South Africa

I hope you got our email with the story about your Bibles you sent us in the last packages!! We blessed our staff and asked them to distribute them to family members and friends that did not yet have a Bible of their own. There was one small New Testament in Afrikaans, one of our official languages in South Africa. It had been bought in England for a pound (price still on it) gone to America and sent to South Africa and arrived at the school the day I witnessed to our Afrikaans speaking Handy Man about recommitting his life to the Lord. He got tears in his eyes when I gave him the Bible in his own language and told him how God had brought it around the world just for him!!!!  Thank you for all you do for our school. God bless your work for Him.

I got blessed and was very happy when my wife got a booklet from her friends with the Word of God in it. The booklets help a lot sometime when we come from work we have time, but the booklets we read during breaks at work, in a taxi,  every where, it is easy to carry. I hope the whole world will get to know about God through the booklets. Thank God a lot for having people like you who always lift our spiritual life up.

Thank you so much for the boxes of books that we received from you. Once again God is in control of your giving. It’s as if you knew exactly what we needed and the books were not randomly picked but packed according to a check list that we had sent you!!  We have ventured out in faith and are taking our school one step higher into grade eight next year! The series Hero’s of the Faith are perfect for a grade eight set work/reading book!! We currently have 28 Grade sevens and there are 2 or 3 that will not be returning next year, You sent us 27 books!! just enough for the grade eight class!!  How great is God!   Thank you once again for your faithfulness in doing Gods work.

The container with material that we received came in through the Durban port and together with a local Church we arranged for distribution in the Kwa-Zulu Natal area, an area that consists of a largely rural population. This area has been involved in political turmoil and fighting’s that caused great discomfort for the people living there. The key person involved in the distribution is Pastor Francois who is involved with ministry to the schools, the youth, prison, and church planting. He reports that literature has been distributed to local schools and as a result many young people have accepted Christ as Savior.  Then, they also used the literature when having tent meetings, they have about 6 tents in different parts of that area and the literature is used as follow-up teaching material for newly converted Christians.   I would also like to mention that South Africa is the gateway to the rest of Africa and from the Kwa-Zulu Natal area literature has been sent north into Mozambique, a country that is also desperate in need of the Gospel and that there is just no Christian literature of any kind available accept what we send them from South Africa. For many this literature is the only source available to learn more about Christ as Bibles are not available. We do not always get feedback on everything that is distributed but it is like seed that is planted in areas where there is no Church presence. Pastor Francois and his team is doing a great work with the literature and as a result many souls are saved and people healed.

I do not know where to begin thanking you for the shipment of books that were sent to us! We received 7 parcels all in very good condition. I had not heard from you after my letter in March and had all but given up hopes of hearing from you again. When I got to the Post Office and was told there were 7 parcels for us, I was so excited.  The teachers thought it was Christmas!!We started a teacher’s lending library at the school earlier this year. We only had about 25 books in total until your shipment arrived!! The teachers were so hungry for new literature they booked out about thirty books between 5 staff!! We have a very strict reading program at the school and our 210 learners from grade R to grade 7 have read approximately 2000 books this year. We have about 100 Abeka reading books that we use on rotational bases. We also have other reading books that also go out on rotational bases. The new children’s books came as a breath of fresh air to these anxious readers. So from the bottom of our hearts we thank you!!  God continue to use you in the ministry He has called you to.

Many, many Sunday schools are going to be blessed because of this shipment. Just today we had a request for teaching materials for children. We praise the Lord that we could reply in the affirmative! Once word gets out we will be inundated with requests. Our students are refugees who fled their countries due to war or instability. Some arrived with a calling upon their lives. Others were converted here and were commissioned by the Lord to return to their countries of birth to preach the Gospel. They will now return not only well trained and equipped but will also take with them good books that will enrich their ministries beyond measure. Needless to say, other students will benefit also by the new library we will be setting up for many generations to come.

In South Africa we have no adult Sunday school classes and this material is sought after by almost everybody.  A great deal of the literature serves to equip and prepare people for Christian life and ministry. Again I want to say, literature of this nature is not available here by us and what we received from you fills a gap that would have otherwise left many people in darkness and without any spiritual resources to enrich their lives. We are also preparing to set up  a mini library where people can come and borrow books, study it and then bring it back so that it be reused again. 

 We gave books / bibles to rural pastors,  bible college students, inner-city pastors, and numerous individuals. One ladies unsaved husband, having numerous difficulties, read her book and his life has changed!   Thanks.

Thank you so much for the materials you provided to us. The material has instilled so much knowledge to the congregation. Taking the children of God from one level to another. I also, as Pastor, am growing because of this material. We thank God in the name of Jesus for connecting us with Christians like you. We send all greetings and blessings in the name of Jesus.

Many magazines, children's CDs, daily devotionals and other books were distributed in a personal one-on-one basis amongst the staff of many shops. This provided some wonderful ministry opportunities and ongoing relationships in that centre. Peter looks forward to the opportunity to sow more seeds in this centre with the fresh batch of materials. Several established churches benefitted from the wonderful Sunday School materials. The gratitude for these resources was enormous and definitely worth every bit of the effort to get them there. One teen was praying for a bible and was so blessed by a second hand teen study bible. One wife was so excited because her husband received two books on the exact topic she was praying for God to minister into her husbands life. Both these books were read and reread and God has answered her prayers. A box of quality children’s materials found it’s way into the hands of a volunteer heading off to Indonesia. It was distributed amongst the children there who were devastated by the tsunami.