My computer is still in for
repairs but CFT has kindly seen to it that there will always be a backup computer
available to me when mine fails. My special thanks to Andries who has worked very hard to
get me communicating again.
The TAK Radio team in Berlin requests prayers for their
programme tomorrow (Saturday). Amongst others, it will feature two young German students
that were part of a team from South Africa that visited Mozambique, an interview between
Manfred Ludwig and Dr Reinhard Junke and a devotion by Georg Grau.
Klaus Deis requests prayers for an initiative by the Limburg
young people to show the South African Christian film 'Faith Like Potatoes" tomorrow.
A major challenge is to get the German subtitles ready on time.
We rejoice with the families of Jeremie Fillatre and Pemmy
Brosille as they will be getting married tomorrow. Together with the Montmiral brethren as
well we wish the young couple God's blessing.
Our prayers will be with Rev Erlo Stegen when he joins Onkel
Friedel and the team for the European Family Conference in Bilten next week.
We are also thinking of the Romanian brethren as they
prepare for their conference which will follow the one in Switzerland.
This afternoon Andries came by with two Dutch young men from
the Cederborg, Ben Hoetmer and Fabian. After two weeks at KwaSizabantu, on Monday they
will be travelling to the Cape to visit the KSB centre in Malmesbury. May they be blessed
and be a blessing.
Onkel Robert has just passed by and told me that he is on
his way to Johannesburg to meet our Brienz friends, Simon and Marthi Thoeni, at the
airport. The Thoenis are visiting the brethren in South Africa. May this be a blessed
time.
Gert de Vries and a TNT team will leave on Sunday for a week
of services in schools and at the University in Pretoria. May the Lord go before them.
An article from eSermons last week made a lasting impression
on me:
"Love for the Enemy
The love for equals is a human thing--of friend for
friend, brother for
brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles.
The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing--the
love for those
who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely.
This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world.
The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing--to love
those who succeed
where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of
the poor for the rich, of the black man for the white man. The world is
always bewildered by its saints.
And then there is the love for the enemy--love for the one
who does not
love you but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured's love for
the torturer. This is God's love. It conquers the world."
Frederick Buechner in his book: The Magnificent Defeat.
"Mat 5:43 Ye have heard that it was
said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:
Mat 5:44 but I say unto you, love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;
Mat 5:45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to
rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
Mat 5:46 For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans
the same?"
Have a blessed weekend.
Pressing on!
In His love
Fano Sibisi
