Impacting the University
Hi from Potch. Praise God for an amazing an
important season from the North West University. We are amazed at what God is
doing and very thankful for how He is guiding us.
NATIONS
TO NATIONS EVENT
For the past few years we focused on
discipleship as this is the core of what we have been called for but in this
semester we had two bigger events for the community: the one was THE ALL
NATIONS FOR ONE KINGDOM concert for the refugees (fundraiser) and the other was
the NATIONS TO NATIONS conference focusing on diversity and cultures.
We
held the NATIONS TO NATIONS in the Totius hall on the NWU campus. Totius was
the theologian that wrote the doctrine of Apartheid for the churches and
government of that day. Now we were
holding the celebration of cultures in the Totius hall!
There were two significant
factors in the NATIONS TO NATIONS.
1) The restoration of good theology where the
kingdom of God is focusing on reconciliation and love.
2) The celebration of different cultures and
the calling out of the creation design of the different cultures while we
celebrated unity in diversity.
At the dawning of the next season for South
Africa, we planted a flag for the truth of the gospel. South Africa has a very
bright future where we celebrate all cultures and where we are a nation united
by celebrating the diversity of all nations and people groups.
This is a new paradigm and many are approaching
it with caution to see what it would look like. But we have peace that we
ushered in the new spiritual dawn that would be of great significance of the
new season in the history of South Africa.
We were invited by the Vice Chancellor and the Chancellor
of the University and we discussed the difficulties faced by the university
around race. They requested that we pray with them and stated that “this
University cannot move forward if the Almighty do not help us” as well as “we
are very proud of our Christian foundations as a university”. We believe that
in the dawn of this new day, race can be a positive factor as we learn to
celebrate the diversity of all the races God created and we start to see the
light of the creation design of all cultures in the light of Christ.
DTS in full swing
We are finished with our sixth week and the
focus of this DTS was very much South Africa and Africa. The theme of the DTS
is COMPASSION AND JUSTICE DTS, We faced the hard issues of Africa and South
Africa but the students are of very high quality and we are seeing brilliant
leaders in the making. We also got a donation for the orphanage in Ikageng and
the students were bending their backs as they were doing the hard work of
digging out the foundation for the new building.
Ywam
international THINK TANK invitation
We had so many important events but my focus is
now shifting to the Think Tank and the United Nations. I am doing a proposal
for a new democracy in Africa. This is important as it was birthed out of a
word the Holy Spirit gave me in Burtigny two years ago. I am just going forward
because of the word from the Holy Spirit and it is getting bigger and bigger.
We will see where it ends but I am going to do a research proposal for next
August in front of Ywam in London and will then participate in the UN event as
well. Please pray for me as this is a very important time I believe for the
restoration of Africa. I need the clear leading of the Holy Spirit as it is big
and dangerous to a degree as Africa has dangerous occult roots. Cost for this
visit to London including a UK Visa is approximately R11000
and the cost for the visit to Geneva (including the VISA for Switzerland)
is approximately R4000. Please prayerfully support us in this as we live on
sponsors and we do not get a salary from YWAM.
YWAM
leadership meeting and TPM South Africa Meeting
Please also pray for our YWAM Southern Africa
meeting in two weeks – it will be in Pretoria and we are excited to go there
and represent YWAM Potch. All the YWAM base leaders in Southern Africa will be
represented.
We had a very blessed TPM SA meeting last
weekend and we are thankful for the growth and potential of this movement. We
can see the blessing of God as we move into more provinces in the country to
give people opportunity to HEAR FROM GOD for their pain and lies. TPM is such a
life-style where communities are transformed by Hearing God’s voice on each
difficulty
PRAYER POINTS
§ Please pray for our children who are growing up
now very quickly – the twins are in the second last year of school and next year
they will finish school. Josua is only one year after them!
§ Job and Andrea are both doing very well at
University and paying for their own studies – God provided in different ways
and we as parents can only be thankful and very proud. Please pray with us for
their finances and plans for the future.
§ Pray also for our DTS as they start to prepare
for outreach – we do need a lot of funding still for some of our students still
need to pay off their lecture phase before they can do outreach. The outreaches
are around Southern Africa. We really need your prayers and support as we move
forward in discipling these new missionaries in their callings.
§ Please pray for our finances as we are
volunteers and do not get salaries from YWAM. We have to do fundraising for all
of Wikus’s trips overseas as well as our travels to our meetings.
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Our
connection with YWAM - 10 years !
YWAM POTCH TIME LINE 2009-2019
2009
> Wikus did YWAM Discipleship
Training School (DTS) at YWAM Pretoria
2010
TPM (Transformation Prayer Ministry) Prayer Counselling training starts
2012 @ YWAM
Worcester
> Christien did DTS – Classic DTS
Intimacy with God
20142nd DTS – students & staff
from more than 5 tribes in South Africa, Korea, Netherlands, USA, Madagascar and MauritiusOutreach to Madagascar &
Mauritius
2015> 3rd DTS – Students & staff
from DRC (refugee), Costa Rica, USA, South Korea, Zimbabwe and RSA.
> 5th DTS - Vulnerable Children DTS - Students and staff from Finland,
Botswana, RSA, UK, DRC and Tanzania
(refugees)
> Wikus Presenting at United
Nations in Geneva Switzerland on Operation Refugee
YWAM?
Youth with a Mission – one of the biggest full-time missions’ organisations in the world, in
over 180 countries and over 50 years old. Loren Cunningham is the founder, read
his book “Is it really you God?”
What is DTS?
Discipleship Training School – the intro-level school in YWAM (University of the
Nations), 5 months (3 months Lecture Phase and 2 months cross-cultural Outreach
Phase).
After this basic school you
can do hundreds of different missions-focused schools in YWAM over the world.
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