Feel it, they need to hear!

We started our new sermon series on Sunday entitled "Ke Nako (it is time) - feel it, they need to hear." We're using the hype and energy from the Soccer World Cup to inspire people with the same enthusiasm and vision in discipling Africa.

Once again doing the media for the sermon series was a Link media group effort! Beryl Kruger illustrated and animated our 'ke nako mannetjie' and Elmien Fourie created our Ke Nako intro clip (Unfort the file is a too big to load onto the blog). Podcasts from the sermon series on our website www.enpta.co.za. will be available as the series continues, so have a look out.

Once again I feel so blessed to be apart of what God is doing in our city and what we believe will flow into Africa. May this sermon series not be merely good ideas, inspiring media, emotive dreaming and heart felt messages... but may the convictions and Truth that rings true flow into action. And may we go and disciple Africa as a team of believers, teachers, engineers, artists, doctors, businessmen, architects etc. To His Glory.

Feel it, people need to hear. Will you go?

God of our City

Our next sermon series topic for the next month at Every Nation Pretoria is 'God of this City'.
We're going to address how God calls us to be apart of the city. Bringing God's Kingdom into Pretoria, through serving, giving, taking part and going.

Here's some of the imagery we're going to use, designed by our Link Team. (they're all volunteers from the church) Jaco Dreyer took the most amazing shots of the city at sunset and night which we've used as our base. Ben Kunz designed the illustrated logo. Annalien Venter designed the roadsigns which are going up outside the church as advertisements. I had the lucky privilege of bringing it all together. Here's the result...

I'm so grateful for our Link media team, they're all volunteers but give so much of their time and input! Plus we get to pour our talents and creative gifting's into God's Kingdom.
That is a privilege!!!

Every Nation World Conference Cout Down!

Once every three years our Every Nation international family of churches gather for the World Conference. This year 2010, marks the largest conference yet, and it's going to be hosted in Manila, Philipines. They are expecting more than 18 000 people at the conference, from all over the world!

I'll be leaving in 4 days with 35 of our Pretoria Every Nation members and will be staying for just over 2 and half weeks. The conference is always an amazing experience; feedback from across the world in what God is doing in the church body, dances, media and worship expressing cultures from around the world! I have a passion for multi-culturalism, so the thought of being in one space with such a large presentation of the world blows my mind!

Have a look at these media clips to get a better idea of what the conference is about:

Another really good clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrrgSFLxsPQ&feature=related

What I'm most excited for is the 5 day internship I'll be doing with the Manila Media team after the conference. I'll be helping in post-production as well as getting a better idea of how they run things there. They provide media and serve hundreds of churches in the Philippines, as well as cater internationally for book and ministry resources. My objective for the week is to see logistically and structurally what a media team serving so many entities looks like? As well as meet and build relationships with the tam, as we liaise frequently over email but have never had enough time to really share vision and idea's. As the Every Nation Pretoria Link media team, we dream of growing to a point where we can provide for and serve churches in Africa with media resources. As well as using media specifically in community transformation and mission research. So the objective is to combine what we see in Manila with our vision for Africa and see what new ideas and visions develop? I'm particularily excited about learning from the Manila church since they're also a 3rd world country like ours, and thus we share similar logistical struggles and challenges. Miemie and Elmien, both volunteers for Link will be doing the internship with me.

Then after the week internship, it's time for 5 days of backpacking! No clear plans yet, besides that I want to find my way to the coast and Philippino islands as soon as possible, and take it from there.

I'll make a point of doing some blogging as I go:)

Miemie's 27th

Celebrating 27 years of the Miemster.
Her surprise party invite:)