Work on that swing bro

Guess who was on the last, 18th, tee today. I knew I should of taken a few swing practices before I actually got to the course but anyway today we were fundraising for Campus Crusade for Christ ministry in South Africa at the Umhlali Country Club just off Ballito. Praise the Lord that he held back weather  because when seeing a cloudy sky two hours before a 18 tee golf course, you tend to worry. The day was a great success, I am not at all sure how much we had raised but we had 18 tees (21 groups) with 4 individuals per group who had played if my figures are not off. Though the day was long it was so amazing being on the golf course. It was a beautiful sight for sure. Big ups to the estate.

PS: Will soon load some of the pictures from the golf day


Bafana

Not how to play scrabble

Coming soon!

Albert Einstein's Quotes

"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life ."


"In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I,with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views ."


"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God . We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things."
Serving Christ together

Bafana
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Smart Choice Training in KwaMashu

"HIV spreads quickly when you have multiple sexual partner"

Smart choices workshops are designed to help combat the HIV epidemic by educating adolescents and young adults about choices and consequences. In the process of learning about HIV, infection and transmission, we also help students, learners and adolescents realize that they are unique, valuable and deeply loved. This is by introducing them to the Love of Christ and ultimately leading them to make a choice about their relationship with God. Its an evangelistic tool which in Durban for a while has been used in different high schools and I have had the great opportunity of being this month along side some of the church members from KwaMashu Anglican Church, an initiative of Church-led movement. In anticipation of the coming year, we will be working with some of the high schools in numerous area’s such as Ntuzuma, KwaMashu, KwaDabeka, Inanda. This is a fantastic opportunity to present Christ often in communities where spirituality means listening to Gospel music on Sunday’s. Moving from a ‘religion’ mentality to a relationship with Christ is very central to any Gospel presentation. ‘Clearly no-one is justified before God by the Law because, “the righteous will live by faith.”’ - Galations 3:11

One of the presenters from the Anglican Church

This is me and my practical team as we round off our presentation

We had the opportunity to sit and do practicals on that day on what we had learnt so that was fun

Desk pair - Mom Price was my classmate desk pair for the day. She cracked jokes all the time as the teacher taught, I wonder how high school for her was like

Just heard from Pastor Goba that the Anglican Church CrossRoads team went to a high school from tomorrow and will be there until Thursday to teach one class Smart Choices. We praying for a great response from the teenagers and those who wish to accept Christ and get involved in their local church to link up with the Anglican church which will be discipling those school teens.

Ps. Praise the Lord for the money that was donated towards the 6 interns to attend the training that weekend. It couldn't have come at a more appropriate timing. 

Raining appointment

As I walk out of my apartment gate, Mom Price reminds me and shares that: "Remember in many cultures rain is considered a blessing. So what blessings does He have in store for Bafana today?". The entire taxi ride to my support appointment, it rings in my head, I reply with a conventional "LOL!" gesture. I'm thinking: "Dude you so uncultured, remember Shaka Zulu, tribe meetings they told you about this 'blessing', on and on!" Oh stop it, you cracking yourself up with your sense of humour.

Replay an hour before I got to that point, I was running frantically (well that's an exaggeration but you get my point) anyways, I was running frantically in the house preparing for my support appointment this morning. I still had envelopes to seal, odd pages to print, preparations for our meeting with the MK2MK planning team, Ps. Goba, Mpume Mthembu and Mom Price. Across the printer is the glass door and I hear this stone beat on in. At first I ignore it and then a triple beat almost simultaneously. I go to check outside and to my amazement, small marble size ice hit the tarred driveway - now that's me thinking to myself I'm still half asleep because that couldn't possibly happen: not in Durban and definitely NOT TODAY! I brace myself with sneaks which surely will give me a grip in the bustle of Pinetown as us, the working class, navigate through and a grip on the situation really. MPD appointment and hail at the same time - I'm definitely not prepared for this. Support appointment - ye I got this on lock down but hail...you must have a great sense of humour mother earth. Wrapping everything up and running into the raging furnace of hydrogen dioxide (sounds wrong), half way the rain stops! Yikkes. Only to find, 10 minutes in my taxi ride, Humpty Dumpty falls again, raging like mad. 5 minutes under the umbrella jeans are wet and I feel washed up ... support appointment here I come ... NAY!

