Monday, September 29, 2008

General Assembly in South Africa


Celebration Night......


Sabelo, Beauty, me & Lizo Natalie & Natalie :)

Beauty & me Lauren & me Rita from Fiji & me

The tent and worship time...

Celebration night me & Soso Paul, me & Virginia (prayer partners)

Celebration Night Mavela from Swaziland & me Dickson from Mariuis & me

Emmanuel O'Chingi and his wife(African director)

General Assembly was awesome.. It was awesome to see so many nations and people coming togheter for the same reason. This year's general assembly was one of the biggest that YFC has ever had. We had between 800-1000 people present and close to 70 countries represented. I hope the pics give you a taste of this past week. Thank you for all your prayers.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Kangaroo Moms and Ubuntu House





Pictures from us with the moms at the Kanagroo Care Ward, we were making greeting cards, it was exciting because we had all the moms involved with the activity.
Then there is also a pic of me and one of Ruth, a new volunteer from Germany, assisting with taking care of the babies at the Ubuntu House. I think you can figure out which ones we are. :)
I had the time to truly bless the babies and their moms. I had the opportunity to pray with one of the moms on Wednesday, as she was leaving within the next day or two because her baby had reached the required weight amount. And I've been praying and singing worship songs over the babies at Ubuntu. They are soo sweet.
Please continue to keep them in your prayers.




Monday, September 01, 2008

Pray for South Africa- Disaster from Massive Storm this past week

Below is the latest information from the news reports on the storms that have been occurring this past week. It's been a crazy past week. They say it was the worse they have seen in seven years. .........

"There are still reports of minor localised flooding," said disaster management spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes, adding that light rain continued to fall.
Most roads had been cleared after gale force winds and heavy rains battered the province.
"It played havoc with the electricity supply," he said, adding that an increased demand for electricity and trees toppling power lines had caused outages.

Johannesburg - It was a weekend of storms, snow and runaway fires, which in KwaZulu-Natal claimed the lives of at least seven people.
The Western Cape had to endure strong wind, rain and even snow, while the wind fanned veld fires in the eastern Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
In the northern parts of the country, cold conditions arrived on Sunday afternoon, right before the official start of spring.

The gale-force winds and heavy rains that hit the Western Cape brought destruction to several areas, reported Nurene Jassiem.
In one of the most serious incidences, seven people were injured when a roof collapsed due to wind at the Pick 'n Pay Hypermark centre in Ottery.

Several residential areas were flooded, power cuts were experienced and snow-covered regions like Sutherland, were cut off from the rest of the country.

Three Anchor Bay in Cape Town was turned into a white wonderland when a thick layer of foam was blown over Sea Point's streets.

Wind speeds of up to 100km/h were reported to the weather office at the George airport, reported Jackie Kruger.

Snow was visible on the Langeberg mountains and in the Heidelberg region emergency repair work was needed to restore power to farms.

Fires
Northern parts of the country experienced strong winds, which fanned a veld fire on the West Rand, which destroyed a 5 000 hectare area, including a third of the well-known Lion and Rhino Park, reported Cobus Coetzee. Four marabou stork escaped the flames.
The fire started on Saturday morning in Hekpoort.
Grazing was destroyed and damage ran into millions of rands. Jorrie Jordaan, head of public safety at the West Rand district municipality, said on Sunday the flames reached up to 7m and even jumped over fire strips of 20m.
Malherbe (Blikkies) Auret of the farm Rietfontein lost 100 hectares of grazing. "It is difficult to get feed at the end of the dry season," said Auret.

In KwaZulu-Natal, the fires claimed several lives and destroyed houses, cars and cattle.

A State forest at Dargle in the Midlands was covered in smoke on Sunday.
The weather service warned there was still a high possibility of fires in the province on Monday and that seas would be rough, with swells of up to 7m high in many parts.