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Paulus stel dit duidelik: In alles het ek vir julle ‘n voorbeeld gestel dat ons so hard moet werk dat ons die armes kan help. Onthou die woorde van die Here Jesus: “Dit is meer geseënd om te gee as om te ontvang.” - Hand. 20:35 Ons het die afgelope paar maande ‘n paar organisasie aan die lesers bekend gemaak. Miskien het jy al van sommige van hulle gehoor, miskien was daar ‘n paar nuwes. Maar vir If you want to know more about hoeveel het jy al van jou tyd of geld geskenk? Of was dit maar Koinonia or want to contact them net ‘n mooi storie om te lees? Die maand recap ons die vorige visit their website @ paar maande se organisasies. MAAK ‘N VERSKIL! www.koinonia.org.za for more info and contact details.

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vers in Mattheus; God soek kinders wat vlekkeloos en sonder kreukel is. Manne en Vroue wie se harte onverdeeld op God gerig is.

Exo 20:14 Jy mag nie egbreek nie. In die praktyk: Wat beteken die woord, ADULTERY? Die rede hoekom egbreuk sonde is, is omdat meeste mense to debase by adding inferior material: to adulterate moreel ook daarna kyk. Sonde is sonde, maar ons as milk with water gemeenskap klassifiseer sonde in verskillende grade. As to make something impure samelewing glo ons dat dit verkeerd is, of jy nou Christen is of Daar is ‘n verskil tussen egbreuk pleeg en egskeiding. nie. Daar is 'n ingebore wete dat dit verkeerd is. Laasgenoemde is gewoonlik die gevolg van eersgenoemde. Daar is verskillende redes wat mense gee hoekom hulle Mense pleeg egbreuk en as daar nie resourasie kan nie, is egbreuk gepleeg het. Hier is 'n kort lys: egskeiding die gevolg. 1. Hulle het verlief geraak op die ander persoon 2. Ingewing van die oomblik Hierdie onderwerp is 'n onderwerp waaroor elkeen van ons 3. Onvermoë om 'n vennoot se behoeftes, elke dag behoort te dink. Daar is verskillende vorme van belangstellings of verwagtinge te akkommodeer egbreek, en nie soos almal dink, net ontrouheid aan 'n 4. Lae selfbeeld huweliks maat nie. Kom ons kyk mooi na hierdie woord. 5. En nog baie ander. EGBREUK(s.nw.) of EGBREEK(ww.). Wanneer hierdie woord opgebreek word kry jy twee kern woorde nl. EG & BREUK. Daar is drie kante van die muntstuk wanneer dit kom by Egbreuk. Die skuldige, die onskuldige en die samelewing. Eg: Wanneer iets waar en oorspronklik is. Dit is al om bekend dat die waarde van oorspronklike kunsstukke en meubelment Die skuldige: baie hoe pryse haal en dit as so kosbaar beskou word dat daar Pro 6:32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks altyd sekuriteitsmaatreëls of addisionele versekering betaal heart and understanding (moral principle and prudence); he word, want dit is mos onvervangbaar! Daar word waarde aan who does it is destroying his own life. gekoppel, jy stel belang daarin,jy bewonder dit, versorg dit en Ongelukkig is baie mense so vasgevang in hierdie sonde dat beskerm dit. hulle nie meer geestelik kan sien wat hulle verkeerd doen nie. Is die laaste geskrewe sin hierbo nie aan ons almal bekend God het gekom om mense vry te maak van sonde en vir elkeen nie? Dit klink nogal baie na die huweliks formulier nie waar hoop te gee vir die toekoms. nie? As ons huwelike vergelyk met die Kunsstuk sal ons die waarde in ons huwelik sien. God het die mensdom gemaak na Hierdie man of vrou kan vergewe word van hul sonde, maar dit sy beeld. Daardie beeld is die egte en waardevolle beeld. God gaan 'n proses wees om weer die vertroue in die huwelik te bou en om toegewyd te wees aan jou eggenoot. Ek dink nie mense het die huwelik geheilig. weet regtig wat 'n groot impak hulle onverantwoordelikheid op Breuk: Wanneer jy iets venietig ,stukkend maak , beskadig of die mense rondom hulle het nie. Daarom is dit so belangrik om onbruikbaar maak. Ons gebruik weer die Kunswerk as jou sonde te laat staan en vergifnis te ontvang vir jou sonde. voorbeeld. Hierdie kunswerk is net waardevol as dit in Wanneer die man / vrou vergifnis ontvang het, is hulle skoon oorspronklike munt kondisie is sonder enige gebreke of asof daar niks gebeur het nie. Jesus self het aan die vrou wat merke. Dit is 'n feit dat indien daar geringe skade aan kosbare op heterdaad betrap is, en nie deur enige een gestenig is artikels is daardie item onmiddelik baie waarde verloor.As ek nie(omdat hulle nie sonder sonde was nie) gesê om heen te die beeld van God afbreek dan is ek besig met vervalsing. gaan en nooit weer te sondig nie. Wat 'n wonderlike genade Egbreuk bring vervalsing in jou lewe. Jy breek die Eg in jou van God. huwelik en dit is teen God se wil. Egbreuk is ook nie net ter sprake in die huwelik nie, maar ook in jou verhouding met God. Die slagoffer: As jy enige iets anders begeer en kies bo God, is jy besig met Die een wat die seerste kry in die verhouding is die een wat van niks geweet het nie. Die een wat niks verkeerds gedoen het egbreek. nie. Maar net soos die skuldige persoon het die slagoffer 'n Matt 5:27 “You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not gevaar waaraan hy/sy blootgestel gaan word. Naamlik commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a bitterheid en onvergewensgesindheid. Volgens die bybel is die woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his persoon geregtig om die ander een te skei, maar dit is goed as God die verhouding kan herstel. Dit gaan 'n pad wees van heart. vertroue hertstel en nuwe liefde kweek. Maar een ding weet ek, Ek sien in hierdie gedeelte in die bybel, dat God wil hê ons in God plaas 'n groot verwagting op restorasie. alle opsigte rein en heilig moet leef. Wanneer daar egbreuk plaasvind, maak die man en vrou hulle onrein voor God. Dit Hierdie persoon wat seergekry het, kan met een van twee oë gaan nie so seer net oor die seks nie, maar dit gaan oor die hart na die skuldige kyk. wat nie meer die egte wil aanvaar nie. Wanneer man of vrou na 1) ek vergewe of pornografie kyk, is jy besig om egbreek te pleeg. Dit is ook nie 2) ek gaan die lewe vir hom / haar moeilik maak. Ongelukkig reageer baie mense op die 2de punt. Hulle het net die mans wat hulle self skuldig maak aan pornografie nie, seergekry daarom moet hulle ook nou seermaak. Maar ons as maar al hoe meer vrouens begin daarna kyk. Daarom hierdie kinders van God leef anders. Ons verstaan dat die lewe kan 4

