Gayla's Magazine

Cafe Geva Christmas Drinks

The Christmas Season brings with it all sorts of special memory making events, surprises and delightful tastes and smells!  Cafe Geva is proud to show you the Christmas Specialty Drinks  offered for the season.  These are original recipes known only to a secret few - sorry no secrets will be told here..... but you can come by and get yourself a treat!!

 

 
 

 

 

 

It was fun creating them.... the staff and I had a good time!  What is the number one top seller?  The Angel Kiss. Don't you deserve one?

Too much food!

We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner with private friends in a beautiful setting.  Good friends.... great conversations... lots of laughter and fun together! With starters such as curried chicken salad with grapes, Thai salads, special cheese crepes, truly good turkey, and jalapeno cranberry sauce (ooo so good)  I thought you might like to see one of the desserts here....

 

The next day we enjoyed a private Thanksgiving dinner - just the two of us - at home.  With a meal we both enjoy.... Apricot Chipotle BBQ chicken on the grill with fresh veggies. And a warm fire in the fireplace... and the two of us just being together... there can be nothing better in our lives. 

 

And the next day.... after such fantastic food, it's time for something easier on the body.  We head to our favorite vegetarian Indian restaurant and enjoy a flavorful meal that makes our taste buds dance!   Tandoori carrots, cilantro dip, yogurt with cucumbers and tomatoes, spicy cauliflower bits, lentil soup and creamy spinach to name a few of the dishes that were so very good!  Add buttery rice, and curry potatoes with onions and garlic with a slice of Naan, and this meal is out of this world!!

Thanksgiving Day / weekend has been wonderful and full of bountiful food! I am thankful for all the many blessings this Thanksgiving brings to us.  I am truly grateful as there are many other holidays we have down through the years....some without family, some without good food, and some that were just plain old hard times.  But this year I am so thankful for each blessing and person in my life. 

Cafe Geva Fall Menu

It's going to be a wonderful season at Cafe Geva - the coffee shop at New Life. The Cafe staff has now begun their fall hot drinks menu and wow some really special drinks can be enjoyed now.  Like the drink of the week this week!  It's a hot sweet creamy 'pumpkiny' spicey with a touch of chocolate in it.  Mmmmmm so good - I tested one yesterday, you just gotta try this!

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Last week it was a Smores Latte.  Oh too good!!!

And next week?  It's gonna be another treat drink!

I'm thinking.... raspberries.... white chocolate.... marshmallows.... all swirled together in a fabulous concoction of rapturous delight!!!

Sweet! The best place to go before a full day of work is Cafe Geva for a treat!

African Autumn Tea

My darling mother sent me a card that is so special. Just the perfect thing... as my spirit has been a little tired with so much happening recently.

 

She and I are special tea lovers and she found 'African Autumn Tea' and sent me some to share with her.  Africa will forever be in our lives....

 

Two little bags of fragrant tea in silk bags! I will call her and we will have a cup of tea together over the phone!  I love my mom!!  It's nice after all these years to have her in the USA, so I can talk to her often. 

Moms Against Hunger - Zimbabwe Shipment

Moms Against Hunger

Today I am writing thank you notes to everyone who supported Moms Against Hunger - the Zimbabwe food shipment. I am happy to tell you that the jam packed container is now loaded on board the ship, and it is ready to depart the Houston Port for Durban South Africa on August 18th.
I am grateful to all my supporters who also care about hurting humanity and want to help somehow.  Together we are all working together to make this happen. 

I will certainly keep you informed as to it's progress and arrival in Bulawayo Zimbabwe.  Now the next leg of the journey will happen....

I do want to feed the hungry....  and now a huge load of food is headed there by all of us working together.

Come take a walk with me.....

Come walk with me down a road in Zimbabwe in my memories.  We are headed to a orphanage that is unique in nature.  It has orphaned children and elderly destitute people living together here.  Together they provide support for each other - the older teach the younger about life, and the responsibilities of growing up.  And the young children teach the elder to love, and provide the arms and legs for the work daily.

