Hey
(make sure you read the post i wrote before before this one!)
Well, even since i wrote the last post (although i posted it just now - i borrowed someones laptop to write that on and then saved to memory stick) so much has happened! Its been a lot of fun here with lots of exciting things happening. On Sunday, i went to another little village church with a group to encourage them, and said my testimony in portuguese (although i did read it from a prepared paper i had done with someone) but still - they understood it, so praise God! I just think it means so much more for people if we at least really try to speak in their languague, even if it is really bad!! hehe. so that was fun, and then we went back to the centre and back to the beach and it was a baptism sunday, so literally so many people got baptised - women, men, children.. it was so amazing. There were hundreds and hundreds of people on the beach! It was so funny, Rolland came up behind me and prayed for me randomly.. oh that was funny for the next hour..!! hehe. After that, we heard that one of the boys from the centre's baby nephew had died, so we immediately went to his house in the village and prayed for the family etc.. and we walked for miles to go and pray to raise the baby from the dead (Matt 10.. heal the sick, raise the dead...) Although the baby didn't actually come back to life, God still worked amazingly in the family. From visiting the family, we found that the boy and the mother's relationship was very bad, and they had actually not spoken in so long. We encouraged the boy to say sorry for what he had done, and the mother and the child embraced and their relationship was healed! God is so beautiful. Wow.
Monday was independence day in mozambique (when moz became free from the portuguese) so there was much celebration, and much hip-hop!! haha. lots of dancing. The kids had meat for dinner!! they were so happy.
God is still breaking my heart for the things that breaks his heart, and continues to flood my heart with more compassion! Although of course, i do not want this to stop as i want to become more like Jesus, it is so painful. When i see others suffering around me, its just physically painful in my heart. For the last couple of days, i have just been sobbing and sobbing. He is truely breaking me!
God is giving me more vision for my future, and i would really appreciate your prayers for this area of my life... I think he is beginning to put a nation on my heart.
thank you so much for all your comments and emails. It means a lot to me. let me know any prayer requests of yours too.
Much love,
Heather xxxx
109 girlies - i did indeed use my 'estau gravida' line the other day!!(of course i was joking) hehe. And Anna - there is actually a load of horses at the centre so the phrase, 'i want a horse' is actually not that random!!! haha.
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
written around the 21st
actually written around the 21st (no access to internet but borrowed a laptop)
Hi y'al!
How are you? Trinity people - Hope preparations for new wine are going well! cant remember when it starts but am excited for you! its going to be fab.. Hellie, hope you managed to get it all sorted. Will be praying. Thank you so much for all of your comments, its so good to hear from you all. I cant believe how fast this week has gone... God has done so much. Getting to know more of the Mozambicans this week (children, workers, villagers..) has been really fun, and sitting and chatting with them learning portuguese is always very amusing..mostly for them! Its great to hear the amazing stories of what God has done in their individual lives, and their stories of God's grace. I just love chatting to them, the Mozambicans are so friendly and so eager to help! They are very patient with me in learning the language! Which although is going quite well, is still very frustrating, and is upsetting me that i cannot properly communicate the message of the gospel to those who don't know Jesus yet. I was in the village today, and so desperately wanted to talk to the people about Jesus, but was restricted to only a few phrases..which i know God will still use but still. So prayer for the language would be really great!
This week, God has completely blown me away by his love again.. I had an encounter with him yesterday, that has changed my life yet again! He just gave me a whole new revelation of his love for me, and in that, more compassion for the lost and the unlovely, the broken and the dying. He completely wrecked me! I am sooo in love with Jesus. I am love sick for him. I was crying for hours and hours, and finally had to be dragged out of the tent stil in floods of tears (with a really attractive face and mouth full of sand! Anna..you would have found it funny - i was crying so much that i had mahousive bags under my eyes and i could hardly keep them open - i looked like a mole!) Even today, after coming back from the village and seeing the desperation of the poverty that surrounds me, i am completely wrecked, and i just feel their pain, almost physically in my heart. I am just in love, and Father is giving me more of his heart. I had a vision of Jesus, and he appeared to me with a bloodied, bruised and broken face. He was crying. With his tears he washed my feet, and said that he was crying for the nations, and i feel that this is what i am going through right now. I am learning that to be a missionary, it is all about love. - incarnational love. Its all about loving the one - and stopping for the one. It can get overwhelming when there are so many people around you in such desperate need, and in knowing how and what to do. I just need to stop and love for the one each time. But i cant love until i truely know Jesus' love, and i think that through this time of revelation, he is truely giving me more of the Father's heart in order to be more compassionate in loving the one.