Woord & Apologetiek seer maak, maar dat God die groot geneesheer is en dat Hy Miskien moet jy dit sterk oorweeg om die Bybel soos 'n enige situasie kan genees. Ek hoop dat ons as kinders van vakleerling te benader. 'n Vakleerling is iemand wat op 'n God so kan reageer. praktiese manier opgelei word om een of ander beroep te beoefen. Jesus wil ons almal by die doen van dinge uitbring en Die Samelewing: nie maar net om oor Hom in die Bybel te lees nie. Hy het die Almal van ons het foute en almal van ons moet aan ons eie Bybel vir ons gegee om dit te leef.:“'n Liggaam wat nie verhoudings werk, daarom moet die gemeenskap wat bewus asemhaal nie, is dood. So is die geloof wat nie tot dade kom word van egbreuk verantwoordelik optree deur geen oordeel nie, ook dood” (Jak 2:26). of haatspraak te uiter nie maar saam te bid vir restorasie. Deur kant te kies of om te oordeel verhinder die herstel en is die pyn Die belangrikste sin van Bybellees is om by Jesus uit te kom en soveel erger vir almal. Plaas jouself in daardie persone se Hom te leer ken en te begin doen wat Hy gedoen het. Dis posisie en dink hoe jy sou voel om gekasty te word. Deur te waarom Bybellees 'n kuier by Jesus moet wees. Om rond en skinder, kwaad te praat en te oordeel pleeg jy ook sonde. bont in die Bybel te lees, gaan beslis nie 'n kuier by Jesus wees Jesus ons hoop: In dit alles het Jesus alle sonde op die kruis gedra en wat jou sonde se naam ookal mag wees, Jesus het daarvoor gesterf. DIE HOOF REDE: HY HET JOU LIEF EN WIL JOU BY HOM HÊ!!! So maak klaar met die egbreek in jou lewe en vind vergifnis by die Vader deur Jesus se bloed, en die krag en leiding van die Heilige Gees! Deur Past. Rudi Young

