Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Some work

The internet is really a college on it's own. There is so much to learn off it. I have taken advantage of this, since college isn't really an option right now. It's so expensive in America.
I've been looking at online marketing and affiliate marketing. It really is another world out there, you just need to know your way around that world, if only you could take a gps. As you probably know, many people have started buying online, instead of going to the store. The general idea is to have a niche blog or website, where you have articles and begin to promote product. The best part is that you don't even need to have your own product to begin with, you can just sell other people's products. My only problem at the moment is that finding a niche is not as easy as it sounds. It needs to be something that I can write alot about and preferably I have an interest in.
Anyone have any ideas?

Another online thing is FOREX, this may sound new to some of you or not. It is the foreign exchange. You buy one currency against the other. Sounds easy? Well, its not. I've had a forex practice account and I seem to be getting better, when I focus on it.

If I had to look at options of different kinds of work.

Option 1: Use what I'm learning now to make various avenues of revenue. Sure it's not safe and reliable. Sometimes, I wonder how it will turn out it years from now?

Option 2: The other option is to be stuck in a, which is not allowed to happen right now anyway for me. If I think about it, I would rather risk taking a chance on making $100 in an hour than working 10 hours in the day and making the same amount.

In my mind, it's better to work smarter with less hard work. Maybe this is just what I think.
How is it working out for you in your life?

Our new season

After a very trying and testing few months, we finally have some direction for what we need to do. We came up to PA expecting for one thing to happen and to our surprise of course, God closed that door. But forunately God doesn't forget that He closed the door, so now we sit with a new oppurtunity.

It has been so amazing to see how God has provided for our family over the past few months. As many of you know, we don't earn a salary at the moment so it's all God. I really am amazed at how much faith my parents have. They just keep going, I not only wanted to give up once, but maybe once daily.
Anyway back to our open door, back in South Africa we had someone stay at our house that was from here. When we moved up here he introduced us to his Mother, who introduced us to her daughter. Thats just the beginning. She introduced us to her husband and then we finally met his parents. Whew!
Now, this family have run a youth group in Reading (a little, yet bigger town than ours) which is going really well. We are now getting involved with them and have started Wednesday night meetings. In a few weeks, we will be looking at starting on Sunday mornings. We would appreciate your prayers for this as we still need to find a place to meet.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Open please

So after having some friends from Europe for a busy two weeks, things started slowing down again. Not fun at all. I very easily get frustrated when I'm not doing anything. I remembered one day in Bible School we talked about how "the footsteps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord." I had enough of this waiting around. I began to quote this while running the one day (I run when i get upset) and literally told God, maybe wrong, that He had better open up something for me now. After all it is what He said in the Bible.
The very funny thing is that within 24 hours three doors opened, sure they weren't big doors (yet) but they were oppurtunities none the less.

The moral of the story, quoting scriptures actually does work. Sometimes I wonder why I only use it when I'm desperate?

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Differences



Let's take a look at some of the most significant differences between South Africa and America.

Probably the most noticable is the accent. South Africans are very proud of there accents and we have every right to be, it's one of the only things I'm proud I got from my country, that winning the rugby of course.

Having a accent in Pennslyvania is even different than having one in florida. In Florida you can get away with some things, but not here. They don't know what water is! To them its Waader. I'm trying my best to keep my accent, not like my brother who has lost half of his already!

Another very difficult thing to get used to is the humor.
South Africa = Dry
America =Random
Did you ever see the movie "Napoleon Dynamite"? Thats such typical American humor. When I saw that movie I didn't get it, it was stupid to me. But when South Africans watch old Leon Schuster the Americans don't get it. This was a big thing that I still haven't got used to and I'm not sure if I ever will.


One of the most frustrating things between the two countries is visiting. In South Africa, we would just go over to friends and hang out with maybe a days notice. Or just show up with some meat for a braai (barbeque) and watch some rugby. Not so here, you need to book in advance.

When we moved to Florida, we knew all our neighbours within a few days. They said that they had live on the street for years and never met any of the neighbours. Very Different.

This takes some getting used to, since back in SA we had people in and out of our house all the time. Now it's rather empty.

However I'm not going to end on this note, Americans are very open to share and are very hospitably once you get to know them. I think they are the most giving people in the world. When my parents arrived, we were give a whole household. Everything in our house was given to us.
If you have been to USA and have noticed anything different let me know! Of coarse there are hundreds of things that we just forget or don't realise to quickly.






My New Blog

I've decided to start blogging to let all my friends, family and others know how and what Im doing here in the states.
It truly has been a interesting year in many ways. Some of which are very challenging and others very enjoyable.

I moved to Florida from South Africa in June 5th 2007, after completing two years of Bible College. I stayed in Jacksonville for almost 8 months with my family, before we decided to move up north to Pennsylvania. When God closes one door, you can be sure He will open another one. Which He did.

So we are currently living in a nice big house (our biggest one yet) on a farm in the middle of nowhere! This is totally different for me, because I'm used to the city. We are plannning on starting a church in a city called Reading, which is not to far from us. We are really excited about it and know that God is going to do something there.

Over the next few weeks I'm going to tell you some of the stories and things I've seen and experienced in America. So stay tuned for updates.

Dreaming

If we don't keep considering our dream it will stay a dream or worse, it will become a nightmare.

A Father's Voice