The Kick Off & Waka Waka

Monday - May 07 / Day one with our new clients
After setting up all the tables and equipment on Sunday night in the meeting space of the Stellenberg Church, we had many last minute details to coordinate on Monday morning as we kicked off our two-week consulting venture here in the Cape Town area. Overall, everything ran very smoothly, as our new clients joined us for an inspirational talk by Graham Powers. Brett followed up with a brief overview about the organizational transition from "equip" to "rēp" and some details about the LEMON Leadership sessions he led Friday with the Power Group. During the day Brett, Jodene, Tom, Doug, and Lynn laid out the rēp (marketplace ministry) framework we will explore with our clients in the next two weeks and we covered the Purpose "p". We had a wonderful lunch with many South African specialties provided by the Feathers Lodge. The food and service provided by the Feathers Lodge staff has been great! As the first day's session came to an end, the consultants coordinated plans with their clients for Tuesday. Most consultants will travel to see their client's operations or companies first hand during the day. We will be back at the church on Wednesday for the next training session. The consultants spent an hour at the end of today's session debriefing and sharing about initial impressions about their first day with their new clients, which was followed by a time of prayer.

Back at the Feathers Lodge, we had a nice dinner, which was followed by a testimony by an amazing, South African couple (Dave and Amanda). They explained how through prayer and meditation they had received explicit instructions from God about a process for turning polluted water into clean water. They started experimenting with this process in a few local small bodies of water. After initial success, they were encouraged to take the clean-water process to very large bodies of water in South Africa. What they described sounded like a miracle! They have the process for taking organic material from plants and using it to cleanse very polluted bodies of water. There is a huge demand for their god-given process, which has caught the eye of many government and scientific officials. Dave and Amanda are praying and carefully considering how to proceed forward with this amazing gift, which could easily be exploited in the wrong hands. After their detailed explanation of the journey to provide a solution to clean up the world's water supplies, Dave and Amanda proceeded to captivate us from 7:00p to past 11:00p! They gave so many amazing testimonies about how God had worked so powerfully in their lives. I personally can not remember a time when two people help my attention for 4+ hours like this couple did with their captivating, sermon-like style of conversation. And to top it all off, we learned a new term or phrase that is unique to South Africa. When people in South Africa say "Waka Waka", it's the same as in the USA when we use "Blah blah" in a sentence, like "Then Brett said blah blah..." We laughed so much about this and can't wait to introduce this term into the American slang vocabulary. All and all, it was a great first day of the venture!


What God is saying to us…

Overwhelmed
- God wants us to be overwhelmed with His presence
- We need to be humble
- We need to realize our position in contrast to God Almighty
- We need to remember that he has the answers we don’t and we need to get out of the way to let Him work

Chosen
- God loves you and has chosen you
- We are not slaves but sons and daughters
- We have the inheritance already and we just need to ask for what we need
- Romans 8:30 paraphrased: “God has called you aloud by name, made innocent and then empowered”

Obedience
- Sunday's sermon at church and Dave and Amanda echoed this theme