Making Disciples Training Outreach...

The Word says in Ephesians 4 that we mature through doing the work of ministry...

but many times we dont know how. This is what

Making Disciples Training is all about!

Its a weekend where we focus on:

• Why is reaching the lost important
• Who are the lost
• How do we engage the lost
• How do we establish them in their relationship with God

We had an amazing time with really hungry and passionate people. The Friday night we spend teaching the heart and then Saturday we took them out to Olievenhoutbosch to practically go and apply and practise what they have learnt.

We also had lunch there prepared by the awesome woman in the photo below.

Afterwards the feedback we received was amazing.

About 7 people came and asked whether they could become more involved in Olievenhoutbosch and others testified how through being equipped to reach lost people and grow God's Kingdom has realligned them with God's calling on their lives.

We also had the oppertunity to share the gospel with Bravo (below). He committed hi life to Christ!! Please pray with us that we will have the oppertunity to disciple him into walking with God.

  



Mozambique Mission 2012

july 2012...

and yet another amazing trip to maforga, mozamique

This time around it was a student run mission. We were a group of 20, arriving just  a couple of days after the teenagers group left... And we took public transport !!!

Taking public transport all the way up to Maforga was really an awesome experience. Just know - its Africa time. We took a bus from JHB Park station up to Mutari in Zimbabwe. Going up the bus was 5 hrs late, coming back it was 6 hrs late, plus we had to change busses at around 1 AM!

From Mutari to the Mozambique border we took taxis, then again from the border to Maforga we took taxi's (shappa's as they are called there) and they were also our wheels whenever we needed to get around. There is definately no better way to get to know a culture than to travel with them... Scary at time, but fun!

The mission had a couple of focuses.

• Teaching at the Bible school. Only the students got oppertunity to teach and for some of them it was their first time! And they were brilliant!!
• Painting, cleaning and general work at the church building. We were privelaged to have the governer of Maputu come and honour the mission station for the work they are doing with the orphans. This only happens once in your lifetime - so this was a big deal!!!
• An outreach to Nshopi - a local village where they are in the process of planting a church. Nshopi is very strategic as it has a crossroads which head into all the diffirent directions - north, east, south and west.

It was such an amazing time with the team, really building good memories. With us using public transport we only had 6 days do effectively be and work at the mission station. But we really managed to give the students an all-round Mozambique experience. We taught at the Bible school, they went on an outreach, they visited the market at Chimoio and we had an awesome team lunch, we managed to fit 20 people into a shappa, we visited the waterfall, we had lunch with the governer of Maputu and we even had 3 guys taking out two bea hives that have been in a bedroom for years!!!

Olievenhoutbosch Testimonies...

It is with soooooo much joy and excitement in my heart that I share these following testimonies from Olievenhoutbosch... It is so amazing to see how God loves people and how He loves to transform their lives. God is so good!

This is Chand (left) and his brother Arfaan (right). They are both from Pakistan. Arfaan has, after months of going back and forth to the dept of home affairs, received his permit to legally stay in South Africa. Every week we would pray together and Arfaan's response is "All the glory to God!"

This is Michael (left) and Kwanele (right). Kwanele recently started working =) and Michael has received the oppertunity to go to college in Pretoria where he will undergo a civil engineering course. Both of these young men are part of the Discovery study groups and it's such a privelage to be able to journey with them!


Then there is also brother Frank. He is a real family man, but for very long he has been without work. It was really getting to him that he cannot provide for his family. Chand started taking Frank in, giving him a part time job at his shop and also providing a place where he can stay. Frank has now started working again as a driver!!

Thsepo, who is also going to study further, got a job at one of the local primary schools.

I am really just in awe of how good God is. My heart is so expectant for the community of Olievenhoutbosch. Just to see what God has got planned for the people that live here!