Orientation

Gauteng Challenge is off and running! We opened with four days of orientation, with various speakers teaching on ministry related topics such as evangelism, children’s ministry, preaching, discipleship, religions of the Gauteng region and AIDS awareness to name a few. 236 people from 22 different nations are participating in this year’s challenge and we have already seen God work in amazing ways.

On Wednesday, Surine (one of our participants) was rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain. Her appendix was infected and inflamed and she was scheduled for surgery the next morning, provided the swelling went down enough to operate. All of the Gauteng Challenge participants joined together in prayer on her behalf. She spent the night in the hospital, but the next morning all of the pain, inflammation and infection was gone! The doctors had no explanation for what happened, but we know that God miraculously healed her. While she was in the hospital, Surine was able to minister to and pray for the other patients around her. Since she was healed, she has been able to rejoin her outreach team and is now out ministering in the community. We praise God for His healing mercy and the tremendous encouragement this was to the teams just before they went out to minister on Thursday.

All 19 outreach teams are now working with their churches and ministries throughout the Gauteng region. We will continue to bring you stories of what God is doing in and through their lives over the course of this outreach. Please keep them in your prayers over the next week. We want to see many lives impacted for the kingdom of God!