In a mere two weeks today, I'll be arriving back in Cape Town. I've not been home since September 2008. How do I feel about that? Well, I am really ready to leave school. I'm called to do more than just be a student! Am I ready to leave Bethel and the US? That, I'm not so sure about. It feels a bit like the life I know, my current home, is about to me pulled out from under me in an instant. Transitions are seldom easy. Having been through a number of nation changes in the past, I have an idea of the sense of instability that comes with such an experience. Saying goodbye to an environment that is pumping with life (from demonstrations of great joy to pushing in to raise the dead) is not going to be easy. However, the source of life is very much alive inside of me, so I expect to take the joyful life giving, cancer dissolving, dead raising, love empowering presence of the Holy Spirit right along home with me.
As for my further plans, I've applied and been accepted for an internship in Kent, UK. North Kent Community Church is starting a full time school of supernatural ministry based on Bethel's curriculum. They came over to Bethel in October to recruit interns to help them start the school. It’s an exciting opportunity to learn a great deal and to start seeing my dream fulfilled of God impacting the spiritually dry Europe. There is, however, a potential glitch. Having waited the allocated 5 months to receive all my documentation required for my visa, only to discover that my birth certificate is incorrect. Yes, my birth certificate has had an error in it since my birth! Since I'm applying for an ancestral visa for the UK, this could be a problem. An amendment and application for another copy could take another six months. What does that mean? I may only get to my internship 9 months from now, half way through the school year. Not a pretty thought. So please would you partner with me and pray for favour and a little visa miracle. Bethel has a saying: ‘Blessed are the flexible for they shall not break’. That’s what my plans look like right now, flexible. Whoever says that Christianity is boring has not stepped into the adventurous dance with God. He’s leading the dance and doesn’t always tell you where the next step is going t be until it’s the right time J
The last few months of 2nd year have seen a love revival come to our class. The presence of God has been increasing and increasing. Celebratory worship breaks out as we encounter the sweetness of His face. Take a look at http://vimeo.com/11269431 to get a taste of what we’ve been experiencing. I’ve also had the opportunity to attend 4 workshops by Arthur Burk in San Francisco. He works a lot with blessing your spirit. That has been an amazing experience and has started me on a whole new journey of discovery on the human spirit, redemptive gifts, blessing land and much more. The longer I’m here, the more I realize how much more there is to learn. It feels like I’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg!
A big Thank You to my faithful financial supporters. May you reap far more than you have sown, both financially and spiritually.
Ceri
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