Friday, November 5, 2010

WHAT A YEAR.

What a year, What a team, What a dream and What a mighty God we serve. God has been so good to us as a team. Struggles and all. We believe God is molding us and using us to evangelize a continent. There is so much happening and we give HIM the glory. The gospel Chariots are heading for home after a very successful year. We are not sure, but there must have been around 800 souls baptized again this year. The team on the Chariots are working so well with Christians in surrounding countries. It is fantastic what is happening. Our goal is to, Lord willing, try and build a new Gospel Chariot for North Africa. That will be in 2012. PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS. Before that, we have a goal of getting a study room established in Atteridgeville. Please pray for this as well. This office will open many, many doors and will be overseen by the elders of the big church of Christ in Atteridgeville. This study room will specialize in literature. We are so excited about this project. Brother Tebogo, who is a great servant in the kingdom, will direct this work under the elders. GCM does not compete with other works, but compliments them. It is not how much you do, but how much you encourage others to do for HIM.

PRETORIA

Above shows our GCM family in Downtown Pretoria with Ria and I. This is our main office with great workers, who have been part of this work for many years. From left you have Bongani, Ria, Mams, Machona, George, Lydia, Shanga, Laz and Dimpo. Shanga retires year end. God bless and thank you Shanga for being with us for so long. All logistics planning and communicating comes from this office. Lazarus, Machona and Dimpo have degrees through Nations University. The 3 ladies with Vicki are the back bone of the work.

Some of the students with lecturers in Pretoria. This work is not just about Chariots, but teaching God's Word as well. Students can come live with us as they study the Word.
ATTERIDGVILLE

Above shows some of the leaders from the Atteridgeville Church of Christ with brother Tebogo and Machona on the right. These are the leaders to head up the study room that will be established in 2011. In the background you can see a building going up. Yes, a big one.
Above shows the new Church building going up in Atteridgeville. This building will seat near 1000 people. It has upstairs and downstairs. This building, the congregation is paying for themselves. God is working. It is in front of this building, that we will assist with a study room. It is located on a very busy road. Location, Location, Location. Many doors will open as they reach out to the community.
KWAZULU NATAL
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Above shows the lord supper being served during Sunday service. Brethren in the Indian community, used the Chariot for a combined worship and fellowship. Fantastic example.
Then its time to eat and greet. Look at the organisation of meals being brought in to feed everyone after worship. This is so encouraging to see brethren work together like this.
Praise the Lord and seek His ways. This is the message being sent out to the community.
Above shows some of the members in Illove helping to clean the tent after the gospel meetings in the area. This same Chariot had its turbo blow out twice in September and October. As they say, the devil is not happy when good things happen in Christ's name.
Some of the many souls that were baptised in Kwazulu Natal with Bongani and Zonke.
VENDA

Above shows De Villiers with some seekers regarding the Lord's Church. GCM has this office in Thohoyandou, Venda. This office opens many doors, people are taught more accurately time and time again. The local congregational preachers also get together here and meet about evangelism.
Above shows some of the Venda Bible School students working on Chariot 2 doing some practical evangelism. The Bible School will close in November after 7 months of school. This school GCM established and is run by brother Malindi and the Tshidimbini elders. What a success story. Well done brethren. Your school and congregation is an example on how to evangelize the world. The exciting thing is, you are only getting started. AMEN.
Above shows some of the students at the Vhembe Bible School, taking a day off and visiting the well known Kruger National Park just 1 hour from the school. God is Good.
NAMIBIA
Above shows the Tsumeb Bible School in Namibia about 5 hours north of the capital city Windhoek. Our work has been working in Windhoek, Rundu and Walvis Bay. There is one missionary and that is John D alton, He is based here in Tsumeb. Lord willing we will be campaigning with him in April. Our goal is to invite all the Christians from all the congregations we have started, and get together with John and promote his school and unity. Once again we don't want to compete, but compliment other works. God works through us all. Fredericksburg Church in Texas will be campaigning with us there.
Above shows John, Martie and myself whilst up there in October. We are all excited about the campaign and what it could mean for the Church in Namibia as a whole. We are hoping to do something like this every year, but in different towns. This way, every congregation gets a campaign and some encouragement. The Church is still very small in Namibia. True mission field
Ria and I then stopped off in Walvis Bay where we encouraged the small church there. We have had some problems there with a place to worship. In April with the Fredericksburg congregation we managed to help the brethren rent a house for worship. Five months later they decided to move out due to the electrical costs. We now have assisted them with putting up a shack building for worship. They are very happy with this now and we managed to get a Church of Christ sign as well.
Small, but clean and in the community. Chariot 2 will be working with this congregation for the whole of March in 2011.
Above shows some of the brethren in Walvis. Brother Laurance moved with his family back to Rundu. He will be returning in January again with his wife and children. The wonderful thing about these brethren, they are hanging in there faithfully, regardless of the struggles.
DURBAN OFFICE
Above shows the GCM office in Durban with Leslie and Paulus. This office reaches out through Wold Bible School and has amazing success with their Saturday seminars and teachings.
Above shows many receiving their WBS certificates. Teaching through the post works.
Above shows Elphas doing some teaching during the seminar. Paulus, Elphas and Sam work hand in hand when reaching students.
Some of the souls being baptised in Natal. There are 4 million people in this area.