Preparing for the New!
Since YWAM Together 2024, I’ve been getting settled into the new season back in Potch, but it’s definitely not a time to slow down. This new season has been quite a whirlwind as God is bringing fresh vision for the new year – which is just around the corner. My team and I have been working hard in making disciples, preparing the soil through our prayers, and building networks for revival across Africa! Hallelujah!!!
Discipleship Bible School
This quarter our campus in Potch is running a Discipleship Bible School (DBS). This is a three-month Bible school in which students spend time learning about God’s story from Genesis to Revelation, and discovering the common thread throughout the Scriptures of God’s redemptive plan for humanity. This is an opportunity as well for students who have finished their Discipleship Training School (DTS) to get equipped to enter into ministry in one of the six different lanes that our campus is running in full-time. Once they have finished a Bible school or an internship, they can start serving in Media, End Bible Poverty Now (EBPN), Training, Evangelism, Mercy, or Prayer & Worship. So, this is a very important step for many of our future, long-term staff to get involved with what God is doing here in Potch, South Africa, and in the nations!
Currently, I am helping to staff the school part-time, as I fulfill my other commitments in EBPN and in Prayer & Worship. I have the privilege of discipling a group of five young men who are hungry for the Word of God, and I am so blessed by these students! We meet several times a week for small groups, Bible reading, inductive Bible study, and individual discipleship. It has been the joy of this season getting to work with these students and love them as they are growing in their relationship with God and the Bible. I’ve been having so much fun!
Pray with me… For the students of the DBS to fall more and more deeply in love with the Lord throughout this time of discipleship and Bible study, that they would be surrendered to the will of God over their lives, and that the Lord will bring healing and deliverance to their hearts through His Word!
Prayer & Worship
In addition to making disciples of the Word, I was also part of a huge event that our base put on called EXALTED, which was incredible! Exalted is one of the ways that our base is working to bring Prayer & Worship to the local community in Potch, South Africa, and the nations. It is a two-day conference focused on exalting Jesus and calling on everyday believers to “Give Him No Rest,” (Isaiah 62:6-7), meaning that we want to see everyday believers activated in prayer and intercession, and obedient to the call of God to go to the nations until the Great Commission is fulfilled! (Matthew 28:18-20)
Isaiah 62:6-7 (ESV)
“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.”
Here’s your paragraph rephrased in the past tense:
It was thrilling to have presented Jesus to our community through worship leading with our very own, FFSA Music! It was no easy feat to pull off an event like this. We had many rehearsals, worked hard to put it all together, and a team of people coordinated and spoke at the event. Reaching this point, where we were able to present Jesus to our community and invite local believers into a life of Spirit-filled intercession, and obey the call to missions was our joy and delight. In the week leading up to Exalted, we went to local high schools and government buildings to share Jesus and pray for people. We also did evangelism in the community, visiting the townships and areas in our city where there is a lot of poverty. We prayed to see a wave of souls come into the Kingdom as we flooded the city of Potchefstroom, Promosa, and Ikageng! Thank you so much to those who have been praying with us for this event! Here are the final stats from “FLOOD WEEK!”
FINAL STATS:
PEOPLE GATHERED: 8,922
SALVATIONS: 1,815
RECOMMITMENTS: 389
HEALINGS: 117
Pray with me… For all those who were saved, healed, and made recommitments, and those who got set free to be fully in for Jesus and excited to serve Him in all seven spheres of society! (business, education, family, religion, government, celebration, and media) Pray for all new believers to grow up until they reach full maturity in the Lord!
End Bible Poverty Now!
Finally, I just want to share about how our team has been doing so far this year with ending Bible poverty, our labor of love. This year has been a year full of pioneering vision for seeing Africa transformed by the Word of God. As a team this year, we were able to get Bibles into the nations of Malawi, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Sudan. We attended events in South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, the Philippines, the United States, and Albania, which all had a focus on ending Bible poverty. We were also able to help with training Bible translators of seven different languages in Malawi, who have started working on oral translations of the Bible in their own mother tongue! Praise Jesus!!!
All of our hard work as a team has led to an urgent need for more prayer and partnerships to support the ministry that we are doing, and this is really good news! We are praying for God to open the doors for new ministry with our friends all over Africa. We are praying for opportunities to multiply the efforts of end Bible poverty now across the nations; programs which will aim to train and raise up new movements of the Word of God in Africa through oral Bible translation ministries, EBPN trainings and workshops, and locally-led, Biblical discipleship movements. Please join us in prayer and consider how you can join us in ending Bible poverty through your prayer and partnership with our movement!
We are believing that, very soon, God is going to expand our work to reach more nations, people groups, and languages; and we are going to see a beautiful harvest of souls glorifying Jesus all across the nations of Africa and beyond! Wouldn’t you want to be a part of that?
Pray with me… For End Bible Poverty Now (EBPN) ministries to be activated, launched, and multiplied across all 54 nations in Africa! For 54 movements of the Word of God to be catalyzed in all 54 nations of Africa! For funding for Bible distribution, translation, education and engagement programs in Africa and beyond! For our EBPN and Project54 teams in Africa to be blessed and highly favored, in good health and safe from harm, fully funded, and filled with the Spirit of wisdom and revelation at all times so that we can do our ministry with God!
In Closing
I am excited to share that I will be coming to Washington for the holidays! I can’t wait to see you at church and in fellowship during this special time of year, and to visit my family as well and spend some really nice time at home. Bless the Lord! I am also planning to send out Christmas cards this week to share more about how you can be praying for and supporting our ministry in South Africa. Please take a moment to fill out this contact form with your name, number, and mailing address so that I can send you a card as well:
Thank you so much for your prayers and support! I hope that I will see you very soon for the upcoming holidays! God bless you.
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