WCF REPORT

LIEZL SCHEEPERS WCF REPORT MAY AND JUNE 2010 APHIWE GOOD NEWS CENTRE There are various activities that happen at the Aphiwe centre. These include crèche courses, lunch time Bible classes, Wednesday night Bible classes, extra life skill courses, movie nights for Kinos kids, Sunday school classes. Further detail regarding these activities are discussed in paragraphs below..Correspondence courses are also available and Bibles and materials are sold. The Aphiwe Good news centre is increasingly well known by more and more people in Tembisa and the areas around the township as well. We have people often asking about the centre and what we do there . No matter where we go when we say we are from the Aphiwe centre they know exactly what we are talking about. The lunch time Bible classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays are well attended and we have about 8 or 10 regular visitors. The Wednesday evening Bible class has been picking up and we are getting more visitors every week. We have two crèche course ladies also attending our Bible classes. We had 14 visitors at our last class and the discussion after the class was great, they are so eager to learn more which is very encouraging to me.

CORRESPONDENCE COURSES God’s Master plan will God willing be known all over Tembisa as we are getting more and more sign ups for this course daily. We have had a number of people come to the Aphiwe Good news centre and register there. There are 3 or 4 people who are busy with the course that attend our lunch time classes. We have started giving out the 22 Lesson course from Aphiwe too as the people just want more and more courses to do. The master answer sheets I made for the courses work very well and I made another 4 sets as Natalie Boardman (from Australia) will be starting the course back home.

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I now keep at least 10 God master plan courses, already addressed, in envelopes which I keep in the car as we get a lot of people asking about the courses when they see the magnets advertising the courses on the side of my car. We have 12 students that have signed up from seeing the sign on the car.

CHURCH RERLATED We had our Sis Otilia, who is very involved at Aphiwe, come and attend our Wednesday Sisters class together with 2 ladies (Lindiwe and Hope) from Tembisa. They also attend the crèche course and our lunch time Bible classes. It has been good to spend time with them and learn from them and teach them about our faith .

The Congolese meeting is growing and God willing they will soon have their own ecclesia. On Sunday we picked up 9 Congolese brethren and one sister as well as visitors and took them to the Pretoria meeting. (all 13 of us managed to fit in a 8 seater car and luckily there were no cops on the way there!)

KINOS ACTIVITIES It is the world cup here at the moment so schools are closed, therefore no Sunday school. So we have organized other activities to keep them busy. We had a Big screen movie night where we showed them “The Prince of Egypt” . There were over 30 children who came and we saw some new faces that haven’t joined us before. They enjoined the evening and now want to attend our Sunday school when it starts.

Another “street fun” event was held. We played games with the children in the streets. We also painted their favorite soccer team’s flag on their faces which they loved! Some even had 3 different flags on their faces.

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We had a powerful praise evening where we had over 40 children show up. We gave them dinner and sang songs and read some Bible passages. I have never felt so alive and near to God as I did that evening. Every time we would sing the children would sing so loud and full of energy, love and excitement that I never wanted the moment to end.

I have experienced God working so much in our preaching efforts and in people’s lives around me these past 2 months. We have had so many donations of blankets, baby food, carpets, bread rolls, meat, clothes and bits of pieces of other things. We could then go and give all these things to the people we have been helping in Tembisa.

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We got to go to a camp where there were about 60 or more young people. My dad went to give some Bible studies and I went along to also teach them some songs and fellowship with them. They have not been eating much as they did not have funds to buy much food. This is one of many examples where God worked and answered prayers as we got a donation of bread, fruit and meat on the last day we went to the camp and we could then give them a mini feast for their last meal at the camp.

CUDDLE We have had a busy few weeks when it comes to the crèches. The crèche course has started up again and I am enjoying my involvement. I presented the 2nd half of the course in the second week. It was rather stressful but I did pretty well. We dropped off the certificates of the previous crèche course at the relevant crèche’s and identified two more crèches to help and upgrade.

At the first crèche, Bambino Day care, we installed ceilings, painted hop scotch, painted walls and fixed up posters on the walls. All with some help from 4 Australian brothers and sisters.

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The 2nd crèche we worked at was the Thutong Crèche and Preschool. On our first visit to hand out the teacher’s (Julia) certificate there was only one room with 20 children sitting on the floor, two small carpets not even covering the whole floor. There were no tables, chairs, toys; very little light and a few posters. We just knew we had to help this crèche. We then put in 2 days of hard work and washed and painted the walls; put in carpets and gave her blankets that were donated to the Cuddle project two weeks before. A mural was painted on the outside wall and I made a new sign for the crèche. We had some local volunteers helping us paint the fence all different colors. Two play boxes were also made. The once empty garage now looks and feels like a crèche rather than just an empty room where children sit the whole day doing nothing.

EAST LONDON AND PORT ELIZABETH As I said in my previous report I went to EL and PE with Matt Collard, Christy Beyers and Hendri Viljoen, in East London. We got to spend the weekend with the Brothers and Sisters, we had a mini meeting with them discussing future preaching opportunities. The ecclesia is very interested in starting a BEC however they need younger people or someone who has more experience on how a BEC WCF Report – Liezl Scheepers

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works to be there for a month or so to get them started. We were able to get the God’s Master Plan correspondence course started and left Sis Jo – Ann is in charge of continuing the work. East London has potential but will need permanent volunteers to be there for at least 4 weeks to help them. Port Elizabeth was an amazing experience. We were so busy and the 3 weeks we were there flew by. I had so many new challenges, one being giving my first sisters class. Seeing as they are in a drought I focused on droughts in the Bible and then on rain and water and what that means in the Bible and what it means to us. We then had a special prayer circle to pray for rain, every sister wrote up a prayer and we all prayed together. After the class just as everyone was about to leave we had some rain fall down. It wasn’t enough to get PE out of their drought however I believe it was God just letting us know He is there to always care for us. Another challenge was giving out as many leaflets as possible. For every activity we advertized we got either 2000 or 3000 leaflets to distribute. The four of us and a local sister who got involved had fun seeing who could distribute all their leaflets first and hopefully you didn’t get a dog escaping out of the yard and chasing you down the road. The classes that followed the leaflet distribution went well. For the Sunday school open day we had 15 children come and taught them about the Good Samaritan, sang songs (some of which matt wrote the day before.) We had 2 praise evenings with the youth and sang songs . We bonded very well and built new relationships with brothers and sisters we did not know. We worked hard on the PE BEC container the 3 weeks we were there. The plan was to change the inside and find a way to make it possible to have the BEC open more than just one day of the week and maybe on Saturdays. The plan quickly changed when we found the roof was leaking and everyday the guys tried to waterproof it it rained…. So we emptied the whole container putting all the stock and courses in the back of the Isuzu. We washed the floor, walls and windows. Then painted all the walls and built a new desk as the old one was ruined by the water that had leaked in. We bought new stock and had leaflets on all different kinds of doctrine, some cards and pens and the courses which we displayed in a new manner and printed out Bible verses to decorate the walls with. In this whole process a lovely sister came every day to help us and she now has a job to work there every day. This has been the greatest thing happening for the BEC as it is now open everyday and they are getting course sign ups and selling more stock. On the RE Opening day of the BEC we gave away free pens when you signed up for the correspondence course, we reached up to 130 people signing up in the period we were there.

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We had great fun spreading the good news of the Kingdom of God here on earth be it leaflet distributing, classes, singing outside the BEC or blowing a voovoozella on the BEC roof to draw people in to the BEC.

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