Sigh! MPD for the couple of months has been a course, a course to train me and my team, sharpening us ... for what? not sure as yet but I've got my fingers pointed somewhere!

Psalm 105:1 Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works!

Praise the Lord! The earth is filled with His goodness. Praise the Lord for this amazing opportunity to share on what He has been doing in our campuses, the impact He has had on our students. To share His doings in our city. Praise the Lord for giving me this opportunity to share a testimony! Through the rain, your mercy and grace prevails! Let the nations be glad for you have watered the seeds to grow, you have filled water in a rural drum so that kids can have water to wash their hands before they eat. Trully I say, you have blessed your people by your character which surpasses all understanding!
Serving Christ together

Bafana
http://bmadida.blogspot.com/

We getting there

Ministry Partner Development (MPD) - raising support for my internship this year has taught me more than I could have expected so far. One thing it has not been is what I had expected it to be when I had signed on the dotted line. Starting the journey on my MPD was with a book recommended that we all read it aptly titled: Funding your minsitry by Scott Morgan. Though I did not read it from cover to cover, I had left chapter some what with the confidence that '...ye I can do this...lets do this!'. Morgan's outlook on ministry development is nicely wrapped in a 216 page brown covered book: from attitude change towards ministry development and resourcing, to practical essential fundraising strategies, to becoming organized including bible studies on resource development - thats what you get for being in ministry for a couple of years - its all clear in your mind. I find myself, 5 months down the line, still praising the Lord for all the valuable skills he has allowed me to seek and grow in.

One trustful saying that Joshua clinged onto both from Moses and the Lord is: Be strong and couragous. Do not fear or be dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will never leave you nor will he forsake you. - Deut 31:6 (ESV). Thus has been my praise item these past months. From my team and I, there has been so many partners and sponsors that have been taken from their tithing or free-will offering and have given to our ministry. There has been an overwhelming amount of support from family and friends and also from partners and supporters who contribute to our ministry. Our supporters are God-given to us! They are Gods answer to prayer.

Lessons learnt! Below is Robyn-Lee Samuels blog entry on an MPD appointment she had some few weeks ago. She highlights some of the most crucial aspects of what we all have been learning:

In my excitement to be punctual for a Ministry Partnership appointment I had in Cape Town I bought a ticket for my first train ride a day in advance. The appointment had been scheduled for Tuesday 6th March at the V & A Waterfront. Unfortunately, my ticket was for Tuesday 5th March — an error I could have avoided had I mentioned the date I wished to travel by train. But the pre-mature ticket was merely the tip of my first-train-ride iceberg. While en route to meet the potential ministry partner, she asked to reschedule the appointment. This is one of the many unfortunate events that form part of the beauty that is Ministry Partnership Development (MPD). During MPD I build a team of partners who invest in my ministry financially and especially through prayer and encouragement. As I continue to trust God for people like you to partner with me, there will be many more unused tickets, unanswered phone calls and unread emails.Still I learn to be patient and enjoy the beauty that is around me. I explore new territories and appreciate the greater Cape Town area. Moreover I learn, I grow and I move forward — saving every unused ticket as a reminder of the lessons learned and the memories created through my MPD process.

