Guess who...

I'm still in Malawi; still loving Jesus knowing that He loves me more: The bible school and Kalibu Academy are on holiday for 1 month now and my mum and her husband John are coming out to visit me on the 19th April till 30th and then school starts again on the 4th May, there's alot to be done in this holiday though I have to reorganise huge parts of the boarding and organise registers and cash books for their pocket money and the list keeps on going but all needs to be done in the spirit of exellency so I'll keep going; and hey this ain't going to be nothing compared to trying to run multiple missions in muslim nations bringing the onslaught right back to Mecca!!
How God answers our prayers in everyway and how I prayed some really foolish things (so my flesh tells me) Life is hard but easy here, it's easy to die to self but dieing ain't ever easy...hahaha! I'm about to have a digital camera brought to me so there'll be more pics of the school etc but I still ain't figured out how to put them on here yet!!!
How much easier it is to follow Jesus when poor yet when following Jesus He blesses, entrusts us with riches for His work, how blessed are those who hear the words, "my good and faithful servant." Church you must, we must never let anything fleshly conquer us be it pain, money, pleasure nor family all must be devoted to the full service of the loving God who DEMANDS ALL, our walk with God must be more intermate even than a walk of marraige, is our walk even as a walk of bridegroom and bride? Is Jesus Christ my Bridegroom, my head my all in all, Lord of my life, conquerer of mine enemies?

It's a matter of complaint

Ok maybe my wording wasn't the best but I'm telling you Europe is screwed! The schools have kids hitting the teachers and teenage pregnancy is soaring, and the church is on the whole a bunch of half baked hypocrites who wouldn't know what love meant if it slapped them in the face! I love my God with all I have and not only am I willing to die for Him I'm also willing to live my everyday life for Him... If you knew how well the cane works when in measure then you would not complain we have kids here who's parents dislike them or just ignore them and with a bit of a slap on the backside these kids have changed I could get the testimony of 40 if not 50 kids that caning works and that they are now working well and are happier. Why so many Europeans have complained I don't care, I see it working and yes I've used the cane and will use it again! God is a loving God and see how He uses a rod of chastisement in the OT and the NT look at the book of revelations and see the 7 vials poured out! Judgement on the lost is eternal damnation and yet Christians knowing this fact live self centred lives with God playing no role whatsoever all that is in their lives is religion just like the pharisees. Look in the book of acts and how two people where killed BY GOD for lieing to the Holy Spirit... Caning is nothing it stings for an hour or so and thats it, we don't hit the knuckles just the buttocks. Why are people such wimps nowadays kids are kids and we are adults we need to keep them seeing wrong and right and if they've been raised so badly as to not be able to distinguish between wrong and rights it's our duty to show them wrong from right not just say "they have feelings you know." I had feelings as a kid and was not punished in any way if someone tried I just refused I should'nt have been allowed that freedom because that freeddom led to real suffering, a suffering which is beyond a sore backside. Look at all the kids killing themselves in the UK alone and how many kids are cutting themselves saying it makes them feel better. People wake up and smell the roses cause at the moment they stinking of hypocricy!

Long time no see...

Hello everybody I know I haven't written on here for a while now but I've been very busy with work and study; I'd like to thank everybody who has been praying for me and I ask that you would also pray for the students of Kalibu Academy we have a mountain on our hands here, but if we have just faith the size of a mustard seed we can move mountains!!!
Work at the school as the superintendent boarding master for boys is long and tiresome for all the kids here come from middle to upper class families and have had servants do their work for them all their lives; many are aspiring to be the next big thing in Gansta Rap and like the appeal of a thuglife yet they also believe in Jesus as the Christ so they end up being lukewarm in both which leads to spiritual dryness. God has started this work and will complete it Malawi has great potential in the gospel if only its leaders would follow it, these are the kids which we are raising so please support them with prayer so they can lead this nation into a state of peace with God.
I went out on a preaching tour up to the north of the country a week or 2 ago and got to preach to many church elders and God really moved, it was a real blessing.

new job new horizons

I've now moved to chileka at kalibu academy and I'm now boarding master to about 200 boys and next year it could be about 3-4oo boys alone, not forgetting all the girls! Bible school is going very well we're about to start genesis. I've had a vision to disciple the kids at the school(well those whom are seeking God) this is why I'm now boarding master so I can impliment these motions. I now think I am going to be coming back to England at the end of my time here to go to college and then university to learn middle eastern languages so that S can preach word for word Arabic and turkish. It will take about 7 years but I can still do ministry to muslims in england and learn about their culture firsthand and then obviosly there is ministry in college and uni need doing ie non-compromising christianty. If you are reading these messages please make a comment cause otherwise I'll stop writing here as no one seems to be reading it and I ain't here to waste my time. mark

I tried to add pic to my blog have not been successful as of yet I'm waiting for my comp programmer to come back fromm finland.

