I know it has been a while since we’ve put out an update. Actually this would be the first time Kezia and I are putting a news update together. We’ve been quite busy since, and you can see that in the prior posts that Kezia has put up already. I just want to thank all the wonderful people who’ve been supporting us through prayers, monetary gifts & so much more and for those who are continuing to do so.

Here are some of the many projects we’ve been working on or working towards.

Justice Discipleship Training School

Kezia & I are leading the current DTS focused specifically on social injustice in the world. We have designed the school to precisely have a focus on the many wrongs that are done. Our inspiration for carrying this school is from James 1:27 which says: “Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.”

There are 9 students, which is a manageable amount for our first school. The students are from Jamaica, Barbados, United States, Canada, England and Switzerland. We have 2 outreach teams; one will go to Belo Horizo nte, Brazil to work with street kids and the other team will go South Africa & Namibia to work with HIV/AIDS orphans. Kezia and I will be leading the Africa outreach and we are extremely excited being able to do this together. We’ll be flying out on the 29^th of December to Johannesburg, South Africa and will return to Barbados by the end of January.

Justice Concert: Love & Music

Kezia had an idea earlier this year about having a big concert. We’ve thought through the idea of it and decided to do a charity concert. On February 15^th, there will be an event with the tag line, “Campaign Against Social Injustice”. This concert will have a “Live-8” feel and here are the 2 main goals for it.
The first goal is to raise public awareness of the social injustice in the world. To let people know that there are 12 million AIDS/HIV orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa, that there are 2 kids trafficked every minute for sexual slavery, that there are so much injustice in the world and that there is something we all can do to fight against these injustices.
The second goal is to raise funds to give to various charities from AIDS orphanages in Namibia to Rescue houses for street kids in Brazil to our very own charitable organizations here in Barbados.
We are trying to market this alongside Valentines weekend, with the angle of not just loving your mate, but to love those who don’t have anyone to love them.

Anyways, there are tons of other stuff that we can share with you, but here are some prayer requests…

- Pray for wisdom for Kezia and I in terms of leadership for this school and outreach

- Pray for our fund-raising to go well. For Kezia and I alone need about $5,500USD for outreach to Africa(including airfare, visas, food, transportation, etc)

- Pray for the concert “Love & Music”. We need an international artist. We need favor for this as we are targeting 2,500 people to show up for this. We need favor from our potential sponsors. All proceeds are going to charities, nobody is getting paid.

- Pray for the strengthening of our marriage as we undertake all of those responsibilities and the many more to come.

Thank you guys for your prayers, support, and love.