Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. Cold, wet greetings from Malealea. This photograph of the peach blossoms was taken nearly a month ago. Yesterday it started raining on and off till this morning. We woke up this morning, surprised to see snow on the mountain! The visit from First City Baptist Church, East London, during July was a true blessing. The children from our valley had an awesome time at the holiday club. With such a diverse group visiting, each had the opportunity to use their skills to teach, either children or our women’s group, minister at the base or in the villages. We all enjoyed the fellowship and building new friendships. Thank you, Andrew, for blessing us with a water tank – the stand is currently being build next to our house. We especially thank the Martinez family from The Fathers Heart Church in New York - their church made a generous donation towards our ministry, which we could use to buy clothes for the vulnerable children in Joy, School of Hope, and food parcels for our elderly congregation members. We are truly grateful that part of these funds we could use to take Nthabeleng, one of the orphan girls who need medical care, to hospital. She is awaiting an operation on the 4th of December. We were fortunate to be able to attend Pieter’s mother 70th birthday in Kimberley. It was the first time in years that all five siblings and grandchildren were together. Whilst in Kimberley we could attend the A4J Team Building Seminar. It was great to touch base with everyone and hear what is planned. A4J has workers in South Africa, Lesotho :-), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Jordan, Vietnam, Nepal and China. It was inspiring to hear where each of our co-workers has been and are now. In early September we hosted African Blessings’ Rita, Tomsen and Tyson. They taught Foundations for Farming to some of our congregation members and other villagers. They were truly inspiring. If it is Gods will, we pray that they will return for further training at our base. We pray that our Lord will continually comfort each of you as you are coping with the loss of your beloved Godfrey. During the time of African Blessings visit, our chief from Sekhotlong passed away. Please pray with us for her children and family, for provision and guidance, comfort in this time. Her children cannot afford the funeral, so please pray for them in this regard as well. Mid-month September we enjoyed the visit from our Bethlehem friends - thank you sincerely for visiting us regularly, helping on the base with training and maintenance. We truly appreciate you. Ntate Pheko and his wife from Operation Up, Maseru, visited our church. They encouraged our congregation to go out and be missionaries. They recently returned from a 3 month mission trip to Thailand. They are an inspiration to us - pray with us that God will open the doors for them in Thailand to expand Operation Up to this country. The Williams family from Port Elizabeth visited us during the last week of September. We enjoyed their visit and getting acquainted. Jackie taught our church ladies how to make washable pads. Pray for them for guidance as they are waiting on God to reveal to them where in the mission field they should be and for provision. We sincerely thank St. John;s Anglican Church, Walmer, Port Elizabeth for making it possible for us to build a house for one of the ngunu's in Sekhotlong. She has been living in a dilapidated sin house for years. Our last news is the most exciting of all…. Kimberley Baptist Church hosted a women’s conference on the 29 September to 1 October. This was our very first women’s conference at the base. Women from our congregation, “Salt and Light” and Assemblies of God attended the conference. 12 Promises from Psalm 23 was a blessing to each woman attending. They have already requested that KBC return next year. Thank you, Gabi, Genevieve, Marina, Cecilia and Ingrid, for being a blessing, your dedication and eagerness to minister. Thank you for all the preparation and each member from your congregation who contributed. Please pray with us:
Grace be with you from our Father God. ... this is us in 2011, the year we moved to Lesotho. Postal Address: Malealea Youth Care Centre, P.O. Box 112, Motsekuoa, 194, Lesotho
Physical address: Malealea Valley, Toteng Contact person: Pieter J Mierke, Lesotho cell phone number: + 266 596 426 54, SA cell phone number: +2772 172 8915 Email address: [email protected], [email protected] Website address: http://a4jlesotho.weebly.com/ Facebook: A4J Lesotho 2 Bank Details: Ministry: A4J Lesotho, Account number: 62390347782, Branch: FNB New Park Kimberley, Code: 231002 Personal: Pieter Mierke, FNB, New Park Kimberley Branch, Code: 231002, Savings Account number: 621 5979 8100 Cattle 4 Christ: Linda Erlank +27825654456 Intercession: Niki Steyn – please contact Niki via email at [email protected] if you are interested to be part of our intercession team
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