Dear friends and family,
Our first update since we arrived safely in South Africa, the country where we have committed ourselves to for the coming 2 years. First of all we want to share our journey with you as we have been in Holland for over a month and in the United States for almost 6 weeks.
Holland.
It was so wonderful to be able to spend time with friends and family while we were applying for our visa for South Africa. We had time to connect with our church and to share about the things we were going to be involved in here in South Africa, it was a blessed time. The visa application process took us lon
ger than expected but finally after a lot of prayer we were able to pick up our passports on the 18th of July 2011. At the end of July we headed to the United States as we received invitations to three different states to minister. We also really wanted to take the time to connect with friends and family and to share about the things that God has been speaking to us concerning our commitment towards South Africa. It was hard to say goodbye not knowing when we will be back in Holland, but we needed to go and trust that God will take care of us in all this.
ger than expected but finally after a lot of prayer we were able to pick up our passports on the 18th of July 2011. At the end of July we headed to the United States as we received invitations to three different states to minister. We also really wanted to take the time to connect with friends and family and to share about the things that God has been speaking to us concerning our commitment towards South Africa. It was hard to say goodbye not knowing when we will be back in Holland, but we needed to go and trust that God will take care of us in all this. United States.
We arrived in the United States in the end of July and have never felt such a heat and humidity as we did right then and there. We both love the summer so we were not complaining . Our first two weeks were different than we expected them to be but gave us quite a time where we were able to spend much time with Kevin’s brother and his wife, to get to know her and build relationship together, what a blessing! We had the opportunity to minister in our church in Ohio on the first Sunday we arrived and to the youth group on Wednesday which was a blessing for us to be able to connect with everybody. We also had the opportunity to minister in many different churches and conferences where we saw God move with a power that we have not yet seen before in our ministry. We felt a strong impression on our hearts to set up healing and miracle meetings where we invited the sick and the lost to come. We saw a person that had surgery scheduled for her leg miraculously healed. When she came up for prayer she could hardly walk as the doctor had said to her that she would never run again. But glory to God, a couple of days later she came walking the aisle to testify of her healing and of her time of running the same morning. We saw many more instant miracles taking place as people that were limping as they walked up for prayer but running for joy as the power of God would touch them. We saw people from gambling, alcohol and tobacco addiction being set free. We saw wounds in mouths disappear, hart conditions being healed, a female being delivered by a demonic bondage that caused her to have chest pains, saw people being saved, baptized by the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues and we can go on and share of so much more we saw as we just stood in awe and watched the resurrected power of our Lord Jesus Christ sweep through the meetings. The Holy Spirit spoke to us that 2011 would be a year of increase and glory to God that He is not a man that He should lie but He is faithful to perform His Word. We also had an opportunity to be interviewed about our life and ministry on a Christian television network called TBN. We were invited to speak at the church of the person that hosted and interviewed us on the program.
We were also asked to speak at a youth event in Seattle for 5 days, it was wonderful to be back and even greater to see the Holy Spirit touch and change so many young lives as they were so hungry for the presence of God. We thank God for a wonderful time!
South Africa.
We were also asked to speak at a youth event in Seattle for 5 days, it was wonderful to be back and even greater to see the Holy Spirit touch and change so many young lives as they were so hungry for the presence of God. We thank God for a wonderful time!
South Africa.
Our journey begins…
After a long but very blessed trip we are back in South Africa. It took us a while to “land” in this country and we slowly start to realize that we will stay here at least 2 years. It is different from all the other times we have been here but we are getting there as God, step by step, is putting everything that we need in place for this time. From the first day we were here we have been looking after a place to rent for long term and we believe that in the right timing God has already prepared the perfect place for us. Half of the Bethesda team left to hold a Leading by the Spirit Course for 6 weeks in Northern Africa and we have seen tremendous miracles coming through for them when it comes to finances. We will stay here in Muizenberg to run the Bethesda house. God has placed a great expectation in our hearts as we continue to pursue Him and His glory to see life’s touched, changed, healed and delivered. We serve an AWESOME God!!We are so thankful to God for all of you that stand with us in prayer and support. It is so good to know that we have loving friends and family around the world standing with us. Thank you for that!
May the Lord bless you and keep you and shine His face upon you and be gracious to you,
Love,
Kevin and Mariëlla Kazemi.
www.flamesofpassion.com
www.kevinmariella.blogspot.com
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