People that had been thrown away find Jesus in this humble place together. 

Children who have suffered the loss of their parents usually through the suffering of Aids, find their way to comfort in the arms of the older.

Setting together getting ready for devotions each day, everyone arrives to set on the logs or the dirt itself. t's quiet here, a cool breeze sweeps through, birds sing overhead and their voices of prayer are lifted in the outside atmosphere calling on God for daily bread.

Greeting us with gifts we all rejoiced at being together again.  Simple gifts for us and our acts of kindness for them, our mutual love for each other was obvious. 

This little building is the morgue here.  When someone dies the others place the body in here and lock the door awaiting authorities to come and take it.  Once a elderly man died and he was placed in here and locked away as was the custom.  The next day when devotion time came, banging and kicking and shouts could be heard from the little building.  At first fear came on the others listening, but then they recognized his voice so joyfully they opened the door and let him out!  He had come back to life while they were all praying......

Setting here with the women. we share smiles, and the pure joy of being together again.  What is so great about setting here in seemingly abject poverty?  These people while suffering greatly have learned to cherish small joys in life, they have a freedom from modern pressures, stresses and anxieties,  they share each other's life, the value of God in ones heart, and His close Presence all around.  This ...... is a richness that those who  live on the other side of the world experience daily. 

Today I walk back to this place in my mind and remember all of these people. They live far back in the bush country, and I wonder if they will eat today.  Soon we will begin a campaign to raise the funds for distribution and  travel expenses  as we head back to Zimbabwe representing Moms Against Hunger.  And we will experience the joy again of giving to people who will greatly benifit from the food and provisions  shipped to them.

We are coming Zimbabwe..... 

I will tell you more later...   

Moms Against Hunger Zimbabwe Shipment

I have been intensely focused upon my Moms Against Hunger food shipment for Zimbabwe.  Everyday ....prayer all day long, every single day my attention has been on pulling the money together for this shipment - producing it straight out of nothing.  I have had my total mind upon speaking this into existence.  That early morning 1 month ago I arose with an overwhelming urgency in my spirit to reach out and find a way to ship.  Moms Against Hunger already had shipments going, so this was in addition to what we were already doing.  So to find the extra money was going to take a miracle.  God came through for me and here's the rest of the story!

I am happy today to tell you that the shipping portion of the money needed has been raised.  A special thank you to all of my compassionate supporters who joined with me to make this happen.   The day after the rest of the funds came in,  a container was ordered and we prepared to ship!!! 
Yesterday was my husband's birthday and we spent his special day pouring out for the needs of others.  (Today we will  celebrate his birthday!)

 

It's 107 degrees here when the container arrived.  Already I am sweated down, but excited.

 

The container smells! So a layer of absorbent product is put down first to absorb all smells. A closed in place for a month can get overwhelming - so it's important to take care of this first.

 

My husband oversees the guys loading.  Every inch of this container is to be jam-packed, and he is a professional making every inch count.Look how sweated down the guys are getting already.  We only have 2 hours to load this container so it's fast and hot work!

 

Angela meticulously counts the boxes for our paperwork for the load.

 

It's so tightly packed that he gets on the forklift himself and pushes and pushes to make sure it's going to not have any 'air' between pallets.

 

It takes many hands to actually do this work, I am so thankful for every staff member who jumped on board to help complete this.

 

 

Just one more box! 

 

I know what will happen the day this container gets reopened.  There will be laughter, and joy and bouncing around.  Africans will all joyfully come to lay their hands on it and help carry boxes.  Pastor Clyde Bismark will be so thankful.  So from my hands to yours my African family..... here is aid with love.  I know this will be a help and an encouragement to you that your American Christian family cares and sends aid at this most desperate  hour in your country.

 

My husband and I pray over this load, for all sorts of good to come from it.  I am thankful it's done. 

I feel exhausted, and drained.  Going away to rest now.

