Gauteng Road-trip Part 2 of 3

From Potch to Pretoria re-igniting the fire for missionary support in SA!

This is how cold it was leaving Potch heading to Pretoria – ice on the wind-screen!

 

    

We sat for about 3 to 4 hours with missions and church-planting driven heroes ministering on the heart of ministry partnership. Andrew shared a lot on strategies we can employ to be more effective in ministry.

It’s like everywhere you go in our national movement the guys have an apostolic, discipleship & church-planting drive in their hearts and we are starting to see flames of these ‘rockets’ about to launch! Some of the guys that were here are part of the team that has planted a new church in Bloemfontein. What a time we live in!

Pretoria leaders

Gauteng Road-trip Part 1 of 3

Andrew & I are doing a road-trip to our family of churches in Potch, PTA, Joburg and Durban. The purpose is to bring to awareness & training in how to have a simple and effective communication strategy using the latest Social Network technoilogies – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc

It was so freezing I didn’t need an alarm to wake me up.

Andrew in session

Using social networks to share the stories of our ministry.

First Men’s Meeting at His People Baxter!

This past Sunday (9 May 2010) we as men met and had older men (represented by uncle Neville) speaking into us young men’s lives.

If we as a church are a family then it should mean that whatever one may need, they should be able to get help in the family. Well, at least we shouldn’t sit back and watch as  our bro’s struggle. It makes a huge difference when someone like uncle Neville, a father in the house, encourages us guys to step it up and be the men God’s called us to be and believing in us that we are chosen by God to bear His image. “Be men of integrity, excellence & men of faith!”

Uncle Neville – one of the leaders in our church.

After he spoke we had some one on one time where guys connected with a leader and ministered to one another. Nothing flashy or fancy, just some real talks. Our question is “men, what is the standard & what is our role in our families, churches, businesses & society?”  “As men we need to be brothers, fathers & sons. We need to be real brothers to our peers alongside us, we need to make an impact on the young guys looking up at us and we need men to look up to and to ensure we are receiving from those men.” (William Msemburi – addressing the men at the meeting)

William Msemburi

God is restoring the definition of the ‘body of Christ’ 1 Corinthians 12

* This meeting resulted from what happened at Identity2Destiny camp on 10 April 2010. Click here for more.

 

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Identity 2 Destiny Camp

Ps George from our church in P.E. came over to take 3 of the 5 sessions. Check this: he says we all have luggage & baggage. We’re born with luggage, it’s God given & through life we pick up unnecessary baggage. Our job is to find the baggage & let go of it, discover our luggage (what we’re made of) & from that reference point do life.

The men’s response particularly interested me when most of the guys there met on Saturday afternoon basically realising that alone it’s not easy to develop a strong godly character & so we need  each other to encourage & speak truth to one another.

One of the initiatives the guys have made is playing soccer together on Saturday mornings then having informal chats afterwards about issues affecting men. This is what I call manly love!