Oh yeah, and after all of this, we actually did a feet washing session! A little mozambican girl washed and carefully dried my dirty, disgusting feet. I just cant explain how much that humbled me.
I love living with the chidlren here, and my favourite thing is just holding them and hugging them. Although the village children here come across as quite fierce, (they like to come and sit with us for our class sessions!) all they need is to know love. And i love just loving them and embracing them.
People are being healed here on a daily basis - it really is a normal occurance! Its not even a thing that people are surprised at! Its so funny.. on our outreach, we prayed for a lot of blind people, and i only found out from the pastor the other day that they were actually healed!! He was like.. yeah.. we prayed for them, what did you expect?!! haha. I pray for more faith. A deaf person got healed last night on Heidi's outreach - he hadn't heard or spoken for his entire life. Praise God! Oh, and yesterday, i had a really bad head cold - and this morning it was completely gone!! Yay God thank you so much.
I love how the book, 'theres always enough' is really put into practice here. Its not just a title. At lunch time, anyone who wants to eat can come to the centre and gets fed. A group of us can take in turns feeding the people, mainly children, and literally, we are encouragead to always invite anyone we meet to come and eat! It really is amazing because every day there is ALWAYS just enough food for everyone to eat. There may not always be enough plates.. but a quick rinse in a bowl of dirty water does the trick..lol.
Thank you so much for all your prayers, its really appreciated. This week, it would be fab if you could pray specifically for:
· continued health for me and my fellow students - there is a lot of sickness and malaria now
· protection - as a base, we have been under a lot of attack spiritually, we are right near loads of witchcraft.
· in speaking portuguese
· in becoming friends with those in the villages who dont know Jesus and leading them to Jesus this week
· For more of God. More love, more revelation, more encounters.
· The children, the widows, the lost in Mozambique.
God bless you all so much,
love Heather xx
Hi y'al!
How are you? Trinity people - Hope preparations for new wine are going well! cant remember when it starts but am excited for you! its going to be fab.. Hellie, hope you managed to get it all sorted. Will be praying. Thank you so much for all of your comments, its so good to hear from you all. I cant believe how fast this week has gone... God has done so much. Getting to know more of the Mozambicans this week (children, workers, villagers..) has been really fun, and sitting and chatting with them learning portuguese is always very amusing..mostly for them! Its great to hear the amazing stories of what God has done in their individual lives, and their stories of God's grace. I just love chatting to them, the Mozambicans are so friendly and so eager to help! They are very patient with me in learning the language! Which although is going quite well, is still very frustrating, and is upsetting me that i cannot properly communicate the message of the gospel to those who don't know Jesus yet. I was in the village today, and so desperately wanted to talk to the people about Jesus, but was restricted to only a few phrases..which i know God will still use but still. So prayer for the language would be really great!
This week, God has completely blown me away by his love again.. I had an encounter with him yesterday, that has changed my life yet again! He just gave me a whole new revelation of his love for me, and in that, more compassion for the lost and the unlovely, the broken and the dying. He completely wrecked me! I am sooo in love with Jesus. I am love sick for him. I was crying for hours and hours, and finally had to be dragged out of the tent stil in floods of tears (with a really attractive face and mouth full of sand! Anna..you would have found it funny - i was crying so much that i had mahousive bags under my eyes and i could hardly keep them open - i looked like a mole!) Even today, after coming back from the village and seeing the desperation of the poverty that surrounds me, i am completely wrecked, and i just feel their pain, almost physically in my heart. I am just in love, and Father is giving me more of his heart. I had a vision of Jesus, and he appeared to me with a bloodied, bruised and broken face. He was crying. With his tears he washed my feet, and said that he was crying for the nations, and i feel that this is what i am going through right now. I am learning that to be a missionary, it is all about love. - incarnational love. Its all about loving the one - and stopping for the one. It can get overwhelming when there are so many people around you in such desperate need, and in knowing how and what to do. I just need to stop and love for the one each time. But i cant love until i truely know Jesus' love, and i think that through this time of revelation, he is truely giving me more of the Father's heart in order to be more compassionate in loving the one.
