New Freedom - Newsletter October 2020

 Hi from South-Africa. Hope you are doing very well and see the eternal hope that there is in Christ daily! We are pleased to see what God has done in the past month in our ministry and we hope you had a great month as well! Here are some of the highlights:

Online schools for a time like this

We have decided to focus on online schools until we know everyone is out of the woods with the pandemic. A volunteer from Germany tried to come to South-Africa but while we were busy with the arrangements the borders closed for Germany. This is a continual problem if we try to go on with the old model of mission. Yet we have 50 students in our 2 online schools and more than 10 staff helping.

Changing the marketplace through the Prophetic School

We have two students that are nurses working at a mental hospital in Potchefstroom. 25 of their co-workers died because of Corona as it was the biggest outbreak in the country at this hospital. During the time of the prophetic school one of the ladies started to get dreams and started to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. She started ministering at the hospital and to the patients. We also have students from Sasol (a huge petroleum factory) and one of the student’s ministers in one of the factory units of Sasol. He could minister to the employees of Sasol in their personal needs. In this time we see that the short schools over the internet has incredible great potential as there is a great need for discipleship schools. Now we are able to minister more mainline and we expect our schools to grow a lot bigger in the near future. 

The prophetic school being translated into French

One of our students is from Togo (West Africa) and is a teacher. When he was doing the school he asked if he can translate it into French. He is already finished with the second book out of 4 and we also got somebody to help us with the spellcheck and what is needed to finish the books and to have them ready for courses. We plan to have English French courses for the second course in 2021.We are also so thankful for Frankie, one of our Prophetic School students who decided to get baptized. We could experience a new freedom in him and he is excited to walk by the Spirit and discover his destiny in Christ. He studies the Prophetic school diligently, what a wonderful testimony!

Staff from Myanmar preaching the gospel

Please also pray for Sai Moon our Myanmar (Burma) staff and his wife Charity, they are such a blessing. Sai Moon provides food for street people and the hungry who looks for work, once a week. They also pray for them and share Jesus’s love. Sai Moon also started to preach online in his Myanmar language, as there is a need for preaching online for his home country. He said there are many that testify how much his teachings meant for them, as it comes from his own experience. He said he uses his DTS training material and it is very new to his countrymen. He is being a real missionary while his wife is finishing her PHD at the NWU theological school.

Transformation Prayer school

Dr Ed Smith has a website with online training available and the need for students is to train in groups after they worked through all the information. Christien has about 10 students and they are training on each other and getting sessions. Every session is always very touching as people get answers for real hurt in their lives. “The Truth will set you free”.

We are also working on the national groups of TPM as we are going to lead the national Zoom meeting end of November. We hope to see the network in SA stimulated and encouraged so that more people can get trained and sessions. To learn more you are welcome to visit the FREE website: http://tranformationprayer.org

Think Tank conference

The Think Tank is an international YWAM conference. We have this conference coming up in the middle of November via zoom. I have been involved with this conference for the last three years and it is the first Think Tank conference we will have online this year. The focus will be on Africa – so we are very excited to be invited and to participate.

Outreach to the refugee camp in Malawi

There are a few university students that are interested to go to the refugee camp. We are preparing them and hope to see that they go to the refugee camp in December. Please pray with us as the Corona virus remains a problem when travelling. They will join the work of the Dzaleka YWAM base and other missionaries of our Operation Refugee team that is based near Lilongwe. They will have a great effect if they make it to the refugee camp. Please pray for the team and any donations or Bibles welcome!

Twins writing matric

We are now entering the final weeks of our twins writing matric in this extraordinary pandemic year. They finish the 15 December and they start this week with their final exams. They both ended in the top 20 academically and hope to do even better in the final exams. We are very proud of them as they are beautiful teenagers, full of Jesus and full of Light. We hope to see them finish very successfully that we can put this harsh year for them behind them although they handled it very well and in their stride.

Please also pray for Andrea who will finish her degree in Consumer Studies this year. Pray also for Job & Iida, she came back from Finland last week and she also had a very difficult academic year, she and Job are moving towards their wedding. We celebrated Joshua’s 17^th birthday yesterday, very proud of the young man he became – he is very well trained in TPM and he is a light at the school, the youth and for us all.

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