 

'Eat This Not That' Book

I just have to share this fabulous book with you!  If there is just ONE book I could inspire you to get for the health of your family, this is it.  It's called, 'Eat This Not That'.  A Supermarket Survival Guide.

The reason 'regular' food keeps packing on the pounds is all the hidden fats, sugars and chemicals that manufacturing companies are sneaking in processed foods.  This guide shows you which foods are the safest ones for actual human consumption.

With all the advertizing hype it's hard to know whats really the truth. Here's your answer!

Did you know that high fructose corn syrup added to foods, actually  will 'help' you to gain weight? Here's a list of juices and the truth about each one. 

You know you need these two pages!  An ice cream guide to help you choose wisely.  I bought the right one - a true ice cream and wow it is good. No more chemicals!

Now this page is important.  Ever wonder what all that 'stuff' that can't be pronounced in  the ingredients list is?  Here it is...... Along with the safety or dangers each one is. 

This book helped me to find the first lunch meat product made without sodium nitrate (a known carcinogenic that I can't believe is legal to put in food)   I found it at my local grocery store and we had lunch meat for the first time in years!

Get this book - your health is worth it!

I Am Serious.... I need help to do this.

I am so serious about doing something about the helpless suffering going on in Zimbabwe.  I put out a 'mayday' call to everyone in my address book.  A few have responded.  But I need MORE to help.  If just 1,000 people will give 10.00 each - we can ship a container of Moms Against Hunger rice product to them.  It is completely within the power of each person reading my blog today to do this. Please help! 

I got back one email saying "oh this things are just a chain letter - just ignore it" 

BELIEVE ME.... this is no chain letter, this is a real need, of thousands of people at a complete loss and helpless in the hands of those in control.

Chaos lies in the hands of starving people. 

Please click the donate button on the side and help me. Together you and I can help. 
Can we really say no?  The need is urgent -
 I want to go to sleep at night knowing that I did something to help. I spent my childhood in Africa - I can not ignore this need!

Moms Against Hunger - has the food, I just need the money to ship!  It's going to cost around $10,000 - please help.  
www.momsagainsthunger.org  go see what I am serious about doing. 

Alert - please help!!!!

Good morning,

Recently we received a personal visit from long-time old childhood friends from Zimbabwe Africa.  They came to tell us what is happening in Zimbabwe right now. I need to tell you this information – it is very urgent information.  Our friends arrived from various people that bartered  together to get a airline tickets for them in Zimbabwe. They felt like this was their only chance to get the outside world to please please help.

Their money system has collapsed completely – they have no currency in the country.  Only American money or South African Rand can be used as legal tender now.  How are people surviving?  They are bartering.  If someone has anything of worth in their home – it is now being used as money to survive on.  The conditions of society at large is perilously close to complete ruin.   People are now going without normal products and food.  Our friends are using their small yard garden to survive right now, as well as trying to feed the children around them.

Cholera is now in the nation, from the lack of clean water in their water purification systems.  No money to buy the purifying chemicals for cities to have clean water.  This is horrifying.   

The government has declared all humanitarian food shipments to be duty free.  It’s the one humane thing that has happened.  

 

Here is why I am emailing you - I have RIGHT NOW in my possession, a complete shipment of food that is ready to go, but I lack the money to ship it.  It costs about 10,000 US dollars to ship a container from us to Zimbabwe. 

 

Please would you help me – please forward my email to everyone in your address book.  I know we ‘grass root’ people could ship a container –  a small 20 foot one would hold 150,000 meals – a big one 40 foot would hold 250,000 meals .  If everyone just did something – we could help this poor nation who are at the mercy of circumstances beyond their control.   

 

Here is my website that can be seen what these meals consist of.  They are specially designed for starvation populations in the world.  There is a donate button to use on the top left side.  

 

www.momsagainsthunger.org  

 

Thank you and please help me. 

Dr Gayla Holley

 

PS If you are unsure how to send to all on your address book – scroll to the bottom and right click and scroll up – It will highlight everyone – then press send.