There has been so much happening in the last month or so. We are so thankful to all of you for faithfully praying as we were looking for a new venue to meet in permanently. The Lord has truly blessed us with a great little church building, It's right off of the Main road here in Paarl. I have attached some pictures so you can see for yourself. This building is actually the 4th oldest church building in all of South Africa and it was originally built as a "slave church" during the apartheid years. Isn't it awesome how the Lord can take a place that was used primarily for separation and segregation and use it to unite and to build up the body of Christ "Jesus having broken down the wall of separation that existed" (Eph.2:14).
We had a great Resurrection day service. We hope you too were able to really just focus on Him and give Him thanks for all He's done. Besides church, We are busy during the week with the bible studies we do each week with the "Dream Team" and also with farm ministry. I had the privilege of speaking at a local Baptist church here in the community last Tuesday...It was a real blessing and the Lord really touched some people that night.
Please keep our community in prayer; there is just so many people here that need Jesus and we want to be faithfully leading people to Him. There is so much ministry here and so many people to be reached...yet, so few workers. Pray the Lord of the harvest that He might send some laborers into the field.
We have a very busy winter coming up...first a team from our home church (Calvary Chapel Tustin) is stopping by for a few days on their way to Malawi for a pastor's conference and to do a few outreaches (please keep those in prayer). Then...my dad is coming out in May for a couple of weeks..it will be his first time here and we're very excited about that. Then...in June my mom is coming out for a whole month...we can't wait.
Thank you for you prayers and for your financial support...We are truly seeing God touch and change lives through the ministry that He has entrusted to us. May the Lord bless you all. Misty, Michael and I miss so many of you. Please e-mail us when you get a chance. Until next time.
Blessings,
The Portland's
3 comments:
How truly awesome God is! He is the deffenition of 'awesome'! I am so glad that the Lord has blessed you with a church building... thats such an amazing blessing. You guys sound like your going to be super busy, I will pray for you! With love, Krista
WOW! What else can you say? Isn't is wonderful how God blows your mind like that! Love the church building!! Please post more pictures.... Praying for you all!
Miss you guys,
The Esquivel Tribe
Awesome place to worship in, so neat to see all that is going on there, due to faithfullness...
Love seeing these photos of what your up to. Thinking of you Misty,
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