The Msindisi Monthly – April 2008

“But let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth. For I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:24

Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:8-9

The Latest News

As most of you know, this month started sadly with the death of little Angel. However it is with pleasure that we can say Issac is doing well. After spending several days in hospital he returned home to a very grateful Patience.

This month we started to hunt for a vehicle, thanks to Allen Well’s help we now officially own a Toyota Tazz 2000. We had several teething problems to start with but now it seems to be up and running well.
Wonderful news is the birth of Lorraine’s child which entered into the world in the early hours of the 1st April. She and the baby are doing very well.

Also today, on the 5th of April Salvador’s sister in law gave birth to a baby. Amanda and Miguel’s daughter, Deborah, now has a baby brother to play with.

Evangelism

Zak and Salvador have been onto the settlement more often this month. There has been an encouragement in a couple that have gotten rid of there ancestral bands and who have decided that they want to follow Christ. This is a big thing because other people find this a huge barrier to the Gospel. One lady, despite what they had shown her from the bible said that she would never leave the ancestral spirits because they had apparently healed her son’s blindness at a cemetery. We tend to have a pragmatic mindset in the west concerning our Christianity. We are only interested in what works, rather than what is right and biblical. We forget that the False prophet will perform lying signs and wonders in order to deceive. We read in the news paper about the Nigerian Pastor Chris and his ‘night of bliss’ who has fabricated certain healings of people who were not healed. He offered certain people money to pretend that they were in wheelchairs. (The Sowetan Friday April 4)

One family Zak and Salvi visited wanted them to share the gospel and as they were sharing a rather thin local lady came in shouting, ‘Umlungu, umlungu, futzak’ (White man, white man, get out). The family contested that they should decide who is allowed to be here and bid Salvi to continue to speak. She came in and out and then when Zak prayed she mock prayed and made everyone laugh. Salvi had spoken about AIDS and she said that she had AIDS and was taking ARVs and wanted them to go to her home to see the ARV list. Salvi was hesitant but after she had done her mocking he looked at her and said ‘Lady, I can see you laughing here today but inside you are crying and in pain.’ She became sullen and shared that that was the truth. Zak was witnessing to some other people there too. But she pressed the point of Zak and Salvi visiting so much that they went with her. When they had gotten to her place she broke down in tears and said that she was raising 3 children by herself. Her husband was not offering any help and one of the children is her grandchild. Salvi said that we would both visit her on Wednesday but when we turned up this week she was not around because, as we found out, she would have been at the pension point collecting her benefit. But we will try to get a hold of her. We want her to know that the Lord holds her situation dear to His heart.

Zak has really taken on the evangelism of KwaZenzele with a gusto. There has been a few changes at Church where a number of people have left Aletheia, though they still maintain fellowship with each other. But this has given Zak a drive to want people to be saved. He wants many people to come to the Sunday services but he is careful to say that this local church will not save anyone. He tells them that it is more important to find salvation in Christ. Another change is that the meetings have ceased to be held in Dave and Lyn’s school room and now they are being held in the tent in the field next door which we think the local people find more comfortable. The services are being conducted in English and Zulu because the majority of people are Zulu speaking.

KwaZenzele

The mornings and evenings are starting to cool off so last Sunday we started to give out the hand knitted woolen jumpers that several ladies in Australia had knitted for the babies on the settlement. These beautiful gifts were received with many thanks. As you an imagine it gets cold in the shacks and these will provide added warmth to their little bodies.

Masese (who we formerly called Masisi), the 12 yr old girl that we have been taking to hospital for meds is doing OK. Di is still working closely with her, monitoring her health. She currently has chest problems and a fever. She will be visiting a doctor on Tuesday to address this. Fortunately she is staying with a friend for a few nights to give her carer some rest bite. Masese has started taking ARVs which she will have to continue taking for the rest of her life or else her life span will be severely shortened. There are so many patients in the same position that the government hospitals are over burdened with the need. All these patients on the roll out program need to keep stocked up on the medication which means for many people, traveling long distances and waiting in long queues in order to see the doctor.

Thanks to another gift from Australia we have started a garden project with families on the settlement. This means we can encouraging people who struggle for food to plant their own gardens. This will sometimes mean digging a basic garden for mothers or Gogos to help get them started. The children can become involved in this also.

Di and Salvi (Di really more than Salvi;) are also excited about starting their own garden so they can reap the rewards of peppers, rhubarb, tomatoes…. Yum !!!

Other News

Salvador is still visiting Vita Nova and playing hymns and choruses for the residents with learning difficulties who sing with great gusto.

Dave’s eldest son and Salvi’s former flat mate will be visiting Ebyown with his wife, baby boy and his wife’s grandmother. We hope that their stay will be a good one. Anthony will be preaching at the Sunday morning services.
We plan to be going to KwaZulu Natal more often this year as opportunities arise in order to support the local church that we visited in December. We will also be looking forward to meeting a pastor from the Coastal Assemblies of God (A sound pentecostal Pentecostal group) called Jacques Grobelaar and hope that the meeting will be productive and encouraging.

Prayer Requests

• We thank the Lord that we managed to find a good car so cheap as cars are expensive in this country.
• For Di and Salvi in their life, ministry and future direction for 2008.
• For the people we meet in KwaZenzele that they may be saved and touched by the love of God in the projects that we undertake.
• That God will be in our planning of short term trips to KwaZulu in their timing and in the activities that will be entered into.
• That relationships would continue to grow on the settlement.
• Give thanks for the safe delivery of Lorraine’s little girl and our new nephew.

Photos will be added to our website in the near future http://msindisi.googlepages.com

There was something that happened yesterday that might be an encouragement to some people but I forgot to place it in the Newsletter. Those who have gotten these newsletters from 2 years back may or may not remember a guy called Sipho who was befriended and came to the church meetings on a Sunday pre Dianne days. Salvador bumped into him while posting church leaflets through letter boxes and they got talking. Sipho said that his parents were Christians but he wasn’t sure. He really heard what Salvador was saying and said he made some kind of decision to follow Jesus. But then he started getting work on Sundays and never came back. Yesterday Salvi heard someone call his name and when he turned round there was Sipho. Sipho has moved to live in KwaZenzele and he has said that he is walking with Jesus and he has learned that he cannot trust a man but only God. He seemed so calmly confident and secure in what he was saying. It was easy to see the change in him. We just hope that he is truly walking with Jesus in the Spirit and in the Truth. But this goes to show that sometimes we share our lives or the Gospel message with people, and even if it seems promising that they will commit to Him God takes them away from us. Sometimes we can get discouraged because we are not seeing the fruit of our labours. But God is still working without us. So, those who follow the Lord, please be encouraged. We are not responsible for people’s decisions or commitments. We are only to be faithful in sharing our lives and the message of salvation in belief that God will cause people to repent and believe. And then the glory does not come to man but goes to God.

More news on Salvador’s nephew, he was born yesterday at 4pm British time and his name is Joshua Jeremiah Hayworth.

United Kingdom	New Zealand
Bank: HSBC	Bank: ASB
Name: S D Ung Hayworth	Name: Diane Vincent
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Contact Details

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Springs, Gauteng. South Africa

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Email: msindisi@gmail.com, salv.di@gmail.com
Phone: +27 (0) 72 831 1008

Y’varechecha Adonai