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SOUTH ASIA: farmland, cows and chickens to But we decided that if that was "One village at a time, we can
EVANGELIST PURCHASES feed the victims. what Jesus was telling her to do, it change our country," Caleb says.
MODERN-DAY SLAVES Source: Felicia Mann via Joel didn't matter what other people "One person at a time, we can
Imagine children as young as News International 743 thought. And we decided we had to change our schools. One family at
4 and 5 years old being forced to trust Him to protect her. So she a time we can change our commu-
work 14 to 16-hour days making USA: SENT TO THE WOLVES started working there that Autumn. nity. And I think that is the oppor-
bricks, cigarettes, rope and tex- In Luke 10:3 Jesus tells his When Christmas came, she tunity that we have in front of us.
tiles, then being forced to beg disciples: "Now go, and remember decided that she wanted to reach That is the drive for us to stay here
strangers for food to eat. that I am sending you out as lambs out to her new friends and so and continue the Lord's work
This is the picture of slavery in among wolves." invited them to our home for what here."
many Asian and Middle Eastern "Why did Jesus tell us to GO she called, 'A Baby Jesus BBQ'. Source: Efrem Graham via Joel
countries. "It's a pretty harsh and instead of inviting people to come Around 40 bartenders and boun- News International 743
brutal environment," says evan- to our church meetings?" asks cers came. Tattoos, piercings, they
gelist Bruce Ladebu, founder of simple church planter Felicity were an interesting (and delightful) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
the Children's Rescue Initiative Dale. "If we go, we are the ones bunch. We started a group with 70 000 PEOPLE PLACE
(CRI), which has been purchasing who are crossing the cultural several of them, and over the THEIR FAITH IN JESUS
the freedom of these victims. "The barrier and get uncomfortable. course of the next few weeks, After months of preparation,
children never have any time off. Jesus was known as a friend of several gave their hearts to the Christians across the Dominican
They work from sun up to sun sinners. He was willing to mix with Lord." Republic and Puerto Rico opened
down." people that the upright religious Source: Felicity Dale via Joel News their homes for evangelistic "My
Many have been enslaved because people of His day refused to have International 743 Hope TV" meetings and witnessed
of debts accrued by their parents. anything to do with. He was nearly 70 000 people make
Armed with guns and money, comfortable with tax collectors HAITI: SAVING A NATION commitments to Jesus Christ. The
Ladebu and the CRI team go into and prostitutes. Jesus tells us that ONE VILLAGE AT A TIME programmes culminated in a com-
these slave areas to purchase our going is like sending lambs to Six months have passed since a bined total of more than 59 000
children and sometimes entire the wolves. Lambs have no natural 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed home events in March and April,
families for anywhere between defense but their shepherd. When thousands of people in Haiti. Yet, which included a TV programme
$200 and $1 000 per child or family. we go to dangerous places, Jesus despite everything that was lost, featuring a sermon from Billy or
"We freed a family of seven Himself is our protection." the country's people have not lost Franklin Graham and a personal
recently," Ladebu says. "The debt "When our daughter finished hope. Two Haitian brothers have testimony from the host.
originally was $500 and three school, she spent a couple of even dedicated their lives to In the Dominican Republic, 55 391
generations of people had to work years with Youth with a Mission ," passing on that hope to the next people made commitments to
to pay it off." CRI bought the entire says Felicity. "At the end of that generation. Christ, with 13 797 doing so in
family from the slave owners for time, she asked us if we would be Jephthe and Caleb Lucien pastor Puerto Rico. Altogether more than
$1 000. After the team rescues willing to let her work downtown in churches in Pignon and help 5 500 churches from across the
these children and families, they our club and bar district. Exactly victims of the earthquake find evangelical spectrum were invol-
provide them with shelter, food opposite to what any parent would loved ones and food. They have ved in the projects. This year
and an education. The Organi- want - their daughter becoming a adopted abandoned children, similar projects will take place in
zation has funded three orphana- cocktail waitress in the most helped churches multiply, and Malawi and four sensitive coun-
ges and seven Christian Schools. notorious section of town! What opened schools. They embody tries in Asia.
They are raising money to buy would our Christian friends think? hope for a destroyed nation. Source: Graham Clark via JNI 740

A O BATLA GO NNA MOTHO YO MOŠWA?

(WIL JY 'N NUWE MENS WEES?)