nie. Dis amper om vir Hom “Hallo” en “Goodbye” in een asem te sê. Lees 'n boek, verhaal of brief in die Bybel van voor tot agter soos 'n kunstenaar, speurder, skattejagter en vakleerling. Kyk na wat Jesus gedoen en gesê het en begin dit doen. Dis wat God in sy hart van jou begeer, want jy is sy verteenwoordiger hier op aarde. “Kom Ons maak die mens as ons verteenwoordiger, ons beeld …” (Gen. 1:26). Mag Bybellees jou help om hierdie beeld in jou alledaagse lewe uit te leef. Deur Dirkie de Wet

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k weet nie of Bybellees vir jou boring is nie, maar toe ek nog op skool was, het Bybellees nie veel vir my beteken nie. Ek het ver van die dorp op 'n plaas gewoon en het nie Sondae by die kerk uitgekom nie. Ek het maar rond en bont in die Bybel gelees en dit het net my gewete getroos, maar het nie veel vir my alledaagse lewe beteken nie. Ek het weens my situasie nooit kategese of Bybelonderrig gehad nie – eers in graad 10 en 11. Later in my lewe het ek ontdek dat Bybellees tot Bybelleef moet lei. Wat ons in die Bybel lees, is iets wat in God se hart vir ons leef. Hy wil hê dat ons geloof in Hom in ons alledaagse lewe geleef moet word. Dis waarom Hy Homself in Jesus Christus aan ons bekend gemaak het. Een van die belangrikste lesse wat ek uit die Bybel geleer het, is dat ek soos Jesus kan word. Ek kan soos Hy begin dink, praat en doen as ek die Bybel lees soos 'n kunstenaar wat na iets soek om te skilder. 'n Kunstenaar soek na 'n toneel of gedagte wat hom tref, want hy wil ook hê dat ander deur sy skilderwerk getref moet word. Jy wil tog deur wat jy in die Bybel lees, getref word sodat jy ook ander met jou Jesus-leefwyse kan tref.

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aar is 'n paar waarhede wat ek verseker weet: Dat God my liefhet, oneindig en onvoorwaardelik. Dit is vir my die belangrikste van alles. Ek weet ook dat Hy 'n plan vir my het. Ek weet dat Hy altyd getrou is. Altyd, en in alles. En op die oomblik leer ek weer: God wil net jou hart hê. Eerlik. Gebreek. Sommer net so. NP van Wyk Louw sê in sy gedig, “Grense”: My naakte siel wil sonder skrome in alle eenvoud tot jou gaan Hy het dit nou wel geskryf vir 'n persoon, maar dit is so waar van wat God wil hê. God sê oor en oor dat ons net eenvoudig, oop en eerlik en met vrymoedigheid na Hom toe moet gaan. Psalm 62 sê: “Pour out your hearts before Him.” Retief Burger sing in die liedjie 'U is al wat ek begeer': Seën die gebarste lippe en die eenvoud in my stem En neem my verwarde hande na die kamer van U troon Want my hart is koud en my trane is al droog gehuil My siel verlang en die dors drup oor my siel. So eerlik. God begeer sulke eenvoudige eerlikheid by ons. God begeer dat jy in jou binnekamer sal gaan sit, stil word en eerlik wees met Hom. Uit jou hart uit met Hom praat. Psalm 51:6 sê: “Maar U verwag opregtheid diep in 'n mens se hart: laat ek dan diep in my binneste weet hoe U wil dat ek moet lewe.” Johannes 4:24 sê: “God is Gees, en dié wat Hom aanbid, moet Hom deur die Gees en in waarheid aanbid.” Ken jy die liedjie, “When the music fades”? Gaan kyk bietjie na die woorde wat ons so maklik sing.

