(PS We have once again resolved our sermon recording woes. Some past sermons will be available shortly)

Join us on Wednesday 21st July at 7pm for our Equip time. We will be discussing and practically exercising “How to hear His Voice”. It will be a great opportunity to take your relationship with Jesus to a new level. Bring and share a pizza  from 7-7:30pm.

See you there!

Sunday 8:30 pm is “showdown time”! The soccer World Cup is the world’s biggest sporting event; being watched by an estimated 3 billion people and there has to be ONE WINNER! What pressure! Life is a gift from the Lord, let us live it to the full, aware that He is lovingly watching and encouraging us to go for heavens gold. We can all be winners when we live for His pleasure and one day hear those words “well done my good and faithful servant”. I would rather have His loving eye on me than 3 billion critical eyes. I would rather go for His gold that lasts forever and not just for 4 years. Let’s daily run onto life’s field, living for Him and He will help you through all the pressure times of life.

Our aim was to assist in some small way, and to once again see how others live in order to realize how privileged we are. Debbie got into the swing of things in a big way by doing ball skills classes every day while at the same time training the teachers how to do the classes in future.

Rachael participated in all the classes with the kids. Katelyn (with Debbie’s help) did various art sessions with the kids, cutting and pasting pictures. In the afternoons Debbie assisted the sewing team on site with skills and techniques making dresses and hand bags. Debbie had them sew me a pair of pajama trousers, which we then bought from the ladies.

Because the kids get fed every day, a lot of food needs to be brought onto site. That, together with the fact that there are no vehicles on site, meant that the X-Trail was the bakkie and taxi of choice for the period of our stay there. One day I went into town (they are 6km outside town) 4 times in order to pick up people and supplies. 14  x 25kg bags of rice as well as 120 tins of milk powder in addition to bags of cabbage, tomatoes, etc was transported on one day.

I presented a short entrepreneurs course to 10 people who have small businesses. Doing everything through an interpreter we did 3 sessions of discussions about the 4 P’s of marketing. Teaching some to use a calculator was indeed one of the interesting aspects of this training. It was possible for us to take calculators, note pads and pens for 10 people. In addition, funds were used to buy a pump for the water tank and baby milk for the kids.

We learnt much more than we taught and were reluctant to depart. We loved it there and will return and hopefully take others with. There is still a lot of work to be done and we hope to be part of it.

Japie, Debbie, Katelyn & Rachael

There have been some mega highs and lows, especially on Tuesday when Bafana kept us on the edge of our seats. The almost written off teams have caused many of the “mighty to fall” (2 Sam 1:27). God some how seems to always back the underdogs. He believes in them and they rise up to be winners, where the self-confident crumble. One thing I have observed, a team playing as ONE is far superior than a team full of individual superstars. It’s the same with the Church. HE is our superstar and we are privileged to be on His team. Let’s play as ONE and kick some devils “butt”!

The 1995 rugby World Cup champions had a world champion coach in Kitch Christie. His training and instruction both on and off the field was a major contributing factor to the team winning. Springbok captain, Francois Pienaar had the following to say in his autobiography, Rainbow Warrior: “My relationship with Christie was so close it was more like father-son than coach-captain. He was the type of strong, disciplined, brave man that I most admired.”

In Ephesians 6:1-4, Paul urges parents to bring their children up in the training and instruction of the Lord. In this sermon, Bev teaches us how to coach a winning team for God. Parents, you are your child’s best coach. Do your best while you can and enter heavens hall of fame for coaches. Go for it coaches!

(Below is the diagram the Bev refers to in the sermon)

PS (Unfortunately our morning service, “Husbands & Wives – Christ’s Model” was not recorded but we will be making Gav & Ange’s notes available – highly recommend that you go through them in your quiet time)