As you pray - 28 July 2007

As I have noted before, there is a great blessing in sharing the Good News with other people. As you give, you also receive.

It is very encouraging to hear from those who return from different trips thank God and testify of His working. Dr Peet and Andra Botha are back from the UK and France; Frans Huber is back from Germany, the staff and 4th year students of Cedar College of Education are back from Botswana and Namibia. Thank you for the prayer support.

We also thank the Lord with the family that Lauretta Rice is back safely from Canada.

From Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, Tony Fortuin and the brethren are thankful for the camp that they had with Tannie Santa, Carel and Sharlene Snyman from Northwest.

We are deeply grateful to the Lord that Rev Erlo Stegen, Hulda van Tonder and Jerusha Olsen were able to fly over to Europe on Wednesday to join Onkel Friedel, the team and the brethren at Bilten for the Europe Summer Conference (25-30 July). Our prayers are with them.

Our thoughts and prayers are also with the brethren in  Romania as they finalise preparations for the conference there next week.

Wouter and Tjitske Mout came by with their children. Let us remember them and their ministry in the Netherlands.

It was also a joy to see Philippe and Liliane Etter and to get an update on the brethren in Geneva. May the Lord bless the ministry in the French-speaking part of Switzerland as well

Considering their packed schedules it is a pleasant surprise to hear from Ferny and Christine Jaegle. Let us remember them and their ministry in France and beyond.

Ntombi Mgidi came by and shared about a blessed outreach they had in rural Eastern Cape together with Peter Dahl, Thokozani Mbanjwa and Zanele Bhengu.

Our prayers are with the members of the Governing Body and Management of Radio Khwezi as they meet for important deliberations tomorrow.

A child of the King

The Wealth, Health and Prosperity gospel is not new but it seems to come in new waves from time to time. There are those who would have us believe that poverty and sickness are sins to repent from.

In a sermon on Radio Khwezi John Powys told a story that would be funny if it were not so tragic.

He was at the KwaSizabantu reception as preachers were pouring in for the Ministers' Conference. A minister who had come from upper Africa upon being allocated his accommodation protested vehemently against sharing a room with others. He stated in no uncertain terms that he was entitled to a private room. And the reason? Because he is a child of the King. John tried hard to point him to parts of Scripture that taught the opposite to his arrogant attitude but the man would hear none of that. When he realised that there was no private room available for him he picked up his luggage and turned his back on the mission and the conference.

Unbelievable!

'Phi 2:5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Phi 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Phi 2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;
Phi 2:8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.'

Have a blessed weekend.
 
Pressing on!
 
In His love
 
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