This is our last update for this year and we just want to take the opportunity to thank you for all your prayers and encouragements towards us!
Arrival in South Africa, Muizenberg.
We have been in Muizenberg now for around 5 weeks and had a very good first month.
It was awesome to be able to see a lot of people where we did our school of intercession and prayer with and this made our first few weeks so much easier! The first week was basically reconnecting with people, sharing our life’s and stories and settling in the house where we were going to stay for this time. We had kind of a introduction towards the prayer and worship department of the YWAM base and saw Bethesda house and got to now more about this ministry where we would be involved with. Bethesda house is a house that we rent in the middle of the community in Muizenberg where we are working towards a daily opening hours schedule in February 2011 so we can reach people and bring the hungry and the seeking into a encounter with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Until now Bethesda house have only been working via appointments with people that are asking for follow up after a Light and Life event (more of this later) or when they want to have a prophetic check up or need just a deeper level of prayer. We have been involved with prophetic check ups which basically means that a team of three people will pray and prophecy over a person for about 45 min. It has been wonderful to see how the Holy Spirit has been speaking and touching peoples life’s through these 45 minutes. There is so much power in the spoken word and in encouragements and love! We would meet every morning at 9 am for a time of worship together which has been so overwhelming lovely and great to spend this time in His beautiful presence. After this time we would have people come for their appointments and prophetic check ups. In the afternoon was always a time for practical preparation for the due date of February 2011 when Bethesda will open her doors every day on a daily schedule. Kevin has been spending this time helping out practically with fixing the windows on the outside of Bethesda and Mariëlla has been involved into researching and looking after follow up for new believers.
Light & Life event.
The community where Bethesda house is located is very much spiritually open and active practicing a variety of demonic stuff. They organize spiritual festivals on the streets once in a while and there are different spiritual markets and thins in the surrounding. Bethesda house is trying to reach out for these spiritual seekers by stepping into this markets and festivals with a so called Light and Life event where we want to bring people into the presence of God and let them meet with the Truth and the Life which is Jesus Christ Himself. We do this by offering prophecy, prophetic art and healing for soul spirit and body. On Sunday the 12th of December 2010 we launched another Light and Life event as there was a street festival held in our street.
In 8 hours of the fair we probably ministered to around 80 people. The majority of the people that came have been hurt by religion and went very deep into the occult for solutions. Many were not yet ready to make a commitment but were in tears as the Lord spoke truth to their hearts. We saw some people come to the Lord and many were delivered from heaviness as the peace of God touched their hearts. A significant number of people came back that had come to our previous event with increased openness to us. We saw a great difference in the spiritual atmosphere of this event due to all the prayers as we were blessed with amazing people from the local church in Muizenberg and many young people from YWAM, who served and partnered with us through prayer walking, intercession, hospitality and selling refreshments.
It was a great day and so many people asked for follow up in form of a prophetic check up or just a weekly meeting and this is where we are working towards!
Right now...
Right now we are in a holiday season in South Africa and in the ministry as we have celebrated Christmas and going towards the new year! On the 2nd of January we are getting a good friend of us, Jason from the States, to join us here in Muizenberg to minister to the people. Many of you probably now that Alex, Kevins younger brother is going to get married in the States in February. We have booked out tickets from here so fly via Holland to the States in the end of January as we will spend the whole February there. We want to use this opportunity to minister in different churches, meet and reconnect with our friends, sort out our visa stuff and of course celebrate the marriage of Alex and Lindsay. After this time we will be back here in Muizenburg in March to stay here for another three months.
We want to wish all of you a very wonderful and joyful 2011!!
Love and blessings,
Kevin and Mariëlla.
