Halfway House...

Half way through the year, we stopped to reflect on the growth and to share the vision for the future! We had such a great night of fellowship together!

About 130 leaders and upcoming leaders from the church came together to celebrate what God has been doing in 2011 and to allign themselves with what God still wants to do this year...

Mozambique Mission - 24 June - 6 July

On Friday the 24^th of June we left very early the morning for the follow-up mission to Mozambique.

Having had a very successful trip in April we were full of faith and excitement for what God was going to do. We were not disappointed…

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Sunday Church Service



We spent the week with the Bible school students teaching on hearing the voice of God. We had 3 days of teaching where we practically engaged in hearing God’s voice, giving them opportunities to hear God’s voice for themselves, each other and also the nation!

Every week the Bible school has an outreach. We were privileged to go on two!

Prison in Gondola

Local Primary School in Seserra

 Riëtte and Yolandi with the boys

Riëtte and Yolandi with the girls on "the farm"

 Kennedy with the older boys

 

Seserra

I also had the privilege of going with Serra into his village, Seserra, where he showed me around. We would drive to a location then walk around, visiting the house, praying for the people, driving to the next location and doing the same. Walking with Serra through his village I couldn’t help to think that this is how Jesus also did it.  I could see that he has an immense love for his people and his words from that day still lie deep in my heart: “These houses have people in them and these people need Jesus”. That is why he does what he does, sacrificially and daily!

 Once again this has been an amazing visit to our family in Mozambique. We are so excited to see the transformation in the lives of people and how it flows into the community. This is what we dream to see – the church, in the form of people, passionately loving and serving God and impacting every area of society around them! This mission once again just emphasized once again that discipleship is relationship!

Thank you so much for all the prayers (PRAY)and financial (PAY) support! A huge thank you to Bibles for Believers and Vaalrivier Dienstasie who made it possible for us to take 200 Bibles to Mozambique!

I personally can’t wait to GO again…

Lessons from golf... take 1

Golf is most definatly the sport I enjoy the most, but also the sport where I have come very close to breaking something. I've experienced amazing joy when I hit a hole-in-one when I was 16, but I've also experienced such intense frustration when I can't even hit a pitching wedge straight. During my years playing golf God has often given me a lesson of life... And it's these that I want to share with you. (this will also inspire to get on the golf course more often!)

- Take 1 -

Playing time here in Pretoria/Centurion has definately been few and far between. I dont have the playing freedom I am used to while I was living in Douglas. So, this means that the golf is VERY inconsistent so I try to spend time on the driving range as often as I can.

This story is about one of those times. It started out great. I hit the balls sweet, they went into the direction I was aiming in (well more or less) and I really felt good about my golf. For the first time in a while. Then... I lost my swing. I could'nt hit anything. Not even my favoirite club in the bag, the 7 iron.

Something was horribly wrong and I didnt have the faintest idea what.

I knew that my golf was better than what I was seeing (and unfortunately others as well) so I spoke to God. There had to be a lesson in this, there had to be a reason for me sucking that bad! How could I just lose my swing???

This is the response I got: That is exactly what a christian is like who has lost his faith. Like a golfer who has lost his swing.

And it hit me, this was a warning, not to lose faith. No matter what circumstances we are faced with, we cannot afford to lose faith. Otherwise we will be as effective as a golfer without a swing who cant even make the easy shots...