Hello. I have some exciting updates and a prayer request.
Car. We have a car!!! A couple from the church moved to England and donated their car to the church for FYP use. There are six FYPs, so we've been figuring out how this will all come together, but I spoke with the office manager at Jubilee this afternoon and we decided that Tom and I will be the drivers of the car (since we are the oldest) and it will be kept here at the Frasers. It is such a blessing! I am getting used to driving on the opposite side of the road. Not only do we have a car, but the church will reimburse us for all petrol that is used for the benefit of the church. So, we only have to pay petrol for personal use! What a blessing!
Bookstore. Today was my first full day in the bookstore. I have a lot of work to do, but am excited as I learn it more and get it oranized... most of you know how much I love to organize things!!! I spent most of the day today going through the stock list and comparing it with what we actually have. Sounds boring and mundane, but I actually like this stuff!
LINK. This Friday, Saturday, Sunday and next Saturday, I am taking a course called LINK at Jubilee. LINK stands for Life Together in the Kingdom. It is supposed to dig through any old stuff in your past and help you to work through it - it is supposed to help change your perspective to God-centered, as opposed to past-centered. I debated on taking this course in the beginning, but the more I heard about it, the more I wanted to take it. Please pray that God speaks to me and uses this in my life!
I love you all!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Pollsmoor
I first will say that I have put some more photos online – three sets… Harmonus, Hout Bay and Misc.
I am not going to say a lot, I just want to share something that happened while I was at Pollsmoor Prison yesterday. I go into Pollsmoor every Friday to counsel women. Until yesterday, I had been observing and shadowing the other ladies that counsel there.
We went in yesterday morning and Stephanie and I went to the high security unit, i.e., the isolation unit. She has been counseling a girl there and I have been shadowing. When we went yesterday, there was another lady (we’ll call her Faith) who was in the cell next to the lady that Stephanie was counseling. Stephanie asked the warden if I could spend some time talking with Faith and the warden at first said no, because Faith is a Muslim and will not be interested in talking to me. Stephanie pursued it a little more and we decided that I would just talk to her and it wouldn’t be any type of formal counseling thing. So, I sat down and we talked and got to know each other a bit. I found out about her life and began asking her about her beliefs. Faith told me a little about Islam and explained to me that Allah is the “higher power” of her religion. I asked her if she believes in Allah. She said that she used to until about a year ago when Jesus began speaking to her!! Our conversation progressed from there, as you can imagine, and was amazing and humbling. She eventually got out her Bible and she had a letter in it that she had written to Jesus… just pouring out her heart to Him. She let me read it… I was speechless and still am. WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE!!!
Love you all so much and am SO blessed to have you in my life!
I am not going to say a lot, I just want to share something that happened while I was at Pollsmoor Prison yesterday. I go into Pollsmoor every Friday to counsel women. Until yesterday, I had been observing and shadowing the other ladies that counsel there.
We went in yesterday morning and Stephanie and I went to the high security unit, i.e., the isolation unit. She has been counseling a girl there and I have been shadowing. When we went yesterday, there was another lady (we’ll call her Faith) who was in the cell next to the lady that Stephanie was counseling. Stephanie asked the warden if I could spend some time talking with Faith and the warden at first said no, because Faith is a Muslim and will not be interested in talking to me. Stephanie pursued it a little more and we decided that I would just talk to her and it wouldn’t be any type of formal counseling thing. So, I sat down and we talked and got to know each other a bit. I found out about her life and began asking her about her beliefs. Faith told me a little about Islam and explained to me that Allah is the “higher power” of her religion. I asked her if she believes in Allah. She said that she used to until about a year ago when Jesus began speaking to her!! Our conversation progressed from there, as you can imagine, and was amazing and humbling. She eventually got out her Bible and she had a letter in it that she had written to Jesus… just pouring out her heart to Him. She let me read it… I was speechless and still am. WHAT AN AWESOME GOD WE SERVE!!!
Love you all so much and am SO blessed to have you in my life!
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