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Wikus & Christien

Newsletter July 2025

Hi, hope you are doing very well. We have just been through the coldest two months of the year, and we are looking forward to the turn of the season as Potch can be very cold! Here is an update on what has been happening in the past month, and what we have planned for the coming month.

Start of new online schools

They say that at the beginning of your career you do a lot of everything and as you grow more mature you start specializing. We are very much in our specializing years. Christien is specializing in the TPM (Transformation Prayer Ministry) and my expertise is more with the prophetic and what flows out of that. If you want to do one of the courses, you are so welcome! You are also welcome to sponsor a friend to do one of the courses!

Christien has started already with her new school and there are around 40 people on the school. The TPM has really gained momentum as she has trained many pastors and different people specializing in prayer counseling in different churches and movements. She has various sessions in a week, and she facilitates many more sessions as well. Her group of 9 staff and 31 students are from Africa (SA, Ivory coast, Nigeria and Namibia), South America (Guyana), Malaysia, Europe (France, Netherlands, Finland) and USA. What a diverse group of caring people! [More about TPM international – see transformationprayer.org ]

Andrea is starting an art journalling course

Andrea is in a new season with Katherine that has come this year. So, she is looking to do some courses on the internet while she and her husband Francois are busy with YWAM Frontier Missions and Deaf Ministry in Pretoria. As she is very good in arts and in the prophetic, she has come up with an art journaling course. Quite a few people are interested in the course, and it promises to be a great course to discover the creative side of the way God works with us. It is fun and we are happy that Andrea is making use of our platform for this course as she has developed special skills that she possesses. This school starts on the 9th of August and has great promise. Please pray for her and the students!

Wikus starting with the Online Prophetic School

We have settled into the rhythm to do two TPM schools and two prophetic schools in a year. This has proved t create momentum as we do the prophetic also in French. We also now are quite close to finish the Spanish translation with the help of Carolina from Switzerland (originally Venezuela). People enjoy the material and the prophetic stays fresh as God is always speaking and doing new things. The course is founded biblically and helps people in their relationship with the Holy Spirit.. Please pray for Wikus, the new students and the faithful staff and translators from Madagascar and England (Cameroon), Togo & Ivory Coast.

Centre for Advocacy Law and Justice

We are so blessed to be part of the Centre for Advocacy Law and Justice. Here is some info from the website: “The Center for Advocacy, Law, and Justice is a non profit organization dedicated to addressing global issues through Holistic Biblical Advocacy.” 

Our approach to governance a multifaceted, cooperative approach to advocacy that addresses both the root cause and the repercussions of injustice.- Based out of Harpenden, England, the ALJ Center partners with organizations and hosts programs in the United States, Rwanda, Cameroon, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, and the Kingdom of eSwatin.”

Our regular outreaches to Eswatini is part of the work of this Centre - Check out the website  https://aljcenter.org/

Studying and writing

Wikus does research on governance and is currently busy writing a document that is related to governance and the working of the Holy Spirit in the community. As we have had various trips to Eswatini in the past, it is growing the research into morality, character and the importance of biblical worldview in governance. Please pray with us for the research as it is a topic of great importance to restore moral backbone in governance.

Prayer topics:

• 1)    Please pray for all the schools that are starting this semester
• 2)    Please pray for the research document on biblical worldview and governance
• 3)    Please pray for our work creation center to gain momentum as Emmah is now busy with the fifth training in Ikageng.(See on Facebook Work4aLiving Potchefstroom)
• 4)    Please pray for our children in Finland, Pretoria and Potch as each have their own challenges, new seasons and they all need wisdom and God’s help.
• 5)    Wikus is turning 50 next week – let us pray for him for the next 50 year to be very blessed!  

 

KEEP CONTACT

Email: ywampotch@gmail.com

Facebook pages: Ywam Potchefstroom, WikusChristien Vorster

Website: http://ywampotch.com                      Blog:  http://wikuschristien.blogspot.com

Account details: EC Vorster Standard Bank Potchefstroom Cheque account. 030584566

Paypal https://www.paypal.me/7Vorsters

Centre for Advocacy Law and Justice:  https://aljcenter.org/