Jy kan ook soos 'n speurder te werk gaan as jy die Bybel lees. Bybellees begin deur die Bybelgedeelte te ondersoek deur jouself af te vra: Wat het hier gebeur, oor wie gaan dit, wat beteken dit alles, hoekom het dit gebeur en wat is die doel van die gebeure? Hierdie ondersoek moet jou uiteindelik by 'n besoek aan Jesus uitbring – 'n rustige kuiertydjie by Hom. As jy enige iemand beter wil ken, sal jy so dikwels as moontlik by daardie persoon gaan kuier om lekker te gesels, dinge saam Daar rus sulke seëning in heeltemal eerlik wees. Om net jou doen, ens. hart voor God oop te lê. Want hy soek niks van jou nie. Hy soek regtig nie iets nie. Hy wil net jou hart hê. Sommer net so. In alle Bybellees kan ook die vorm van 'n skattejag aanneem. As jy eerlikheid. Met al die foute. iets opwindends in die Bybel ontdek, sal jy dit beslis nie net daar laat nie. Jy gaan dit in jou lewe gebruik om vir ander tot Soos Psalm 51:17 sê: voorbeeld te wees, om iets goeds vir ander te doen of om meer “Die offer wat U wil hê, o God, is verootmoediging: U sal 'n hart vol ootmoed en berou nie gering ag nie, o God." tyd aan gebed te bestee. Deur Sanmari Maritz

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home and asked his mother to iron a shirt for him. “My mother

Evangelist recounts horrific still begged me not to make a mockery of God but at church I gangster lifestyle before conversion had an encounter with Jesus and my life was never the same. When you encounter Jesus your life can never be the same,” God is still in the business of changing and transforming Jacobs explained. lives,” says Leon Jacobs, a former member of the 26s gang, whose grisly life prior to his conversion in 2010 sounds like a Serving God with other former gangsters Stephen King novel. “Today I am an evangelist called by Jesus, not blown off a bakkie or whistled to from a street corner, to proclaim the Jacobs, now an evangelist, was recently a featured guest on Gospel to many nations and peoples.” Jacobs was given a five the Radio Tygerberg programme, Draaipunt, and he spoke to year suspended sentence for his brother’s murder in 2010. In Gateway News this week. 2013, God gave him a prophecy for the woman merchant who had sold him and his friend tik. She was one of the biggest drug Jacobs began his radio interview by describing the barbaric dealers in Mitchell’s Plein. A day later, there was a death in her and brutal rape and murder of an ex-girlfriend who was family and Jacobs was approached to conduct the funeral hijacked and died after a broomstick was shoved down her service. During the service, the merchant had her own throat and vagina. He was wrongly arrested for the crime in personal encounter with Jesus and surrendered her life to 1998 and spent two years and eight months in jail awaiting trial Christ. Soon afterwards a few of the gangsters who operated before he was released when a court found no evidence of his with her had their own encounter. Jacobs concluded his radio involvement. A month after his release he was involved in testimony saying: “Today we are all serving the Lord together,” armed robbery and was imprisoned again. Jacobs said that proving, as the interviewer so rightly put it, that “No one is too while in prison he discovered that three gangs were operating good or too bad that Jesus cannot save them.” there. He met so-called “high-flyers” who promised to be his suppliers. “But, even then, God had a plan for my life, Speaking to Gateway News, Jacobs said he always quotes according to Jeremiah 29:11,” he added. Acts 26 – King Agrippa’s response to Apostle Paul’s testimony – when he ministers. “God is using me to impact South Africa During the radio interview Jacobs confessed that the building because people can relate to my story. It makes people realise located next to the radio station was where he had conducted that there is hope.” He relates as an example the testimony of a most of his trade as a drug dealer. “I was making R5 000 to R6 mother in Bonteheuwel who purchased a DVD he produced in 000 per day in the Parow/ Goodwood area [of Cape Town],” he 2011. “She had a son, Mark, who was also a tik user. One day said and publicly asked for forgiveness. “Today I want to ask for he came home on a high and decided to watch some television forgiveness from everyone listening to the sound of my voice to and played the DVD. His mother found him crying in the lounge whom I may have sold drugs, especially those still struggling to and he gave his life to Christ. I met Mark when he introduced get a hold of their life as a result of it.” In her reply, the himself to me at a Youth Jam on the 16th of June this year.” interviewer stated that there was forgiveness but also restitution to which Jacobs responded: “God’s plan is never to Jacobs’ DVD can be purchased from Rachel Skippers at Radio rescue you and leave you. He wants you to make an impact. Tygerberg or from him. He can be contacted on: 076 104 3538 He will be with you as you go and make a difference as His or 061 981 4995. ambassador. He gives us Godly insight.” By Anthea Abraham - gatewaynews

