Newslettetter July 2012

Wikus & Christien Vorster

Newsletter July 2012

SOAP school students…

Hi, from Worcester.

We wake up with snow on the mountains every day. Praise God for the beauty of nature! We are very busy in this adventurous year. Sometimes when I look back I cannot believe the risk we took, but it is still a tremendously blessed season for us. Every day God’s will for Potchefstroom and other universities is unfolding before us. What a wonderful time of meeting with Jesus!

Soap school

Wikus are presently very busy with the soap school. It is a leadership school of YWAM and we are getting some of the best speakers. Marty Meyer who is one of the founders of the school spoke the 1^st week, he is from the Idaho base in the United States. They pioneered this leadership school and are planting the school in the 3 rd continent. USA, India and now in Africa. They also pioneer the  Small discovery group move around a YWAM base. Literally tens of thousands of teenagers have come into a deeper relationship with Christ through their Mission Adventure program .

They are at work in the 10/40 window in the North of India where there is only 5% of Christians.  They are wonderful contacts for the coming base in Potchefstroom. I already asked him if he would speak at our DTS next year. We will be able to join them with effective outreaches in India where people have never heard the name of Jesus. We saw videos where people are in India doing evangelism.

Small group move

They encourage us to be “born-pregnant” as a base; Thus having a vision for a new base when you start. We already have somebody from Brazil that wants to start a base/ministry in Botswana that wants to get ready at the Potch base. We also have Pretoria University in our heart. Please pray for us for this move of global mission on the universities.

What I love from my stay at YWAM this year is that everybody is trained to just listen to the voice of God. Room is created that everybody can listen to the Holy Spirit themselves. All the structures are there to serve people to listen to the Holy Spirit and also to live their dream and passion.

Every Friday we are reaching out into the community. We had people from Floyd Mclung’s movement that came and explained how to rapidly plant small groups in an area. I have already started 4 to listen to God how to plant groups and I am now free to not be a discovery-group leader but a discovery - group planter.

How’s the family doing?

We had a wonderful visit from Christien’s parents for 10 days. We visited Montegu (the place of Christien’s outreach) and climbed the mountains and visited a few friends she made in that community. Our family is doing very well although they were a little bit grumpy to start with school again. Joshua is playing rugby at school and at the base with Jonathan and some Brazilian friends. They comes back with bruises looking more proud as they seem to be scoring more and more  tries.

My father is doing very well after the open heart surgery he had. I spend 4 days with him at the hospital in Krugersdorp.

Andrea loves her dance classes and Job is playing hockey this Saturday in Paarl. Elandri have a lot of little girlfriends and she love to play each day with them at the base (in the trees). 

A girl in Job’s class had Meningitis and we are so thankful that her mom took her to the doctor in time, she is well and Job had to take precaution medicine. 

What is Christien up to?

Christien is busy with the housing of the base. As many international people are coming and going she is the mother that must see that everybody sleeps somewhere. She is doing a brilliant job and is in her element. She is busy with the TPM seminar that we are preparing. It will be the 1^st  TPM seminar in YWAM. We seem to be having a lot of interest and it is a great privilege to equip those who will be going out to train others. She is also starting to set up a website for YWAM Potch and registering the TPM course as a University of the Nations (YWAM) seminar on the UofN system.

International contacts

It is just brimming with international contacts here. Our school leader is from Las Vegas. We have made contact with people from three other areas in the USA. This December we hope to visit Wisconsin to see the University base there, if it is God’s will. We have met people from Brazil, Angola, Zimbabwe, Netherlands, Australia, Cameroon, England, Tanzania, Alaska, Canada etc. We praise God for this amazing international community of humble people with servant hearts!

Struggles

We thank God that we could catch up with the primary school fees last month. I could also pay a good deposit for the SOAP school. Yet we are a few months behind on the secondary school.  The car is still not ready to be registered and is currently not roadworthy, it makes life a little bit uncomfortable. Please pray with us.

Prayer topics:

1)      Praise the Lord with us for health, joy and many wonderful victories inward, and lots of new contacts and amazing  training we receive!

2)      We as a family need grace to keep up with a busy SOAP schedule. (Classes in the morning, afternoon and evenings)

3)      Wisdom for Christien with all the new technology challenges and housing issues.

4)      To keep our focus on the Spirit with all the practical things that requires our attention.

5)      Admin and planning of the TPM seminar in October and enough people to attend it.

6)      For our children as the children in school do not share the same values as us. They want to help their friends, but need a lot of wisdom and God’s help!

7)      For our friend who was diagnosed with cancer…we really wait for a miracle!

8)      For the Potch base and Gods perfect will with all the planning and arrangements (eg. A house for ministry near the University)

Keep Contact :

Phone: Wikus 08454 90914 / Christien 082 9666753

New Address: YWAM Worcester Base

Email: ywampotch@gmail.com

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WORDS for the month

John 7:38 "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."

 Gal3:5b “does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?”

Gal 5:1
 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.