Finally time for another update...

There is so much happening I don't know where to start. I'll start with Jeff. Jeff is a guy who lives in this neighbourhood. He got saved a couple months back when Lisa and Sarina (two friends who are part of my Clay Street activation) went and knocked on his door and invited him to our house church. He was at a point where he was desperate for something to happen is his life. He was very depressed and not in a good way. Anyway, he came to house church and got rocked! He said he walked in and saw wall to wall young people full of love, all wanting to pray for him and bless him and he couldn't help but get saved. I remember praying for him and he teared up and genuinely encountered God.

Since then Jeff has been set alight for Jesus! He is itching to go to church whenever he can. He would come to house church a few hours early he was so keen! He now has a Bible which he is tearing through and he is just lapping up this Bethel/Kingdom culture. He got baptized at Bethel last month with all our Clay Street family there to watch. It was an amazing time - we all went crazy. Jeff got so drunk on the presence of God - it was a great night.

Jeff is such a gift from God. He has a gift of hospitality - he's always cooking for people. He has become a Clay Street icon. Everyone loves him. He's definitely become like a Pappa to all of us here. It really is amazing to watch him embrace Jesus. I don't think I've seen anything like it - he is growing so quickly. He now has an i-pod, loaded with worship music and a big set of head phones to go with it. He's always bouncing around belting out Kim Walker songs - so awesome!

This is really what it is all about - people! Everything we've poured into Clay Street has been worth it just to see Jeff meet Jesus! Christianity is so simple. It's all about people. God cares about people. The miracles we see every week and the revelation we are hearing are amazing but it doesn't mean anything unless people are meeting and growing in relationship with Jesus and also each other. When the church began all Jesus left behind was the Holy Spirit and each other! This should be the foundation and main emphasis of the church. Love for God and love for people.

It really has been amazing to be part of this Clay Street family. There are several other people that have been saved and transformed by Jesus on this street. I really believe the model we have set up here works - building friendship in the community, sharing food, meeting together to worship God and read the Word. It really is simple. I've been so blessed to be a part of this. My leaders (Ben and Nate) have poured themselves into this community and into me and I feel like my growth has been doubled because of them.

There is a possibility that I will be able to be one of the leaders of clay Street next year which I'm very excited about. I'm praying about it and at this stage it looks like I'll be going back to Queensland to work for 3 months from June till September - aiming to be back here for 2nd year in early September. While I'm in Australia I'll hopefully be going on a ministry tour with Ben in Queensland. I'll be trusting God for a miracle to help me back here but He is good and has come through so many times before. I can't wait to see what he does!

There has been lots of other stuff going on too. I've been growing in the prophetic and in word of knowledge. God gave me someone's name the other day which was cool. I really want to grow more in the gifts though. I want to see more healings. I want everyone I pray for to get healed! Jesus made it possible and I want it - I'll just keep moving forward in faith i guess.

I have my mission trip coming up soon. I'm going to Tijuana on March 29 for a week. I'm expecting God to move powerfully. There will be 170 of us driving down. We will then split into smaller teams and go minister in churches and on the streets. In previous years God has done crazy stuff. God stopped it raining at someone's command a few years ago so that a team could set up their equipment and preach. My brother went there last year and said that almost everyone they prayed for got healed. I can't wait.

I'll tell you all about it soon...