New ways of bringing hope
Wikus & Christien
Newsletter
October 2023
Hi, hope everyone is doing very well. Thank you
for walking and praying with us. Some have been with us for many years. We
really thank you for all the prayers friendship and support in many ways!
Focusing on missions is not the easiest lifestyle but it has the privilege of
seeing and experiencing how God works firsthand. Congratulations to the
Springboks also for winning the World Cup rugby again! Here are some of the
highlights as we move toward the end of the year.
Working
on a job-creation center - We are
working with Touching Africa towards a job creation center. We are in the
process of partnering with Touching Africa
and Work for a Living to see if we
can open a training center for job creation. We hope to see the training being
established next year. We have now finished with Ivan from world outreach with
a life coaching course and we are looking to establish a work for a living
center. They have been working with job creation for 17 years and have learnt a
lot of lessons. They have quite a few short courses available that are cheap
and can provide the training for those that don’t have work at all. Please pray
for us as this center has a lot of potential to address real issues in our
communities.
Southern-African
Ywam leaders meeting - Christien
went to the SA meeting of Ywam in Jeffrey’s Bay. It was a very blessed meeting
as most of the YWAM leaders people went to the meeting. It is a time of
transition for Ywam globally as the founder Loren Cunningham died in the last
month. He was a true servant of God and had extreme success during his lifetime
as God really blessed his work globally. He has left a great legacy as we have
an international university that is operating globally because of his work. Christien
connected well with the YWAM ministries around the country and she was again
made aware of our important role in reaching our local people with the gospel
in a practical way. Discipleship and mentorship is needed. Many people struggle
to overcome poverty, orphan spirit and traditional ancestral worship.
TPM in
SA conference coming up (Transformation Prayer Ministry) - We are heading up the TPMSA meeting that will
be held in Kroonstad the 10th- to 11th November. It is
the first in-person conference we will hold again, and we will also be
streaming it on Facebook. We are thankful for the Kroonstad Sel Gemeente who
will host us. We have trained about 400 people, and some go on and do many
sessions and others only do personal sessions. The Conference will focus on
topics like TPM and Children,
Handling Anger and Truth based pain, TPM Training etc. See ywampotch.com.
Online Prophetic
school and TPM online school finishing - The people
in the prophetic school are doing their last training sessions. The prophetic
school is focusing on the relationship with Jesus, and it is great to see how
the people are growing in understanding their calling and growing in
relationship with God. Our prophetic schools have been blessed from the time of
Corona and we had over 40 initial students. We also have very committed staff
from all over the world English and French.
The TPM School is also finishing in this time,
students and small groups had some extra time to finish homework and practice
sessions in small groups. We are so excited that people are so committed to
work hard to develop their TPM skill. Hearing a lot of testimonies of how God’s
answers changed people’s worldview and view of themselves, finding their true
identity in Christ.
Working
on humanities schools - Currently I am part of a group that is working
on presenting internet humanities schools. It is a very exciting project, and I
am also going to do the school myself. Humanities deals with governance and the
political sphere. I must study what the bible says about governance and must
get in line with what YWAM has learnt over the years with what has been taught
and written on this subject. In YWAM you can learn continually as God walks
with you in your calling. This is an exciting and new shift in what God has
been doing with our base.
Possible
TPM school & the Student Prophetic school in Potch We have been asked to do a TPM
school in Ikageng. This is a good opportunity to train counselors for the
community in Setswana. This will be an in-person school. Please pray for us to
overcome all obstacles to be able to do this course with our local community!
Currently we are also busy with an in person
prophetic school. We have about 12 students in our prophetic school, and we are
glad we can do a school close to the university again. Most students submitted their homework and we
had such blessed time in the Theory and also lots of practice sessions. This
group is a multicultural and multi-generational group that really loves,
support and learn from each other! We plan to have the same school in 2024 in
Potch!
Family
Highlights and prayer points
We
had Elandi’s kitchen tea this weekend and it was such a blessed time. She was
totally surprised and she also got a lot of presents needed for the kitchen!.
We are thankful that we could do it with contributions of family and friends! Pray
with us for their wedding end of January.· Josua is turning 20 tomorrow – we as so thankful for him and his passion for Christ. We learn from him and it’s a joy to walk the road with him. Pray with us for his exams, and a blessed New Year and season as young adult!
·
We
are also so excited that we will see Job, Iida and Diina end of this month.
They will visit us from Finland. Please pray with us for their travels and also
for them as they really are everyday missionaries in Finland!
·
Francois
will finish his degree in the next few weeks. Please pray for him for his new
season and also pray for his and Andrea’s calling. They plan to move to a new
place in Potch – please pray that they get the right and best place.
· Jonathan is also studying very hard as Engineering studies are packed – please pray for him who works (in IT) and study, may the Lord gives him grace and perseverance.
Connect with us
Email:
ywampotch@gmail.com
Facebook pages: Ywam Potchefstroom, WikusChristien Vorster
Website: http://ywampotch.com http://wikuschristien.blogspot.com
Paypal https://www.paypal.me/7Vorsters
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