2016 /05/ Inter-Ethnic Evangelical Mission In this Edition: 1) Ufollo.net and SAAWE 2) Welamlambo Baptist Mission 3) Ministry in Baptist and Dutch Reformed Churches 4) Inter Ministry with GMO and Truths transform 5) Other developments 6) Praise and Praise Points Nico van Zyl Ufollo.net and SAAWE 27/5/2016
May Newsletter 2016 Greetings in the Name of the only wise God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Thank you all for the prayers and encouragement I received from many of you about the ministries I'm involved with. May God richly bless you! 1. Ufollo.net and SAAWE We posted 32 ads on our Facebook Page during March and April and reached over 130 000 people on this platform during these two months. We had over 7600 visitors on our website and over 90 000 hits during the same months. We started a Zulu (Ufollo.net/Zulu) and an Afrikaans Facebook Page (Ufollo.net/Afrikaans) recently and updated our Ufollo.net/Support website. Our focus as usual is to reach the least reached communities in Pakistan, India, and Pakistan. We received many comments and questions from enquirers over the last three months. One person (Crook Sunter) made a commitment to follow Jesus after we had shared messages with him a few times! Another woman (Priyinja) who wanted to commit suicide was counseled and decided not to go through with it. Chris Visser has recently joined Christine and me in answering questions from enquirers. We are overjoyed that many from the least evangelized areas are making contact with us, asking for prayer, and learning about the love of God and the truth about the glorious gospel. Please pray that many of these people who make contact with us, will find a church in their areas and be discipled by people near them. Please visit www.ufollo.net/support to see what we do, and learn more about the impact of this ministry. You can also make a donation on this website if you wish to support our work. I have had a few outreaches amongst the foreigners at Oliver Tambo Airport the past three months and hope to reach out to the Bengalis, and Pakistani s in the coming months in the inner cities of Gauteng. I still have 100 Jesus Film DVD s in Bengali and Urdu to hand out!! I had good conversations with two Muslims (Sai and Happiness) at the Airport recently. Pray that we will seize the opportunities to reach out in the inner-cities. God willing we will be doing some open air preaching again in the coming weeks. (Marcus and I at OT airport.) 2. Welamlambo Baptist Mission and work in Tembisa The work in Tembisa is going very well as always. The doors remain open to preach the gospel in most of the schools. Markus from Austria has come out to help us with the work, conducting assemblies and doing Bible studies with us. We can praise God that White Knight Productions has completed the first 12 videos of my book (New Believers and Discipleship Guide). An organization in America sponsored 50 DVD s of this Guide. On this DVD/CD, my Discipleship book can be found with three of Paul Washer s sermons. As I conduct the Bible Studies every week, I hand them out for free to those learners who can
answer questions correctly from the previous Bible Study. It is usually a big occasion when they get the answers right! Since I started two years ago, I have finished the 42 Bible studies in my book with two schools in Tembisa. Two other schools are on Lessons 22, and two other schools are at lesson 10. This book can be downloaded from this website www.interethnicmissions.net free of charge. Go to Word Studies: Books. (A few students receiving their New Believers Guide) Recently after an assembly at a High School, a teenager whom I had spoken to two years ago came to me. I remembered him distinctly, (his name is Prince). He had a certain problem two years ago and wanted to buy a Bible. I gave him a copy of my DVD and two Bibles. May God continue to work in the teenagers lives! Another time after preaching at a high school, an Indian lady teacher came to me and asked that I pray for her daughter. A few weeks past and when I came to the same school she eagerly told me that God had answered my prayer, her daughter got the job I prayed for. Not sure if this lady is a Christian, but may God use this answer to prayer to make her want the Jesus of the Bible! I plan to preach with Herman at the train stations again in June and July, as the work in the High Schools slows down a bit because of the exams. One Sunday a woman from Tembisa (Eileen) came to me and told me she had had a dream of a woman dressed in white and people standing in a queue behind her. She was at the front of the queue. When she came to the woman in white, she said to her: Do you believe in Jesus? Eileen said yes! Then the woman said to her: you must continue to believe in Him. The woman in white then continued to wash her face!! I thought about this story for a while and wondered what it could mean. I am a strong believer in the sufficiency of Scripture, but do believe this dream could have been from God to confirm to Eileen that what she hears at the mission and the Bible studies is from God and that she must put her faith in Jesus. Please keep on praying for Eileen. I believe she is a Christian. She is poor and longs to have a Sewing machine. We are praying that God will provide R1500 for the machine so that she can make pillows. (Chilling at the Mission station)
