spring update 2011

8/3/2019 Spring Update 2011

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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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