Old Naledi News 16

November 27, 2007

“And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.” ~Isaiah 9:6

Prayer Requests

*Mma Moruti Schaffer of Open Baptist Church suffered a severe heart attack this week. Please pray for her health and strength for Pastor Norman and the congregation. She has been released from the hospital and is resting at home.

*Moruti’s sister is terminally ill from low blood sugar. Please pray for their family as well.

*Please pray for the transition for the Standard Sevens who have just graduated from Sunday school. They attended their first full church service on Sunday.

*Please pray for the senior youth group who will perform several songs at OBC on Sunday in preparation for a special offering to benefit the December Camp in Pogudugudu.

*Pray for Mma Moruti and Bushie, who will begin teaching Sunday school next week.

*Thank you for praying for Rizo’s mother and Becky Hartnett. Both are back to normal and recovering.

Praise the Lord!

*Becky Coonrod, a friend of NBC at Faith church in America has been working hard to organize a youth group fundraiser for our December Camp. Thanks to many prayers, they were able raise enough to send 10 of our youth to Pugudugudu to minister among the Basarwa. OBC will also be taking a special offering this Sunday for the trip. We are truly overwhelmed by the blessings that God showers on us through His body!

This Week in the Fellowship…

The Junior Youth are leading our church into the advent season with scriptures, song, and candle lighting during the worship services. This Sunday, they presented the prophesy of Jesus’ birth in Isaiah 9 and prayed through the four names of Christ mentioned in the passage. This was a great way for us to meditate on who Jesus is and thank Him for who He is.

Moruti has been teaching about freedom and responsibility in Christ this week. We will begin to incorporate the sermons in Junior Youth quiz time and Sunday school to help transition the Sunday school children into the full service.

We welcomed Moagi back from Johannesburg this week. He and Lame are back and helping with all of the regular church programs including AWANA and Tlamelo teaching.

Naledi News 14

Naledi News

November 20, 2007

“The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.” ~Galatians 5:22

Prayer Requests

*Please pray for Rizo’s mother as she went into the hospital this week with asthma complications.

*Pray also for the Senior Youth Camp in Dipudugudu, which will begin on December 7^th. Much planning and fundraising still needs to occur.

*Please pray for Becky’s health. She has been in the hospital this week with an infection, but God granted energy and stamina to continue with the Junior Youth Family Day!

Men’s Fellowship

The Men’s Fellowship began meeting several Sundays ago for prayer and bible study. They ask for you to join them in prayer that it would begin to obtain established and faithful members. They are also praying about starting a new ministry for the prisoners in Gaborone jail.

“He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” ~Micah 6:8

Family Fun Day!!!

God worked a miracle through the junior youth this week. Prayer warriors around the world have been bringing this event before the Lord and submitting it to His will, and He was faithful in bringing it to completion despite continuous attacks that could have prevented it. Beginning with their fruit of the spirit theme, the junior youth presented a program to a full tent of their guardians and friends complete with skits and illustrations of the gospel, memory verse recitation, songs, and traditional dancing. We even inspired Moruti and Mma Moruti to get up and dance! We invited Mothusi to share a brief message, followed by an awards ceremony recognizing those that completed the “Memory Verse Club”, and Lillian for her hard work and leadership. Nnaka, Mma Rebekah, Mma Moruti, Mma Grace, Kerotse, and Phemelo provided a wonderful meal for all those in attendance, which was followed by parachute games, water balloons, dancing, and a slide show. Praise God for an opportunity to establish relationships with many families. Just like David the shepherd, or Mary the young teenage mother, God again chose the least likely, the junior youth of Old Naledi, to accomplish His great plan of reaching the whole area with the gospel!

Here are a few pictures...

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Naledi Baptist News

November 2, 2007

“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” ~Proverbs 3:3

This is our prayer for the young people of Old Naledi. God has given us the privilege of being bystanders, small errand helpers in His magnificent work of grace around the world. We have seen Him instill love and faithfulness in the heart of a child who proclaimed, “That’s God!” this week at a break in the thunderstorm clouds, and in the hearts of the junior youth who prepare faithfully to learn God’s word and share it with their neighbors at family day on the 17^th. We have also seen His love demonstrated in the youth, who studied the word by the headlights of a corolla last night, praising our God of second chances, who would remain faithful even to someone as unfaithful and cowardly as Peter who denied Him three times. Please pray with us that the young people who are getting to know this God would take these attributes of love and faithfulness and grow to follow Him with their whole hearts.

*Please pray for Moruti who lost a goat in Mogoditshane and has been searching yesterday.

*Pray for Champ’s sister. Her condition is worsening.

*Please pray for Phemelo, who is healing from a stab wound on her right thigh. She is also taking exams right now and this is a difficult time.

* Mma Rebekah asks for our prayers as her sister passed away recently.

*Rizo has also experienced the death of a family member and is in our prayers.

*Praise God for Kerotse and Agnes who finished their term as Sunday school teachers. Bushe and Dikabelo will begin this Sunday

*Praise God for Mma Rebeka and Nnaka who worded hard yesterday cleaning the PC after rotten meat left a bad smell.

This Week in the Fellowship…

The men’s fellowship began meeting on Sunday in a newly erected church tent on the Southwest side of the plot. Please pray that this new ministry will gain momentum and faithful members. The members are also praying about the possibility of starting a prison ministry. Many people have been asking about the future plans for building on the plot. Right now, we are hoping and praying that God’s provision of funding will allow construction to begin in December. Currently, mine work in northern Botswana is preventing the trucks from moving Moruti’s office building. The other PC will need to be moved by South African trucks. If these become available, they might be moved as early as the end of November.

The youth are finishing their study of Jesus’ last words. This week was a study of Jesus’ trial before Pilate and the Chief Priest in John 18. They will be concluding in 2 weeks.

Congratulations to Rebecca, Vivian, Kefilwe, and Kerapetse! They are the first Junior Youth to join the “Memory Verse Club”, with 6 verses about the fruits of the spirit. We would like to extend an invitation to any of our partners who are here in Gaborone to attend the Junior Youth Family Fun Day on November 17^th!