Resurrection & Life

 

Newsletter April 2024

Hi, guys. Hope you are doing very well. Hope you are obeying God’s voice and living for God’s kingdom. Here are the new things God is doing as we walk with Him. We had a lovely Easter weekend celebrating Christien’s father’s 85^th birthday as well as our 28^th wedding anniversary!

Speaking at a mission’s conference

Rhema Potchefstroom invited me to speak on missions and discipleship. I am talking at the conference with another YWAMer and a pastor that does a lot of missions in Africa. I am looking forward to this to see what the fruit will be. I was also invited to a Father & Son event this coming weekend and it is a great privilege to help father’s to grow closer to their sons and to be intentional with their sons.

Resurrection Sunday baptisms

Two different groups were baptized in our pool on Sunday. The church of Pastor Mofokeng baptized 32 new believers, some are from a new ministry they have at a chicken farm outside of town. We could see the power of the Holy Spirit as they testified afterwards of freedom and we could see three deliverances too. We are so happy to be able to host this church again, seeing how they grow!

The other group was two young people whom we know, it was amazing how the prophecies we gave them were so on the spot!  What joy to see Jesus’s resurrection power working!

Kids out of the house

This is the first year in 26 years that we don’t have kids in the house. It gives us time to prepare to go more on trips. We have decided to try to put in a sun geyser that will continually save us a lot of money passively. Our hope is that this will help us to travel more as it can save up to R18000 a year for us passively. We also hope to get credit out of our lives and we put the next six months apart to make as much of a dent as we can to free up passive income. Ywam is a volunteer -organisation it gives a lot of international opportunities but we only get donations. Please pray with us that we can get passive income going by paying off debt that we can travel for missions.

New Mentoring program

I was privileged to attend a holistic life-mentoring program with World outreach. We were taught the basics of Christian mentoring and as I was already involved in quite a few mentoring relationships this was a good tool to start using. The challenge in mentoring is to mentor people from their perspective and not from your own perspective. This has had the effect that I can mentor more effectively and more holistically. Together with the TPM it gives me better tools to be able to help individuals. Between different meetings we spend time doing sessions with people physically and on the phone. This helps people to get victory in their personal life with the Holy Spirit.

New Relationship and Marriage course starting

We have a new marriage course that started1 April. We are very blessed that Ulbe and Marleen Tolbe from the Netherlands that are leading it and doing a very good job with the marriage course. We pray that the marriage course will grow and that many marriages will be enriched as it is a vital place for Chrsitians to get victory.

Prophetic and TPM courses

We are currently busy with the Prophetic course and the TPM course and the practical sides of both courses are coming closer. This is a very important time for the students as the practical outcome of both the courses are vital for their growth. Please pray with us as we want to release people with good character in the prophetic and we also want to release ministers into the TPM “prayer counselling” ministry. It is the area of expertise God has raised me and Christien in and we see a lot of good fruit flowing from every school. We release people into the kingdom and see some of them many years later flourishing in their callings as they were activated through these schools.

Studying theology

I am currently doing the E2M (Equipped to minister) theology course of New Covenant Ministries International. I am doing it for personal enrichment and to grow in concepts of truth from the Scripture. It is a challenge for me but I get a lot of joy from being stimulated intellectually.

Francois getting his BA degree

Francois and Andrea are coming back from Worcester this weekend. Francois is getting his degree next Wednesday in English and sign-language. Andrea is doing her DTS with deaf people and Francois is co-leading the DTS (DTS is YWAM’s entry course of 6 months). They are very close to outreach and still need quite a lot of money for their outreach. We are so thankful that Francoise can celebrate his degree with us and his parents on Wednesday!

How are the other kids doing?

Jonathan is doing his last year in electronic engineering and very involved his Light group, Joshua is doing his second year in IT and maths and also active serving in the church as well as a Campus Society. Elandri is finishing with her music degree this year and she is also leading Potch-for-life on campus. Job and Iida are moving closer to Helsinki into a new flat, they are both active in their church and we are so thankful for the lovely community they have in Finland.

Prayer topics        

Please pray with us for God’s help & direction

1)    Deaf DTS Outreach for Andrea and Francois

2)    Sunroof geyser and paying off debt for the first 6 months this year.

3)    The three courses running currently

4)    All the mentoring and counselling sessions

"Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;" John 11:25

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