This is the aftermath of the nation wide municipal workers strike, one day garbage pickup stops and the next there's a mob roaming the town throwing garbage all over the road, and apparently this happens every year.

This is a Sunday school we have in Newton at a school, Fridays at 12 school is out for the weekend and we have had 80-100 kids staying, we are starting 'religious classes' every Tuesday with the grade nine's in that school, I have the boys and Gwen has the girls, Please pray for help for us.

We still have heard nothing about our visa, still waiting on the Lord

That's all for now

Thank you for your prayers

Hans

Siyafunda isiXhosa

Life is busy and I am neglecting my blog, so here is a what's up in this part of the world.
Two weeks ago we had a Holiday Club with 80 to 100 kids here all week, lots of soccer, rugby, food, crafts and gospel messages.
Mark had a Xhosa message with the younger kids and I had a English lesson with the older ones, then we went to Seymour in the afternoons for Gospel meetings, we had given invitations out Sunday and had hoped for a older audience of teenagers and adults, while mostly younger kids came a few teenagers the Mark and Gwen knew from Sunday school several years before where out which was great.

Last week was spent mostly recovering from the week before and sorting out paper work for our Visa Application which we have submitted and is in the Lords hands, we very much value prayer.

Mark&Gwen's soak away for waste water plugged last week,it wasn't very deep and had no gravel so we dug a new one, over 6m long, 1m wide, and 1m deep,and gravel is coming tomorrow.

We were sad to hear about Uncle Lewis passing away, it will be strange to get back to PEI and not hear Uncle Lewis worship Sunday morning, but man,what must it be like to see our Lord, Uncle Lewis now knows.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the young men's supper, please pray for Salvation for these young guys that come, they are between 13 and middle twenties and for most its the only Gospel they hear.

More pictures will follow

"But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.Since, Therefore, we have now been justified by His blood, much more shall we be SAVED BY HIM FROM THE WRATH OF GOD" Romans 5:8,9 I will never feel the wrath of God for my sin, My Lord Jesus Christ felt it for me, and not for me only but; 1 John 2:2 "and not for ours only , but also for the sins of the whole world"

Good night

Never a dull moment

Good Morning

Here some interesting/scary/funny things that have happened to us in the past week;

Thursday night, 3:25 am
Choir practice at the corner of our street, lovely singing lasted for a minute or two then moved to the next street corner. its either laugh or cry at that time in the morning.

Saturday Rachelle and me went to Hogsback about a forty minute drive from Beaufort in the mountains, the road narrows near the top of the road and at the last bend in the road were you have cliff on one side shear rock wall one the other side, a Police bakkie came flying around the turn on our side and ran us off the road on the cliff side, i don't know how we didn't hit the wall.

Sunday there was a good number of people out to the Gospel meeting Sunday morning, The white board is a useful tool when your not sure how many of your audience understands what you are saying in English, Teacher Mark has started to work on teaching us Xhosa.

Wednesday this week there were sixty young guys at the young men supper, plus some of the girls from YPI all out for some good food and more important; a Gospel message.

This is Seymour, next week Lord willing the Gospel will be preached Monday to Friday, 4 to 5(lunch time for all you east coasters) PLEASE PRAY
Mark and myself are going to a conference in Port Elizabeth Saturday and there is a young Xhosa guy coming back to help for the week.



This is our great plumber we found, great guy too,

Thanks for all your prayers

Rachelle's office

Here are some pictures from the kitchen of our house, some before and after pictures

The kitchen

Uploading pictures is very slow tonight so this is all for now, still more tile and grout to do and then pine, doors, and general finish work. the tile was 28 rand a square meter....4$ Canadian, I'm not sure what it is home but its definitely more then that.

Tools of choice are; skill saw,grinder, belt sander, and drill haha, all you need to build a kitchen in South Africa

49 reasons to pray

There were forty-nine young people out to young peoples tonight,my old buddy Mphendulo was there. One of the young guys told me that some people drowned in one of the locations near were we live last night, sad man, it rained like crazy last night.
Me and Mark drove this young colored guy home from young peoples tonight, his name is Victor, pray for him,he dropped out of school so without Christ his future is more crime,prison,a gang,HIV-AIDS....and i guess he is not the only one in that situation in this town, man we need to pray.

Port Elizabeth tomorrow to get supplies for the house, and gospel meeting Sunday morning.

South Africa; Alive with possibility

We saw this advertisement in Frankfurt,more then economic possibility there is huge spiritual possibility.

John 4:35 "Do you not say 'there are yet four months,then comes the harvest'?LOOK,I tell you,lift up your eyes,and see that the fields are white for harvest"
Now is the harvest time, not four months, lets take a good look on the "field" in the area around you, around me, and PRAY, and WORK.

It is raining! really raining, so its not a very productive work day so were spending it at Mark&Gwen's.

The house is coming along good,finding tools/materials i want are another thing, for example; you go into to Build It(think Kent)and look for a router, nothing, you then drive an hour to a bigger town and find your router,but a bit doesn't come with it and the case with bits is locked and they cant find the keys, so you start traveling around town looking for a bit for your router, and most people don't have a clue what a router is let alone have a bit for one, finally we found one and continued merrily on our way, i still haven't seen a chop saw or a table saw since i got in the country. haha TIA

No complaints though, tonight we are warm and dry and a lot of people aren't