Moving venues takes Faith

Faith is such a strange idea - it literally means believing in something you can't always see but you know in the supernatural, spiritual world - it exists. It cannot be worked out with mathematical calculations but for those who discover it's power, it is a portal to a new experience, and once you have tasted its fruit - nothing else will satisfy.

We have started to move our church to a new venue as the old one has been taken back by the Department of Education.

We began with zero finance to do this, a deposit to cover the new venue and our retiring pastors accounts to furnish for one more month. The new venue costs R6000 compared to the old one of R1100 per month and I just trusted God. "Father if this is your open door - give us wisdom".



Teens, young adults and adults all gave up hours and hours of free time to clean up what used to be a very dirty and badly kept factory on the first floor of an old building - our new venue.







God honoured our faith and some of the finances suddenly started to come in from donors - as we need close to R20 000 just to make the vision we have for people in Pretoria West a reality every little bit helps.
Maybe one day someone will say -'I have money to spare, here is an extra R10 000 monthly' ($1000) - then we will realise our soup kitchen, Adult education reading and writing centre for the illiterate and homework centre with a library for those kids and teens who are less fortunate who come to our church. There is a public library but it will take them about 1 hour to walk there and most cannot afford public transport, plus its not safe for smaller kids as there are unscrupulous people out there who abduct small children to kill for muti. (suppose to be magical medicine to cure impotency, AIDs, wife problems, unemployment etc - here in Africa people believe and trust in any demonic source of power except the one God who loves them and is the answer to all their needs).


You may ask what has literacy training and feeding people got to do with religion. Well nothing but when it comes to Christianity that is a different matter all together. You can't tell someone Jesus loves them and then not help them with their basic needs they need to survive physically and grow spiritually.

So now I just trust the spirit of the Lord to work in the hearts of people to release the fiances or physical goods like chairs, taps, water pipes etc we need - and that is called faith. Its not just sitting around hoping - its asking, looking for the best, cheapest suppliers with Gods guidance and its trusting His children to respond as well.
As our Teddy Bear class sings, 'Faith is just believing what God says He will do, He will never fail us, His promises are true.' PTL