A time of restoration and preparation - Newsletter Jun 2020
Wikus & Christien
Hi, from Potch
and South Africa. Hope that you hear God’s voice daily and live for His Kingdom
where you are. We are in the middle of winter with a Corona count of nearly
6000 for yesterday and 130000 cases, the highest in Africa. We all need to deal
with a different reality for a while. In the midst of this we need to adjust
and align with what God is doing as He is also moving powerfully in this time.
Doing courses in YWAM
international
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Our school leader Vusi, is starting with a three
month online Bible school with the Ywam Durban base (Discipleship Bible School).
This is an intense Bible core course and will no doubt equip him further.
Please pray for him. We are so thankful that he could get sponsors to do the
course!!
All three these courses are registered with YWAM’s University of the
Nations and will give us credits for futher study.
This is a time of healing from battle scars, financial restoration from all
the travelling, getting perspective for the new season and equipping ourselves
further for our work. For ministry we need a lot of emotional energy and mental
toughness and the time in lockdown was a good time for us to work through
various things and prepare for the new season lying ahead for us.
As you know we are currently training a online
Prophetic school. Our first group are nearly finished so we will start a second
group this week. Everyone is welcome to join ! Register at http://ywampotch.com
Our new season
We started to realise that the season are busy
changing for us. Our twins is in matric now and next year Josua is also in
matric. In a year and a half our nest is empty! We have been used to such a
heavy burden of work, ministry and 5 kids all the time and constant financial
pressure that we don’t know what is happening as the pressure is lifted! It
almost feel like sin not having a very heavy burden. Yet we feel God saying:
“Come to me you who are heavy burdened, for my yoke is soft and light”.
We are trying to see what that means. Our kids are doing really well and we
want to see them off safely and we valued the nearly three months all of the
kids had to come back to the nest. Our kids also now multiplied to 7 as Job and
Andrea are in relationships. So this last three months was really investing in
a healthy family. As we minister to others on family we need to first have a
healthy family ourselves.
Coaching others
We are
investing in indigenous African bases in
this season. We are helping Vusi to plant a base in Ikageng ( our local African
township). We are going to be the overseers and help and assisst in every way
we can. Then we are also helping and assissting 1 base in Malawi and 2
minstries in Congo that was birthed through our ministry and DTS’s. Operation
Refugee Africa also played a major role to grow African leaders from Refugee to
missionaries!
Our role
has shifted a little bit from walking in front more too coaching others to
lead. It is a different reality as the burden are lighter but the effect
greater! It is very interesting to follow Jesus and see this multiplication
happening.
New ministry in Kolwezi DRC
I first met Kalis when I was speaking in Blantyre
Malawi on a DTS. As refugee he was a teacher in the refugee camp and got to
know some of our refugees that we sponsored to do DTS. He then paid for his own DTS and
did discipleship school in Blantyre. He is from the Kasai tribe in Central DRC
and he lost 5 brothers and sisters because of ethnic cleansing. Another tribe
got jealous of their tribe because of mining rights and there was a clash in
which his family suffered great loss.
He has now started a ministry in Kolwezi in Central DRC. We have some
photos from him and we want to start sponsoring him financially. I am also on
whatssapp with him. It is amazing that we can dsiciple now deep into the
Congolese bush through whatsapp. Now we can walk him through the processess
with Ywam. Because Ywam has such an amazing network of training we can now
connect him and the disciples he is making with an international training
network. He is one of the fruits of Operation Refugee and the YWAM Blantyre
base. Please pray with us for this ministry to stand up.
Please pray for and support Kalis through the Operation Refugee
account. Account name: Operation Refugee Africa NPC FNB, cheque Account nr: 626 264 507 20 Branch code: 240 438 or
use PAYPAL and use Reference “Kalis DRC”
see also http://www.operationrefugee.co.za/donate/
Prayer points:
o
Elandri
and Jonatan is nearing the matric final exam. They also need to move into a new
season next year of probably studying at the NWU.
o
The ministry
in Kolwezi to stand up and also for our Operation Refugee ministry contacts to
grow in Africa
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Clarity
for the new season.
o
Please
also pray with SA for the least death possible during the pandemic, for the
hungry and the lost to find God in this time of need.
Email: ywampotch@gmail.com
Facebook pages:
Ywam Potchefstroom, WikusChristien Vorster, Operation Refugee-YWAM
Potch
God will bless your hard work for His Kingdom 🙌🙌🙏🙏
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