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He Is Risen!

St Kiaran'sSt Kiaran's

Chronicle Chronicle

April 2016



Christ is Alive!

A poem by Fenny Fenibo West, Nigeria

Christ is alive!He's risen!

Christ is alive,alive for ever more.Death could not hold the King, the King of kings.Christ is alive,He's risen.

As he's alive,so e'll live.As he's alive,e'll live for ever more.e ere raised ith Himto live for ever more.As He's alive."o e'll live.

He's alive! alive forever more.#esus Christ of $a%areth!& the resurrection and the life! He rose uptriumphant & truly the ord of (lory.)he grave could not hold my King, your King. )he stone as rolled aayand the King of Kings came forth. *+t.-/&01

)he angel said,2 ook not for the living among the dead. He is not there.He's is risen 3ust as He said.2 He is no seated at the right hand of the4ather as my attorney, and advocate, interceding for you and 5.*/#n/6uke78&01

And because He's alive, you and 5 can live also. 4or hen He ascrucified, e ere crucified ith Him6 hen He died, e died ith Him

and ere buried Him, and raised together ith Him. e are no seatedith Him in heavenly places & far above principalities and poers anddominions. Alleluia!



Sunday Morning

Eva van Belle and Herman Strydom

Telling the story

with

Suzanne and Gideon



CATCH UP WITH WOTZUP Mark Liprini

"aturday the 8th +arch ... :ack in the left hand seat of a +A4Kenya aircraft after almost a year. )he >elcome back? flight as into a ticklish

airstrip here you have to land uphill, andyou have to take off donhill. :ecause allmy +A4 re&currency checkouts are nottotally complete our chief pilot fle us in to drop off the pa;, and no empty, 5 got tofly it home again.

ots of calculations regarding ind, slope, surface, eight, elevation,temperature .... And pretty soon e ere bouncing don this rough strip and back intothe air again. )his original three eek secondment up to 8 th +arch has been e;tendedto mid&April by mutual consent. ntil end +arch 5 ill be covering for the toprogramme Caravan pilots, and during April 5 ill be spending time covering for theC0 pilot ho ill be on home assignment.

5t is really good to be back in Kenya, reneing old friendships, and being part of

a team that is making a difference in the lives of so many people in this part of theAfrican continent.

Our dear country (RSA) is going through a turbulent time, and it’s ever soeasy to allow ones focus to shift from where we are ultimately headed, andour calling along the way, to the troubles around us ....Paul in Gal 6:9 - “Let us not be weary in doing good, for at the proper timewe will reap a harvest if we do not give up” - he lived in a time of hange!

This encourages me

St Kiaran's Women's Fellowship

On 20 April Amy Aaron from Living Hope will

come to talk of the work done there.

On 25 May Gill Fogan will speak about the workof the Neigho!rhoo" Wat#h

All are welcome!



Eugene and Tina Wessels' News – an extract

Luke 1!1" And one of them, hen he sa that he as healed, turned back and glorified (odith a loud voice.

# $igeons %or a $rop

5 3ust have to include anothershort story, remarkably like the onereported in the scripture 5 Euotedabove. hile our American friendsere here e began to disperse anumber of heelchairs, crutches andalkers to help a group of disabledpeople throughout the areas heree minister. During a previous 3ourney into the Caia district 5

noticed an elderly man ho had losta leg and part of a hand in alandmine e;plosion. He asstruggling along, using a branch froma tree to try and prop himself up. 5stopped and told him that hen 5ne;t travelled through his area 5 ould bring him a proper set of light aluminiumcrutches. A short hile later, as 5 passed through the district again, 5 proceeded to dropoff a pair of light, modern crutches ith one of my sons in the faith. He in turn knehere the old man lived and took the crutches to him. )ime passed and once again heheard through African bush&telegraph that e ere in the area for the launch of theiteracy outreach ork.

He oke early, took his ne crutches and proceeded to alk the 0km beteen

his home and the place here e ere orking. 5 as called from the training sessionto meet him and discovered that he had brought breeding doves in a tiny ovenbasket, hich he duly presented to us as an offering of thanksgiving for the ne >legs?he had been given.

