Gaining Ground For The Kingdom: Fight with us!
Friends and Family,
We miss and love all of you very much and are looking ahead to when we are together again.
Four of the Guys on the our Swazi team were given permission by a local
priest last Monday to come into the
local boys high school (Salesian High School) and preach/teach for
eight different class periods every
week until we leave! This is a phenomenal opportunity and the Lord is
leading the way. He has already been preparing us and is providing for
us information, community support and resources
to pour into our planning time. We are all very focused on this
opportunity and while we are now beginning to see the magnitude and
challenge before us we have been assured that our Lord is going ahead
of us and we are eager to go with Him.
Upon receiving the invitation we began to plan and schedule almost
immediately but there remained a sense that we actually still had not
received permission and blessing from the Lord to go ahead with this
ministry into the school, valuable as it seemed. We conversed over
Saul’s impatient mistakes and King David’s faithfulness in inquiring of
the Lord while making descisions. (1st Chronicles 14:9-11)
We then took the time to pray and also asked a leader and friend from
last semester, who is now in Canada, to pray about it and let us know
if the Lord had spoken anything to her. She was not given any
information or any update whatsoever as to the inquiry or the
situation other than
“maybe pray for the boys school and see what ya get.”
The reply is as follows:
Prayed for ‘the boys school’ and got a strange reply from the Lord..
well, hopefully only strange to me. Simple really, it began with Him
emphatically saying ‘YES’ and then He added later, ‘move ahead’.. Hope
that means something to you.
We will be moving ahead, totally on
faith that God will use us to build a gospel based boys leadership
program. Stressing the urgency of the Aids crisis, gender roles,
responsibility, discipleship and the freedom available from the cycles
of temptation, sin and death through a deeper faith with Jesus Christ. Its about fellowship.
They
need to know Jesus is more than just a superficial, intellectual recognition of
heaven and hell. They say the gospel in Africa is a mile wide and an
inch thick. Very shallow.
in the world and it will be the next to disappear.
The Population in 2006
was about 1.1 million only last year in 2008 it sat just over 900,000
and know that there are many, many people being born every single day.
His Conviction and His Redemtion. Freedom from the enemy, harmfull culture, hopelessness.
His Guidance and Encouragement. Renewal, Rebirth, Revival.
We as a Church can choose to come together on this now. We need your prayers.
Use post its. Reminders. Tell everyone you know. I would encourage you to copy this link and send it to someone.
Pray for the boys to be open with us, for relationship to grow, for
the light of the Gospel as the only true salvation for this country and
for their very own souls. Pray for our lesson planning.
Pray for Delivery, leading and for great zeal in seeking a holiness and fellowship with our God as we walk this new path with Him.
Thank You all,
Siyabonga,
Davie, Ryan, Blair and Tyler.
Praying praying praying praying..!
I’m covering you and the boys school in prayer my friend.
much love
k
Deuteronomy 28:1-3 “If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.”
I am so proud of you guys and will be praying for you!
I will still lift up the many needs you see. I pray for God to multiply the work of a few willing servants throughout the region as the in the first church to what we know today. I know that God desires for none to be without his love and salvation and you are in his will. I pray for you to have the faith to believe you are making a tremendous difference even where you don’t know and not to listen to the lies and discourgement of Satan who wants you to fail. Jesus won the victory. Thank you again for making this sacrifice in his name and sharing the many needs back to us so we can offer prayer support. May he richly bless you this and each day.
I guarantee those boys have never felt love the way that you will love them, Ryan. Can’t wait to hear to hear how they respond to it! Love you, man, and miss you guys!
Son, one of my most fav’s is Phillipians 1:6 “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” When you all accepted the saving sacrifice of Jesus to enter into the grace of God’s heaven His good work was begun in each of you. Complete this in His presence, build upon it in knowledge of His word, and follow His lead through prayer and guidance from His workers. It sounds as if you all are doing just that. I’m still praying continuously for you, even though I really miss you.
Love always, Mom
This update seemed so intense and a real concern for you. I am praying that the Holy Spirit will guide you perfectly with God’s will and empower you when you speak the truth to the youth of this nation. I am also praying even now that conviction will come to the hearts of Africa to turn to Jesus and see Him as their Savior. God put you on the “A Team” for a good reason and has brought you on an adventure prior to going to Africa to make you the man you are supposed to be for this time. You are Africa’s “Paul,” bringing this forgotten people, from the world’s stand point, the living water, and a gift of life.
Love ya brother,