Prayer walk through the townships of Cape Town.
Prayer Walk - Cape Town
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Cape Town - June 2012
Prayer Requests:
1. The seminary students are getting ready to take final exams. They need endurance to finish the race well.
2. There will be a vacation Bible school combined by three local churches the last week of June. Please pray for the children who attend as well as the teenage workers and their youth ministers.
3. The English classes: one Burundian family is so desperate they want us to adopt their 2 year old daughter. The team is helping the family with food, clothes and trying to find jobs for them. These are not the only ones who need jobs. 80% of the refugees are jobless.
4. Gail's mother was dragged at a running speed down the road by a harnessed frightened alpaca. She has a fractured shoulder and had an MRI done on her rotator cup yesterday. Results on the MRI are pending. Please pray for healing. The doctor said that durgery to repair a rotator cup on a woman her age, 71, would take 6-12 months to recover from.
Praise:
1. Word is getting out in the community and more people want to go to an English class. Muslims have asked to be included in the next new class. The book of Mark in the Bible is used to teach the classes so it says a lot that Muslims are willing to learn English using the Bible.
2. The seminary mission week showed the students ministered to churches and schools. They worked to set up Bible studies and to reach out to addicts and children and their families.
3. James and the mission team all returned safely from the Amazon River. Over 900 people were seen during the week and over 1300 prescriptions were written. OVer 300 children came to the children's program.
Thank you for praying!
1. The seminary students are getting ready to take final exams. They need endurance to finish the race well.
2. There will be a vacation Bible school combined by three local churches the last week of June. Please pray for the children who attend as well as the teenage workers and their youth ministers.
3. The English classes: one Burundian family is so desperate they want us to adopt their 2 year old daughter. The team is helping the family with food, clothes and trying to find jobs for them. These are not the only ones who need jobs. 80% of the refugees are jobless.
4. Gail's mother was dragged at a running speed down the road by a harnessed frightened alpaca. She has a fractured shoulder and had an MRI done on her rotator cup yesterday. Results on the MRI are pending. Please pray for healing. The doctor said that durgery to repair a rotator cup on a woman her age, 71, would take 6-12 months to recover from.
Praise:
1. Word is getting out in the community and more people want to go to an English class. Muslims have asked to be included in the next new class. The book of Mark in the Bible is used to teach the classes so it says a lot that Muslims are willing to learn English using the Bible.
2. The seminary mission week showed the students ministered to churches and schools. They worked to set up Bible studies and to reach out to addicts and children and their families.
3. James and the mission team all returned safely from the Amazon River. Over 900 people were seen during the week and over 1300 prescriptions were written. OVer 300 children came to the children's program.
Thank you for praying!
Muslims of South Africa
Request: On-field workers have started an ESL (English as a Second Language) class for some North African refugee women. It is important for these refugee women to learn English in order to get a job, or even do something as simple as take their children to the doctor and be able to explain what is wrong. These women come from one of the most unreached people groups in the world. Pray that the Lord will use the conversations during English lessons as opportunities for workers to share the gospel, and that the Holy Spirit will move in the hearts of these ladies to receive salvation.
Praise: One of our Muslim friends has been ill and has not been able to go to work much less get out of bed for several weeks. On-field workers gave this Muslim woman an audio recording of the Bible in her heart language. When she can’t sleep or get out of bed, she has been listening to the recordings and has questions about what she is hearing. Praise God that she is able to hear the gospel in a way that she can understand!
Praise: One of our Muslim friends has been ill and has not been able to go to work much less get out of bed for several weeks. On-field workers gave this Muslim woman an audio recording of the Bible in her heart language. When she can’t sleep or get out of bed, she has been listening to the recordings and has questions about what she is hearing. Praise God that she is able to hear the gospel in a way that she can understand!
Xhosa of Cape Town
"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord,"they are plans for good and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11 Journeymen Sarah and Michal put this verse to music with motions when they first arrived in Cape Town to help Xhosa students they work with in the township schools remember God's promise. As they look back on the past 2 years, they have been reminded that God has had a good plan for their lives in Cape Town as He has given a future and a hope to many students they have shared Christ with. For example at Linge, the learners in the after school leadership club are flourishing - acting out Bible stories, singing worship songs and learning from the Bible. Pray that the enthusiasm of these learners and their desire to learn more about God continues to grow after Sarah and Michal leave in July. Pray that Sarah and Michal will have sweet goodbyes and continue to put their hope in God's good plans for their future.
Windhoek, Namibia
Youth With A Purpose will be hosting its annual youth camp in Windhoek, Namibia on June 22-24. The theme will be “Saturate”, with emphasis on teaching the youth the importance of telling others about Jesus and helping them to feel equipped to do so. Please pray for the camp leadership and for the youth who will be attending to have hearts and minds open to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. We greatly appreciate how you are so faithful in praying for the ministries in Namibia.
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" Acts 1:8 NKJV.
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