Missionary

	Another feast night(Friday night). Took Ben out for Chinese for his 17th birthday. The food was good, especially compared to beans and rice. An entree was $5 or less we had a great time. Of course that's Ben in the center and this is Elizabeth from Boston. She has spent the last two years in the West Bank in Israel. Before that she spent 6 years in Alaska with a church. She is a counselor, deals with inner healing stuff. Very nice, fascinating life. This was dinner last night (and you wonder why I'm eating out tonight?)
	Yup, that's a fish head. The reason I got it is because I'm pappa, it's a delicacy, the prime cut of the fish. They eat bones and all because it is one of only a few sources of calcium, or else they just like it. I must admit it was pretty bad, but hey, the rice was fine.

	Today we signed up for electives, lots of extra curricular activities like art classes for the kids, tending to the babies either in play or nursery. I signed up for the on foot outreaches which means we will hike into the bush with a team of local pastors, no vehicle, no sound system, no Jesus video with everything we need on our backs and just hang with the locals. It was the thing that scared me most so I thought it should be good. And I expect it will be where the miracles take place. Then I signed up for the medical outreaches again to get opportunities to pray for the sick and finally I signed up to help in the pastors school. I'm not sure what that means yet but I wanted to see what they are taught and how. How the school works. Yesterday we washed the Mozambican pastor's feet. I was prayed for by a pastor who had raised the dead. Then they washed our feet. It was very cool.
	This is a bilabob tree(I'm not sure the spelling is exactly right); they are very strange looking, giant trunks. They are everywhere. And the new church that will replace the tent (see even in Pemba there is that urge to build structures that stand (grin) and don't move).

They need us to dig 40 latrines because of cholera. I went to the local construction store and found a back hoe and got a price ($100/hr); we have an operator(he's the new pilot who is going through the school waiting for his plane to be delivered) and for about $30 bucks a piece and not very much sweat on our parts we could have those 40 holes dug in a few days. But of course this is Africa and things don't seem to go very smoothly. Will you guys agree with us in prayer that the plan unfolds smoothly and we don't hit rock.

This is Saturday and the best day yet on the internet, it is very quick. I think it's because the businesses in town that use the internet cause it to be very slow. I think from now on my plan is to come down on Saturday. Next Thursday my team goes on a one night outreach and then the week after that another long outreach, 2 nights. We are praying into these that we would bring the Kingdom and see it manifest. Today I am completely off with nothing assigned and it will be a long time before I have another Saturday free.

Yesterday Leslie spoke on "Tents" the 2nd of the pre requisites of a Holy Given life, the first was your life as an altar, on the altar things die, your will, your agenda etc. The tent analogy is about being nomadic, that the Lord is my home. She said it was essential that each of us be uprooted in order to be fruitful, like Abraham. The Holy Spirit is always moving, that's why church that is the same every week seems so dead, because it is. The tent has moved. Another thing about a tent is the walls are very thin, you can hear from one to the other, no secrets, transparency, community. People who dwell in tents live in community. Also tent dwellers aren't so hung up on their house as house dwellers, the pride of life stuff. Very good. Next is the analogy of a "well". Blessings, from Pemba, Love Greg

Week 3

	Thursday evening we went out on outreach again. We were supposed to go out overnight but they changed it and we came home. Which was good because we're very tired. This has been a very busy week because in addition to our morning classes we've had Ian Ross in the afternoons or evenings. We have him tonight, the last session. He's the same as he was, loving and a great message of the Father's love and how to receive it. Last session was on the essential ingredient of forgiveness.

	As we were leaving Pemba we passed what is called the village, which is made up of huts framed in bamboo and the cracks are filled with rocks then mud and the bamboo framed roof is thatched with grass which is a major business here, roofing. My son in law could make about 50 mets a day here ($2) selling new roofs. A new roof costs 20 mets.

	We only traveled about 2 hours and we set up in a large village that is on Pemba Bay and they appeared to be more prosperous than the first village. There was fish and shrimp for sale and now the mangos are in season. They eat the peal and all. I tried it, the peal isn't bad and it's quite handy, like eating water melon seeds, saves needing a place to spit. The mangos are very good but I sill have the stringy stuff between my teeth(grin).

	This Steve Long (the senior pastor of TACF) look alike is really Mark, a long termer who is our outreach coordinator and a lot of other things. Note the dog between his legs. Susan would love it, this is like a Holy Spirit dog, anywhere God shows up he's always there. He's at the prayer tower in the morning, He's in our classes after that and no matter where there is a prayer meeting in he comes, gets right in the center and goes to sleep. I suppose he's God's little illustrated how to live sermon.

	This is a view from the prayer "room" at the top of the iris property. It is very beautiful and there's always a wonderful breeze. The sun rises at 4:30am which is ridiculous but it means we get up early and this is a perfect place to begin the day with the Lord. We are also starting a 24/7 prayer room that is right behind where I took this picture, it begins next week and we are planning on doing two weeks. More on that later but another incredible book is Red Moon Rising by Peter Greig (last name might not be spelled correctly) but it is the story of God's sovereign stirring of hearts to pray. His odyssey began almost on the same day as Mike Bickel's(International House of Prayer) but totally independent in England.
Everything we are taught includes the receiving of it, for example today we were taught Gal 5:1 5:1 IN [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off]. AMP This goes back to the teaching on being like a tent, nomadic, able to follow the Holy Spirit as He moves and He is always moving. The keys are those things that bind us up, fear of man is huge and it means doing things to please man, to win approval. Others are also fears; fear of failure, fear of death. Fear is the devils door and of course faith is the Lord's door, do I trust Him with every aspect of my life. The activation for this freedom was to run out from under the tent and shout "Freedom" Braveheart style.
	Of course these are a bunch of crazy kids so they ran to the front gate. I ran with them. What Christ purchased is incredible and just a little Levin ruins the whole lump. Has our lump been ruined? Religious spirits are the worst; doing things to earn God's favor when He paid for it all.

	Ian Ross is our special guest speaker this week. We've had a wonderful time with him. People were wrecked.

	This is Bridgett and I wish this was a video so you could get the full effect of the blasting she recieved. Of course she ended up flopping on the floor. It was great!