Creche Course Creativity

This year we have been busy with the Creche courses again. We have already had two groups complete the 6 week course (one in Tembisa and another in Delmore Gardens) and had an amazing graduation day. Some ladies say little speeches just to show how thankful they are that God brought them to this course, others sing songs and just keep on singing and singing. Some photos below of our last graduation.

Our current group attending the course are such great students and have been very creative with the different things you can make out of recycled goods. Here are some photos of the ladies on the course and their creative designs.

We are looking forward to building stronger relationships with some of these ladies and enhance their teaching by giving Bible classes at their creches.

Ignite2020 team Kempton Park

BEC Graduation at Aphiwe

Our Bible Education Center in Tembisa  has been running for more than a year now from the Aphiwe Good News center, and in this time period we have had a few baptisms, and many people doing our Bible courses.  We decided to follow Durbans idea and host a graduation for all these students.

We had our first graduation for this year on 6 April and had about 20 people attending the graduation, and out of those 20 there were  12 students who received their certificates. We started the graduation with an opening prayer from one of our new brothers; we then did a 45 minute Bible Study with them. After the Study we handed out the certificates, and had a lovely discussion over a cup of coffee.

There were 5 of the students who started the course, that were baptized in last year, it is so rewarding to see some individuals take action and get baptized after learning and finishing the courses.

Hendri and Liezl on behalf of the Ignite2020 team in Kempton Park

Bro Hendri giving Bible talk

Bro Andrew handing out certificates

Praise and Worship Night - Aphiwe (Gauteng)

We hosted a Praise and Worship games evening for our youth in Tembisa. Bro Michael created a music quiz for us on the computer and we then got the youth together and it went super.

We split the group in two teams so that they had some competition going on. Each slide on the Quiz would ask one of the following questions: 1) Name that song, we have a tune play and they would have to name the song. 2) Sing a song with this picture, we would have a picture on the screen and they can choose any Biblical song that has that picture in it and sing the song. 3) Sing a song with this word, same as the picture except this time we have a word on the screen. 4) Fill in the gap, we would have the Title of a song on screen with a missing word and they would then have to guess the word and sing the from t song. 5) Charades, we give one person from each team the title of a song and they have to act it out to their group. And the there are also some "blessings" where they get 5 free points and also some "curses" where we subtract 5 points from their score.

The children love singing and having the games going with it is just great fun. We have many new children join us with these evenings and then start joining us on Sundays for Sunday school.

Liezl and Hendri

On behalf of the Ignite2020 team in Kempton PArk

Holiday Club - Tswelopele (Gauteng)

Over the Easter holidays we hosted a “fun day” for the Saturday Bible Club attendees and other neighborhood kids. Our theme for the day was “Prayer”, and the day entailed a short lesson on what the bible teaches us about praying, each child making their own “prayer cube”, and as always lots of outside games. We were pleasantly surprised to have 52 kids join us, and very thankful for the help of various volunteers – the Foss family from the USA, Hendri, Llewellyn & Juliana Scheepers, members of our ecclesia.

The older kids filled in the various verses re prayer onto each side of their cube.

The older group filling in their prayer cubes. After filling in the verses came the fun part – decorating the cubes with a variety of goodies & lots of glitter!

Those who couldn't write yet colored and decorated a "thank you for" prayer cube - Thank you God for my food; my Bible; Your creation; my friends & family & for loving me.

Carlos approves!

Fun in the sun.

Snack time - got to keep those energy levels up.

Group photo, each with their prayer cube.

With love in Christ

Michael & Lilandi Furstenburg

Saturday Bible Club - Tswelopele (Gauteng)

Our Saturday Bible Club numbers have been on the increase – with several “new” faces joining us after attending the Braingym program! We now have a core group of about 40 kids, with the average age being about 10 years old. Even though this means there are lots of under-8’s, perhaps limiting the amount of hard-core doctrine we can teach, it does mean they enjoy doing craft activities which are great for reinforcing the lessons that we do share.

Michael presenting the bible club lesson about Israel's 1st king - and how we should rather accept God as our king.

Creating crowns, with colored foam and buttons as "jewels"

Group photo with everyone wearing their crown!

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

(Rev 5:10)

With love in Christ

Michael & Lilandi Furstenburg

Fighting the unimaginable fight

Imagine going to a school where you know you are different, but the only thing that makes you feel normal is sport, but then you don't have the equipment you need. I have the privilege to work with such children in a mentally disabled school in Tembisa.

The first time we ( Leona, Liezl and myself) met with the school staff the sport coordinator was not there. The following week we met up with the sport coordinator and played some sports with the kids. While Matt and Adam were busy with the kids, I had time to talk to the sport coordinator where he told me more about the school.

There are so many things they need. There are about 450 children in the school with only one 600g javelin, one 1kg discus and one shot put. This is the equipment they are preparing with for their inter house (between all the disabled schools in the Ekurhuleni district.) One of the biggest need are medals. When any of the children from any school come 1^st, 2^nd or 3^r they will be going to nationals to represent Gauteng. If they come in 1^st 2^nd or 3^rd place at the nationals they will have the opportunity to go to a special Olympics to represent South Africa. There are 2 boys who run the 100m in 10:61, they do that barefoot on gravel.

This is a new project that I have been privileged to start during January this year. T objective of this project is to help provide as many talented children with the equipment they need.

Hendri  Viljoen

Sisters Bible Study Classes

I thought to write of our weekly Sisters Classes that take place here in Gauteng. These classes have been going strong for a good couple of years now. As the years have passed our numbers went down as some sisters moved to different parts of the country and some sisters started working. We have in the meantime also had newly baptized sisters from Tembisa join us so the numbers have grown again. I am very blessed to still be part of these classes too.

We have been learning this year mainly of different women in the Bible and today looked at how we remember Jesus in a SMILE…

S – Savior, Servant, Shepherd,

M – Messiah, Master, Mediator

I – I am the way, truth and life. I am the light of the world, I am the door, I am the bread of life, etc.

L – Lord, Lamb

E – Emmanuel

The classes teach us allot and we also learn so much from one another. We have both very young and old attending the class as the picture below shows. Sis Rene is close to 91 years of age, she attends every class and still reads and gives her ideas on the classes presented. Then on the other hand we have little Zante who is now 16 months also attending and she will walk around sometimes drawing her thoughts on everyone else's papers! It is a true blessing to be part of these classes.

Sis Rene

Back: Leona, Shirley, Lib, Lerato and Otilia Front: Liezl, Rene, Zante and Lilandi

Youngest Zante