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S P R I N G 2 0 1 1
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Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the
faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
~ Colossians 2:6-7
Pray continually
1 Thess. 5 :17
WINDINGDOWN . . .
raise the Lord! After months
of praying and planning as if
there would be no full time
interns on our campuses at UKZN the
Lord has made His provision!
On the first of October four of our
students from the UKZN Westville
campus (Bafana, Tha, Thandeka, and
Sli) committed to giving one year oftheir life in serving the Lord in our
ministry. It is a big decision for them,
especially since graduating from college
in this country tends to mean your
family will now be looking to you for
support. Many of these students are
following Gods call in serving even
though they know negative
repercussions may come. However, they
are excited about their decision and
even more excited to serve the Lord! It
has been a real blessing to walk this
journey with them as they hear the
voice of the Lord and follow. They are
now putting their faith in Him as they
begin the journey of their next year.
Pray for them as they start raising
support and beginning their training.
Anele has alsomade a
commitment to
now join staff
with Cru. This
means there are
now five people
committing to serve here next year! The
Lord has answered my prayer to not
send me away from here without having
nationals to take over the ministry!
Mission Trip
BotswanaPray for Mdu, 9 students, and myself as we
depart for Botswana tomorrow. We will be
spending the week there serving the Lord
as He wills.
Packing
LogisticsPray for us as we work through our final
logistics. We still need to sell our car and
finish packing and storing all of our stuff.
Saying Goodbyes
Its never funPray I close out my time here well by
focusing on how others need to be served
by me as I say farewell. Pray that as I say
bye to what has become my home and the
people who have become my family and
closest friends, I would not be heartbroken
but excited about what awaits my return
stateside.
My Future Plans
Still waiting
I am still waiting to hear what is next. Pray
God makes it clear and that I will follow.Pray for a temporary job for when I return
home, as well as a way to work out sharing
a car with my little brother or the provision
of a second one.
Future Interns
SupportPray for our 4 new, South African, interns
and 2 new staff as they get settled in and
raise support for next year.
New Interns
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A few spec ial stor ies
Aya
A Man With PassionAya is a student who I first met last year in
September. Shortly there after he was
appointed as out outreach team leader for
this year. Back in March we were talking
about a vision I had to try to unite our
campus and reach 10,000 students. Aya
took ownership of that vision and
immediately began contacting pastors and
leaders trying to organize times to meet
and discuss this plan. He set up meetings,
found us venues, helped me plan events,
organized resources and anything else thatlogistically went into the month he was on
top of. Not only did his passion work itself
out through logistics but also in his sharing.
He shared his faith with others fervently
each day. He took time to reach out to 1 or
two guys very intentionally meeting to
discuss their every question about
Christianity, and He shared with them
exactly what God put on his heart. I am so
proud of how he showed his passion this
month. He also found a way to send an
announcement to every student on all 5
campuses of UKZN with a link to a specialGospel presentation. He is now going to be
our President next year at Westville and I
am excited to see how God uses him, and
his passion to make this outreach an
annual thing.
Noni
The New Recruit
Noni has been discipled all year by a
woman who I have been discipling name
Thembalethu. I didnt really know her that
well until recently. She showed up on
August 1st to sit and help with our couch
talks outreach. I thought she was from a
different organization until she began
speaking about Cru. She was excited to
finally put what she was learning into action
and sat to share her about her faith for the
first time. She was bold and continued to
do it all throughout the month. Now she will
be leading her bible study next year and
beginning to disciple other students as she
grows.
StudentSpotli
ghtALWAYS GOING AUGUST
One QuestionWe united with
other campus
ministries and
churches to
spend a month
asking
students, Ifthey could ask God one Question, what
would they ask? We used graffiti boards
every day and personal conversations to
ask. The culmination was a big event in the
quad where we answered the question of,
Who is Jesus? It was wonderful. We had
a great turn out, great conversations, and
many students who claimed their
righteousness in Christ deciding to follow
Him as their Lord and Savior.
What you have
heard from me in the
presence of many
witnesses,entrust to
faithful men
who will be
able to teach
others also.2 Timothy 2:2
Community OutreachWe reached out through service this
month as well. We were invited to
Chatsworth to help at a soup kitchen and
clothing drive. We collected clothes on
campus throughout August and passed
them out to those in the community who
were in need of some help. Then we were
able to help distributed Briyani for lunch,
and play with all of the children who were
there as well.
Free CoffeeWith the help of several groups and
churches around the community we
were able to pass out free coffee two
times during the month. We passed out
over 600 cups of coffee. Students were
provided with a beverage as well as a
place to sit and chat with our students
about life. Many great conversations
and many of our Cru students learned
to talk about their faith with others for
the first time.
Im All
EarsWe set
two
chairs
out in
the
middle
of campus twice a week. One of our
students would sit in the chair and listen
to anything that someone wanted to
say. We talked about everything from
food to girlfriend troubles to Christ. This
also gave our students an easy
opportunity to be asked about their faith
in Christ.
