Dear friends and supporters, dear dear ones,
Another 3 weeks have gone by, a lot happened and here is my next letter hopefully arriving on a day full with His sunshine. I know that I know that I know that I am supposed to be here at such a time as this. My heart has arrived at Cape Town. I approach the 3 month mark soon and I am very content being here. Now, let me bring you up to speed with things here and let me give you specific prayer requests for this season of my life here as the Long Term Missionary:
Life @the church (Coastland Community Church)This week the tiles will be up on the roof of the new building! What a landmark! Just going to the site and standing in the building stirs up praise and worship for all of us here. We continue to meet on Wednesday night to praise all together and those nights take the church to a different level in the spirit. I am glad to mingle more and more amongst the people from church. Just this last Sunday I was invited to a little girl’s 1 year birthday party and what really blessed and honored me was that they asked ME to do the honor of praying for that little girl. I was speechless. God is creating relationships….Pastor Xavier had the privilege to baptize his little 11 year old daughter this past Sunday and it was such a blessing to watch it happen.
Kerstin’s work concerning healing and restoration
I felt a kick off for the healing work as well as God using me those past 3 weeks. I started to facilitate the genesis process in my present small group (the pic here shows sister Connie from my small group) I can feel a lot of resistance in the spiritual realm. We will go into depth in that group in a week from now. I am not sure about the say because people’s schedules are just totally busy busy busy. Likewise, there are a lot of different struggles in these peoples’ lives here. I will lead another 2 ladies through the genesis process starting soon. The group of teen girls is more a challenge to me in these days: My challenge is to bring Jesus to them in the way they can understand it. Here again, all works through relationship, patience and me waiting upon the Lord and coming alongside HIM instead of me running to the front on my own.
How is Kerstin and how are her parents??
I am doing pretty well. Yes, I am lonely in different ways, but I am also thankful to God because I do not struggle as much with it as I had thought I would. I love reading my BIBLE and spending extended time in it. My parents are kind of ok considering the situation that they are in: They’ve had chaos and no kitchen nor bathroom for 7 weeks now due to a plumbing problem in the walls and water running out. I am proud of them as of how they keep up a good attitude. However, it is hard on them: financially and emotionally. Thank God, my mom is on vacation now and off with her friend to a trip to Berlin for a few days. My dad can walk better and better, he can drive the car again but has still problems with his knees and his back. It seems an everlasting thing. Thank you for all your prayers for those two special people in my life! I appreciate it a lot. Please continue to hold them up and pray them into the kingdom of our Lord!
What is there to pray and praise God about?I am so glad to know that this is the right place for me right now right here- I am thankful for that. Please pray for continual protection over me: physically, emotionally and spiritually. Hepatitis A and different flue bugs are fling around and I need God’s cover over my body every day. Please pray for my parents for God’s touch and HIS provision for them. Please pray for my genesis group and the 3 ladies in there, for protection and for God’s touch and HIS work to be fulfilled. Please pray for HIS healing touch on this congregation and in the families and endangered marriages. Please pray for my 3 teen girls and our times together: good relationship and ideas how to show Jesus to them. Please pray for me to listen to God, to receive HIS wisdom and to learn how to spot where HE is working so I can come alongside HIM.
Thank you so much. Thank you for writing to me and letting me know about your lives. I love it. I will say it again: You are here with me and part of me and what God is doing in me and through me. It is an adventure and with Jesus it is a victorious one, isn’t it?
Much love to you all and may this day be filled with the soothing, joyful, tender voice of our Almighty Father, the one who made the Heavens and the Earth.
Seek the Lord and let HIM hold your heart in HIS big hand. He is in control and HE will do what HE has promised! Count your blessings and feel a hug coming from far away God’s abundant peace be with you
In HIS tender grip,
Kerstin
Dear friends and supporters, dear dear ones,
Another 3 weeks have gone by, a lot happened and here is my next letter hopefully arriving on a day full with His sunshine. I know that I know that I know that I am supposed to be here at such a time as this. My heart has arrived at Cape Town. I approach the 3 month mark soon and I am very content being here. Now, let me bring you up to speed with things here and let me give you specific prayer requests for this season of my life here as the Long Term Missionary:
Life @the church (Coastland Community Church)This week the tiles will be up on the roof of the new building! What a landmark! Just going to the site and standing in the building stirs up praise and worship for all of us here. We continue to meet on Wednesday night to praise all together and those nights take the church to a different level in the spirit. I am glad to mingle more and more amongst the people from church. Just this last Sunday I was invited to a little girl’s 1 year birthday party and what really blessed and honored me was that they asked ME to do the honor of praying for that little girl. I was speechless. God is creating relationships….Pastor Xavier had the privilege to baptize his little 11 year old daughter this past Sunday and it was such a blessing to watch it happen.
Kerstin’s work concerning healing and restoration
I felt a kick off for the healing work as well as God using me those past 3 weeks. I started to facilitate the genesis process in my present small group (the pic here shows sister Connie from my small group) I can feel a lot of resistance in the spiritual realm. We will go into depth in that group in a week from now. I am not sure about the say because people’s schedules are just totally busy busy busy. Likewise, there are a lot of different struggles in these peoples’ lives here. I will lead another 2 ladies through the genesis process starting soon. The group of teen girls is more a challenge to me in these days: My challenge is to bring Jesus to them in the way they can understand it. Here again, all works through relationship, patience and me waiting upon the Lord and coming alongside HIM instead of me running to the front on my own.
How is Kerstin and how are her parents??
I am doing pretty well. Yes, I am lonely in different ways, but I am also thankful to God because I do not struggle as much with it as I had thought I would. I love reading my BIBLE and spending extended time in it. My parents are kind of ok considering the situation that they are in: They’ve had chaos and no kitchen nor bathroom for 7 weeks now due to a plumbing problem in the walls and water running out. I am proud of them as of how they keep up a good attitude. However, it is hard on them: financially and emotionally. Thank God, my mom is on vacation now and off with her friend to a trip to Berlin for a few days. My dad can walk better and better, he can drive the car again but has still problems with his knees and his back. It seems an everlasting thing. Thank you for all your prayers for those two special people in my life! I appreciate it a lot. Please continue to hold them up and pray them into the kingdom of our Lord!
What is there to pray and praise God about?
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