Oh yeah, and after all of this, we actually did a feet washing session! A little mozambican girl washed and carefully dried my dirty, disgusting feet. I just cant explain how much that humbled me.
I love living with the chidlren here, and my favourite thing is just holding them and hugging them. Although the village children here come across as quite fierce, (they like to come and sit with us for our class sessions!) all they need is to know love. And i love just loving them and embracing them.
People are being healed here on a daily basis - it really is a normal occurance! Its not even a thing that people are surprised at! Its so funny.. on our outreach, we prayed for a lot of blind people, and i only found out from the pastor the other day that they were actually healed!! He was like.. yeah.. we prayed for them, what did you expect?!! haha. I pray for more faith. A deaf person got healed last night on Heidi's outreach - he hadn't heard or spoken for his entire life. Praise God! Oh, and yesterday, i had a really bad head cold - and this morning it was completely gone!! Yay God thank you so much.
I love how the book, 'theres always enough' is really put into practice here. Its not just a title. At lunch time, anyone who wants to eat can come to the centre and gets fed. A group of us can take in turns feeding the people, mainly children, and literally, we are encouragead to always invite anyone we meet to come and eat! It really is amazing because every day there is ALWAYS just enough food for everyone to eat. There may not always be enough plates.. but a quick rinse in a bowl of dirty water does the trick..lol.
Thank you so much for all your prayers, its really appreciated. This week, it would be fab if you could pray specifically for:
· continued health for me and my fellow students - there is a lot of sickness and malaria now
· protection - as a base, we have been under a lot of attack spiritually, we are right near loads of witchcraft.
· in speaking portuguese
· in becoming friends with those in the villages who dont know Jesus and leading them to Jesus this week
· For more of God. More love, more revelation, more encounters.
· The children, the widows, the lost in Mozambique.
God bless you all so much,
love Heather xx
Monday, 18 June 2007
Hiya
hope you are all well. thank you so much for those that emailed me and posted comments.. its such a blessing. its so good to hear from you all. i miss you all so much! I really appreciate all your prayers. God is great. i cant write much today becuase i only have 7 minutes left on the time thing and teh internet keeps crashing.. man i really need to come and dedicate some time to write properly on here. its kind of hard to voice whats going on too. Cath - if you need anything specific for the newsletter please let me know and i cant write something more specific.
Well, i thought i would tell you how a day goes here.. although its quite difficult becuase with the mixture of God and Mozambique, as expected nothing goes as expected!! haha. today, school started at 8.30 - and didnt fnish til 3.30!!! We were doing a fire tunnel for nearly 4 hours!!! the longest one ive ever seen.. was so funny. (A fire tunnel is wehre a load of people lay hands on people as they walk through to receieve more of Jesus!) most days God just decides to change the schedule. hehe. well, usually get up at about 5, then school is at 8.30, til lunchish. then sometimes we have another session in the afternoon, and then we either do stuff with the kids, or go into the village and share about Jesus etc. pray for whatever, in the evenings we have small group or stuff.. its a very busy schedule, so i would appreciate prayer for knowing how to spend my time correctly.. with where and with whom etc. ok i will try write more tomorrow..
God bless you
Heather xx
hope you are all well. thank you so much for those that emailed me and posted comments.. its such a blessing. its so good to hear from you all. i miss you all so much! I really appreciate all your prayers. God is great. i cant write much today becuase i only have 7 minutes left on the time thing and teh internet keeps crashing.. man i really need to come and dedicate some time to write properly on here. its kind of hard to voice whats going on too. Cath - if you need anything specific for the newsletter please let me know and i cant write something more specific.
Well, i thought i would tell you how a day goes here.. although its quite difficult becuase with the mixture of God and Mozambique, as expected nothing goes as expected!! haha. today, school started at 8.30 - and didnt fnish til 3.30!!! We were doing a fire tunnel for nearly 4 hours!!! the longest one ive ever seen.. was so funny. (A fire tunnel is wehre a load of people lay hands on people as they walk through to receieve more of Jesus!) most days God just decides to change the schedule. hehe. well, usually get up at about 5, then school is at 8.30, til lunchish. then sometimes we have another session in the afternoon, and then we either do stuff with the kids, or go into the village and share about Jesus etc. pray for whatever, in the evenings we have small group or stuff.. its a very busy schedule, so i would appreciate prayer for knowing how to spend my time correctly.. with where and with whom etc. ok i will try write more tomorrow..
