05 Twenty11 News
The light after the rain...A view from my back yard in France
Its been two months since I have been in this fantastic country! And I am really enjoying it. The language is still difficult, the culture is always fascinating and the summer days are getting longer and longer… My family asked if I noticed how different the night sky was between the northern and southern hemisphere? My reply was…I have no idea…the sun goes down very late…and I am not awake late enough to wait for the stars to come out…
The last two weeks were super busy. Our school had two open weeks, meaning that people from the outside can come sit in with the students in class and here the lectures. The two weeks were very different. The first week we had a lot of people from the various churches in the area, and the second we had mostly every one in YWAM France arriving and sitting in. I must admit it was a fantastic time for me meeting new people, who have also come from other nations into France and joking about the difficulties of the language, simple culture shock and all agreeing that France is an incredible country.
I am doing really well. I am realising that more and more Europe is a place that I want to spend a lot of time in doing ministry. The hard part is finding out where. I know a lot of you, who do pray for me are wondering where to next? At the moment I can not give you a full big picture, but there are some things I do know. I feel that God is calling me to have a bit of a break! And I am going to do that in July. I will be back home in Pietermaritzburg, so if there are some of you around those parts, and would like meet up and have a cup of coffee please drop me an email or just reply on my facebook or WordPress. During this time I will also be asking God where to from here?
I am returning to YWAM Muizenburg on the 1st of August to just sit with my leadership and fellow workers there and also pray with them about future direction.
Europe has definitely opened up my heart to see change in this continent. I can see Gods heart for this continent, and would like to spend some more time doing ministry there…but how that is going to look like will be something that needs to be discovered. Please pray for me, as I wrap things up here, and also for the next steps as I return back home.
Thanks for your prayers, questions, and just keeping up to date with how I am doing.
God bless
Steve
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