It is such a privilege to stand in His service and see how He changes people!
We have been really encouraged about what have been happening in people’s lives these past few months!
Our Feast Dinners
This with no doubt has been one of the highlights for us as pastors of Salem Danville! For six Wednesday evenings we have been inviting about 25 people that are part of the congregation for a lovely dinner. Initially, we thought we will give each person a “boerewors roll”. But God spoke very clearly to Kobus: “What do you serve your family and friends when you invite them for dinner?”
Kobus is one of the best “braaiers” you will ever know and his specialty – T-bone! So God challenged him – to give each person the biggest nicest T-bone… We complained with God, because T-bone is kind of expensive. The first evening it seemed that there were more people than T-bone. We just prayed… when the last person got his T-bone, the T-bones were finished! For the next five weeks, God provided enough meat for each and every person in our congregation to taste Kobus’ specialty! We serve a God who still does miracles!
We ended off with a big celebration feast one Sunday morning with Corli le Roux and her team ministering praise and worship and Manie and his team made “potjiekos” for all! Thanks you guys!
Salem’s First Missionary
We are so excited about our first missionary – Innocence and his family came from a Northern African state as a political refugees. But God had other plans – to use him as a missionary in Danville. He and his family really went through allot of trauma, but God’s healing brought restoration and he is standing in His service, glowing as he work for the Father! Thank you for the people that sponsor him and his family so that they can keep on doing this work!
People Giving Gratitude
We have been so blessed by people overflowing with gratitude towards God. Most of the people in our congregation really don’t have much. Like Amy – she got a small job and for the first time in a long time can afford her own “Wendy house”. She brought us a small, little book of her own, just to say thank you. The little book is about “Footprints” and other inspirational quotes. We just realized that a small gift from someone with so little leaves big footprints in the heart!
Baptism…
Eighteen people have been baptized. Because we don’t have the facilities to baptize people we had to take them to Kempton Park to be baptized. One of the newly converted men was so touched by God that he decided he is going to build a “baptism bath” for our church!
We are so humbled by these people that have so little but want to give so much back to God. Most of them cannot give money – but they give what they can…
Volunteers
Here we have to mention a few names:
- Christell, Antionette, Martin and Karina (Sunday School)
- Danie and Margie (Teenagers)
- Braam (Logistics)
- Kiewiet, Mitzie, Nikky and all the other committed Danville volunteers
You give up your time, money and energy for your specific ministry. You have not only opened your hearts to them, but you also give a hand – every week!
Even more than we appreciate you… we know the Father smiles over you!
Thank You
We always say it – but we can never leave it out:
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, AND THANK YOU!
Thank you for each and every prayer, words of support and financial support. This is a ministry that will never be able to function without all the support of the people that support us. It is not always easy, but you make it possible for us to work for the Father in Danville!
A Last Word
Proverbs 22:9(NLT)
9 Blessed are those who are generous,
because they feed the poor.
because they feed the poor.
May you be blessed beyond measure – because you are generous to the poor!
Shalom!
Kobus & Anina Homan
Pastors Salem Danville
This newsletter and all other newsletter will be posted on the blog:
salem-danville.blogspot.com
You can visit Anina’s twitter sight:
Annie4HisWord
Also read Anina’s blog for the church and daily devotionals: pastorforthepoor.blogspot.com
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