3. Ministry in Baptist and Dutch Reformed Churches In recent months, I have had some opportunities to preach at Birchleigh Baptist Church as well as at the NG Church Birchleigh as well as in NG Mondeor. If you want to listen to some of my preaching look under Word studies on this website www.interethnicmissions.net and under English sermons and Afrikaans sermons. These were great times of sharing the Word of God. God is keeping the doors open for me to share the His Word of God for which I am grateful. At NG Kempton Kruin we are doing a monthly Bible Study this year on different topics. I sometimes lead the discussion. Our next Bible study is about: Why is there 66 books in the Bible? Why specifically the 66 that we have? 4. Internet Ministry with GMO and Truths transform I have been involved with Global Media Outreach now for almost four years. It has been a great cost-effective way of reaching people across the world with the gospel of Christ. I have built online relationships with many people and shared the Word of God with many. I have heard many answers to prayer and many people are growing in their relationship with God. Here is one testimony from a friend of mine (Machirori from Zimbabwe): When I started communicating with you and followed the scriptures you sent me via email, I became very close to God and believed that whatever I asked in faith it will be granted. e.g. one day I came from home with only enough money to go to work and back, but I got so hungry and prayed silently to God asking him just to give me at least one $ to buy lunch because I was hungry. I opened my purse and to my surprise, found a dollar folded in my purse. I praised God because I knew it was God who had put it there. God is a living God! We can trust in Him! (We received loads of Gospel Booklets and Bibles from Frontline Fellowship) Previously we looked at how the inerrancy of Scripture should be understood and how we can know the Bible is the Word of God? Dr. Danie Malan led that Bible study. I also recently read a book by John Piper on this subject called: A Peculiar Glory. How the Scriptures reveals their complete truthfulness. It s a brilliant book, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the origin, inerrancy, sufficiency and authority of the Bible. You can download it for free from www.desiringgod.org (Students receiving Bibles) In March and April, I reached over 43 000 people with 7 Ads on my Facebook Page and got over 4200 hits on my website www.truthstransform.net. Feel free to like
my Facebook Page Truths Transform. I focus mainly on people in India and Bangladesh and post short gospel video clips. Many people like my posts, but I don t get that much reaction. Pray that people in the least reached areas in the world would search until they have found the truth, the truth in Jesus Christ. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said: Here am I, send me. (Isaiah 6:6-8). 5. Other developments As you can see, I have begun a new website on WordPress: www.interethnicmissions.net. I changed from Simplesite because it became too expensive and because I can do more things on WordPress than on Simplesite, like uploading audio files and embedding Social Media activity. The Gauteng Christian Action Group is hosting a Life-Chain on the 11 th of June again near Festival Mall. Please join us as we stand against this global and local Holocaust. Proverbs 31:8 says we must speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Evil only triumphs when good men and women do nothing! To keep silent in the day of evil is evil itself! William Wilberforce campaigned for decades to abolish slavery in the British Empire and succeeded. May we do the same concerning this modern day atrocity. I know many people have fought against abortion on demand much longer that I have! In the past three months, I have also conducted Bible studies on abortion at all the High Schools where I minister. (Receiving a DVD! This student knew the 10 commandments by heart!) I have started to do English Tutoring on Skype via a certain