May News - BREAK THROUGHS

Wikus & Christien
A great season of breakthroughs



Newsletter May 2017
Hi, from Potch. It is getting quite cold here and we are now heading into winter. Winters in Potch are chilly and we need the fire of the gospel to keep us warm.
We have been through a great season and all of us are singing songs of joy as we had breakthroughs that we waited very long for.
Ministry during the year
As the rhythm of the university students are different than a normal YWAM base we had to learn to form a ministry around the heartbeat of the university students. To truly break into this culture we needed to become led by university students. As we are now finished with our fourth DTS we have been able to establish a culture of ministry during the year that is flowing with the seasons of the university. We have now three students that are leading our university ministry on the campus. Our Monday morning meetings are also on the campus. We are also running small groups and relational Lordship units that we are looking to multiply on campus. We are now ready for a spread of the gospel and the raising up of a new generation of marketplace leaders filled and led by the Holy Spirit.

Three light - weight schools during the year
We were lead not to fight with the heavy armour of Saul but with the light armour of David. We have been running the TPM for a long time but are now starting with the second school which is the prophetic school. Our university ministry is focused on activating the Living Word, flowing and ruling by the Living Word (which is the Rhema word of God activated by Scripture).
It boils down to a TPM school, a prophetic school and later we plan a church planting school. All are ten week schools that can be done one evening in a week for ten weeks but following on one another. This enables students to start with the TPM school, then go to the prophetic school and end up with the church planting school. We are now in the pioneering phase of the prophetic school starting in August. All of this is led by the Holy Spirit. Then at the end of the year there is a DTS for those that want to go into full-time world mission. We are currently at the second phase of these three schools.

The end product
The world is aching for company bosses that are not led by greed and corruption but by the Holy Spirit. Now we can have four steps in the creation of these coming giants. First they can do the TPM, then the prophetic school that will have different levels and then the church planting school and then capped by the DTS for those that wants to officially part of world missions. This is giving birth to a base that has an incredible relational network and influence. We have already trained close to 150 in our lightweight schools and close to 40 in our DTS schools.

Holy Spirit weekend
In an academic town that has been dogged by tradition and even started by tradition with many intellectuals and establishing an intellectual worldview we are unashamedly worshipping God in Truth and in Spirit. We had our first public Holy Spirit camp and we coordinated with a church in Ventersdorp where we had trained the TPM course. It was a great success and we brought a new paradigm of church. As the team where busy ministering I realised we are modelling church where everybody have a living relationship with God. The following Sunday the pastor that invited us, had the most people in his church in seven years. We were shortly afterwards invited to minister to a youth group in Potch. We saw the miracle cloud of the Holy Spirit and it brought great excitement, joy, devotion and vision to the young people.  

Heading to Mozambique
In June I am planning to go to Mozambique to a volatile area. This is to go and spy the land for a possible DTS journey but I must go and see what the situation on the ground is before we can send any young people through there. We are going with men of God to pioneer the road through Mozambique. The Holy Spirit gave us the command to tame, stabilise and prosper. I expect to see miracles and the power of God as He stabilises an area. Please pray for me as there is an element of risk.
Prayer topics
·        Andrea is joining a church outreach to Madagascar. Please pray for provision and safety in all areas (body, soul and spirit).
·        Job is doing his first year in university and is growing daily as a man of God. He is a true philosopher and needs the guidance of the Holy Spirit. He is growing as both a spiritual man and an intellectual and that has its own challenges.
·        Jonatan, Elandri and Josua are growing with God and enjoying God’s presence a lot. Being a mission family has its own challenges and it can sometimes be very hard for them. Please pray with them.
·                  We are incredibly thankful for every donation and we thank our friends that is helping and donating. May God bless you! Yet it continues to be a challenge to live only by sponsors, but we look continually to God for guidance in order to protect the kids from getting bitter towards God when the funds are low. Christien had to work a temporary job for the last six months but we truly need her at the base and monthly donations will free her time. Please give as God leads you and pray with us for this very important work of God.  Blessings Wikus, Christien +5kids

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