seeing malawi

Hello I've just come back from 8 days of advertising the school all around malawi so I;v now been on the lake to lilongwe and many other places it was very good I hired a canadian canoe and went out on the lake which was awsome! there is also alot of people controlled by witchcraft here and one thing that happens quite often is some person walking in the middle of road and not moving we nearly hit 2 one being a young girl and then just b4 coming into blantyre there was a naked woman by the side of the road the list keeps going! my classes are to start again next week some time which will be great my teacher will be an american pastor called Frank Vandyck, he is a good teacher of the word and then pastor mike will be back from the states in a month and he will be also taking classes so it will be a full scedule! I stayed in my first african village using drop hole toilet and sleeping under straw roof it was good mind the the drop hole was relly small took some negociating(great worship though) God has convicted me on my judgmentalism towards the church and has softend my heart towards ppl alot more now so those who have had me preach at them will know what I mean, mind you i still won't compromise and most will still see me as a firebrand! God be in you all praise him for he is good mark

me again

Hello I am now a carpenter aswell as decorater as I am now finishing off building the stage which is hard work but it will look nice when finished if the termites ain't destroyed all the wood by then!!! If anyone knows of a good and quick way of killing the things please leave me a message they are highly annoying! We have basically now finished the last term of the students who will graduate in july so we won't be having classes for a while now until we know what students etc will be here for the next 2 years, the 2 monthes I have been here have been so great I know God even more powerfully than I did when I first met Him And hey I'm telling you I would walk through rain hail and brimstone for his kingdom!!! I have had a new idea of how to break through in the mid east and that is by gong via Turkey for it borders Iran, Iraq and Syria hallelujah! Irecently finished a ten day fast which was to know the cross of christ better ad I'm terlling he who seeks finds!! Church if you are reading this don't sit \n your butts get up and start a fire in your heart and if you say you can't then pray and fast fore the Lord is worthy of our all!!!!!!!!!!!!
God be with everyone, Mark!

puff adder

Hello again as you can tell by the title we saw a puff adder the other day mind you it ended up headless HAHA! I still haven't got my first snake kill yet which is also a good thing as it means a ain't seen many but I have killed a scorpion which was in our living room. The academy is going very well we have painted alot more rooms now and we will now be moving onto the main hall which is huge!!!!!!!!!!! we have 3 ministers including the minister of educatiion all coming to the opening. I'm now startring to love being in Africa you can get some real good bargains out here and hey the worship HALLELUJAH!!! Wow the fruit we are eating papaya bigger than melons and as sweet as joy and the bananas are awesome and we haven't even reached the mango season yet! Food is really good where I am we get 3 cooked meals a day and when we work we also get sanwiches and tea but when we go to the villages we will be eating things like goats intestines and these little fish which they eat whiole head tail scales and guts!!!!! Anyway anyting to bring christ and his glory to the lost hey.

me again

Hello people my classes have now started: Hallelujah they are Holy Spirit FILLED!!! And for those of you who prayed that I meet some people who speak arabic well my next door neighbour was a missionarie in lebanon for 7 years and there are 2 people from sudan who are part of the mission and they both speak arabic! I have to wear a shirt tie and shoes etc for church and class which is strange but also good and I am about to have a suit taylor made for me which is all very new and it will prob only cost about 20 quid! I could do with some prayer for illnesses like flu etc diahreah they can really get you out here believe me!

Africa

Hello I have arrived my luggage arrived 3 days after me but hey this is Africa. God is good some great times of prayer and praise, i have also climbed a big mountain and swam under a waterfall with was rather cold. At the moment i am painting day and night trying to finish the school b4 term starts so I am sleeping there but Pastor mike comes back on saturday so my teaching should start then.

