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Charl
van Wyk
(July 2003)
Dear Friends
Greetings
in the precious Name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus
Christ.
BIBLICAL
WORLDVIEW SEMINARS
We
have been involved with running quite a few Biblical
Worldview Seminars over the past few weeks. At the
request of Pastor Elton Young, I ran an Introduction
to the Biblical Worldview in the Dunoon Black Township
one Saturday morning. Brothers and sisters in Christ,
only three weeks old in their faith, struggled through
understanding the application of the Lordship of Christ
in some areas – they encouraged me to come back
as soon as possible to teach them more.
Just
before I left on my US speaking tour, I spoke in another
Township about 800km’s away from home –
about 40 people attended and the next morning in church
I received a massive hug from a Mama who thanked me
for coming and said that the teaching was already
bearing fruit.
At
the request of the ACDP, a Christian political party,
my colleagues ran another BWS whilst I was in the
USA. One friend, Afrika, e-mailed me to say: “The
opportunity to come to Cape Town was more than worthy
it. Thanks a lot.”
SUMMIT
In
the US I was encouraged by the excellent work that
is being done to influence the next generation of
leaders by Summit Ministries. One week with this excellent
ministry was not enough. Summit prepares young people
in Biblical Worldview thinking to prepare them for
school, college or university. Dr. David Noebel has
been doing a fantastic job running the ministry for
40 years. We, in Cape Town, run a similar Summit,
based on the US organisation, to prepare our youth
for life. I had the opportunity to speak at the US
conference and was really blessed by interaction with
the students.
THE
SHOOTISTS
My
friend Jim introduced me to The Shootists, a group
of professional people from all walks of life who
have similar interests in firearms. They are made
up of people who are lawyers, clergy, teachers, businessmen,
farmers, ranchers, law enforcement personnel, judges,
writers, artists, computer programmers, and those
in the firearms industry to name but a few. They look
for people of integrity, with character and conviction,
whose word can be trusted. Those who would "stand
in the gap" or who could be described as someone
you could "ride the river with".
I
joined them on a tour of a privately owned military
museum in Colorado and a new friend, Tedd, kindly
introduced me to my first US gun show. Well, shooting
with these guys, riding a motocross bike and a 4 wheeler
were more than one could ask for.
Back
home, I have, on behalf of our Firearm News ministry
to firearm owners, sent in a report to government
on the proposed regulations governing the draconian
Firearms Control Act. Another submission I completed
was to the City authorities with respect to Sexually
Orientated Businesses. We were also blessed by the
early closing of a disgraceful art display after our
challenge to the models of bestiality, rape, orgies,
etc. which was masquerading as art.
At
present we are running our Great Commission Course,
which started with a 4-day camp. At this course we
train attendees in cross-cultural missions and prepare
them for the grueling task of taking the Great Commission
into the war torn areas of Africa. Our attendees came
from Canada, the US, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria and
RSA.
We
have been doing outreaches in various communities
around Cape Town including Khayelitsha with the youth
I often work with. This church has had 5 firearm rounds
shot into their building lately and a nursery school
teacher, who works at the churches crèche,
shot on her way to work: she lived – praise the
Lord.
FAMILY
Sonja
and the children are doing very well. Jason (2) is
totally convinced that he is a soldier and marches
around with his plastic sword and often shoots the
baddies with his plastic firearms. John-Marc (9mths)
has started crawling and Roberta (6) is enjoying her
fun filled school holidays.
Thank
you for your support of the work we do, evangelizing,
discipling and standing for righteousness and truth
in Africa. Please pray for us as we run the Great
Commission Course and train up new missionaries to
disciple the nations, teaching obedience to God’s
Word.
Psalm
47:7a “For God is the King of all the earth;..”
Yours,
for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
Charl van Wyk
PO Box 36129
Glosderry
7702
Tel: 021-6894481
www.christianaction.org.za
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