| My dear friends Jan de Bruin is thankful for the presentation and preaching tour with
Dr Peet and Andra Botha in the Netherlands which was a blessed time of sharing the Good
News. After the last Dutch service at The Cederborg yesterday the Bothas are on their way
to Germany where Peet will address the CFT Conference at Lindach tomorrow. Your further
prayers will be appreciated.
The Cederborg brethren will value your prayers for the
special youth services this weekend.
It was good to hear from Ernst and Renate Heckel who
together with their two little ones are presently visiting their family and friends in
Germany. Apart from being with the family they have visited the brethren in Limburg,
Bielstein and Nuernberg. They are spending this weekend with the brethren at Lindach where
Renate's sister, Eleanor Duvel, has joined them. May the remaining time overseas be
blessed.
Our prayers are also with Klaus Deis and the team as they
travel to the French-speaking part of Switzerland where they have been asked to share
about the revival in South Africa.
We shall value your prayer support for the 8th European
Congress of Confessing Christians (8. Europaeische Bekenntnis-Kongress) of the
International Conference of Confessing Communities (Internationale Konferenz Bekennender
Gemeinschaften) which will take place in Blankenburg, Thuringia, Germany from Sunday,
15-18 October. Professor Peter Beyerhaus's colleague, Dorothea Killus, has taken me along
with information, pictures and updates on the Congress.
The theme is "Leiden für Christus - gestern - heute -
morgen" (Suffering for Christ - yesterday - today - tomorrow). Participants are from
12 different countries.
A young couple in Belgium, Dirk and Ruth Schobben, have felt
led of the Lord to move to the west of the country to initiate a new branch of the
ministry. They will value your prayer support. Dirk wrote recently and confirmed that
although this will be a big change in their lives they know that this is God's will for
them.
Our Dutch CFT secretary, Nelly van den Bergh, is having a
blessed time with her family and the brethren in the Netherlands. She is also getting
opportunities to share about the ministry in South Africa. She asks to be remembered in
prayer.
We are also thinking of Gideon Jacobs and the Smithfield
team as they minister in Lichtenburg, Northwest, this weekend.
Radio Khwezi has an important meeting of the Governing Body,
Management and the Executive Committee of the Masibumbane Listeners' Club tomorrow. Pray
for them.
DFL's Johan Claassen will be attending the AGM of the
KwaZulu-Natal Substance Abuse Forum on Monday, 16 October, where he has an important role
to play. Think of him.
Public Hearings on the Civil Unions Bill are scheduled for
Monday to Tuesday, 16-17 October in Cape Town. They will be based on written submissions.
DFL will be making their presentation at 09:00 on Monday. Pray for this important process.
CFT-Gauteng is planning a Life Chain in Boksburg on 4
November 2006. As they do so they will appreciate your prayer support.
Here is another Matthew Henry quote that made an impression
on me,
"Most pretend they would have heaven at
last, yet they care not for holiness now; they would have the end without the
beginning."
This reminds me of Revelation 7:14,
'And he said, "These are they who have
come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb.'
Have a blessed weekend.
Pressing on!
In His love
Fano Sibisi |
