Naledi News #1 (the blog lives...)

The church in Old Naledi is going to start sending us some updates every weekish so that we can join with them in prayer. Here's the first one.

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Naledi News

“fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind”.
Philippians 2:22
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July 12, 2007

Prayer Requests

* Praise the Lord for 93 new potential members of the Gakuto Baptist Church. This past Sunday, Pastor Mothusi welcomed students from the primary school where students heard the word of God from partners at the Keystone Church in Philadelphia.

*This week, the principle from Wycliff Bible College in Johannesburg, where Lame is a student, will be preaching and encouraging members that God leads to enroll in seminary classes. Praise the Lord for answering our prayer of providing biblical training for church leaders!

*Pray for the ministries of the church this week: AWANA on Wednesday, Basha on Thursday, and that God’s power would fuel the Sunday School class during the church service.

*Pray for those in the congregation who will be writing exams soon. Mma Grace will rewrite exams in August and Mma Rebekah’s children will be writing Form 3 and Form 5 Exams. MG gives thanks for passing all of his exams at university.

*Pray also for the interim pastor at the church in Mogoditsane. Please pray that God would raise up more leaders to further His kingdom!

Thank you all for your prayers and support of the Old Naledi Baptist Fellowship. We would like to remain in close communication with our friends, working alongside this church in the work of the gospel for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray that this newsletter might encourage you as you hear about the wonderful works of God among His people in Old Naledi and the world.

This Month in the Fellowship…

“Come and see what God has done, how awesome his works in man’s behalf” (Psalm 66:5)

Moruti James Mpopang shared this verse at the prayer meeting on Tuesday night, a call to praise God for the wonderful things that He has been doing in the lives of those that have shared testimonies in the fellowship. We have been blessed by the presence of members of the Keystone Fellowship at Gakuto Baptist Church on Sunday through Wednesday, where they encouraged us through workshops, preaching, and gifts of bibles and resources for Moruti Mothusi.

Sunday services at the Naledi Churh have been focused on God’s call to love one another. The bible study is discussing the meaning of Christian Fellowship and how the early church in the book of Acts experienced fellowship through the breaking of bread and prayer.

The women’s ministry studied Psalm 119. They have been praying and meditating on the word of God together every Thursday afternoon.

The youth are being challenged to memorize Philippians 2 and have set finishing the chapter as a goal for the end of July. We are putting faith in the Lord that He will bless our efforts by writing His word on our hearts, so that we can constantly bring to mind Christ’s example of humility and our call to praise Him along with the rest of His creation. This week, Moagi shared a message about prosperity, based on Malachi Chapter 3. We are very thankful to have the encouragement of those that have been studying the word of God and are back on holiday to share what they have been learning with us.

As a congregation, we have been praying for several of our members, Mpho, Malebogo, Linki, Agnes, and Rapula, who have been sent as missionaries throughout Botswana teaching AIDS education and God’s call to abstinence in the schools through “Face the Nation”. We are praying for God’s power to move mightily in Botswana through this ministry and several conferences, which we look forward to in August.

Gakuto Remarks from Moruti Mothusi…

This past weekend we had our second Sunday school. We had about 15 kids. It was a great time to have some kids who remembered the past memory verse, but had never learned verses before. It was a blessing to have a preacher from South Africa. Many were really touched. God is doing great in Gakuto. The church did not have a lot of youth, but God is still faithful to us.

~Mothusi

“Praise be to God who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me.” ~Psalm 66:20