We often have the opportunity to reach out to people with physical needs. This month the mother of two young ladies in Northpine had some health issues. We were able to minister to her in the hospital and I also followed up with some home visits. Using my nursing knowledge has been the door to open up a friendship with Patience. 
She believes God has given her a second chance in life. Pray for her to understand the gospel and trust Christ alone for eternal life.
She believes God has given her a second chance in life. Pray for her to understand the gospel and trust Christ alone for eternal life.Last year, we met Willie while going door-to-door in Eindhoven. Then this year, I met Felicity while a teen and I were passing out invitations. Felicity asked if I would visit her mother someday. When we called on Willie and Felicity this month, her mother was away, 
but they asked us to have coffee with them. While we were there, I was able to help with a number of their questions about their medications and I also took their blood pressures. Felicity said God sent us that day to be an encouragement to her before being admitted to hospital for surgery. We stopped by today and learned that she will be discharged soon. Pray that the Lord will lay it on the hearts of these professing believers to visit Eindhoven Baptiste Kerk.
but they asked us to have coffee with them. While we were there, I was able to help with a number of their questions about their medications and I also took their blood pressures. Felicity said God sent us that day to be an encouragement to her before being admitted to hospital for surgery. We stopped by today and learned that she will be discharged soon. Pray that the Lord will lay it on the hearts of these professing believers to visit Eindhoven Baptiste Kerk.Sidney's 41 year old wife, Maureen, had a stroke recently, so when Jeremy and Tony shared the gospel with them one Sunday afternoon in July, they were already doing a lot of thinking about eternity. Tony offered to have me come take Maureen's blood pressure. This allowed us to have another opportunity to share the gospel with them. They have promised to visit the church, but casual weekend work, Sidney's only employment, has kept them from keeping that promise.
During the winter (July) school holiday, we learned that some of our Bybelklub boys made a Hookah pipe from a Coke bottle and some rubber hoses. Below is an imported Hookah pipe for sale in a local shop for around R200 ($26).
I researched the pipe and prepared a lesson for the children to warn them of its dangers. While parents in Delft believe it to be a harmless practice, research has proven it to be 200 times more dangerous that smoking a cigarette. I began by showing a picture of the pipe. I asked if anyone knew what it was. The ones who began to tell me "ALL about it" were the ones who were experimenting with it! But no one knew how dangerous it was. The fruit-flavoured tobacco that is smoked in the hookah causes nicotine addiction. Due to the lengthy smoking sessions and the deeply inhaled water-cooled smoke, the incidence of mouth, tongue, throat and lung cancer is much greater among hookah pipe smokers that among cigarette smokers. The warm, moist, dark lumens of the pipe's hoses are breeding grounds for TB, meningitis, herpes and other communicable diseases. We hope to see God convince these children that their bodies belong to Him. How we long to see them live their lives for the glory of God.
I researched the pipe and prepared a lesson for the children to warn them of its dangers. While parents in Delft believe it to be a harmless practice, research has proven it to be 200 times more dangerous that smoking a cigarette. I began by showing a picture of the pipe. I asked if anyone knew what it was. The ones who began to tell me "ALL about it" were the ones who were experimenting with it! But no one knew how dangerous it was. The fruit-flavoured tobacco that is smoked in the hookah causes nicotine addiction. Due to the lengthy smoking sessions and the deeply inhaled water-cooled smoke, the incidence of mouth, tongue, throat and lung cancer is much greater among hookah pipe smokers that among cigarette smokers. The warm, moist, dark lumens of the pipe's hoses are breeding grounds for TB, meningitis, herpes and other communicable diseases. We hope to see God convince these children that their bodies belong to Him. How we long to see them live their lives for the glory of God.We're also back in the school this term teaching the dangers of immorality and the spread of HIV. All these ministries are doors for sharing that Christ alone is the answer to our sin problem.
A few weeks later the S_______'s asked us to join them on an outing to Genadendal where our friends, the Balies, entertained all 8 of us. 
Around the Balies' table, German, American, Afrikaner and Genadendalian shared in Christian fellowship, which crosses cultures, races and nationalities in the love of Christ.
Recently we hosted Amy Blackburn, BWM missionary in Sedgefield for a nine-day visit. While she was with us, she helped babysit Chloe while Chris was here for a class with Tony,
she taught the Einhoven Bybelklub,
shared in a weekly discipleship class and helped with a Sunday School series that Judy Blanton and I prepared in Afrikaans.
We hosted a birthday braai with 22 guests to help celebrate Amy's birthday while she was visiting Cape Town. 
Below is a collage that Amy prepared from photos taken on the Sunday she was with us at Calvary Bible Baptist in Northpine, where she previously served. 
Amy has fitted herself to our home so well that she has named herself one of our "extra" daughters!
If you haven't been to Cape Town, you may not know what "vetkoek" is, but take our word for it. Their "vetkoek" is delicious with a ladleful of mince curry. They sent leftovers that we are enjoying for lunch today!
planned and hosted the meeting. It was a great time of games, 
an excellent message from the Word by Pastor Kevin and good refreshments.
The conbined youth meetings are an excellent means of encouraging the youth who are believers because they see that there are other young people who want to serve the Lord. It also provides yet another opportunity to pour water on the gospel seeds that are being sown from week to week at the Bybelklub in Eindhoven. About half of the 14-15 children who attend that club are teens. Five of these teens attended the youth meeting last month (Three of the Eindhoven youth are shown below on the right of the photo).
Eight people from Calvary Bible Baptist Church in Northpine attended(shown below are Andiswa and Bronwyn).
Tony shared the gospel with Thabo(left, below) and Lamla (right,above) that afternoon and later in the week he and Cedric spent an evening sharing with Thabo, Q, and Nwabisi and several other friends. Tonight they will meet with Lamla and his fiance and others.
Below are two future fathers who are priveleged to hear the message of the gospel while they are young. Few of the fathers who were present on Father's Day enjoyed that privilege. Pray for them to respond to Christ's call at an early age and be spared many of the scars of sin that complicate their own parents' efforts to follow Christ.
