Porn in prayer rooms

Had to ask a couple of ladies to leave the centre because they where using it to upload some amateur porn movies and develop there online customers. They didn't like it and tried to convince me that it was all innocent one even challenged me and the other said "what is uploading", they obviously thought I was born yesterday. I had been listening in to their conversation and it was along the lines of what can we film whilst having an orgasm. It was at this point I stepped in and told them I didn't really care what they did but they had to go and this wasn't going to happen in our place. They left in a huff!!

The weirdest thing is one of them was well into her 50's, she had had a lot of work done.

I then checked our computers history and sure enough it was porn. Oh well you offer something for free and people will occasionally take advantage, thats life.

They won't be back or maybe they will.

pears

We harvested about 300 pears today and about 200 onions. The next question is what am I going to do with them? We'll give as many pears away as possible, but I am wondering how easy it would be to make pear brandy???

The onions will be easier, we can freeze, pickle and store them.

We have our 3rd team of 9 people with us and tonight is their first night out on the street, hope it goes well for them.

I was out last night with Christine, we got a call at about 2am, ended up getting back at about 5am. This isn't a great story but on one level I have to tell you our failures, well maybe not even failures, just tough ones. We met this guy he had fallen asleep in a bar and the owners had phoned us to come and help him home, they where really helpful giving him water etc.. but he wouldn't go, he just kept telling us to "f**k off" but we couldn't because his wallet kept falling out of his pocket and he was going to get robbed. We kept tucking it back in and eventually made it secure but we then saw another guy who had been punched in the face in a bar and the shock of it had caused him to vomit. We left the f**k off guy sitting by a wall and went to help this young lad. he could only have been 17 and his mate was completely sober. We got them home to their hotel ok, just gets to me sometimes when these guys are only about 4 years older than my son. What a great night out a fat lip and shirt covered in puke!!! We went back to find the other guy but he had gone......

The farm is such a lovely respite from the madness and we are so blessed to be here. The evening breezes are a life saver.

Dirty Dancing

Just watching "Dirty Dancing" with Tracy and the rest of the team. It's scary how a film ages although all the girls still like it, I'm not a big fan of chick flicks, any way how did baby change from shy girl to hot little temptress over night.

I still like the "I've had the time of my life song", you can tell I'm bored I'm blogging whilst everyone else is watching. There's a great car in the film. Baby is quite attractive but her hair is to fizzy.

The most disturbing thing about this little viewing is Bruce knows all the words.. there are aspects of his character I am starting to question

Chick flicks that I hate:

1. Dirty Dancing (frizzy hair and tight high riding trousers)
2. Mama mia (Abba)
3. 50 first dates (Repetitive)
4. Maid in Manhattan (Jennifer Lopez)
5. When Harry met Sally (Meg Ryan)
6. Footloose (early american coca cola advert)
7. Sleepless in seattle (Meg Ryan)
8. Bride wars (wedding movies)
9. Legally Blonde (to pink)
10. Pretty Woman (Richard Gere he was better in American Gigilo)
11. Titanic (The boat sinks)

I'm sure there are more help me please????

How to motivate chickens

U2 were good, just good, obviously their back catalogue is fantastic so almost anything they play has instant resonation therefore causing you to get into it, but to me they looked a little bit rusty and it almost felt like a rehearsal. The revolving drum kit was the only way Larry could stay in touch with the whole crowd but occasionally this meant he was out of touch with Bono and this lead to one or two moments where the band seemed disconnected. I wonder whether they work better with an English speaking audience?

We where very close to the front and the atmosphere was fantastic the nou camp was full, Snow Patrol were brilliant, tight, energetic and a great opening band, for Tracy and I it felt like a double header.

I am also now the proud owner of a lovely Freelander, getting up our hill has never been easier. The car is fantastic. I had no problems meeting Jude and Owen in Barcelona, we had a lovely evening meal together and then on the Thursday I spent the entire day on the Barcelona Ibiza ferry, a little boring, but worth it just to get the car over.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to getting the car over and also to all you lovely people who offered to drive over for me.

Got a busy week ahead, need to harvest all our potatoes and onions, plus the pear tree needs de-pearing. We will give the pears out in centre this week. Our grapes are looking good but they are not ready yet, got to get more water on them. It's a definite farm week this week. On top of the harvesting got to make a gate, sort out a way of killing the rats in the hay barn and stopping the sparrows from getting in to the chicken coup to steal all the food. I am thinking about shooting them, but ricochets around a barn could be deadly. We are also trying to work out a way to discover which chickens aren't laying when we discover who the slackers are, they are going in the pot!

In all honesty I think killing one would incentivize the rest to get back up to speed, there is nothing like the death of a team mate for laziness to motivate you to work that little bit harder.

What lies ahead

Simeon who has been with us for a few weeks helping out around the farm went for a walk this morning and came back followed by a friendly old pit bull it's a got a collar so we can't keep it but we gave her water and now she's sleeping on the porch with Tom our own dog.