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The final straw The final straw for Jacobs came when gang fights erupted between the 26s and 28s gangs, driving him to use cocaine and then tik. When he realised that he was becoming bankrupt as a result of his drug usage he returned home to Mitchell’s Plain, only to discover that his brother was also on tik. Inevitably, they got into a fight and he stabbed his brother. “The devil gave me a picture of a ‘galley blik’ [fire drum with holes] and said I must stab him so that he looks like this ‘galley blik’.” He said that while he was stabbing his brother he heard another voice commanding him to stop. “Then I saw my brother lying in a pool of his own blood. He reached out his hand and called my mother and told her to tell me that all will be ok and died.” Jacobs then called the police who arrested him. He was given bail shortly after appearing in court the Monday after the stabbing.

Brown launched the initiative a few months ago after he read about Peter Throp, the founder of Value Life, who earlier this year won an appeal against a conviction for damaging public property for placing anti-abortion stickers over the lifethreatening, illegal abortion stickers on Cape Town streets. He contacted Throp who agreed to partner with him by supplying his team with Value Life stickers.

As a result of the murder, he couldn’t sleep because of nightmares. “Strong alcohol didn’t help. It was like drinking water,” Jacobs said. At this point, he decided to go to church and if that did not help, to commit suicide. However on a Saturday a friend invited him to go to Mitchell’s Plain town centre where they purchased half a gram of tik from a woman merchant. They used drugs the whole night and by the time he awoke the next morning his friend had left. He managed to get

Brown and his group are opposed to the killing of unborn children, whether by legal abortion or through the activities of backyard abortionists whose deceitful stickers promising safe and painless abortions are a common site on the streets of PE and many other cities in South Africa. The group members believe that an unborn child has the right to live and is destined for a great purpose. “For you created my innermost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb” – Psalm139:13.

ort Elizabeth pro-life activist, Glen Brown and his team have taken to the streets to promote life, by placing antiabortion ‘Value Life’ stickers over illegal abortion advertisements in the city.

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Commenting on their PE sticker campaign, Brown said: “The messages [on the Value Life stickers] are loud and clear and imprinted in the hearts and minds of both men and women. These stickers are everywhere in sight and appear to be the right thing to do”.

On Jan. 10, 2001, Kristi gave birth by cesarean section. As the medical team took the babies to NICU for treatment, doctors gave parents some good news: the girls did not share a heart, making a separation procedure possible. Following the baby’s separation, the Eskelunds named the stronger baby Lydia Joy, because Lydia was a strong woman in the Bible. They called the sicker baby Anneka, the Scandinavian derivative of He said the team is dedicated to their campaign to cover the Hannah, with the middle name Mercy. illegal abortion stickers with prolife stickers regardless of the obstacles they face. On several occasions the group has been “It was sort of Hannah’s same situation, where, if we have this threatened by authorities but “backing down is not an option”. child, Lord, we’re going to put her in Your hands, and we’re going to put her in Your mercy. We knew her life would be a Each time the group takes to the streets they know that the mercy,” said Kristi. The successful separation surgery was Holy Spirit protects and guides their every move. “We have followed by a long recovery; Lydia grew stronger, while Anneka noticed that the Value Life stickers have not been removed, became weaker. Lydia was discharged, though she still lived at whilst other advertisements alongside the lethal [abortion] the hospital with her mother. Anneka had more surgeries, and messages are regularly being scraped and replaced with new doctors told the Eskelunds she wasn’t going to live for long. content. It’s as if these stickers have a protective bubble over them”, Brown said. He said people who want more information “It was such a precious, quiet realization for me and for a lot of us that every single day matters,” Kristi said. “There was a about the campaign or who would like to get involved can email sweetness about living every single day with her at the bedside him at gbrown091@gmail.com and that we knew we weren’t going to have very many of them. There was kind of this letting go.” Six months after delivery, Since the Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed on Anneka Mercy went home to her savior, surrounded by her February 1, 1997 more than 1,1 million babies have been parents and the team of doctors who had become like family to legally killed in the womb in SA, says Africa Christian Action the Eskelunds. (ACA). Illegal abortion have also increased since 1997 — a dangerous trend that is exacerbated by the plastering of illegal abortion stickers at taxi ranks, alongside walkways and on lampposts in SA cities. By Lauren Jonas - gatewaynews

