CPT 2010; I wish you were here ...

I wish you were here.

I wish you were here to experience the unity and the amazing sights and sounds of a family working in unity; different parts of the body of Christ.

Today was an excellent day full of things to be grateful for; delayed luggage arriving, the amazing friendliness and warmth of complete strangers at the Global day of prayer event offering the privilege of peering into their lives through all the stories candidly shared and affording you the opportunity to do the same… Getting to know people in a genuine way with none of the usual masks up simply because everyone was united in the focus for the event.

Seeing real life live before your eyes and having lives transformed is an amazing experience that everyone should and can have access to and for some reason it seems easier to be that vulnerable when away from life's usual stressors or familiar context.

I was reminded today that all required of us is as simple as living life in genuine community and preferring one another over ourselves. It is in this that we discover our passions, have proper expectations set, have our gifts develop and grow into the people we are called to be.

It is possible to live this life anywhere and I am sure you all experience similar junctures occasionally, and while I do wish you were here with me today, I pray that God will provide you your own special experience of unity in His body as one way to show you His love.

Global Day of Prayer South Africa - Full Circle

My dear Fr-amily :),

I look back on just a few years ago when God answered some of my specific prayers by connecting me to an business as missions organization called rep.

My first trip was to Cape Town South Africa in November 2006, and the transitions and transformations in my life between then and now boggle my mind. I know some of you are still amazed as well :)



Fast forward to a couple of years later, and I now have the opportunity to go back to Cape Town and participate in the Global Day of prayer 2010 (GDOP 2010)... and event stemming from one man's obedience to God's request, and now impacts the entire world.
www.gdop2010.com

Our team will be assisting with the Business Track during the Global Day of Prayer
Conference leading up to 10-year Global Day of Prayer celebration on May 23rd. We will have the privilege of working with business people from all over Africa, and the rest of the world. We will also be blessing, consulting, and meeting with past rēp clients(kingdom businesses) in Cape Town over the past several years.



GDOP 2010 is taking place in the weeks just before the World cup so I am particularly expectant about the potential spiritual impact as well.

In case I haven't talked your ears off just yet about this, rep is an organization based in the SF Bay Area, but made up of 500+ spirit-filled believers throughout the world(US, South Africa, India, Indonesia)and growing.

I am excited to go back to one of the places where God started me on an incredible journey and also to participate in a tangible result of obedience... this is truly encouraging!

I could not have participated so intimately with rep in the past couple of years without your support and am looking forward to having you participate again.

This trip comes at a time when I have a lot of activities and responsibilities to juggle, so I am seriously in meed of prayer for wisdom and for everything to fall into place.
I am asking for your prayers from now on as we prepare to go, as well as while on ground. Specifically, I need prayer about:

- spiritual readiness
- Logistics ( visas, tickets, schedules and agendas, time off and so on.
- Finances (thankfully at this point, I am only short of ticket funds ~ $1700, registration, food & lodging have been covered)

If you will be praying, please let me know so I can send you additional specifics.
If you will be donating frequent flier miles, please contact me for airline details.
If you will be donating funds, your checks made out to Vine associates are tax deductible

Thank you so much for your love and support that makes this all possible.

Many blessings on you and yours this Easter.
'Teju

Its not about what you think it is!

I just remembered that I needed to update this to close out on the Indonesian visit saga :)

So I ended up not making it to Indonesia last year which was a HUGE disappointment, but ended up being an amazing blessing and it was not even in disguise :)

The same week I was supposed to be gone, a couple of issues that had been simmering at work for almost 2 years came to a head after consistently asking for God's intervention for that long! It turned out that it was a good thing I was around and able to witness it first hand and watch God move in an amazing way and answer prayers in yet another way He never had before then in my life.
It occured to me that was a main reason I probably didnt get to travel that week.

In addition, I also got to rest and reconnect with good friends which did a whole lot to refresh me spiritually.

Sometimes, things are just not about what we think they are... I was so focused on Indonesia and getting there, but God had different plans that definitely worked out for my good.

Yay God!