Two great conferences in the Cape

 Wikus & Christien

Newsletter October 2026

Hi, guys. Hope you are doing very well.. We had a good month, and we are excited of what is ahead of us as God is clearly doing amazing things. During our Cape Trip we visited many lovely TPM and YWAM friends. Some of them we only met online in our courses, but now also in-person and we could see the fruit in their lives! 

The TPMSA conference in Cape Town

We had the privilege to have a Cape Town conference that was organized by Anel and assisted by Ruan at Shofar church in Durbanville. We had about 60 people that attended with 6 large churches and ministries represented to hear about TPM and also to get their people trained. The testimonies that was shared was really heart-warming and touching.

TPM has been one of our major thrusts, and we have been training TPM schools since 2009. Through the grace of God we now see groups developing in many cities in SA. Now in many cities we travel in SA we can visit someone that did the course in that city.

TPM seems to be a major movement that now is starting to snowball with faithful counselors that have stayed faithful for years. As SA is the country with the least fathers in households in the world it seems to be one of the things God is doing to bring SA to a healthy place.

See link to watch the conference at the end of the newsletter.

 YWAM SA conference

We had a very good YWAM regional conference as we spent 2 weeks in the Cape Province in the beginning of the month. It was a very blessed time as we could also process where we are going as a base in Potchefstroom. The conference was packed with connections, encouragement and good teaching and a time to testify about our ministry and courses.

We were not doing discipleship training schools (DTS) after Covid, but we have been busy with lighter ministries that work for our context.

As YWAM welcomes creativity, we are also aligned with the UofN (YWAM’s University), we are in in good co-ordination with the national movement.

Work creation strategy

As SA has a jobless rate of about 42% under the black youth we have been working together with local businessmen to stimulate the local township economy. Ywam Potch has been asked to administrate small business loans to African small entrepreneurs by Touching Africa. We launched this program last month and we are very excited about the results we have seen so far. The businessmen are committed to have a loan strategy for entrepreneurs where they pay back the money with a very low interest, but they also get coaching in their business. As the problems in the community are to go over the racial boundary and as there are other spiritual issues that need to be sorted out Ywam Potch is involved in the strategy. We have now seemed to hit a sweet spot and it can grow quickly. Please pray for this strategy as it can kickstart the township economy in our local township with young entrepreneurs in society that is already doing things but just needs financing and coaching to become successful.

Jonathan preparing to marry

Jonathan returned from India with Christal, which is his fiancé. They are preparing to marry in January. This starts a new journey for us with India. We have eaten Indian food and watched a very funny and profound Indian movie with her. Jonathan is very adventurous, travelling a lot and moving and shaking where he goes. We are looking forward to and exciting and adventurous future with the couple as we continue to learn about other cultures Please pray for our preparation in the next 2 months for the wedding.

Contact us

Email: ywampotch@gmail.com

Facebook pages: Ywam Potchefstroom, WikusChristien Vorster

Website: http://ywampotch.com (for details of our online schools)

Blog: http://wikuschristien.blogspot.com (for past newsletters)

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/

 

TPM CONFERENCE RECORDING WITH TIMES

CLICK HERE: https://youtube.com/live/l-mAnI60lfM?feature=share

Cape Town TPM Conference Shofar Durbanville 3 October 2026

49.41 Introduction and Worship

1.02.40 Welcome and Scripture and Present Team: Anel Rademeyer

1.23 .45 Icebreaker Effortless Transformation through the new TPM: Christien Vorster

2.00.00 What is TPM? And How TPM helps us get unstuck: Anel Rademeyer

2.46.53 Tee en n tertjie

3.19.40 Testimonies: Janel, Elrine, Ruan, Angelo

3.52.12 TPM helps with Addictions: Wikus Vorster

4.28.14 Lunch

5.31.14 TPM as cross cultural bridge builder: Johannes Wessels

6.17.15 Live Mock TPM session: Christien and Anel

6.38.30 Questions to the panel