Well, it is hard to process and explain everything I was feeling as we completed our trip in Africa…2 days in Zambia and one in South Africa. Africa has been invaded by our Western culture and is destroying it and making it harder for people to win others to Jesus. In Uganda they told me that it has totally broken down the family unit. There is no respect for parents and young people are acting out what they see on the media outlets (yes, even in Uganda). Then just now as I land in England from an all night flight from J burg, I see the headlines of how the pill is now being offered online in England, in over 1,000 high schools you can get it free. The morning after pill is also offered in high schools free and the pregnancy rates for under 14 year old girls is up about 30 percent! I wonder why? It all seems to make so much ’sense’ to them, and there are signs it is all coming our way.

Africa is also being invaded by Muslims….all over the continent. They have a strategy they have been planning for years (literally decades), offering things like banks with no interest loans, to bury those who die of HIV for free (to endear the family members) starting businesses, building mosques all over and in some cases moving their college age men to these nations to go to school and encouraging them to " marry 3 Christian girls and have as many children as possible." Thousands of missionaries have given their lives to win Africa to Christ, now it is in perilous danger of being lost. They are pushing Southward and we (the BODY) must do something to stop the invasion. Many are out there trying (Like Rich and Michell Franzen and their family whom we saw) but tens of thousands more are required NOW.

Cameron and I had had an amazing time…he shot about 1,000 photos with the Canon camera he purchased himself. (You will probably see some of them show up in brochures). I talked to Katie, and she is in New Zealand with the teams, and Charity called from Uganda (they have just started ministering to the boys rescued from child soldier army)… she said it was amazing and heart breaking.

Let us give ourselves, our children and our very lives to get this Good News to each and every human being Jesus died for.
 

Well here I am in Uganda with my son Cameron. We got here and hit the ground running. We are dreaming big with the national leaders here who want a "Battle Cry Africa"….I am seeing evidence here of all the impact that the garbage from the States (media) is having on the young people here.

I saw our team here (my daughter Charity is here with the team) and I saw her "preach like a woman from another world!"   Wow, I was shocked, blessed, and amazed! I’m going to an orphanage today and on to Zambia tomorrow!

I am reminded every day of the war we are in for teens…their hearts, minds, and their culture.  As I am putting the finishing touches on the new book I am writing with my daughter Charity (the adult version is Re-Create: building a culture in your home stronger than the culture deceiving your kids;  the teen version Re-Create your World…out on Aug 1) it is never so apparrent as it is now.  Just look at the headline this week online…the teen sex study…ie telling them to use condoms does not work…and the nude pics on cell phones as an acceptable form of flirting….isn’t  it obvious?

We Christians have been labeled ‘hate-mongers’ just because we don’t want our kids, or their culture, to deteriorate into a moral abyss of putrified puss.  Having a backbone is not hating, it is actually loving those we seek to protect, and loving God.  Of couse lets be careful how we communicate so we don’t inadvertanly  draw the hate label.

 The Battle Cry campaign  (the book, 40 other ministries, tv etc, cnn, abc niteline, ny times article etc) was all designed to wake up the Church and America to what is happening with teens, and call them to action.  As we launch phase 2 of this campaign (the action phase) I pray God will grace us as the Church with the ability to see what is happening all around us and to be part of the solution.

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Well, time for a second post….I would have done one sooner if not for some confusion regarding this blog thing……Well my daughter Hannah (18 years old) has been in Australia since January with HIllsong College.  She returned home to surprise the rest of our family for Charity’s (my 17 year old) graduation party!  It was an amazing reunion, tears everywhere.  Today she is flying (at this very moment) back to Aussiland for the rest of the year.  What an emotional scene at the airport as we all sobbed and hugged each other. 

Well now I have got to get to all the stuff I should have been doing while she was here…finishing a teen book, preparing for the fall ATF content and SUMMER MISSIONS!  We will have thousands of students invading Garden Valley, TX starting June 7….to go change the world.  I will be going with my son Cameron (13) to Uganda and Zambia…then when I return to speak at Creation East, he will go on his own trip to Italy for 3 weeks.  I guess you can’t ask other parents to send their kids if I am not willing to send my own.