As you pray -29 February 2008

Georg Grau, Peter Toepfer, Benno Neufeld and Andreas Schlegel flew to Russia yesterday for the long-weekend services in Liepitzk, about 600 km from Moscow. They will value your prayer support.

The co-ordinator of the Eurochor Michel Hege requests prayers for a special recording in Kaltbrunn this weekend. The repertoire will consist of the songs that the choir sang during their 2007 tour of South Africa. It is their prayer that the Lord will grant them grace and strength for the project and that His name will be glorified.
Another specific aspect to pray for is the weather.

It was so good to see Eric and Sylvie Yoder from Genets d'Or in Alsace. They are here with their children and a group from Genets d'Or. As they fly back on Sunday, may the Lord's hand be upon them.

Our prayers will also be with the members of Radio Khwezi's Governing Body as they will be meeting on Sunday afternoon.

Commitment

A story that my father-in-law Mr Josias Dube told me is a cute example of commitment within the context of a traditional Zulu home.

During mealtime my mother-in-law MaGasa would bring her husband a dish of food. Then his mother MaMyeza, my mother-in-law's mother-in-law, would bring him a dish from her pot too. To crown it all, his grandmother MaNzuza, my wife's grandmother's mother-in-law, would also bring him a dish from her pot.

My father-in-law would ask his grandmother why she bothered herself to cook for him since his wife and mother did that for him. Her response was, "Phela mina ngazogana lapha kwaDube."

Untranslatable. The nearest I could come to was, "When I married into the Dube family I reported for service as a wife."

How is that for commitment?