This is going to be a good week. Tomorrow Tracy and I are off to see U2 in Barcelona, their opening gig, someone bought us some tickets. We are staying in a nice hotel which will also be cool, it's our wedding anniversary next weekend so this is a great way to celebrate 17 years of marriage. The last time I saw U2 live was the final gig of their european leg of the Joshua Tree in Cork, Ireland, 1987. I now feel old...... My favourite song of that concert was "Running to stand still" I can remember Bono saying "Just let the words of this song ring out across this city" there was almost complete silence it was phenomenal.

You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

I will then spend an extra day in Barcelona on my own waiting for our land rover to turn up, I'll probably go to the Picasso museum and find a few other galleries to mince about in. Owen and Jude Sweeny will hopefully get the car to Barca on time for the Thursday morning ferry and then I will spend 9 hours on the Med bringing it over, home by tea time.

The timing is fantastic as this week we do not have a team, the Irish team went home on Friday they were fantastic. I have had a few offers on the bibles front which is great.

Perspective

So today Farrah Fawcett died of cancer thats is sad, for her family and those who knew her, a long drawn out illness is harsh on everyone involved.

I feel also for the old ladies in Kisli district of Kenya who are being burnt alive for being suspected witches, it's horrific.

11 people died in another bomb blast in Bagdad this morning, more son, daughters, fathers, mothers slain, it's a painful world.

Death is one of the few certain things in life, it's horrible when it comes quickly or can be prevented.

I'm sad that Michael Jackson is dead, his children have lost a father and his music gives me a soundtrack to help remember one or two of my early teenage girlfriends. My sadness will be fleeting because I didn't know him.

Then I think of the fact that every 3 seconds a child dies on our planet of a preventable, curable disease, and I wonder "where did we all go wrong?"

Every year 15 million children die of hunger, why does that not shock me!!!

And today the millions cry, we eat and drink while tomorrow they die, fact is fiction, Tv reality!!

We've lost perspective, totally lost it, media driven celebrity driven culture, has scored a massive victory today all on the back of a troubled genius, who may have been odd but was just the father of 3 kids.

The Jesus Manifesto

Just read this Frank Viola and Leonard Sweet.

You can download the full PDF here some snippets here:

Jesus Christ cannot be separated from his teachings. Aristotle says to his disciples, “Follow my teachings.” Socrates says to his disciples, “Follow my teachings.” Buddha says to his disciples, “Follow my meditations.” Confucius says to his disciples, “Follow my sayings.” Muhammad says to his disciples, “Follow my noble pillars.” Jesus says to his disciples, “Follow me.” In all other religions, a follower can follow the teachings of its founder without having a relationship with that founder. Not so with Jesus Christ. The teachings of Jesus cannot be separated from Jesus himself. Jesus Christ is still alive and he embodies his teachings. It is a profound mistake, therefore, to treat Christ as simply the founder of a set of moral, ethical, or social teaching. The Lord Jesus and his teaching are one. The Medium and the Message are One. Christ is the incarnation of the Kingdom of God and the Sermon on the Mount.

I find Violas stuff a little negative and not always constructive. I have an early edition of Pagan Christianity, it was OKish!!! I don't mind negativity on one level, just when it's a big fat book full of it.

I'm not sure about Mr Sweet either, we tried to book him for a conference once, his charges where roughly £3500 per day, first class travel and the requirement of needing to stay in a 5 star hotel. I don't know why that put's me off his writings, a worker is worthy of his hire etc, but it does! My thoughts on Soul Salsa, where "trying to hard"

Anyway this document is good, you should read it.

Bibles and prostitutes

We have had a few more connections with these girls, they are very complex. They tell you their street names but then when you pray they write their real names down. We chat with them and then later in the evening we try to dissuade people from using their services! I think we stopped to lads this evening.

One thing we have discovered is they don't like just a new testament or a message version of the bible, they want full versions of the bible. I have to get some!!!

The other thing is that today 2 came of these ladies came into the centre and went through a chapter of the bible with Tracy, she then prayed with them both, and one of their prayers was that they would get different jobs. Obviously this for us was a little chink of light. Many of these girls are bound up in something that is so culturally removed from how we operate it's very difficult to know how to speak into it. We pray a lot about it. They do not have a pimp, they normally have a madam, they are held by debt but also by a thing called juju which hangs over their lives with a threat that if they don't do what they are told bad things will happen to their families, they really believe this stuff. So we continue to tread gently in this area, I am on the edge of feeling that if this goes any further I will have to stop blogging about it, as I don't want to betray confidence or over expose these ladies.

if you are the praying type please hold them in your prayers for us and please pray for wisdom and breakthrough for us as a team.

Anyway I am now going to see if I can find some free full versions of the bible. Maybe the bibles are the key???