South Africa

Thank you for the Christian books that you have blessed me with. I loan it to my friends at work. They were encouraged by reading God’s word and now are understanding it better. Many of them got saved by just reading it. I just wanted to say a big thanks once again.

I thank God a lot for having friends who always bring me the booklet “Our Daily Bread”. I am free spiritually because by reading this it helps me in my spiritual life. It is very easy to read anywhere I am. It helps when you are going through challenges.

Frontline mission teams are completing a complex series of mission outreaches to Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. This has involved pioneering ministry into neglected and remote regions. Going literally off the map, the team crossed rivers by ferries and pontoons and visited and mapped 55 villages, many of whom said that this was the first time they had ever seen any white people. The team conducted  Creation evangelism in 26 of these villages, laying solid foundations teaching on Creation, the Fall, the Law and the need for a Saviour.  As villagers came to Repentance and Faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, there was much rejoicing.  There were the inevitable vehicle problems on the challenging roads, and Mike has come down with a serious bout of malaria. However the team has continued to persevere and have succeeded in delivering wheelchairs, medicines, boxes of love packages, Gospel booklets, Bibles, audio-visual materials and much leadership training materials to those who most need and appreciate them.

I hope you got our email with the story about your Bibles you sent us in the last packages!! We blessed our staff and asked them to distribute them to family members and friends that did not yet have a Bible of their own. There was one small New Testament in Afrikaans, one of our official languages in South Africa. It had been bought in England for a pound (price still on it) gone to America and sent to South Africa and arrived at the school the day I witnessed to our Afrikaans speaking Handy Man about recommitting his life to the Lord. He got tears in his eyes when I gave him the Bible in his own language and told him how God had brought it around the world just for him!!!!  Thank you for all you do for our school. God bless your work for Him.

I got blessed and was very happy when my wife got a booklet from her friends with the Word of God in it. The booklets help a lot sometime when we come from work we have time, but the booklets we read during breaks at work, in a taxi,  every where, it is easy to carry. I hope the whole world will get to know about God through the booklets. Thank God a lot for having people like you who always lift our spiritual life up.

Thank you so much for the boxes of books that we received from you. Once again God is in control of your giving. It’s as if you knew exactly what we needed and the books were not randomly picked but packed according to a check list that we had sent you!!  We have ventured out in faith and are taking our school one step higher into grade eight next year! The series Hero’s of the Faith are perfect for a grade eight set work/reading book!! We currently have 28 Grade sevens and there are 2 or 3 that will not be returning next year, You sent us 27 books!! just enough for the grade eight class!!  How great is God!   Thank you once again for your faithfulness in doing Gods work.

The container with material that we received came in through the Durban port and together with a local Church we arranged for distribution in the Kwa-Zulu Natal area, an area that consists of a largely rural population. This area has been involved in political turmoil and fighting’s that caused great discomfort for the people living there. The key person involved in the distribution is Pastor Francois who is involved with ministry to the schools, the youth, prison, and church planting. He reports that literature has been distributed to local schools and as a result many young people have accepted Christ as Savior.  Then, they also used the literature when having tent meetings, they have about 6 tents in different parts of that area and the literature is used as follow-up teaching material for newly converted Christians.   I would also like to mention that South Africa is the gateway to the rest of Africa and from the Kwa-Zulu Natal area literature has been sent north into Mozambique, a country that is also desperate in need of the Gospel and that there is just no Christian literature of any kind available accept what we send them from South Africa. For many this literature is the only source available to learn more about Christ as Bibles are not available. We do not always get feedback on everything that is distributed but it is like seed that is planted in areas where there is no Church presence. Pastor Francois and his team is doing a great work with the literature and as a result many souls are saved and people healed.

I do not know where to begin thanking you for the shipment of books that were sent to us! We received 7 parcels all in very good condition. I had not heard from you after my letter in March and had all but given up hopes of hearing from you again. When I got to the Post Office and was told there were 7 parcels for us, I was so excited.  The teachers thought it was Christmas!!We started a teacher’s lending library at the school earlier this year. We only had about 25 books in total until your shipment arrived!! The teachers were so hungry for new literature they booked out about thirty books between 5 staff!! We have a very strict reading program at the school and our 210 learners from grade R to grade 7 have read approximately 2000 books this year. We have about 100 Abeka reading books that we use on rotational bases. We also have other reading books that also go out on rotational bases. The new children’s books came as a breath of fresh air to these anxious readers. So from the bottom of our hearts we thank you!!  God continue to use you in the ministry He has called you to.

Many, many Sunday schools are going to be blessed because of this shipment. Just today we had a request for teaching materials for children. We praise the Lord that we could reply in the affirmative! Once word gets out we will be inundated with requests. Our students are refugees who fled their countries due to war or instability. Some arrived with a calling upon their lives. Others were converted here and were commissioned by the Lord to return to their countries of birth to preach the Gospel. They will now return not only well trained and equipped but will also take with them good books that will enrich their ministries beyond measure. Needless to say, other students will benefit also by the new library we will be setting up for many generations to come.

In South Africa we have no adult Sunday school classes and this material is sought after by almost everybody.  A great deal of the literature serves to equip and prepare people for Christian life and ministry. Again I want to say, literature of this nature is not available here by us and what we received from you fills a gap that would have otherwise left many people in darkness and without any spiritual resources to enrich their lives. We are also preparing to set up  a mini library where people can come and borrow books, study it and then bring it back so that it be reused again.