednesday night. its whack for the first hour, then the training montage kicks in and i was nearly in tears "go on rocky son"
verdict: take you da, it will give him great hope that "its not over till its over"

Tip your fecking waitress:
was hanging out with my mate and his girlfriend who are manager and supervisor in two different restaurants on the same road near a cool church. but apart from lots of funny stories it kinda sucked that they both were of the opinion that christians were the worst tippers they came across. its such a simple way to bless someone, who has to serve you. dont spend all your money leave enough for a decent tip (10% is average aim for 15%) i mean God gave us the riches of heaven and we wont even pass a little on.

5 things you dont know about me

so after mozambique its all hard to describe, despite my best efforts a bit of culture shock has been experienced, probably mostly how important sex is in this culture is a bit wierd, but hard not to e affected by it. its been nice to have the old comforts back, but my perspective has definately shifted so its all fun now ;)
just went to street reach leaders training for this summer, basically 3000+ ppl are going to clean up just about every estate in belfast for the love of Jesus and transformation of the city. i would highly recomend you either stay in the country till after the 7th of july or fly over here.

ok so to the title tagged by jo shannon
5 things you might not know about me

1. i have super long hair at the minute and will be cutting it off for the charity locks of love and iris (who i was in mozambique with) as part of a big night in early feb

2. i have been drinking lots of aqarius lately, its a new "heathly" soft drink coke have made, my mate jo (not shannon) is workin for them and gave me a case free YO

3. when i was at school i was in cadets and we won uk competition for marching, during which time i would have thought nothing of shining my shoes for 3 hours. (you could have shaved in those bad boys) i also ironed creases in all my uniform and generally looked A LOT more neat and tidy than you are likely to find me now

4. i quite enjoy a good shesha pipe, apple and mint flavour being my favourite

5. i just joined a frequent flyer program and it made me feel grown up.

i tag lambert

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a little bit of news

rightso
whats the criac? more laughing on straw mats, helped chill me out a bit today,
a prophet called mark dupont was speaking and called me amoungst a few others to the front and prophencied over us
it was pretty sweet, he said i should read william wilborforces (the stop slavery dude) book and would doing education and general freedom for the people stuff,
quite fancy in a masters in harvard or somewhere.
apart from that i found the nearby reef so i can go swimming with the fishes in the mornings, and we are off to nampula another area this weekend, to check out a chicken farm, its kinda a fairtrade vibe so looking forward to it and a bit of chillin.
peace
g

hungary

i was in a cross cultural class the other day, which is one where the mozambiquian pastors and the students of the school (us) get taught together,

Hedi was teaching about hunger, from the sermon on the mount where it says "blessed are those who hunger and thurst for righteousness for there will be filled"
she then asked any mozambiquians who had a family member or close friend die from starvation to stand up.

about half the room did.

including the guy sat beside me who i had eariler been chatting to. it blew my mind and heart apart, she got them all to stand at the front of the room and pray for us to impart a sense of hunger for God.

but seriously can you imagine being so poor that your own mother died of starvation before you and you couldnt even buy her a bit of rice or something, the only reason you didnt die was cause of your youth. that means you both had nothing and i mean nothing to eat for about 30 days. some of us miss breakfast or a few meals, but try doing a 24 hour fast and you'll be feeling it, and the debilitating cycle of trying to find work or water or whatever as you starve. And here are these guys who we are living with who have gone through it, there are guys who have seen God moving in miracles like raising the dead, there are really chilled out friendly guys. Its ridculous, like you can get a meal in local restaurant for 17p so in that room of say 50 pastors like 25 of their friends and familes lives could have been saved for 2.40. a pint. If thats not enough for us cause a relovution i dont know what is.

in other news 200+ people got baptisted yesterday, including me, took part in casting out a demon from a girl, have been smiling lots and enjoying the sun.

coughing demons, eating ice cream and other tales of the pemba underground

another we while has passed in this sublime and magnicient poverty. on the down side i got 18 bites for a certain fly which lays eggs below the skin and as i innocently itched my "bites" the eggs hatches and grew into little worms. I only discovered this as in the shower (of which the water has only been running long enough to have two of on the last two and half weeks) i squeezed one of these bites the the strange looking pussy thing that came out began to wiggle, nice. Despite this is the closest i will ever come to pregnancy no maternal instincts develped and i killed every one of the beggers.

apart from that have been having some good banter with the other nutters who travelled over for the craic. crazyness includes a guy who helped out behind the scences on a trip i did to romania in 2000 (represent to kairos krew) and a girl who learned spanish in turrialba, the base of my expedition in Costa Rica (big up)

spiritual stuff is still on full throttle, currently "having a healing" of my hip, after some nice and spicy prayer last tuesday i considered myself healed and promptly burned all the medication i had with me for it (a couple of hundred pills) it has then given me reducing pain up until today when post some more blasting prayer i was able to sprint around the base, not just a crap jog but full-on pelting it, the elation was slightly marred by the blisters incured running around on hard african ground :) the hip is still a bit stiff but its definately the best state its been in over 5 months so thanks to Jesus for that one.

post the run i went back into the tent where we all meet and there was lots of deliverance going on, and as a guy prayed for me i felt weird coughs come up from with in me and then like i was bringing up and spitting up something nasty, this happened three times and i felt all the better for it so i guess the casting out demons thing is a bit more normal than i had imagined to.

for those who are interested Mark 16, Mat 8v16+17 amoungst many others might help any questions of what the funk am i talking about. otherwise peace out.