5n order to understand the full impact of this small story, perhaps it should alsobe mentioned that +oFambiEue is currently suffering through one of the orst hungerseasons that the country has e;perienced in almost a century. Currently the nesinforms us that more than -, people are starving, as the effects of El Nino areravaging the land. 4rom the depths of his on poverty, in the midst of his nothingness,this man came and gave us, ho already have so much, his food for a month. 5 asemotionally, physically and spiritually blon aay by his simple gesture of gratitude.He then got up once again and turned to alk the 0km back home. 5 as so deeplyaffected by this humble, impoverished man that 5 as hardly able to continue teachingafterard.

He also mentioned ho he no goes around shoing off his ne >legs? that theChristians had given him and testifying about the love of Christ e;tended to him.



Church Family News

Jessica Hawkridge celebrates her

#1st &irtday on ( )pril

Ken Freeman and Joan Ward ere married on #*t February #*1+

Jimmy de Jager

Juliana Lothian

as doesJean Pretorius on the + )pril

e congratulate all these friends on their special occasions and ish (od's

richest blessings on them all.

Easter Baked Pudding

*)hink G:read :utter9 pudding !1

I++I ! )ried and tested April, /8

5n a rectangular oven dish place

0 Croissants stuffed ith / chocolate marsh&mallo<aster eggs

hisk together BJ8ml milk B eggs 8gm */ cup1 castor sugar

/ teaspoon vanilla essence @inch salt

Cover croissants ith this egg mi;ture

:ake in oven at /-C for B B8 minutes, until egg mi;ture has set, and golden bron. "ervearm ith cream, custard, or ice&cream

Again ... I++I ! Lesley toll

reach a milestone on #" Marc

hen they celebrate their -th :irthdays



Meet Lyn Gildenhuys5 as born in 4ish Hoek in /L7 in the house one up from our church. )he plots on hich

the church is built ere our playground. )hey ere sand dunes. 5 as one of si; children 7girls and B boys and our home as alays open to many.

Mur mother and father first lived at - =ecreation =oad, then bought the bungalo at 0& Jth Avenue hich as at the bottom of a sand dune. 5t as before Kommet3ie =oad had propergutters. )herefore, hen the inter rains came all the storm ater ran don into the loestpoint, hich as our property. Dad decided >enough as enough? so he and three friendsdecided to raise the bungalo. )hey used motor car 3acks to lift the bungalo and built pillars tothe height above road level6 hence the three level home as it is today. )his as then turned intoa brick and mortar home.

5 attended 4.H.@.". hich as here the College is today. 5n /L88 4.H.H.". as startedith 3ust / *"tandard 01 pupils. 5 as one of the first intake. e had ooden prefabs and a lotof sand. Mur @.). classes ere spent clearing the grounds for the ne building. (reat fun as hadby all6 a little buck ould come out hilst e ere in classplus many mole snakes.

4or many years 4.H. :each had C.".".+. eachChristmas holiday. )his as very ell attended. e playedbeach games, sang and had :ible lessons.

Mn leaving High "chool 5 played tennis and hockeyfor 4.H. Mur ladies' hockey as top of the log for si; years. 5orked for the ".A. +utual until #ohnny and 5 ere marriedin /L0/. e then built our home in Lth Avenue.

5 3oined the @resbyterian Church hen (len Craigas our minister. 5 as invited to 3oin the floer ladies andam still doing floers today and en3oying this task. #ohnnyalso did church maintenance. e orked for all the churchfNtes to help raise money to complete the church buildings.5 as asked to go on the "ession in /LJJ here 5 servedfor about years.

e had to children Deon and iane. )hey also attended the 4.H. "chools. Mur childrenere brought up in the "unday "chool and Iouth (roup hich helped to give them a goodgrounding for their adult lives. )hey en3oyed the time spent ith Ken 4reeman as the Ioutheader. Due to a shortage of room for the "unday "chool 5 ran a group for the little ones at myhome until the church as built. 5 also ran a daycare for years and still see some of mychildren ho are no married ith their on children.

e oned a caravan so e travelled ".A. a lot. hen #ohnny retired in /L-8 e ereasked to become assessors for the ".A. )ourist :oard and the Caravan Council. e trained in$atal ith - other couples for 7O months. A book as compiled ith all the information for the".A. )ourist :oard.

