African Paradis

Here is a PICTURE UPDATE on my support as of November 30, 2010 (please click on it to enlarge). As you can see there are lots of nice graphs up there. Incase if you are the type of person who does not like graphs and thinks they are silly, here is a WORD UPDATE. I have currently received $1,448, also if I keep on receiving the average amount from the first 3 months each month for the next two years i will have 37% of my support. Tomorrow is December 1st which leaves a little over a month left before I am scheduled to leave. If you have not yet supported me and you want to or even if you don't want to PLEASE PRAY ABOUT IT. God will provide what I need but will you please let him use you!? All I ask is that you would pray about giving, the need is urgent in South Africa for the Gospel, if you are unable to give then please remember to pray for the missionaries currently in South Africa, and for myself to be diligent and faithful. For online giving https://home.wol.org/giving/giv...

I am enthused when I can 1. Stay up all night 2. Influence kids for Christ and see them get saved 3. Have fun! When all of these things are combined the result is a SUPERBOWL!! The Thursday before Thanksgiving I got a message from my friend Janelle. Her dad is the Word of Life Missionary for the northern PA region. She told me about how there was a Superbowl going on in southern New York and they were short staffed. I quickly accepted the challenge to help, enlisted the help of some courageous Bible Institute students and prepared... My schedule for that weekend was as follows: Work-6am-2pm Drive to Binghamton Superbowl-2:30pm-5:30pm Superbowl Action-5:31pm-2:30am Required Sleep Time-2:31am-6:30am Driving Home-6:30am-11am Work-12pm-5pm After work I met some brave BI students Andrew, Austin, Chris and Graham and we journey together to the far away land of Binghamton. At the Superbowl I  was able to talk with kids after the Salvation message and talk over with them the de...

This past Friday as I was fighting traffic on my way home through rush hour traffic I saw an uncommon sight: Jonathan Koduru sitting on the steps of my local hockey area. I whipped the car around (at the first safe location to do so of course) and drove back to see what he was doing. As it turned out Word of Life was having a Superbowl close to where I live, and it just so turned out that I LOVE Superbowls, it just so turned out that I had NOTHING to do that night, and it just so turned out that more HELP was needed! So I went home told my mother I loved her and went back for a wild night. At this point I will explain what a Superbowl is for those who were thinking " I thought the Superbowl was on Sunday, and I thought it was in like Febuary??" If you are aware of what a Superbowl is feel free to skip to the next paragraph. A Word of Life Superbowl is an all night event that consists of several wild extravaganzas that churches get kids together to go to. First off there is ...

As I mentioned in my news letter I had the opportunity to meet with John Page who is the missionary that I will be working/living with while in South Africa. He was in the US for the month of October and was able to stop in at my house. While he was over I told him a little about my self and poured questions on him. I will mostly be doing Bible Clubs in Churches and doing Camp with them. They do clubs in various Churches, visiting some every week and others semi-monthly depending on how solid their club system is. In South Africa there is no "Youth Pastor" and one of the things John Page has been doing is training up youth pastors to focus on the youth of Africa. While theses people are in training, myself and John Cottier (the guy I will be going to South Africa with) will be filling the spot of the youth pastor as well as training the new one. The person who is in training will be living in the same room as me dorm style, so it will be an intense 24 hour ministry. In Sout...

For the past few days I have been working hard on a newsletter to send out and update all the people who want one. Well its done now and special thanks to Dale for helping out a lot with it! I will post more about it very soon...I promise