Equip and disciple
Dear Friends and Prayer Partners
Thank you for your continued support and prayers.
We have lived from 2011 by faith in Ywam and we regularly look at the fruit of
our ministry to determine if it is worth the sacrifice. We thank everybody
that’s involved in any way. It has been both very difficult at times and at
other times we were absolutely amazed by God moving in an amazing way. May God
bless you!
Serving local
churches through discipleship courses
We thank God for His wisdom and His strategy in our
area. When we started the base we had literally 3 churches within 200 metres
from our house. In Potch there are a lot of churches and we have big churches
around the students. When I prayed I felt God saying: “South-Africa is
over-churched and under-discipled”. We clearly felt lead to start with
discipleship schools. In the beginning we just had schools with the community
from different backgrounds. Now it seems we are moving into a new season.
In our home town there are many churches and each
has its own doctrine. What was God’s call for us? When we got busy in the
community, we found a very broken community under the layer of Christianity.
The DTS’s we ran we felt were very successful. We
found the gospel very profound in its simplicity; having a healthy personal
relationship with God and loving relationships with people. In this flow of our
relationship with God “doctrine” is not really a problem because the core of
our faith is the same.
As we grew as a family and a base we are now
finding that our family is members of three different churches. All of our
children are very active in their churches and attracting people to our
discipleship groups. We are starting to build more trust as a base with the
churches in our area.
We are currently running two schools that are specifically
designed to strengthen and serve the churches and Christians that is looking
for more:
·
Prophetic School – Four Saturdays.
·
TPM – Counselling course (two courses in Potch)
See our website / facebook for details.
Church
growth because of the discipleship schools
One church asked us to present our Counselling
school in their church. After the first school they did two other TPM schools
in their church with 20 people in each school. This church grew to such an
extent that the church was asked to talk to the synod about what they are doing
in the church that causes the growth. The church moved from “doctrine” to “relationship”
and immediately there was a multiplication effect in the church!
Now we have another church we are partnering with
in Lenasia. With the prophetic school it seems there might be two churches and
an organisation partnering with us! This gives us the unique possibility to
serve the body of Christ as a whole and people can do our courses and go and
use the course material in their churches.
Season for writing
Our children have vacation now and the university
is closed for the winter vacations. It is also quite cold. Our next courses start
at the end of July. This gives a good time for writing for me. We have already
published two books to an ebook platform lulu.com. I have written another
booklet about encounters with God and am now working on a book on the old and
the new covenant. When we do courses this material helps a lot. You can order
these books online and support us in such a way. See: http://lulu.com
Our 3 youngest
kids doing the last TPM course
When we had an outreach from Hawaii the team bumped
into our kids at three different churches and at the school. Because the last
three DTS’s were in our house our kids was very involved. At the ages of 15 and
16 they wanted to do the TPM course as well. This morning our two sons did a
prayer session with the person working in our garden!
Everywhere we are seeing the fruit of discipleship
that brings a mission lifestyle as both Jonatan and Job are involved in weekly
outreaches and all our kids are very active in their faith.
Sango really
helping the orphanage
Sango co-ordinated 6200 children in the refugee
camps with schools and pre-schools. Now, after his DTS he is helping us with
the local orphanage. He is helping them get registered and to become professional.
There are many difficulties in this process and they are looking for a new
house to accommodate the children that is currently living at the orphanage.
There are 35 children that relate to the orphanage. To find space for all these
children is a challenge and the property needs to be legal in all facets for
the proper registration of the orphanage. This process takes quite a while but
Sango is doing a really good job with the management.
He also brought his two sons from Johannesburg to
the base for the holidays – Please pray for Sango’s ministry in Potch, in
Operation Refugee Africa and for his children.
Steven back
to Congo
After doing an YWAM leadership school in Malawi, Steven
has been busy building a house for a lady in the refugee camp in Malawi. He
also arranged a wheelchair through sponsors, see the photo. He is planning to
go home to Congo soon. He is still praying about his next season in Congo and
waiting on God. Please pray with him.
Prayer
topics:
ü
Sango is growing in his calling. Please pray for
him, his sponsorships and for the orphanage.
ü
We start with three more schools in July. Please
pray for the right people and the schools.
ü
The new book on the new covenant Wikus is
writing.
ü
Steven’s new door that opened in Congo. Please
pray for wisdom for him.
ü
We really thank the Lord that we are moving
ahead with the small car that is fixed. We got a donation to help with this.
ü
Praying for funds for YWAM/UN meeting of
Operation Refugee we have in Europe later this year.
CONTACT US
Wikus 084 5490914 /Christien 082 9666753
Email: ywampotch@ gmail.com
FACEBOOK PAGES: Ywam Potchefstroom; WikusChristien Vorster; TPMSA
-Transformation Prayer Ministry
WEBSITE: http://ywampotch.com
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BOOKS
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