South Africa 2004 - Evangelism

How Many People Did You Lead To Christ Today?

Julie and the team trained people from the local churches in the use of the E-Cube (www.evangecube.org) as a tool in presenting the Gospel.  Julie’s team and the local people formed a larger unified team working in the neighborhoods outside Cape Town.  Many of these found with surprise and joy that they could win five to fifteen people to the Lord in an afternoon.

The following is one of Julie's emails from South Africa concerning the young people learning and doing evangelism that changes a nation:

Young Guns (Julie’s email, Sept. 30),

"I want to report on the amazing young people God is raising up in the churches here in Eersteriver.  These are young men and women who have a calling and passion to serve the Lord.  Among these were musicians, street preachers and evangelists, dancers, and dedicated prayer persons.  Mark Setch, senior pastor from Redcliffe, Australia, and I loved to take time to invest in these young people.  We really wanted to encourage them in their personal growth and in ministry.

I met with evangelists for an afternoon session to discuss evangelism and the call of the evangelist.  Incredibly we met a teen of 13 who has a definite but unformed call on his life to preach the gospel as an evangelist.  We had him step up to the mic to preach at one of the street outreaches.  Another young man lives up country but was sent by his pastor to assist and participate in our meetings. And each time we were on the streets doing evangelism, we had 5 to 7 teens, mostly girls, winning dozens of people to Jesus.  I was so happy to see them participate in winning people back to God.

At a church in Cape Town, Mark and I ministered at an international African church where I was able to muster enough of my French to greet the people.  The Revival Pentecostal Church is made up of nationals from Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Namibia.  The singing there was sensational as the flavors of indigenous music blended together and lifted our hearts to God.

On the streets, we had 9 and 10 year olds who were winning their peers to Christ.  A teenage dancer did an impromptu dance on the street that radiated the joy of Jesus and literally stopped traffic.  What an anointing!  One of our keyboard players is Daniel, a young man with a lot of talent and a humble heart for God. And I wish you could have heard the teens stand on the street and tell the community why Jesus was important to them.

We are proud of the young people who dedicated themselves to working in the campaign to assist in making it all work toward the glory of God.  They are the young guns who are being trained to lead the next generation of South Africans in business, community, and churches.

Yours for the Master,

Julie

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