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ie Pinkster Protestante Sept. 1972 word die kerk ingewy.
Kerk, Sentraal Gemeente, Dit was 'n dag van groot vreugde
DPotchefstroom vier op en dankbaarheid teenoor God vir
Sondag 2 Sept. die kerk se 40ste al Sy goedheid, voorsiening en
verjaarsdag. Dit is 'n wonderlike troue sorg.
en groot mylpaal en ons wil getuig Op 9 Maart 1974 is Pastoor Hennie
van die groot weldade van God! & mev. Pop du Preez as eerste
Pastoor Freddie Lubbe van voltydse herderspaar bevestig.
Worcester sal ons gasspreker Na 38 jaar is hulle steeds getrou
wees en daar sal mooi sang- en op hul pos as herderspaar.
musiek-items gelewer word. 'n Deur die groot genade van die
Reünie van lidmate wat deur die Here is daar geen skuld op die Dit is alles te danke aan God se
jare hier aanbid het, sal gehou kerk en pastorie nie. Die onmeetlike genade en daarom wil
word asook 'n kransleggings- gemeente kan getuig van groot ons Hom loof vir al Sy wonder-
plegtigheid vir diegene wat reeds seëninge deur die jare. dade!
ontslaap het. Baie mense noem hierdie kerk Pastoor Hennie & Pop du Preez
Hierdie gemeente is op 8 Nov. “Huis van Genade”omdat hon- (018 294 5587).
1969 in die huis van wyle mnr. & derde kosbare mense wat deur
mev. Hennie Boshoff gestig. die gevoellose wêreld neergevel
Daarna is begin om die kerkgebou is, hulp en genade hier ontvang
op te rig in Rivierstraat, en op 2 het.

magine trying to explain the wounds.
good news of Jesus without When Helen returned, he was
Iusing the word 'love'! It is not calling on the spirits to discover
possible, is it? which one had to be appeased.
For several years, Helen and Ray Helen, convinced that the two
Elliot had been living with the Ixil sorts of prayer and the two sorts
people of Nabaj, Guatemala, of medicine would not mix,
learning their language, but they challenged the parents to choose.
had been unable to find an Ixil The healer was furious, but he had
word for love…until tragedy to leave as the parents decided to
struck! try Helen's way.
Fireworks, stored for a carnival, She prayed and patiently tended
were accidentally set off and in the boy's wounds, treating both
the explosion two boys were with equal care, although the local
badly burned. One boy was people expected her to favour the
Indian, and the other a Spanish Spanish boy.
Guatemalan. On the twentieth day Helen
Helen was called, and arrived to arrived to find an old Indian lady
find that the parents had applied watching them. This particular
motor oil and wood ash to the day she treated the Indian boy
burns. She had no medical first. The old woman was deeply
training, but she prayed. Then she touched and said, “See how she
rushed off to town and bought treats him, such shon. ”
penicillin and morphine. She Shon? What was that? As Helen
cleaned the wounds and applied began to realize the meaning of
bandages. the word she wept - 'a love that
Soon after she had left, the local gives without expecting.' Here at
traditional healer arrived. He was last was a way to tell the Ixil
angry that someone had usurped people that God loved them all,
his role, and he tore off the equally, totally and undeservedly!
bandages, breaking open the [Wycliffe News, June 1999].