Courageous parents who refused to abort baby

hat should have been a joyous time for Kristi and Dave Today, Lydia is a normal, healthy 12 year old, and the Eskelund was instead one of fear and confusion. Eskelunds are still close friends with some of the surgeons who Doctors told the young parents that their unborn twin girls were worked on Lydia and Anneka. Kristi encourages women conjoined at the abdomen, and possibly shared a heart. The considering abortion to remember that doctors often give the pregnancy, they were told, was an “off-the-chart risk.” While worst case scenario. Although they are sometimes right, Kristi the babies had a 60 percent chance of surviving birth, their says God is able to work incredible miracles. “I would do it all again. I really would,” she says. future was unsure. Because of the high risk, doctors urged the devastated parents to terminate the pregnancy, saying it was the “best course of action.” Many children who are born stillborn die shortly after birth; the survival rate is only between 5 and 25 percent. However, after much prayer, Kristi chose to go through with the pregnancy: “To me it has always been really clear that aborting the child is taking a life. I was honestly more afraid of that than whatever I might deliver. The only thing I could bank on was living with my own choices. And I knew that whatever I did next, I was going to have to look it in the face every single day of my life,” she told WORLD Magazine.

The Eskelunds’ courageous story caught the attention of Christians worldwide, even winning the $5,000 first-place prize in Christian Life Missions’ inaugural presentation of the Walker Journalism Award, a prestigious honor that encourages students to use the media to articulate the Christian message. “When people see you completely live out your convictions, and really put your money where your mouth is, it lends a lot of authenticity to your ability to speak the gospel message,” said Kristi. Six years ago, she birth to a healthy baby boy she named Jesse, who she calls her “Job 42? baby, as the Lord remains faithful even through the darkest of times.

The pair met with dozens of doctors and specialists at Chapel Hill Hospital at the University of North Carolina. Yet doctors “Being able to really rejoice in the situation after all the grief. It were still unable to discern whether the girls had single or a was so much of a coming-full-circle experience for me,” she conjoined heart. Kristi and Dave prayed the twins would says survive to the delivery. gatewaynews.co.za

Missions Thailand Ministry Outreach (11 June â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 29 June)

his time our team headed for the North and South of Thailand, reaching towards the islands.The humidity is very high with temperatures soaring into 40 degrees. The Thai Mokem people are very different in culture and values. Mokem people are the 'seafarers' or the 'sea gypsies', as they are called. We were a team of six people altogether. We first started off in Bangkok in which we visited Campus Crusade for Christ, where they were busy teaching Leadership Skills to the Thai Christian students. They organise large evangelistic events, church planting, also the translation of the 'Jesus' film in the different Thai languages. We prayed and ministered to their team for the Gospel to continue so spread amongst the Thai people. We flew to Kanchanaburi and visited the Bridge on the River Kwai where 15 000 Prisoners of War and 100 000 Thai's died in the Thai war against Burma and Vietnam.We visited a few churches where we had the opportunity to pray in and also met Muslim woman with whome we shared the Jesus film on the cell phone in Thai. They are very open people, and allowed us to pray for them. We prayed that the 'True Allah', would be revealed to them. We also stayed in Trang which is in the South of Thailand, staying alongside the Andaman Sea. We were walking along the road when we met a police officer and was introduced to the Commander of the area, in which we also shared the 'Jesus' film and prayed for the police officers. The following day walking along a different road we met up with a 71 year old Thai who could speak broken English and was invited to his house on the seaside. We shared the 'Jesus' film on the cellphone in Thai which is over an hour long and all watched it together. He was so happy that he met us, and asked us to pray with him and his son. The following morning when we were about to leave he came from where he was staying to greet us. What a blessing! He had never heard of the gospel in his language before. Mike, a missionary from the USA met with us who can speak Thai fluently and took us to the city of Ranolng and to the islands. We visited the Phayam island, in the Andaman Sea by boat. On the island stays a young 34 year old Phillip van Wyk. A missionary from South Africa, who built a house amongst the Mokem gypsies and teaches the children.

