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1. Thank God that Luke and Ameck received visas for Canada, although not for the USA. Pray for them as they are accompanying Neels on visits to prayer supporters and friends in Canada.
2. The CD that Brian Singoi has recorded, is in the final finishing process. Pray for finances for this CD to be released. Ask that God will use the songs on this CD to bless and to speak to people.
3. Birthday Annalize Pretorius: Wolseley
4. Thank God for an outreach group from Humansdorp who has prepared the classrooms at Koti ni Eden for the installation of electricity. Pray for other groups who are planning to help with the electricity of the new campus.
5. Pray for Carel and Renee Els, who are presenting the Firm Foundation course at the new training centre in Malawi.
6. Pray for some of our young African leaders who are visiting the East at the moment. Ask God to broaden their world perspective and to use them in sharing Jesus with people.
7. Thank God for the biltong shop in Somerset West. A good deal of the finances for the work of FCE is brought in through the sales in this shop. This weekend the shop will be renovated and given a “face lift”.
8. Recently Neels, Anita and some young African leaders were involved with leadership training with a group of people. Thank God for major breakthroughs that He brought in the lives of these people.
9. Birthday Riette Cillers: Guesthouse Somerset West
10. Birthday Timothy Wasema: Masaiti
11. Thank God for a gradual breakthrough in the lives of people in the villages around Masaiti. A religious spirit is being broken and the bondages of witchcraft are being revealed in people’s lives, while many are being set free from these bondages.
12. Ask for wisdom for Neels, Luke and Ameck to speak into people’s lives on their visit to Canada. Pray that God will touch people’s hearts for the nations and will show them how they can become involved.
13. Ask the Lord of the harvest to bring in the right young people from Canada to be trained as harvesters. Ask God for committed people, who will stay true to the commitments that they have made.
14. Pray for the guesthouse in Somerset West, which still has to take root and then start making a profit. Ask God that word of the guesthouse will go out to many and that bookings will increase. Those who have visited, are all very positive about coming again.
15. Much effort has been put 16. Birthday Lize Grobbelaar: into the vegetable project in Wolseley Kalungu. Thank God for the results - a garden that produces a variety of vegetables. Except for own use, some of this can be sold to visitors at the campsite, as well as taken occasionally to the new training centre in Malawi, where vegetables are not available.
17. Continue to pray for Moses Sinyinza and his group who are pioneering the work in Malawi. Ask God’s protection on the unity amongst them, as well as on their relationships with people in the community.
18. Praise God for what He is doing in the lives of the Malawi women with whom Regina and Elisabeth are involved. With the encouragement of their husbands, who witness the positive changes in their wives, more and more women attend the weekly meetings. Gradually women are being set free from things like prostitution and are being changed into true disciples of Jesus Christ.
19. Pray for Boet Pretorius 20. Birthday Boet Pretorius: and his team who are currently Zimbabwe training local farmers in Masaiti region in farming according to God’s principles. Thank God for many small scale farmers whose harvests have increased as they have started to apply these principles.
21. Thank God for teachers who have already registered for the National Christian Teachers’ Convention in September. Ask God that at least 300 teachers, from all schools and communities in SA, will attend.
22. Pray that the organizers, speakers and workshop leaders at the Teachers’ Convention will be obedient to God’s voice as they are preparing for this event.
23. Pray for Jannie Compion, who is currently staying in Wolseley with his family and is working on his D.Ed. Ask for God’s guidance for him and that he will manage to finish his studies during this year of study leave.
24. Pray for protection and no delayed flights or lost of luggage for Neels, Ameck and Luke who will be travelling back from Canada to Africa for the next few days.
25. The move of the FCE Training Centre from Masaiti to Koti ni Eden has to take place in the near future. Pray for negotiations with the Department of Agriculture (from whom FCE is renting Masaiti ), that the right time for this shift will be decided on.
26. Lots of finances are still needed for the building of staff houses at Koti ni Eden. Please pray with us that God, who is Jehovah Jireh, will provide what is needed for staff accommodation.
28. Birthday Regina Sinyinza: Malawi
29. The contract for the rent of the guesthouse in Masaiti expires at the end of October. This guesthouse has been a big help with finances for the work of FCE. Ask God to show the way ahead as to how a guesthouse facility can be established in future.
30. A new strategy is emerging with the involvement of mission partners, who are not FCE staff, but who are involved in their hearts and with their businesses in the extension of God’s Kingdom. Ask God to guide very specifically in how these partnerships should develop in future.
31. Thank God for the body of prayer supporters, financial supporters and mission partners, who labour together with the staff of FCE in reaching the nations. Ask for God’s protection and blessing for them, their families and their businesses.
aUGUST 2010
27. Pray for Piet du Toit, who is writing a book on the history of education in the Sudan. This book will be used as a textbook for students.