organization. The tutoring I do is focused on conversation classes, one on one. The first lesson I did with a man from Russia. Although it was not my intention, one of our topics lent itself to spiritual things. And before long my student asked me: So what must I do to be a Christian?!!! Right there and then I could share the gospel with him! The way God works is amazing! Prayer: 6. Praise and Prayer Points -- Pray for the ministry at Welamlambo Baptist Mission in Tembisa. There are people coming to our mission station regularly, especially to our feeding scheme on Mondays and our Bible studies on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Please pray for Herman, Rebecca, Jenni, Thapelo, Grace, and Manha, who help in the ministry in Tembisa. -- For continued opportunities to preach in Dutch Reformed, Baptist, and other churches. -- For the inner-city outreaches among the foreigners in Kempton Park, Benoni, and Boksburg and at OT Airport. That many Muslims and other foreigners would hear the gospel and be transformed by the truth. Pray that the gospel literature and
leaflets about our website (ufollo.net) would prove to be fruitful. -- Pray that more discussion groups will start among the Muslims that would eventually lead to discipleship groups. Pray for Sai, a Muslim man from Somalia, whom I met at the airport and shared the gospel with. -- That the Jesus film DVD's in Bengali and Urdu will be wisely distributed and that those who receive them will watch them and be transformed by the truth and make contact with us at Ufollo.net or with other Christians. -- Pray for Muslims, who have made contact with us through our websites and Facebook Pages and through GMO to be converted to Christ. Many who make contact with us want to commit suicide. Pray that they may find Christ. -- For the Ads on Facebook and Google and videos on the Truths Transform website to reach thousands and that many in the least reached communities will come to know the truth and be discipled. -- For the thousands of teenagers, kids and adults we have reached through assemblies, Bible Clubs and Bible Studies in Tembisa and at the train stations, to be truly converted and to know Jesus Christ as their Lord, Saviour, and Treasure. -- For the Bibles we sell and hundreds of gospel booklets we have handed out to teenagers and adults to bear fruit to the glory of God. That those who received them will read them. -- For my preparation for preaching at the different churches and in Tembisa. -- For enough time to enjoy God s presence and to be still and know that He is God. -- For my Skype English classes to be successful and for opportunities to share the gospel on this platform. -- For my Discipleship book, that I hand out as prizes, and the new DVD with teachings to transform teenagers and adults for the glory of God. -- Pray for Eileen that she may get the sewing machine to sew pillows. Praise: -- Praise God who is glorious in creation, in His perfections, in judgment and in His work of redeeming a people for Himself from every tribe, nation, and people group. -- Thank God that He will bring to completion the good work He has started in His children (Philippians 1:6; John 10:27-30). -- For us to always rejoice in God, be thankful, prayerful (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) and be wholehearted in everything we do. -- That God s purposes cannot fail and that His Great Commission will be completed. -- God for using the Facebook and Google ads to bring many people to our websites. -- That God has provided White Knight Productions to help us shoot videos for the Truth transforms website and that the first New Believers Guide DVD is completed. -- For the many enquirers from across the world asking questions through the ufollo.net website and our Facebook pages. -- For many opportunities in churches to preach the glorious gospel. -- For the continuous opportunities in High and Primary schools in South Africa to preach the gospel.
-- For the ability to send the gospel overseas through the Internet, Google, Facebook, YouTube, etc. -- For people's lives being transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. -- For many teenagers who respond positively to the gospel and who are asking probing questions about God and the Bible. -- For many relationships that have been formed with teenagers and adults in Tembisa. -- For 50 more New Believers and Discipleship books that have been printed and are being distributed to teenagers and adults in Tembisa. -- For Hundreds of Bibles and Gospel booklets in many languages being distributed across Gauteng Preaching on missions in KwaThema A New Believers Guide received Jesus films ready to fly in Urdu! Learners hearing the gospel!