 Bafana

Bye Vusi

Be still and know that I am God. A hymn we sang monotonously at my primary school. Rethinking it, just refreshes the humble and honest memories of being a young lad, who was at that time more worried that he hasn't done his homework rather than wrestling with God. The Lord just laid this Psalm in my heart this morning and the entire day as I had woken up to the tragic news of a young friend of mine who lost his battle to AIDS. Filled with so many questions at first, all unanswered with only one answer that for me, sealed our debacle - Be still and know that I am God. 'Don't question my ruling, my decision. As I have given life which brings glorious joys and praise to my name, surely I don't deserve judgement and curses when I take my creation to a place I have consecrated as Holy. Do you not trust me with him. I have taken him from a world of mayhem, evil, sin, destruction, imperfection, impurity and all that is detestable to me. Do you not think for a second he would want to be with me, away from a dependence of a cocktail of drugs, away from a society that has rejected him due to his parents sins, away from his fickle body that lacks nourishment! Be still my son and know that I am God. His surely peaceful where he is, so have peace where you are my son'

Bafana

Holzner Garden's Complex Outreach

The Invitation sent out to students

Getting geared

A projected image of the video's used for the outreach

Noscelo leads some of the discussion on the video they just watched

The first weekend of May we had a complex outreach, inviting the some of the ladies whom live in our complex. Me and Anele served them, Anele was on the baking side of things, preparing charred muffins with food preparation (the charred part was the stove’s fault) and I was involved in the logistics and communication, helping our team mates in what they planned to do, giving them idea’s in that. We praise the Lord as it went extremely well as 21 young female Edgewood 1st and 2nd year students acknowledge the invite. They had a splendid afternoon getting to know each other. The Lord’s leading created an environment of love and warmth as they explain it. There was a great volume of participation and some of the ladies sharing their personal stories, relating to each other affectionately. Initiating our year as a team, we constantly admonish each other in being ‘My Sisters/Brothers keeper’ and such an environment become more prominent that afternoon than anything else. Anele describes it as being the light and salt

This is how he puts it in his monthly newsletter: ‘We’ve been praying asking God how can we be the light and salt to our neighbours especially since Holzner Gardens (Where we stay) has 62 apartments and most of them houses female students from Edgewood Campus. So, we invited the students for a time of fellowship, fun, snacks and games. 21 ladies pitched and they watched videos which led to spiritual discussions and one girl prayed to receive Christ.’

Bafana

Dr. Mike Anderson's visit to Durban

Dr. Mike Anderson (middle) standing with some students from Howard Campus who have attended the seminar

In my third year of study, what our ministry leader Alyssa Monda would often share with us is, in order of importance: Love ­­¹God, ²your studies, ³your responsibilities in ministry.

Dr. Mike Anderson who has taught philosophy of science at WITS and co-ordinated a graduate course in religion and science at the University of Cape Town and is in full time ministry as a writer, speaker and educational software developer focusing especially on Jesus and evolution, visited our campuses for 3 days. We had the opportunity to have him speaking at Westville, Edgewood and Howard campus on ‘Exam Strategy and Life’. This seminar was more on how to get students prepared for examinations as they are around the corner. He spoke on the importance of developing exam strategies for before, during and after exams with prominence on after. Students found his talk quite helpful in such regards and was a great blessing to them. His initial trip to Durban, was an effort to discuss with him some of the ways he could be of assistant to student leaders in their ministry. Example of this would be Science faculty outreach with him speaking on “Evolution and creation – their compatibility with the Gospel or lack-off”. Please be praying for the Lord to put in our hearts how we could use Dr. Anderson to reach our campuses for the next semester.

Dr Anderson's site link
Bafana

Discerning your calling

I remember reading this article by Tim Keller on "Discerning your calling" and I do suggest that you take the time to read it. The way he puts is the way we see 'God's Work' has been quite an obscure look into ministry and points out thats not the case. In fact we are all called into ministry and service to the Lord. He speaks with much clarity on that matter.

Pravani's visit to Durban

Check out Pravani's blog entry on her visit to Durban:

http://thespicevine.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/making-roti-eating-chillies-visiting-student-leaders-and-interns-all-in-a-durban-days-work/

Bafana