2010 Trailer Ministry

A very small 5-year old girl, Palesa, grabbed the attention of our whole team during this week.  The lady who cooked the porridge for lunch time, Pinkie, brought her to the holiday club. Palesa is from Mabopyane and she goes to crèche, so she has a surprising grasp of the English language, unlike the other young kids, as they only start learning English from Grade 4. Apart from that she has an astonishing boldness for her age.

I moved away a little from the face painting and took an EvangeCube out to show to some kids. The previous afternoon some of the team had already impacted many of the kids with this method of telling the Gospel. It was a bit difficult to communicate with the younger ones, because they could not understand English.

Palesa came to make herself very comfortable on my lap and took the EvangeCube out of my hands.  This was the first time I met her. I realized she was able to understand what I was saying, so I asked her to tell the other two or three kids around us in Setswana what each picture meant. She made sure she turned the Cube to the first picture and started in a very confident and animated way explaining each picture in Setswana. She carefully went in the correct order explaining to her captivated audience what each picture signified. When they left, she would explain to the next few kids, each time two or three heard the Gospel from a 5 year old in their own language. I did not think at the time to talk to Palesa about prayer and teach her to lead the kids in prayer, which would have been a good way to conclude each conversation. (My lack of faith in what God can do through a 5 year old….). I believe God sent her as a volunteer to join the team for the week as much as any of the others were part of the volunteer team - Fransie O’Brien

Palesa

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Week Four has begun and we already have some prayer requests:

Marcel and team at Rock of Ages in Hammanskraal have asked us to pray for good weather and that all will go well today. They did not have much chance to speak with the church workers yesterday so they are not sure what to expect today. Fransie also tells us that the church has welcomed them and that the team is getting to know each other and doing really well. She said they will be relying on the Lord for holiday club activities as the people on the team don’t consider themselves “up-front” people.

Tim at El Bethel has asked for prayer for spiritual warfare in the church and community.

Also, please pray for energy and strength for all the teams in this final week. Many of the trailer ministry volunteers and chaperones who are out this week were also out last week, and were very tired when they returned Saturday. Please pray that they will find refreshment and renewal in the Lord.

Thank you for praying.  Here are the updates I’ve received today.

Nick at New Life Praise in Stinkwater writes that 7 children (grades 6-11) received Christ today!  Praises!

Amoure at New Creation Ministries in Hammanskraal says “we can celebrate because 135 out of 200 children got saved yesterday! Woo hoo!”

Kurt in Phake says “We’re heading into Day 5 already having experienced the full transition yesterday from our team to the local team.  We’ve had over 100 new commitments this week!  Today’s big focus is linking these kids to Pastor France’s church.  Energy levels are pretty low, and I’m coming down with a bit of flu.  Please pray for that, and that the link up would be successful.”

Melissa in Marapyane says “Please can you pray for me.  In the last ten min my eye just swelled from a sty, I usually wake with it shut and swollen when i get them.  Holding into the knowledge that Satan can attack our bodies but he can’t harm our salvation.  Just pray God’s will.  Thanks”

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Jean at Spitzpunt reports on what God is doing:  Our holiday club ministry has seen kids saved and exposed to the gospel daily.  Our big screen events have been amazing.  We’re basically having church services every night.  God is totally blowing our minds!  We’re seeing people saved and exposed to the gospel.  We’re tired, but so excited!

The team from Marapyane Baptist Church writes:  we feel so blessed in this community.  The church has supplied volunteers that are excited for the vision and have already run with the programme.  It has been so encouraging seeing God’s hand at work.  We have a solid 60-70 kids a day and are learning many African phrases, as well as interesting meals (chicken feet and cabbage!)

Ephraim reports from Elim Stinkwater that they had 30 kids Wednesday and they are enjoying the holiday club program.  All the leaders are very active.  There are few local leaders but that has not been a barrier because the kids understand English.  They are planning a big soccer tournament today.  He requests prayer for relationship tensions between pastors in the area.