Memoirs of A Wannabe Missionary: November Newsletter

Memoirs of A Wannabe Missionary: November Newsletter: "Hi , Another month has passed here in Cape Town, and while some things have gotten a little easier other things have gotten mor..."

A South African Favourite: the chocolate crunchie

We made these with the ladies at our baking workshop and they were an absolute hit..they are kind of like the English flapjack,but with a kick :)

Ingredients                                                                    

2 cups cake flour                                 
2Tbl spoons cocoa
2 Tsp bp                                          
3 cups of oats
1 cup of coconut
1cup of sugar
350g margarine(melted)


Method: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Sift together the flour,cocoa and baking powder in a large mixing bowl.Add the oats,coconut and sugar and mix.
Add the melted margarine and mix until dry ingredients are well moistened.
Press the mixture into sprayed baking tray,spreading it evenly.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until baked through and slightly crisp.


Icing
2 cups icing sugar
2 Tbl cocoa                                                  
2 Tsp melted margarine
1/5 cup warm water

While crunchies are in the oven,prepare the icing

Sift together the icing sugar and cocoa.Add the margarine and water and mix to form a stiff paste.Spread over the crunchies while still hot.Cut crunchies while still warm ( no kidding because if you don't you will need about three people to get them out of the pan). Enjoy!!

                                                             

Release....the future is filled wth colour

Soooo last two weeks have been pretty good,I did a prophetic art workshop...it was actually called a " freedom in creativity workshop" and freedom there was.

God is Just ( worshiping through colour)

I think it was the first time that I actually sat and played around with paint without feeling the pressure to have it come out just right...normally I could spend hours "painting from my heart" and at the end I would never be satisfied with what I had done but at this workshop it was just about me worshiping God through art and allowing Him to speak through colour and images.  At one  point we focused specifically on just worshiping through colour,no form  just colour  and  learnt how certain colours reflect certain themes and even characteristics of God. After that I felt like going home and emptying entire buckets of paint on a convas...he he he
 

The next exercise we had was to kind of paint what we felt God was wanting to emphasize in this season of our lives..we had a list of phrase/scriptures to choose from....I don't remember the one I chose exactly but it had something to with being sealed and establish and this <- is what I painted.

Its funny all this talk about colour,once I was insatiably drawn to yellows and oranges,I would probably have left the house looking a sunflower  if I could have. But now I feel more drawn to blue...a pale tourqouise blue ->

I can't get enough of it,it really its the strangest thing to me,I  don't even know when I started liking the colour...but it is the official colour of this season I'm in.