DITEMANA bolelela gore Jesu o a go rata. Ene o dipheko le thuso ya batho ba makoa a gago otlhe. A wena o
2 Bakorinthe 5:16-19 batla gore o nne le mothusi ka mo bangwe. Goreng o ka rata go santse o ka rata go tswelela ka
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Jalo he, go tlogeng fano ga re lefatsheng. Ka nako ya tlhatloso ya itshepa le go leka bophelo o le bophelo jwa gago o le nosi? A ga se
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tlhole re itse ope ka fa nameng; ga Jesu go ya kwa Legodimong o re nosi. Pesalome 23:4 ya re: Le fa ke nako gore o amogele Jesu
mme fa re kile ra itse Keresete ka fa boleletse gore o ya go re baakan- tsamaya mo mogorogorong wa Keresete, Mopholosi ka mo pelong
nameng, jaanong ga re tlhole re mo yetsa mme ga a re tlogele re le nosi. moriti wa loso, ga nkitla ke boifa ya gago? Rapela thapelo e e late-
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itse jalo. Ka moo he, fa motho a le O re neetse Mowa o o Boitshepo go bosula bope; gonne o na le nna. lang mme o simolole go phela jaaka
mo go Keresete, o a bo a le sala le rona. Fa o amogela Jesu ka Simolola o phela bophelo ka kitso ngwana wa Kgosi ya Dikgosi!
sebopiwa se sešwa; dilo tsa mo pelong ya gago Ene o go dira ya gore Morena ke Modisa wa gago.
bogologolo di fetile, bonang, di sebopiwa se sešwa. A wena o A gongwe ga o ise o mo amogele ka THAPELO
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ntšhwafetse tsotlhe! Mme tsotlhe akanya gore dibe tse o di dirileng di mo pelong ya gago? O ka dira jang Jesu Keresete, ke lebogela mpho e
tse, di tswa mo Modimong o o kgolo thata gore Modimo a se batle go nna ngwana wa Modimo? kgolo ya bophelo bo bo sa khutleng
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ithuantseng le rona ka Jesu go go itshwarela? Modimo o ne o Johane 24:5 ya re: “Ammaaruri, mme ke bo amogela jaanong jaana
Keresete, wa ba wa re neela tirelo itse gore wena o ka se kgone ammaaruri ke lo raya ke re: Yo o ka diatla tse pedi. Ke go bulela pelo
ya thuanyo; 19 gonne Modimo o bophelo kwa ntle ga mothusi. O go utlwang lefoko la me, a dumela ene ya me go nna Mmoloki wa me. Ke
ithuantse le lefatshe ka Keresete ka rometse Jesu gore a swele dibe tsa yo o nthomileng, o na le bophelo jo leboga fa o sule ka ntlha ya me mme
go sa ba balele maleo a bone, wa gago mo sefapaanong. Johane 3:16 bo sa khutleng, mme ga a tsene mo wa duela tlhwatlhwa ya dibe tsa me.
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tlhoma lefoko la thuanyo mo go ya re: Gonne Modimo o ratile katlholong; o dule mo losong, a Tsotlhe tse ke di dirang go simolola
rona. lefatshe mo go kalo, mo o bileng wa tshelela botshelong. Goreng o ka gompieno ga se go direla pholoso
DIKAKANYO le neela Morwaa-ona yo o rata go phelela mo losong le mo ya me mme ke go go lebogela se o
A wena o lapile? A bophelo bo a go tsetsweng a le esi, gore mongwe le lefifing? Se o tlhokang go se dira se ntiretseng go ntira le sebopiwa
imela? A o ikutlwa e kete mathata a mongwe yo o dumelang mo go ene fela ke go dira se Baroma 10:9 e se se sešwa. Ka Leina la Jesu
gago a kgolo go feta se o ka se a se ka a latlhega, mme a nne le kopang. Temana e ya re: Keresete, Amen.
kgonang? A moratiwa o go tlha- bophelo jo bo sa khutleng. 9 Gonne fa o ipolela ka molomo o re, Sesupo:(Saene leina la gago)
dile? Fa o ka re go ntse jalo ka mo Ke jang fa batho ba akanya gore ba Jesu ke Morena, o dumela ka pelo ___________________________
bophelong jwa gago ke nako ya ka kgona bophelo kwa ntle ga thuso gore Modimo o mo tsositse mo Fa o na le sele e ntšhwa o ka
gore o Gopole Mmopi wa gago. ya Morena. Ke Ene a re dirileng, ke baswing, o tla pholosiwa. itsenyetsa Beibele mahala mo
Wena ga o selo fela! Wena o Ene a itse gore re tlhoka eng le eng. Ga o batle go pholosiwa? Fa o na le seleng. Ya kwa m.bibles.co.za. mo
sebopiwa sa Modimo. Wena o Bona fela dinonyane tsa lefatshe le mathata mo bophelong mme o na le inthanete ka sele. Reetsa Radio
bopilwe ke Modimo mme e rile a go tlholego gore Modimo o di tlhoko- tlhokego ya lorato o na le tshono ya Pulpit kwa 657 AM, seteišene sa
bopa o ne a akantse gore o nne mela jang. Wena o kgolo yang mo go ka pholosiwa. Fa o dirile dibe Bakeresete. (Fa o ka rata buka ya:
mofenyi. Rara ke kgosi ya lefatshe. dinonyaneng ka Modimo a go dirile mme o tshwenngwa ke Satane o ka Gopola Mmopi wa Gago mme o
Fa wena o mo amogetse mme o ka setshwantsho sa Gagwe. Batho pholosiwa. Fa mowa wa gago o le nkwalela lekwalo ka tlhaloso ya
ipoleletse go Ene gore o dumela mo ba gaketse relela mo mareleding a boima mme o tshwenyegile, o ka goreng o e tlhoka, ke ka go e romela
go Ene, o go dira sebopiwa se bophelo mme ba gatelelwa ke pholosiwa. Jesu o swetse dibe tsa mahala. Se lebale go kwala aterese
sešwa, dilo tsa bogologolo di fetile, Satane. Ba tsamaya ba le nosi ka gago le malwetsi a gago la mo le nomoro ya mogala ya gago.
bonang, di ntšhwafetse tsotlhe! Fa mo megorogorong ya meriti ya loso sefapaanong. O ka bala se ka mo Romela lekwalo kwa go: Johan
e le gore o ntse o na le mathata fela mme ga ba tshepe Mmopi wa bone. Dipesalome 103:3, ya re: O itshwa- Zerwick, NWU, Private Bag X6001,
mo bophelong ke ka rata go go Ba tshepa dingaka tsa setso, rela maleo a gago otlhe, o fodisa Potchefstroom 2531). 083 458 3837.