Okay so last Friday I came back to Johannesburg. I actually feel like Joburg is more like home that Cape Town and I even have a Church and Pastor I would call mine here too. I was driving in during rush hour traffic which is usually kinda like LA here and I was actually a bit overwhelmed by how busy it was. At one point after my friend picked me up and a parked car opened its door as we drove past it I actually flinched in my seat like we were going to hit it! Yesterday I was looking for tank tops to take to Mozambeque and while in a very nice store in the mall I almost had a panic attack my thoughts went like this, :oh my so many colours, so many choices, so many things, so much nice stuff, look at the colours they are so bright , so many choices, I want them all, I don’t want any…H E L P!!!" I feel like the guy in the God’s Must Be Crazy when he goes to the city to take the coke bottle back…I will survive!

So I had purposefully planned to come to Joburg for a week before Mozambeque to relax and to visist with my Church and Pastor here. On Friday Pastor Ronald asked if I would like to preach on Sunday and I had already thought about it so I said yes. Now you see the story I have is that I am not a preacher but I am a teacher and so I can go teach but not preach. I felt led to bring a message of obedience which is one of the core values of the church. I put to gether a slide show and prepared a 30min sermon- right before I went up I found out I had an hour to preach…and so I did!

It was so awesome to be up on stage and to be able to bring truth to the congregation. To see them as true family so I was not nervous(okay just a tiny bit). When I walked in the church there were Canada flags all around and there was even a flim to show where I was from on Google maps. I felt like a celebrity I had a tiny mic attached to my ear and off I went.

My message had a few manin points I will share here:

What is the reality of Obedience:

Why Be obedient?

How to Be Obedient?

-As the Body of Christ we need to hold one another accountable

- Give yourself grace

- Be willing to surrender all- our offering needs to be not just our money but ourselves

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So when I was done I felt like a million bucks! I felt like I had been obedient to bring the message and I really realized that I can preach and truth be told we often hold ourselves back by our own beloiefs we have really to fight this as we never know when stepping out and taking on something we thought we could not handel will change lives!

Leaving for Mozambiqu in two sleeps and now will be home Nov20-Jan13th. My Zim visa paper work is kinda stuck right now so just really open to see how the HS wants to lead me so let's pray it is nothing too crazy... but always worth a good blog entry!

Preacher Pearson Signing out!