Im coming Home

I have confirmed all my flights, I am leaving Douala tonight to Nairobi and then Bangkok and finally Auckland.
Kenya Airways were very helpful they didn’t charge me anything to change all my flights including my flight with Thai Airlines.
I will be flying with Kahlia as well as far as Bangkok, she flies to Brisbane, so that is good I have company on the long haul flights and in transit.
Kenya don’t put the bags on the same flight as the passengers from Douala to Nairobi so I still have my bags. But it also means I don’t know if my bags will arrive in Auckland at the same time as me.
My flight From Auckland is confirmed for Sunday the 1st of October I arrive in Christchurch at 950pm on flight NZ599.
So all in at has turned out very well at no extra cost ,except changing the NZ flight and extending my insurance for a few weeks.

Love from Steve PS KEEP PRAYING

Sense of humour

Hey everyone
I understand the need for a missionary to have a good sense of humour. I was suppose to be in Kenya today waiting in transit to fly to Thailand.
I’m not in Kenya, I am still in Douala!
I got to the departure lounge at the airport gate 22 (as it said on my boarding pass) waiting for my flight to Kenya. The lounge was full of people waiting for a flight to Guinea. I have no watch so I was not aware of the time there was also no clock in the departure lounge (of an international airport!) So I was waiting for a boarding call for a flight that is suppose to leave at 11:55. After waiting for a while I asked the person next to me ‘whats the time?’ He says ‘1 am’ I did a double take and then headed to the Kenya Airways office only to find my flight has left and they did two boarding calls but I never heard them.
Whats even more ironic the plane was boarding at the gate 10 metres away from the one I was waiting at. At one stage I went looking for my flight I found a Kenya Airways flight but it was not going to Nairobi – or at least that what the sign seemed to indicate- later I found out this was in fact my flight and was going to Nairobi after all.
So now I have to go to the Kenya Airways (on Monday morning) office and arrange to get a new ticket and wait on standby! The next flight is Tuesday evening (Cameroon time)So it may be a while before I get home. PLEASE KEEP PRAYING I look forward to seeing you when I get home.
Steve

Round up

We graduated last night! I will be home in just over a week I get back on the 26th of September at 1:50 pm from Auckland on flight NZ531 after 3 days in transit!
My time here has been a great experience I can’t write all the things I have learnt now but I will share a few things. God is faithful, I have seen that when we follow him he will be with us. I arrived in Cameroon with no Visa no French and no luggage but God came through for me and he always does. I had a case of an unknown tropical disease and God came through for me also several other team mates had health problems as well but God is good we all surivived and graduated as a class. Many of the students came to the school by faith having only paid their depoist believing that God wanted them to be there and he provided for all of our class to finish the school!
I have learnt that the foundation of our lives is our spiritual life, our realtionship with Jesus. This and this alone, is our source of strength, joy and peace. For many years I was trying to live the Christian life without this foundation being laid firmly and it is not until I have come here that I have laid this foundation.
There has also been a lot of down time so I started spending that time reading the Bible I started at Genesis and read through to Revelation and I have seen that it is one book, that is the Bible actually fits together to one theme.
God created us to share in his love and to enjoy a relationship with Him the abundant life in John 10-10 but we humans can’t experience that love and relationship because we are sinful Romans 3-10 and 3-23 but God wanted so much for us to share this love and eternal life with him that he gave his Son John 3-16 and Romans 6-23 that if we believe in Him we have eternal life. This eternal life is nothing we can earn Ephesians 2-8 and 9 but comes through grace and through believing in the Son, John 1-12 and Romans 10-9 and only through the Son John 14-6. I have now started again from Matthew and when I finish again I will start from Genesis and read slowy and for detail.
So what is next for me? I don’t know but God does! I know I need to develop my spiritual foundation and starting pouring the concrete and putting up the walls. I also need to work to pay off my loan and seek God for the next step. I have had many ideas but I dont know which ideas are mine and which are God’s. I’m looking forward to seeing you all again may God bless you and keep you may he make his face to shine on you may he make the road rise up to meet you Amen!

Home Straight

Well we are almost finished here and I will be home in two weeks. We have been working with one of the leaders of YWAM in Cameroon for the last two weeks, doing evangilism, leading a prayer cell and helping to build his house. It has been very good and we have made many new friends. My time here has been a great blessing, God is good all the time. He has shown me that he is faithful and that no matter where i am and what happens i am secure in my place in his arms. Psalm 63:8 says 'my soul clings to you and your right hand upholds me' and I bless the Lord for upholding me in his right hand and I know that he will continue to uphold me. I realise that the whole time i have been here i have been living by his grace on the smell of an oily rag (holy oil!).
I am almost a disciple, we graduate on Friday. At graduation i will get my walking on water and trampling on scorpions badge im still working towards the deliverance badge.
Im looking forward to seeing you all very soon lots of love
Steve