Mozambique outreach - June Newsletter
Hi, from Potch. We are in the middle of winter but
very excited about what God is doing! We hope all are doing very well. Hope you
are interested in God’s newspaper.
Two Pillars
of Christianity
(Rom 5:8) but God shows his love for us in that while
we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
One of the greatest mysteries of Christianity is how can we
be completely saved by grace. Even while we did the worst sin in our life
Christ died for us there. It means we are always in a state of forgiveness and
we are always forgiven. When the message of grace hits home the normal question
is that if you preach THAT, people will sin. Therefore we need to understand the
second pillar. (Gal 6:7) Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for
whatever one sows, that will he also reap.(Gal 6:8) For the one who sows to his own flesh will
from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from
the Spirit reap eternal life. If we understand this verse deeply it means that every sin
will have a destructive consequence. We have been saved by grace now we can
sow. It is impossible to miss the harvest: what you sowed you will reap. This
principle is impossible to sidestep.
Outreach
to Mozambique
This was a frontline outreach and I wanted to go
myself to train a little bit spiritually. Well it was precisely the right
outreach! I have never been in Mozambique and was immediately confronted with
Portuguese. As we drove up it was a beautiful road up to Maputo and we headed
up to the North where it was a little bit more volatile. A peace accord has
been written last December but war broke out again in March for a month. Now
there was peace again for two months. We pushed through to the North and had to
drive about 200 km on a road that was a hot zone two months ago. Everything was
peaceful and we got to our destination close to Chimoio.
We were a brilliant team. On our team were 2
nuclear engineers, a policeman from Baltimore, a Mexican-American house church
leader, a Theological lecturer that is a pastor now for 23 years, an African
evangelist that criss-crossed Africa for 23 years and a few others that
included me. We were ten in an 8-seater small bus and we drove and drove and
drove. The roads in Mozambique are pretty slow and you average between 50 and
60km/h an hour because there are no highways.
We came to a base that had a school for ladies, a
school for boys, an orphanage and a hospital. The leaders of the ministry also had
an amazing testimony where they were abducted by soldiers for 3 months, where
they walked 600 kilometres till where they were released in Zambia. We got to
know the volatile history of Mozambique especially in the North. The team showed
the Jesus film every evening and saw demons going out and a lot of people
coming to Jesus. We had a really great time as a team and God did a lot among
the team. The highlight for me was when we baptised 40 girls. The purity and
the beauty of the Mozambique people are amazing. We got word from the Holy
Spirit that the war in Mozambique is over and we hope and pray that it will be
a stable country from now on.
Our next season
It is now the coldest time of the year and the kids
are on vacation. Because we run a DTS in November till April it is now crucial
that we take it slow because we also start with three courses again in August
(TPM counselling courses and a Prophetic school – see more info on our website ).
We are therefore closing the base till the 21 July. We praise God for a great
season the first 6 months and all the breakthroughs we got. We are looking
forward to the next season.
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Please pray for us as family and also our
full-time staff who are really growing spiritually!
Andrea in
Madagascar
When Wikus got back from Mozambique Andrea left for
Madagascar. She got all her money with a lot of fundraising and we are really
proud of her faith. It is always quite difficult getting the finances most of
the time and the way she just hang in there against all the odds and are now in
Madagascar is amazing. We are proud that we can be a family in missions. She is
visiting a Malagasy couple that met in Ywam Potch and also married in Ywam
Potch. We can now visit this permanent ministry in Madagascar birthed out of
our base. Please pray for her as Madagascar is not the easiest place to do
outreach as the roads and the infrastructure is quite a challenge. Please pray for her and the young team from
Kruispunt church.
Please pray for our upcoming courses and our ministries:
- · TPM course in Potch
- · and Fochville
- · NEW Prophetic school
- · Campus ministry & Bible study
- · Orphan ministry in Ikageng
- · Operation Refugee Africa
Thank you for
your prayers and support
Please keep
contact with us
Wikus &
Christien +5kids
CONTACT US
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