Anarchy - Tyranny - Anarchy

"Many suppose that tyranny and anarchy are at opposite ends of a linear spectrum. But often they are side by side on what might better be described as a circle: the one is a product of the other, and vice versa. The law of the jungle does obtain in parts of Africa, but the jungle is inhabited by men. Anarchy is a vacuum that brings out the worst in men and selects for the worst among them. The persuit of power is a life-and-death struggle. Those who excel distinguish themselves through nothing more exotic than boundless cunning and ruthlessness. The most successful of all become tyrants, and the anarchy in which they thrive is called tyranny.
Even the most rigidly institutionalized tyrannies-Rwanda was one, South Africa another- rely above all on the total absence of lawful accountability for the criminal abuse of power. They harness the forces of anarchy to their own ends, the forces of lawlessness and terror, murder and rape, arson and theft. For them, anarchy is an instrument of tyranny.
In south Africa, where "black on black" violence killed 20,000 between 1985 and 1994 and nearly derailed the transition to majority rule, they called it "informal repression." The Afrikaner police who feuled the fighting called it the "kleur teen kleur beinsel" -the "colour against colour principle."
In Sudan, where northern Arabs through the ages have dominated the state and decimated the south by pitting one black African tribe against another, they say "Aktul all-abid bil abid"-"Kill the slave throught the slave."
It is a phenomenon that runs like poison through all Africa's seemingly senseless wars: Big men using little men, cynically maneuvering for power and booty while thousands perish. Harnessing proxies, arming ethnically based militias, cultivating warlords, propagating hate and fear, preying on ignorance, manufactoring rumours and myths, stacking the police and army with ethnic kinsmen, demonizing dissidents as traitors to the tribe, or faith, or "volk" -these are the tactics of the crafty despot with his back against the wall.
Call it tribalism, call it nationalism, call it fundementalism- the role of political leaders in fomenting civil conflicts has been the paramount human rights issue in post-Cold War era. Africa is merely that part of the world where it has been most destructive by far.
Inflamed ethnic passions are not the cause of political conflict, but its consequence. In a lawless world, ethnicity is a badge of legitimacy and protection- and justice. It is the bond by which men high and low adhere to a vigilante code."
"Ethnic conflict in Africa is a form of organized crime. The "culture" driving Africa's conflicts is akin to that of the Sicilian Mafia, or the Crips and bloods in Los Angeles, with the same imperatives of blood and family that bind such gangs together. Africa's warring factions are best understood not as tribes but as racketeering enterprises, their leaders calculating strategy after the time honoured logic of Don Vito Corleone.
It is the stakes in Africa that are different- multiplied exponentially in circumstances where the state itself is a gang and the law doesn't exist. It is as if men like Don Corleone seized control of not just "turf" on the margins of society, but of the state itself and all of its organs: police and army, secret police,the courts, the central bank, the civil service, the press and the tv and radio.
A widespread misconception of the post cold war era is that ethnic conflict is a by product of failed states. Rwanda represented the oppisite: a state- albeit criminal- that was all to successfulin mobolizing along rigidly hierarchical lines from top down, from the head of state and his ruling clique down to the last village mayor, making possible the slaughter, mostly with clubs and machetes, of hundreds of thousands in barely 3 monthes."
(Quoted from "The graves are not yet full" by Bill Berkeley.)
Chester A. Crocker, assistant secretary of state for african affairs is quoted as saying to Bill Berkeley,"I would never in a million years tell you I was seeking what was in the best interests of Liberia. I was protecting the interests of Washington."
Monrovia, Liberia, April 1996.( a picture is above this quote with one older teenager lieing dead rocket launcher as if fallen from his limp shoulder with another maybe 17 year old with an Ak47 firing in retaliation.) Many of these boys are orphans of the war" the liberian rebel leader Charles Taylor told Bill Berkeley."Some of them saw their mothers wrapped in blankets , tied up, poured with kerosene and burned alive. We keep them armed as a means of keeping them out of trouble. It's a means of control."

The Lord is my Shepherd!!!

"In sacred silence of the mind
My heaven, and there my God I find."

Still waters run deep. Nothing more noisy than an empty drum. That silence is golden indeed in which the Holy Spirit meets with the souls of his saints. Not to raging waves of strife, but to peaceful streams of holy love does the Spirit of God conduct the chosen sheep. He is a dove, not an eagle; the dew, not the hurricane. Our Lord leads us beside these "still waters;" we could not go there of ourselves, we need his guidance, therefore it is said, "he leadeth me." He does not drive us. Moses drives us by the law, but Jesus leads us by his example, and the gentle drawing of his love. (Quote from Charles Spurgeon's Treasury of David.)

"Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature."

J. Hudson Taylor wrote this on the subject to which I have put as the title of this peice.
(Mark 16:15)
"How are we going to treat the Lord Jesus with reference to this command? Shall we definitely drop the title Lord as applied to Him, and take the ground that we are quite willing to recognize him as saviour, so far as the penalty of our sin is concerned, but are not prepared to own ourselves bought with a price or him as having any claim on our unquestioning obedience? Shall we say that we are our own masters, willing to yield something as his due, who bought us with his blood, provided he does not ask to much? Our lives, our loved ones, our possessions are our own, not his: we will give him what we think fit, and obey any of his requirements that do not demand too great a sacrifice? To be taken to heaven by Jesus Christ we are more than willing, but we will not have this man reign over us.
The heart of every Christian will undoubtedly reject the proposition, so formulated; but have not countless lives in each generation been lived as though it were proper ground to take? How few of the Lords people have practically recognized the truth that Christ is either "Lord of all" or is not Lord at all! If we can judge God's word, instead of being judged by that word; if we can give to God as much or as little as we like, then we are lords and He is the indebted one, to be grateful for our dole and obliged by our compliance with His wishes. If, on the other hand, He is Lord, let us treat him as such." AMEN!!!!!!!

Before I leave!

Hello people, it's 15 days until I leave for Blantyre in Malawi, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! I am going to a bible college run by Pastor Michael Howard under the wing of Kalibu Kwa Yesu Ministries. I will be at the college for 2 years and in this time we will be training (living) to become intercessors so we may stand in the gap for those who can't and won't. The ministry have a website which is www.kalibu.com and you will be able to find out more info there about what it is they do. I am going to this college because I have read many of Pastor Michaels books and also met him in Weston-Super-Mare last september, and he is a man who beleives in and lives a life of death to self and life to Christ in me. So whilst you are praying for me I will be praying that you may catch this fire. Amen. ( It can get over 40 degrees C!!!) God be with you.