Campus Harvest Staff Report

All of the 100 plus full time campus ministers came in 3 days before the students. We heard testimonies of what God’s doing in each our lives and in our service in ministry.

Botswana

Stories of how for example Drikus Louw laboured for years in Botswana without seeing any growth in the campus ministry there but he pressed on until now where the fruits are starting to show. The campus ministry there is growing and they brought some of the students to Campus Harvest.

Drikus Louw – being prayed for.

 

Namibia

Another testimony was from Hilma who’s heading the  campus ministry in Namibia. They’ve also struggled to have growth as the students there are generally speaking not committed to one cause only. She laboured on and now they have about 60 students actively serving God by heading up cell groups, worship, evangelism & out reaches! They brought most of those students to Campus Harvest!

Hilma (on the right) at Campus Harvest

Here some of the Nam students @ Campus Harvest:

Below if you look carefully you’ll see me with the super-faith Nam guys (left to the girl wearing a blue top)

Impartation to Campus Leaders

Pastor Rice Broocks (co-founder of Every Nation ministries) came and shared some of his 33 years of experience with us bringing God’s word to us to keep us going as we aim to reach every nation through reaching every campus!

We also had Pastor Andrew Gosman, his wife & his team giving prophecies over each and every ministert there! That was a powerful moment as God confirmed His work in all of us individually! 

God is amazing! Without knowing any of our experiences or hopes in God, this team managed to accurately confirm what God has been stirring in our hearts. Here Chinelle & I are receiving a prophecy from Ps Themba & Amy Malaba, and again it was spot on. It great to know that for all of us as His children God affirms us as sons & daughters even before we do anything for Him. God came upon Christ after He got baptised saying “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17. God said this to Jesus before Jesus had done one miracle. Receive it for yourself too.

 

New Church/Campus Ministry Plant

Here Ben Schoeman showed a diagram of the major learning centres of Africa. The green countries are countries where we’ve planted a campus ministry. Last year Bloemfontein, Swaziland & Lesotho were earmarked as places where we trust God to plant churches/campus ministries.
It’s awesome to hear that this is already happening!  Jampie van Aarde heads the team that stepped into Bloemfontein and have started a campus ministry there and it’s already growing. Thabiso heads up the Swaziland plant. Ps Wolfgang Beyer also gave feedback on the Lesotho church plant that’s already happening.

 

During the camp
During the camp the we had speakers such as Rice Broocks, Frans Olivier and Gordon Dalbeya. I believe many students met with their destinies as they realise that God has a heart for the lost. This was one of the unique camps where we received a huge deposit in our hearts but we know that it wasn’t about the camp – God intends for us to come back and be the difference on our campuses.

Ps Rice Broocks did an altar call, which he mentioned wasn’t necessarily for people who are not saved, but for people who wanted to repent before God for not living wholly for Him. They went to the altar to make a stand that they would not go back to the lives they lived before and that this would be the last altar call they ever need to respond to.

This is a generation Outrageously Devoted to God! Check out Campus Harvest in pictures here!

Campus Harvest 2010

After months of planning, challenges & against all odds Campus Harvest happened!

I’ve just returned from a weekend camp where 1500 from universities across Southern Africa came together and got inspired to find their calling/purpose in life and to do it!

The motive is simple: the culture of the youth today is society’s culture in 10 years! Change the campus, change the nation!

 

Buses were hired to transport students from as far as Namibia, Botswana & Cape Town! 

1500 lives who want to make a difference in their campuses!

I’ll post the full report back & pictures soon…

Every Nation Every Campus

Thoughts from Rice Broocks’ sermon @ the Every Nation world conference in Manilla on 22 July 2010

This message comes 10 years after God gave us the mandate to reach every nation in our generation in 1999.  10 years later, of the 200+ countries of the world we are now ministering in 61 countries with hundreds of churches. It’s quite exciting and brings at the same time says to me: “don’t sleep now, there is a real calling in front of us. It also says to me that it’s "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit." Zechariah 4:6

Rice Broocks

Why the campus?
He re-iterated why reaching the campus is so important:
1. It’s the battle ground where minds are being captured.
More than in prisons, the campus is where minds are being captured.
2. Is where leaders are being trained.
3. The world’s major movements in history started on campus.
4. Values in society are impacted.
Abraham Lincoln: “The philosophy of the classroom, will be the philosophy of the next generation.”
5. History is altered on campus.
The college has resource to fuel any objective we as a movement can ever have.

Every Nation Every Campus
This is a new battle cry he gave to all leaders there.
It’s to say it’s not about just going to all nations or reaching all nations but reaching to all nations strategically by reaching the area of most significant resource point – the campus. While there's much we can engage for God, reaching every campus is our assignment.

I've always had that in my heart but 'Every Nation Every Campus' brings focus where by now there's been many churches planted as a result of growth, it reminds us that though we're growing the goal is to reach the world through reaching the campus.

It reminds us of our priorities. i.e. as much as we give attention to reaching every nation, reaching the campus has equal importance.

Every Nation Church Plant Update

On Tuesday, 27 July 2010 while I visited the church office in Parktown, Ps Roger had just come back from the Every Nation World Conference in Manilla. This is the feedback he gave regarding church plants.

In the last three years, these are the new church plants:

29 in the Middle East	9 in Latin America
8 in Europe (4 in the U.K.)	4 in the UAE
3 in Bangladesh

In Iran, where one of our leaders who was brought up as Muslim, planted a church there a few years back. He was eventually arrested for 183 days as there is immense persecution to the church there. While in prison he preached, worshipped & fasted. When he was brought before the judge, the judge asked: “are your parents Muslim?” he answered: “yes”; the judge asked: “Do you fear God?”, he answered “yes”; the judge asked: “Are you submitted to Him?”, he answered: “yes”; then the judge said: “You are free to go!”

One of the speakers there is a self-confessed ex Al-Qaeda trained assassin and has now given his life to God and preaches the gospel!

Check out this church-plant update video:

We are called to reach Every Nation in Our Generation!