What’s going on in our World?

Last week after we finished with our entrepreneur class on Wednesday, we spent 3 days in the classroom. We thought we would be learning how to help change the mindsets of the underprivileged and poverty stricken people, but what we found out was like being in Fiji all over again. It was about first changing ourselves and the way we think. Fiji was considered heart surgery where we had to forgive anyone that had done us wrong or caused us to have bitterness or anger in our hearts. As we were able to break down all those walls around our heart, we were able to mend those relationships and then able to have the relationship with Jesus that He truly desires for us to have. This last teaching is mind surgery and helps us to change the way we think so we can then help others. It is 3 mths of training, both classroom and at home, and it so amazing how much negative influence we have all around us. We first have to see the negative self talk in order to appreciate the positive that will come out of it. It is part of a course called Pacific Institute out of Seattle Washington and this particular course is called Grassroots. I would highly recommend it if you want to see the glass half full instead of half empty!
Now this past week we have had a team here from South Carolina and spent time with them. Thursday we spent the day checking out a small bakery that is being set up for an entrepreneur program. They invited us, Living Way, to become part of their program. We would first be trained on how to make the bread etc. and then we would train others to run their own bakery. This organization called Siyabonga Africa (www.cpcsa.co.za)
actually donates all of the equipment. It is an absolute gift from God but we are waiting on His timing for an answer for the property, so we can get projects like this started. I will keep you posted!! Starting this past Friday we have begun different work projects in the community to help fix peoples shacks that have started falling in. Some of us worked on a single woman’s bungalow where the ceiling was falling in, and some of us put in a small garden for her so she would have some vegetables to eat during the summer. The garden got finished but the ceiling did not. It turned out to be a lot more than we expected so we are going to go back tomorrow and try to complete it.
As I write this Ephesians 2: 8-10 comes to mind. We are God’s masterpiece created in Christ Jesus to do good works, but thank goodness we are saved by grace through faith and this is not from what we do, but is a gift from God. When we are in God’s will we want to serve Him, and all these things we get to do are privileges to further the Kingdom.