Almost every day I receive a cry for help from somewhere in the world. Please give us Bibles! As more people hear about our ministry - in South Africa and abroad - people are calling on us to help meet their desperate need for God's Word.
Pastors, mission leaders and individual Christians write to tell us just how few Bibles are available or how expensive they are. Ministries planting new churches and those whose focus is discipleship are finding it ever more difficult to provide sufficient numbers of Bibles to the people they are winning to Christ.
On the one hand we should rejoice. The Gospel is finding fertile ground, people are being saved and churches are being planted. On the other hand we should be deeply concerned. God made us responsible for discipling the nations. People need to be transformed.
For this to happen, people need God's Word.
Help us to meet the ever increasing number of requests through prayer and through continued generosity towards fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Help us to ever widen our ministry to include countries where the requests are coming from. Let God be glorified. Let His Word become available to all His children.
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24 Hour Prayer
For more than a year we have been planning to establish a 24 hour prayer ministry among our partners. Several of you have already indicated a desire to participate and I am sure many will join us.
The idea is to choose one or more half-hour slots in a week when you will pray with and for us. We will provide you with prayer requests for our various ministries. We need your intercession.
Below is an example for a 24 hour weekly calendar. Please choose your slot/slots and email the time slot(s) and your partner number (or your Name and Surname) to us.
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Over time we hope to fill all the slots and have continuous prayer.
If you choose a time slot you are saying that you will try to faithfully pray at that time - this is not a legally binding commitment that should bring stress to your life. If you were to miss your slot for some reason - pray at another time and next week try to get back into your program.
We look forward to you partnering with us through prayer.
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Outreach to Malawi, July 2010
A Testimony by Elsa van Velden
“The warm heart of Africa.” This is what I really experienced the past two weeks - the friendliness and hospitality of the Malawians.
The goal of the outreach was to do house to house evangelism as well as to place Bibles.
Initially we hoped to place 750 Bibles in the Cape Maclear and Monkey Bay areas. We had the privilege of working with local pastors and interpreters. Each day we went out to a village where we went out in teams to do door-to-door evangelism. It was amazing to see how many people do not know the Lord and yet are hungry for the Gospel.
We were very aware of our dependence on the Spirit to do the work in people's hearts. The local pastors took down the names of people who came to Christ and will do the follow up. The details of every church that was planted was also recorded for follow up.
The second part of the outreach was dedicated to delivering Bibles to local churches. Our group split up into two teams to visit two areas. Specific numbers of Bibles were given to each church and I experienced a new level of gratitude among the people. People literally jumped for joy because of the Bibles they received and I could see the gratitude and excitement in their eyes.
With each placement I experienced two poles of emotion - on the one side I was grateful with those who received Bibles, and on the other side I was sad for those who did not get Bibles. Each day I realised just how great the need for Bibles is in Malawi. People are truly hungry for God's Word. At one placement an old man received a Bible. His emotions touched my heart deeply. I could see that he had waited a long time for a Bible and I was struck by how privileged I am to have had a Bible of my own since childhood.
During these two weeks I realised how big the need is in Africa, so big it almost makes you despondent - until you realise that every person that accepts Christ is a soul that is no longer lost. I praise the Lord for a wonderful, blessed outreach.
(Several Reformed Churches contributed towards the 1,000 Bibles that were eventually delivered to believers in Malawi - Steven Loots).
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