Another Update from the Missions Team

SA mission news 6/4/08

Hello to all. We are working hard but it’s all worth it as we are spreading the Word of God. The children are adorable and the most well behaved for their age that I’ve ever seen. They seem to be intent on listening and learning. The teamwork is amazing to have so many people working in one accord and getting the job done. Feeding hundreds of children in a matter of minutes put McDonalds to shame. I thought I would be losing weight on this mission but our hosts have been preparing wonderful meals and I couldn’t be more pleased.

More later

Mr Bill

This is Weds. A very long day. We had 300 elementary children yesterday. The preschool remained about the same count, HS over 100. Today we have regular VBS and then this evening we will have a revival. This whole trip can be tiring for us but once we are there and working, it is such a blessing. Ron hope you are remembering my garden, fish and plants. Hoping we are getting some rain there as well. We have been here a bit. Yesterday it rained a bit and last night. It has gotten a little colder, but not too bad. We hear the lions roaring every evening. When we go to see them early Sat. morning if Wayne doesn’t start behaving we may feed him to them..Sorry Wanda!! HA! Just think how quiet it will be then.

Love to all,

LK

Hey everyone, Hope all is well back home! It’s much cooler weather here than it is there for sure! As Wednesday morning is here, I know that our VBS at Wolmaranstaad is ending. We will wrap up all the teaching with the kids during the day, finish off with a revival tonight and then, bright early tomorrow, we’ll head to Jouberton for the second VBS. Continue praying for us as I know you all are (thank you Mom and Pat!). God bless and I will talk to you soon! Christin

June 4, 2008

Hi again, we are getting ready for revival tonight. But I wanted to take a moment and wish my mother happy 82nd birthday today, and my daughter Monica a happy birthday in a couple of days. I won’t mention her age since she is still at the age to care!!

We were delighted with the turn out today, but disappointed in the fact that there were so many elementary students that we had to turn some away. We only had enough for 300. There were probably at least 100 that we had to turn away. Linda and the kitchen staff have been cooking all day long and still at it, mostly for tonight’s dinner right now.

Tomorrow bright and early we go to Rev. Moleme’s church for VBS for two days. It is approx. 1 hour away. The different churches associated with Rev. Botha’s have been so gracious to again provide us with lunch and dinner. We have not gone hungry! Will close for now. Love to all and my family.

Linda Kay

Hi all! Well, we’re still here at Saki’s church in Wolmaranstaad. VBS was packed today; we had so many kids! And now it’s almost time for the revival! Please pray that the Word will be received by many and that the hearts of the team and the church will be strengthened and encouraged in our faith throughout the rest of the week.

Love to all!

Christin Hey!!

It’s Mary Ann!! Our culminating church service is about to begin—we’ve had a wonderful day with the children. This is the last day in Wolmarranstad(sp?). Tomorrow we are on the move to another bible school in Juberton. Today we saw 500-600 children and we are expecting at least 600 in the church service!

We are busy, busy, busy!!! Miss you all—continue to pray for us.

Much Love,

Mary Ann

HELLO to all. As everyone has said we’ve been very busy and hoping the service tonight will be fruitful. It was a beautiful day, with rain last night. The lions are roaring early in the mornings---a good alarm!!!

Tomorrow we move on to Rev.Moleme’s church. That should be an exciting time. We are all well, but still covet your prayers.

With love,

Pam

Thursday Morning 7 a.m.:

Greetings. Yesterday we started at 7 a.m. and got home last night after 10. We served nearly 600 kids yesterday and our team did a great job. It was our smoothest day despite rolling blackouts and a record number of kids. Our kitchen team prepared around 1,200 meals yesterday in a shack with no electricity cooking out of black pots. We have been asking for your prayers and they have resulted in 330 decisions for Christ last night. So far, around 380 decisions for Christ have been made. We thank the Lord for choosing to work through us. The people have been great. Our hosts from the white churches have really appreciated us and fed us well. Our friends at the site have been really good to help and very loving. The kids are awesome. Today we start all over again. We will do another VBS in Jouberton. There is no break. We have to drive 1 hour and set up and get to work. Tomorrow will be another very long day as we will also have a community worship service in the evening. We look forward to many more coming to Christ.

Continue to pray for us.

Peace, Tim

Good Morning All, Last night was amazing, the crowd was pressing in at the gate and around the site, but with the help of some local security and our interpreters and especially Rev. Moleme’ we had a really nice orderly service and met we met with everyone in groups of ten afterwards (I got to go through the wordless book and pray with 4 groups and collected 39 response cards for the local church to follow up with) and then served a delicious meal of pap with stew that everyone enjoyed. We had to use a portable generator to power the lights and sound system and we lost the power a few times but everyone stayed calm and the Spirit of God was very good to us. I just had to leave for a second because the kitchen staff here at Buisfontaine asked us to come in and pray with them. Now that is pretty cool! It is an honor to be a part of this group and humbling to be appreciated so much by others. Gotta go, time for one more cup of coffee before Freddie’s morning devotions – likes to get us to do something a little silly to loosen up before reading a selection of scripture. Hope you all have a great day! -

Tom