Knowing God in this season - Newsletter
Message
about the Corona virus
One of the messages
to the YWAM Global South the speaker was talking about Jer 9:23: “This is what
the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast
about their wisdom or the strong boast about their strength or the rich boast
about their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have
the understanding to know me,”
This is very much in
line with what we received about the Corona virus. It is a time of fire where
our foundations are tested. All of us are praying for relief. Personally I believe
the relief will come about the end of October.
Doing
missions in this time -
The first 2 weeks of
the lockdown was really difficult for me to know what to do as we were very
stuck in our homes. Then like everybody we tried something on the internet. It
became a journey for me to develop the prophetic school online. It has
developed into a serious course and three books I have written are now part of
the course. This gives me a lot of fulfillment as all the teachings are now not
in vain but can now be homework of students that seem to enjoy the course very
much and really learning new revelations from scripture. We are currently busy
with a course and it takes two months for a group and anybody can do it. It
looks like a long term winner for our base and we already can see very good
fruit from it.
Family
As a couple and
family we are going through a transition as the twins are busy with matric and
next year 4 out of the 5 kids our out of the house! Daily we are waiting on the
Lord to open up our new season. But in all this adventure we have a firm anchor
in the voice of the Holy Spirit!
The twins are
currently in their final school year and very busy -they both applied to study
at our local University next year and we are very thankful that Jonathan already
passed his qualification test to study Computer Engineering. Elandri is still
waiting for her evaluation to study Music. She got a special Masters class on
her violin from a professor from the University – she enjoyed it and was very
blessed!
Job and Iida got
engaged just before she returned back home to Finland where she will finish her
2nd year of University study online– please pray for them in these times Andrea
got a job to baby sit every day and she will resume her final University year
soon. She is very creative and making pillows and baking for her fundraising.
Doing
a YWAM school with Jim Stier – Living Word Seminar
Jim Stier is part of
the founders circle and pioneered Brazil. Wikus did a two week Living Word
school with him and 60 others focusing on Galatians. It was really like
gathering golden nuggets and after the 2 weeks there was a lot of golden
nuggets and my pockets were full of important revelation. It is a great
privilege to have these riches spiritually in our midst (and it is available to
all cheaply through the internet now).
It
was really a journey of refinement and gave me and my wife new deeper insight
into the ways of God. If I can describe Ywam it is a network of people that
dared to follow their callings through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
A
few important realizations were:
·
Paul
heard God’s call but nobody around him.
·
Paul
didn’t try to please men but were called by God to please God.
·
We
all have grace for our calling and purpose and we should carefully discern what
is our calling and the grace we are called into.
Our
refugee friends building a base
From Potch we helped
Tresor and Falone to get out of the refugee camp. They did DTS in Blantyre and
are now building a base opposite the refugee camp- they first developed the
land for farming and now they are busy with a building project – please pray
for them and support where you can! We couldn’t have hoped for better fruit
than seeing an Ywam base opposite the refugee camp by refugee leaders
themselves. The passion, commitment and faith of this couple are amazing. They
received brilliant training at Blantyre and God is really building on the
vision He gave to release refugees into missions.
We want to continue
to support them in every way. Here is a few photos – see also videos on our
Operation Refugee Facebook page.
See videos on face book:
· Fundraising info (Ivonn made this very informative video)
Prayer
topics:
1) Ivonn Dewig is our
new Operation Refugee marketer but she had to start in the middle of a pandemic
with fundraising for Operation Refugee. Please pray with her for victory. You
can also LIKE our Fb page and join the campaigns she run.
2) We are going to
start with the process of registering the Prophetic school in the University of
the Nations (of YWAM‘s) EXTENTION STUDIES . Please pray with us for this
process.
3) The twins are now
starting soon with their record exam in this pandemic matric year.
4) Vusi is doing the
DBS Bible school online with YWAM Durban and will be coming back to lead a DTS probably
early next year – please pray with us for him and our next schools.
5) Please pray for
our missionary friends in Northern Mozambique where there is serious war and
many refugees fleeing for their lives from Muslim extremists.
6) Our friends in DRC
Congo also asked for prayer since they also have problems with Malaria (after
the heavy rains) as well as Corona.
KEEP CONTACT
Facebook pages:
Ywam Potchefstroom, WikusChristien Vorster, Operation Refugee-YWAM
Potch
WEBSITE: http://ywampotch.com
BLOG: http://wikuschristien.blogspot.com
PAYPAL https://www.paypal.me/7Vorsters
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