+y son Deon and ife "abrina live in :urghersdorp. )hey have four children #ulian is achef in "ellendam, Katelyn is a school teacher and lives ith me. Donovan is a farmer in+iddelburg. (areth has been sent to Holland by the company he orks for but ill be home this+ay for a holiday.

iane lives here in 4.H. ith her B children Dylan studied Hotel +anagement but he isno orking on a travel ship6 Chad is an Mrange =iver (uide and 4ay is riting +atric. thengoing off to study at "tellenbosch niversity.

#ohnny passed aay / years ago. +y life is alays busy as on the first ednesday ofthe month 5 am part of a +eals on heels team ho cook for about 7 people. 5 also run aseing group for the Clothing (uild. 5n church 5 am a member of the ladies' 4elloship andbelong to the craft club. 5 en3oy family, neighbours, friends, my animals and my garden hichcomplete my days.

yn and her grand&daughter



NEWS FROM MAYOTTE

Dear 4riends,

Mur :ible "tudy at Koungou continues to be a time of blessing for us. )he groupis faithful even though e have had to cancel the meeting a fe times due to the

heavy rains e have been having. )he last study as particularly encouraging ith ourlocal friends starting to ask important Euestions rather than Euestions that seem to 3ustant to distract everyone from the real issues. At the moment e are dealing ith#esus teachings and again and again are shon the onderful ay He avoids gettinginvolved in fruitless discussions but brings his hearers back to the real issue, their needof forgiveness. Mur friends often sit ama%ed at His ansers especially to the teachersof the la, because they come up against very similar arguments in the religion theyhave been taught since their birth.

e continue to be very involved in our church activities ith a ne responsibilitythat has 3ust recently been added, that of teaching a group of people ho have askedfor baptism. "o each "unday morning at -.B a.m. e share the responsibility of aseries of :ible "tudies here e are teaching the basics of our faith. )his of course

involves a lot of preparation but at the same time is a great blessing to us as e arereminded of all that #esus accomplished for us on the Cross.

@lease continue to pray that e ill be kept in good health hich is so essentialfor us so that e can efficiently and diligently do all the ord has entrusted to us.

-eanette and .eater

"ome more recent nes tells of several attempts to force an entry into the home of Heather and #eanette. @lease pray for their safety.

#eanette ill be coming to "outh Africa in a fe months to discuss her upcomingretirement although she and Heather ill continue their mission on +ayotte until the

ord directs otherise.

TEN THINGS WORTH KNOWING

1. Having a sharp tongue can cut your throat

2. If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep

3. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important

4. The best vitamin for making friends: B1

5. The 10 Commandments are not multiple choice

6. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

7. One who lacks the courage to start has already finished

8. The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge

9. Don't learn safety rules by accident

10. A tortoise only makes progress when it sticks its head out

With thanks to Mike Muller



Tony Hawkridge Writes

5 as lucky enough to have an organisation pay for me to attend a daymeeting in ondon last month at = to the pound, and over =/ for a beer, 5as glad 5 asn9t paying for everything. )he meeting as at the headEuarters ofthe =oyal College of @hysicians, 3ust off =egent @ark. 5 as flying back the samenight the meeting ended, and as intending alking to the nderground andtaking the tube to Heathro, until a senior colleague discovered e ere on thesame flight and invited me to come ith her. "he is >Poyager ifetime @latinum?,hich 5 think means she has flon the eEuivalent of to the moon and back and theairline has made a lot of money off her! )en minutes later a large black +ercedesdre up and a suave gentleman ith a headdress took my rather tatty sports bagand computer case and placed them in the car's cavernous boot. 5t as one ofthose ne models in hich the engine cuts in and out hen you start and stop very fancy. e chatted in air&conditioned comfort as the buildings slipped by andbefore e kne it e ere at the terminal. +y brush ith the >other half? didn9tend there. e ere ushered into the e;press priority check&in Eueue, the fast lanethrough passport control and security and then up to the Air Canada lounge *eventhough e ere flying on "AA1. 5 sat sipping some e;cellent 4rench ine, using thefree ifi to read my emails, as the sun settled gently into the ondon skyline, andthinking that life could be a lot orse.

Mne of the first calls 5 received hen 5 returned to Cape )on as a >pleasecall me? from someone 5 kno ho lives in a shack in someone9s back yard in oneof Cape )on9s poorest suburbs. He is unemployed, desperately trying to find a 3ob, a single father trying to support to young children back in the <astern Cape.He had bought his daughter a pair of school shoes on >lay&bye? and anted to postthem to her, but as told that the postage ould cost =/, hich he didn9t have.