God bless you
Heather xx
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Hi everyone!
Man o man!!! God is so good. Wow, where do i start. Well, i hope you are all ok and healthy! I love it so much in Mozambique, i feel just at home. God is doing amazing things, and i feel so priviledged and blessed to be a part of what he is doing here. The children and babes are great and i love living with them. I have made some really good friendships, and God is doing lots of stuff in me... i am growing closer and closer to him each day and falling more in love with him. He is teaching me so much, and showing me that i need to completely die to myself and let him completely take over every inch. I want to be completely consumed by him, and i am so desperate to be closer to him.. please pray that God would completely transform me and consume me with more of his love and fire!!
Last weekend I went away on a weekend outreach for 2 nights away in the bush. It was SOO amazing. I loved every single minute of it - it really felt like it was what i was created for. We arrived on Friday night and the people had never seen white people before, so literally, hundreds of people crowded around us! It was very amusing putting our tents up with a massive crowd of onlookers. The children literally followed us around ALL weekend!! haha. Well, we showed the Jesus film, and there was well over 1000 people there, and then I had the amazing priviledge, as well as a couple others, to preach. These people had NEVER heard the gospel before in their lives, and i felt so blessed to be able to share with them the truth. Well, probably over 80% of people gave their lives to Jesus that night!!! Praise God! In the morning, we planted a church and the mozambican pastor chose (not sure how) some people to lead the church, and Iris are going to try and get back there as much as possible to disciple them. So many people were healed praise God!! Blind eyes were open, headaches were healed, peopel with crippled legs and hands, so many healings that we dont even know of becuase the people are so expectant that they literally dont sometimes even say when they are healed becuase that is what they expect..so why be surprised!! haha.
I cant believe i have only been here a week.. i love it. Please pray that i would become more intimate with Jesus. I know that through that all the other needs will come.
I have to go now. I miss you all so much. God bless, heather xxxxxx
p.s. please pray for me as i have to make an important decision about something
Man o man!!! God is so good. Wow, where do i start. Well, i hope you are all ok and healthy! I love it so much in Mozambique, i feel just at home. God is doing amazing things, and i feel so priviledged and blessed to be a part of what he is doing here. The children and babes are great and i love living with them. I have made some really good friendships, and God is doing lots of stuff in me... i am growing closer and closer to him each day and falling more in love with him. He is teaching me so much, and showing me that i need to completely die to myself and let him completely take over every inch. I want to be completely consumed by him, and i am so desperate to be closer to him.. please pray that God would completely transform me and consume me with more of his love and fire!!
Last weekend I went away on a weekend outreach for 2 nights away in the bush. It was SOO amazing. I loved every single minute of it - it really felt like it was what i was created for. We arrived on Friday night and the people had never seen white people before, so literally, hundreds of people crowded around us! It was very amusing putting our tents up with a massive crowd of onlookers. The children literally followed us around ALL weekend!! haha. Well, we showed the Jesus film, and there was well over 1000 people there, and then I had the amazing priviledge, as well as a couple others, to preach. These people had NEVER heard the gospel before in their lives, and i felt so blessed to be able to share with them the truth. Well, probably over 80% of people gave their lives to Jesus that night!!! Praise God! In the morning, we planted a church and the mozambican pastor chose (not sure how) some people to lead the church, and Iris are going to try and get back there as much as possible to disciple them. So many people were healed praise God!! Blind eyes were open, headaches were healed, peopel with crippled legs and hands, so many healings that we dont even know of becuase the people are so expectant that they literally dont sometimes even say when they are healed becuase that is what they expect..so why be surprised!! haha.
I cant believe i have only been here a week.. i love it. Please pray that i would become more intimate with Jesus. I know that through that all the other needs will come.
I have to go now. I miss you all so much. God bless, heather xxxxxx
p.s. please pray for me as i have to make an important decision about something
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
Hi everyone!
Just to say that i made it safely, and am setting in. Its so great here. Am finally home! Bill Johnson did a talk and stuff this morning, was awesome. God bless you all so much. Will write a proper post of whats happening next week probably. Hope you are all well,
love and blessings,
Heather x
Just to say that i made it safely, and am setting in. Its so great here. Am finally home! Bill Johnson did a talk and stuff this morning, was awesome. God bless you all so much. Will write a proper post of whats happening next week probably. Hope you are all well,
love and blessings,
Heather x
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