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Update on Mozambique.

This is the first time in which I’m supposedly the ‘Team Leader’ for something, but I’m not stressing, or rushing around doing much. In fact, whenever I tried to get something done, it doesn’t work out… and then I sit back, and things just fall into place.

It’s like WOW. It’s a surreal reality, knowing that God is REALLY in control and directing every aspect of the journey. And we’re just part of the big picure… trusting…

Few weeks back, we were debating whether to do the visas in UK or to just get them on the border. I didn’t want to worry about it. My friend asked "Are you being lazy?" But I wasn’t lazy…yet I felt that we should just hold on. And last week we decided, yes let’s do them here in England. And it happened that one team member was going to London on Wed, and another team member was going to London on Fri the same week. Perfect timing. We did the visas on Wed and picked them up on Fri. No sweat. No purposely stressing to  find time amidst our crazy schedules to go to London to do the visas.

And last week, we haven’t gotten our flights into Mozambique yet. We’ve gotten the flights into Johannesburg, but still haven’t managed to find suitable flights for Pemba coz it’s not a very popular destination. I was getting a bit ueasy to be honest… and started looking up ways to get there. Taking the night coach from Johannesburg to Maputo, and flying to Pemba from there. It was feasible, but just didn’t seem ‘right’. Team wasn’t very united about it. Then this week, the father of a friend gave us a travel agent’s contact in Johannesburg and we managed to book flights straight to Pemba, at a good price. Nothing to do with me at all. It’s soooooooo cool how things just work out.

And one friend sent an email with our ‘Wish List’ for donations to bring to Mozambique to the entire research department in the medical school and major hospitals in Leicester. It was amazing how people responded. Colouring books, portuguese dictionary, notebooks, pens, 18 BOXES OF GLOVES…everything’s just coming in. And we’re just doing basic simple stuff, like sending emails.

Another team member who’s a doctor booked the flights and visa without even confirming his leave to go. He just did it with faith, and we believed with him that God will work something out. His timetable came out 2 days ago, and it wasn’t very good, but he managed to swap his holidays around and got all the time off that he needed. Isn’t my God just awesome?! And it’s Christmas period too, where ppl like to go on holiday.

It’s the power of prayer and faith in an AWESOME, POWERFUL God. We haven’t done much in terms of planning and strategising on how to get donations, and when to get stuff sorted. We’ve just met once a week to pray. And that’s the best thing and the most important thing in the end.

This saturday, we’ll be doing carol singing in the city centre to raise money for Mozambique. We havent done much practice… prayed LOADS this time round coz I really don’t know how it’s gonna be! But I KNOW that my God is faithful and we will have a jolly time singing in the sunshine and have lots of people appreciating it and giving us money.

What a privilige to serve the Great King of the Universe.

For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand,
      Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’
Isaiah 41:13, New King James Version.

i’m so busy i wanna pull out my hair.
i’m organising carol singing, trying to get donations for mozambique, trying to do some screening presentation, compiling information for a presentation of project i just did with some friends, trying to keep on top of my work for the current block, and trying to cover the work i didn’t do in the first few blocks.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i’m not stressed per se…. just need some cheering up. need to be reminded that the world is still beautiful… still merry and gay.
tell me something funny.
make me laugh and smile baby.
i love your blog. it makes me smile.
loves yous babes.

That in a nutshell is the state of my life. I wonder if I’m just being unorganised or maybe there’s just a lot to do.

I’m not complaining… Here’s something that keeps me going:

But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I’m not about to let his grace go to waste. Haven’t I worked hard trying to do more than any of the others? Even then, my work didn’t amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it.

1 Corinthians 15:10

Tell me jokes! Tell me good news! Tell me funny stories! I need to smell some roses….