Could 5 helpQ

Ies, 5 did, and as glad to, but that is not the point. )he gulf beteen first classair travel and me is ide and alays ill be. :ut it is narro compared to the gulfbeteen those of us ho have a decent, regular income and those ho don9t. 5 canonly try and imagine the pain of not being able to provide for my family, and thesense of shame hich must accompany it. 5 have never been in that position andpray 5 never am. #oblessness is the societal issue of our time. 5 am not naRve

"t Kiaran9s can9t solve the country9s unemployment problems, or even a smallfraction of them. "ome of our members have, 5 kno, been involved in 3ob creationinitiatives. (reat 5 haven9t. 4aced ith the enormity of the problem, it is easy tobecome paralysed.

hat ould #esus do about unemploymentQ 59d love to kno. +aybe +ike or Clivecould preach a sermon on it sometime. +eanhile, 5 think e must do hat ecan, hoever small. As it goes in the "tarfish story >Ioung man, do you notrealise that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all alongevery mileQ Iou can9t possibly make a difference!? )he young man listened politely.)hen he bent don, picked up another starfish, thre it into the back into theocean past the breaking aves and said, >5t made a difference for that one.?



Book Review - Jenny Strickland

Things Unseen by Mark Buchanan

I can't better the description of this book on the back cover:

"This book is about heaven and yet not. It is about our longing for heaven,our instinct for it. It is about eternity in our hearts. It is about the groaning

inside us that is both an acknowledgement of and a protest against death

and at the same time a cry for something else. For that which is beyond the

grave, stranger and larger than it - more enduring. It is about our yearning for things unseen. It is about

you and me longing for heaven and about living here on earth now in light of that longing."

H e starts the book "I am din! Sometimes I for!et that" #hen !oes on to ass$re $s that he has no

terminal disease b$t% like all of $s% he is in the process of din!

&e speaks of bein! '&eavenha$nted' that feelin! man of $s have that

there is somethin! so m$ch better (aitin!% somethin! )es$s promised

&o(ever% so m$ch of the time% (e behave as if this life is forever

I partic$larl liked the '*ortraits' he (rote to ill$strate his thesis +ne

(as of a o$n! health *hilosoph st$dent (ho sneered at ,ark's beliefs and said "-ife has eno$!h

pleas$re and advent$re in it% not to need anthin! else -ife .$stifies livin!" &e mentions several tra!ic

lives (hich disprove this

I en.oed the e/ample he !ave to ill$strate the impossibilit of describin!

heaven in (ords and ho( far short even the ible's descriptions of it m$st

fall &e dre( a (oman's face and insisted that she (as the ,ona -isa

Clearl his sketch (as nothin! like that of the !reat master -eonardo da

inci either are the verbal descriptions anthin! like the 'place prepared

for $s' b the 3reat ,aster

In another 'portrait'% he (rites "&eaven is like a bo eavesdroppin!" and

bea$tif$ll ill$strates the (a 3od $ses fail$re% disappointment%

disco$ra!ement% d$t and (aitin!% to carr o$t &is kin!dom p$rposes

#he book is a (onderf$l enco$ra!ement to live "&eavenbent"% conscio$sl

a(are of the best that is et to come

I have also read% and been inspired b% his book The Holy Wild: Trusting in

the Character of God.



Tongue in CheekAdam as hanging around the (arden of <den feeling very lonely.

"o, (od asked him, ?hat's rong ith youQ?

Adam said he didn't have anyone to talk to.

(od said that He as going to make Adam a companion and that it ould be aoman.

He said, >)his pretty lady ill gather food for you, she ill cook for you, and hen youdiscover clothing, she ill ash it for you.

>"he ill alays agree ith every decision you make and she ill not nag you, and illalays be the first to admit she as rong hen you've had a disagreement

>"he ill bear your children, and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to

take care of them.

>"he ill $<P<= have a headache and ill freely give you love and passion heneveryou need it.?

Adam asked (od, >hat ill a oman like this costQ?

(od replied, >An arm and a leg.?

)hen Adam asked, >hat can 5 get for a ribQ?

Mf course the rest is history!!!!

*With acknowledgement to Bellville Presbyterian Church magazine)

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