August Weekends

Sundays...
At the request of church leadership, Nathan has organized a "Foundations" course for new believers and church members interested in strengthening their understanding of the foundations of following Jesus.  Taking advantage of already being at church, the class follows the church service and has 24 in attendance.  Dividing up the lessons between the leadership, Nathan has taught "Salvation" (what does it really mean) and "The Father Heart of God".

Saturdays...

(ministry)
The 24th of August was the anniversary of the Rheenendal School bus accident (which I reported on last year while I was in the US and posted a blog about the camp held for family members in May).  It has been our passion to minister to these struggling families by holding a private memorial service with before the anniversary (due to the desire of a very public service on the actual date by the community).  God has been faithful to lead what to put on the program and fit each part together perfectly as we have been working with these families.  Even providing flowers and candles for a family altar, and a nice Chicken Curry meal!  We marvel at how He arranges each part to meet their needs.  Even helping me make a dvd out of the powerpoint of the pictures of the deceased children for the public service the following week.

Ghila - Psychology of Grief

Letters to beloved children

Prayer for surviving siblings

Shahida - Letting Go

Family Altar

Sarah - Testimony of Gods healing when mother passed away

Good food and ...

lighter hearts!!

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion 

and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, 

so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God."

(2 Corinthians 1:3-4)

Please pray that God will show us how to minister to the surviving children from the accident, lots of attention has been given to the families of the deceased, but we have been made aware that the survivors are suffering from nightmares, and acting out at school.  We are considering how we can serve them and their families.

Saturdays...

(fun)

Some of you have noticed that about 3 weeks ago Nathan joined the Facebook world!  This was a whole weekend project helping him find friends and add friends, and learn the functions of fb on his Blackberry... One day this was his status with a picture he found on google images of a dog herding cattle... "This is not Barnabas, but we did have cattle in our front yard - his herding skills need much work still.  Barnabas had a face-off with the bull!"  Only to discover that one of the Dutch volunteers has captured the real thing and posted it to his fb page...  

Mooooove on and stop eating my lawn!

The next weekend we saw an advertisement for the South African Sheep Dog Association herding trials being held in Knysna... needless to say we loaded up Barnabas and took him to see how it is really done!!

Turn here

Divide and conquer!

"You are facing the wrong way!"

Finally in the pen!

Not sure if Barnabas really understood... but it was fun!! (and VERY windy!)