To cross over to the island we had to all cross over by foot, waist hight to reach the Moken village. We went from house to house inviting them to watch the 'Jesus' film, that evening in the church hall, the Premier opening of the film in their own language, Mokem, which has never been seen before. The hall was packed. We prayed for many people to receive Christ and many for illnesses and diseases. We were blessed to have Christian, Thai missionaries with us who could translate to their language. Late that night we had to cross back over, where it was full tide and went over in a 'river float.' We also crossed over to Kho Lao island by longboat and met missionaries from Brazil, a lovely young couple reaching out and support the Mokem children. Gambling and alcohol is a major problem and often the children are left alone to play amongs the dogs and chickens in the rubbish filled streets. We also visited the local churches in Ranong which are modern and growing. In the evening we spent time at the orphanage where they are being brought up by a Christian Thai family and are taught christian principles and values. These children are extremely disciplined and do not want to go back to their village. We had a meal with them and were also able to watch the 'Jesus' film with them which they thoroughly enjoyed. Isaiah 24:15 In the east give glory to the Lord; Exalt the name of the Lord, The God of Israel, in the islands of the sea. Zig and Charisse le Roux, Paarl, South Africa Cell: 0827841302; E-mail; charisse@lantic.net

ELEV8 YOUTH & KING’S KIDS

Na 'n baie lekker winter vakansie is almal besig om die vere reg te skud vir die kwartaal wat voorlê. Vir meeste Paarl skole is dit Interskole tyd, wat altyd vol pret is. Ons wil sommer op daai noot vir almal van Elev8Youth en hul skole voorspoed toe wens met Interskole. Mag jul, jul skole trots maak en dit baie geniet. Elev8Youth het 'n vol program en ons sien uit na die volgende kwartaal. Ons ervaar regtig dat God ons na dieper dieptes wil neem. Daar is amazing goed wat gebeur by die jeug en ons is baie opgewonde daaroor. Ons is besig om strukture in plek te sit wat die verloop van Vrydae soveel meer effektief gaan maak. Goed om na uit te sien in die 3de kwartaal is die volgende. Uitreike, Youth Bash, Profetiese Worship seminaar, asook 'n profetiese worship aand, oorslaap by die kerk en 'n groot fondsinsameling aan die einde van die kwartaal. Ons sal binne kort meer inligting daaroor in die La Vie sit.

KINGS KIDS HELP MET BYBELVERSPREDING

en en Betsie en die personeel van die Kings Kids nooi al ons maats en hul ouers om deel te neem aan ons bydraes vir Bybels. Elke kind sal in hierdie maand ‘n bybelbussie kry wat vol geld gemaak moet word voor Sondag 28 September 2014. Meeste van ons gesinne het reeds blikkies gekry en daar is ook spesiale koeverte beskikbaar by Info vir bydraes. Kom ons maak dit ons grootste poging ooit om geld in te samel vir die druk van Bybels. Ons wil ook graag he dat ons ouers seker moet maak dat al hul kinders wat reeds kan lees, hul eie Bybel het. Kom gesels gerus met ons – ons kan bekostigbare Bybels vir jou kry. Dink bietjie terug aan jou eerste Bybel – was dit nie absoluut ‘n fantastiese gevoel om jou eie Bybel te lees en te hanteer nie!

Program vir die kwartaal: ? 1 Aug – Elev8Youth Uitreik @ 18:30 (sop en broodjies vir haweloses op straat) ? 8 Aug - GEEN JEUG (Huweliks Naweek by die kerk) ? 15 Aug – Youth Bash – Goodwood AGS, ons ry 18:00 van die kerk af ? 22 Aug Elev8Youth @ 18:15 ? 29 Aug Elev8Youth @ 18:15 ? 5 Sept Elev8Youth @ 18:15 ? 12 Sept Elev8Youth @ 18:15 ? 19 Sept Elev8Youth @ 18:15 ? 26 Sept Elev8Youth @ 18:15 ? 3 Okt Kerk Sleep Over en Fonds Insameling

Die Woord van God is ‘n Lig vir ons pad en ‘n Lamp vir ons voet. Daarsonder sal ons nie die regte keuses maak, of die regte rigting inslaan in ons lewe nie. Kom ons help ander wat nog nie Christus ken nie, om Hom te leer ken deur Sy Woord. Onthou – ons Bybelsondag is hierdie jaar op Sondagoggend 28 September en dan bring ons al ons bydrae saam na die oggenddiens. Sien julle Sondag by die Kinderkerk!

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