This semester Cru did a 14-week
study of 2 Timothy and how Paul
discharges his ministry to Timothy
telling him what is important and
what he should focus on. The
application is that the students
remember these words now as
we have discharged our ministry
to them.
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You see, at just the right time, when we werestill powerless Christ died for the ungodly.amp this semester was themed
as a Survivor Camp. We went a
way to Mpumelelos Gogos(Grandmas) house a few hours north
from Durban. We did camp a little
differently this time and we spent the
weekend roughing it. Boys in one room,
girls in the other. 50 people, 2 porta-
potties. It made for a very fun and
different experience. We had a Pastor
come in from the area and teach us for
the weekend. He spoke about the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. That God loves
us, but because of Adams disobedience
we have all fallen into a nature of
disobeying Him. However, to rectify
this God came down as Jesus to live a
perfect life, die on the cross, and
resurrect after three days in order to
give His life to us through our belief in
Him. However, the Gospel doesnt stop
there. We then spoke about our call as
disciples to simply love Jesus because
he loves us. The call to discipleship is a
call to live for Christ, to share what He
has done and that we can do nothing toget closer to God, except trust that by
the Grace given though Jesus death we
are made Holy.
Closing socialOur closing function
this year was amazing. The students put
together a themed party where we had
to dress up in an old school uniform or
in 80s clothing. They then decorated a
venue and welcomed us in with many
special things they had planned. We sat
while they served us lunch, spoke kind
words, gave testimonies, sang songs
they wrote for us, and gave us
superlatives. I was given the George of
the Jungle Award for all of my
knowledge about the African animals
and my passion for game driving
(safaris). It was a fun way to end our
year and reminisce with our students
about all God has done.
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Our closing social was themed as Old School. A time to dress up in your old high
school uniform or as someone from the 80s. We had a great time celebrating many
memories we had formed this year, such as our Spring Survivor Camp, also pictured
here.
This is my group of high schoolers who
stole a little piece of my heart this year.
We practiced on Mondays and
Wednesday and played on Saturdays.
They may not have won very much but we
did make sure we had a good time
playing, and they learned more as we
went on.
International Softball
I had the privilege of joining my friend Abby in coaching her high school softball team
this semester. Spending time with these girls quickly became my favorite thing to do
each week. Softball is much different here in South Africa, because everyone grows up
playing soccer, rugby, or field hockey instead. We had to start with the basics (force
outs, base running, tagging up, etc.) and work our way up. The girls caught on quick,
but winning was not what was important to me. What I loved about it was being able to
spend time building relationships with these young ladies. I still speak to one of the girls,
Kaylee, via Facebook quite regularly. God used this time to remind me of my passion for
youth and rejuvenate my spirit as I was able to serve while doing two things I love very
much!
Not only was I able to coach softball but also to play. I joined Abby on her city league
team earlier this month. We play twice a week and I have become the starting pitcher.
Even though I dont pitch! I keep telling them that but nobody listens. We are doing quite
well, despite my pitching. This has been a great way to make some new friends.
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God made him, who had no sin for us, so that inhim we might become the righteousness of God.
ighteoussness. It is such a little
word that has come to mean so
much to me. This past month Iwas challenged to seek what it truly
meant to be righteous in Christ. I speak
on this topic often, but I do not think I
truly believed it for myself. I was
challenged to look at Gods abundant
grace and what that means in my life.
That in the Gospel we may not speak
of the law anymore because Jesus died
so that it would disappear. Therefore
our faith has nothing to do with
actions, but rather love and belief. This
had not penetrated my heart until justrecently. So often I would feel a need to
be perfect, and to obey. I would feel
guilty and sinful when I messed up
because I failed to keep Gods law now
that I was His. God hit me hard with a
reminder that this all has nothing to do
with me but everything to do with
Him. Jesus is not only our punishment
bearer, which is easy to believe, but heis also our law keeper. He has kept the
law on my behalf and that is what God
sees for my life no matter what as long
as I place my trust in that promise.
Gods grace is abundant and
uncomprehendable. He is so good to
love someone like me!
otswana! Im offright now actually
to spend 10 days there with 9 of our
students. This is one of the first trips
students from South Africa have been
sent on in several years. Our students
have already been impacted so much
because of it! Pray for our time as we go
on campus and in the community to
serve and share the love of Jesus.
Students here always receive
missionaries but are rarely sent. Now
they are being sent and oh how glorious
it will be when this penetrates the
hearts of the churches in South Africa.
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Pray for Ukukhanya. Penny is
still raising support for the OVC
camp we did in July. There are
also many things that need to besorted out with the center itself.
Pray that the complications that
continue to arise would be
resolved and that the
community would come behind
the center and support them
fully in what they are doing.
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