To the southernmost part of Africa -- Victor Kubik

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January 18, 2013

Today I will leave for my furthest away destination, Cape Town, South Africa. Tomorrow I will be presenting a Good News seminar and we hope to have a good crowd on hand.  More than 80 plus showed up for the Kingdom of God seminars.....we are encouraged by the new prospects that God is working with.

I wish I could put pictures in as I write, but I will do so after I get home. I have figured out how to do it on the Nexus7 tablet I'm using but don't have the SD card adapter here. 

Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk and was surprised about all the foreign embassies in the neighborhood.  I walked by the Iraqi and Pakistani embassies. Monique and Jason showed me the Russian embassy that's about a block from their home.  I got out of the car and the guard photographed me in front of the sign.  People are "friendly."  Now, I see whey there are so many Russians here at the guest house.  The next room over to me had a party and it was all Russian...they were laughing, talking loudly and having a good time.

Breakfast begins with Aljazeera news on TV. The news begins with the Dreamliner groundings and Lance Armstrong's confessions to doping in winning his bike medals.  Very sad.  So sorry to see a person defamed....because of THEIR dishonesty and mistakes. I found out why Aljazeera is seemingly available to all.  If you have cable or satellite TV, Aljazeera is included in the basic charge unlike BBC or other news services which are the more "premium" services.

Then there was an extensive commentary about music torture used at Guantanamo and in the Viet Nam war.  It really made the Americans look bad, especially since they used Christopher Cerf of Sesame Street fame who wrote more than 200 Sesame Street songs. He went around with the Aljazeera crew around the US interviewing army personnel who were in Guantanamo along with music psychology specialists.  All to make the Americans look bad. The torture was terrible....listening to Metallica and Led Zeppelin for 8 solid hours straight with head phones forced on.  The hypocrisy is a bit much.  It all demonstrated in how evil a world we live in and how much we need a new order and change of heart.  Man does not have it in himself to bring peace which must begin with God.

Isella picked me up about 10 am and took me over to her place with her husband and son, and we talked for about an hour.  I left most of things at their house and Isella took me to the Johannesburg airport for my nearly two hour flight to Cape Town.  Check in was as easy as the US.  I only had carry on and off I flew on Mango airlines to Cape Town. 

I was met by Graham Cowley, a leading member in the East London congregation. He is also a member to SANATCO (South African National Council).  He will be flying up with me back to Johannesburg on Sunday morning for the quarterly meeting.  I had never met him before. I had heard many wonderful things about him, but did not know what he looked like, but he spotted me and we then drove by car up to Barbara Botha's home about half hour away in the northern suburbs of Cape Town. Graham is married.  His wife's name is Heather and they have three children, the youngest Joshua who is 13 and is still at home.  The weather was sunny and very warm...about 90 degrees.
 
We're not sure about the plans about where we are staying for the weekend. Barbara Botha, widowed wife of two years from beloved Stan Botha is very hospitable and offered for us to stay with her. Her son Vivien, leader in the Cape Town church lives about half an hour away and has also offered for me and Graham to stay with him, but Vivien has a difficult situation with his wife Cathy who has Cystic Fibrosis. She was diagnosed with it when she was a young teen and is now 40 years old.  Vivien and Cathy have been married for ten years and she was not expected to live for more than two years and now it's been eight beyond that.  She has been in and out of the hospital quite a bit of late and is not doing well this weekend and is considering going back in.  According to the doctors, there is not much that can be done.  I have heard about Cathy Botha, but have never met her and now will have the opportunity.   Our plans are continually changing and we settle out at keeping Cathy at her mother's and Vivien and I will stay at his mother Barbara's.  Graham, Vivien and I are at Barbara's home who also cares for her granddaughter Hannah, whose mother (Barbara's daughter) died a few years ago of cancer.  The family has gone through much tragedy. The last time I visited Cape Town was in 1996 and was a guest of Stan and Barbara Botha's  She is a tremendous servant and example of faithfulness and courage.  Cathy, too, is a woman of great courage facing a very uncertain life with CF. 

Barbara prepared a delicious dinner, some of what was brought over by Cathy's mother Hillary.  We spent the evening talking and looking forward to the next day and the Kingdom of God seminar which will be at the Golf Club more near the center of Cape Town.  We discussed the plan for the next days' program and expectations.  The seminar will start at 11 am.