Word of Life Durban Property

As promised, here are a few more photos of the new Word of Life Durban Property!

 

November Hawkins' Headlines

Thank you for your prayers for our ministry! We want to update you on what God has been doing here in Durban. There is so much happening - here are just a few highlights!

We had an amazing BattleZone Camp (Aug. 9-11) — the second one this year! The focus of our camp was Evangelism and the persecuted church. The teens learned and practiced several methods that they can use to share Christ with their friends. And most excitingly, one of the students decided to follow Christ! It is amazing to see the youth excited to reach their world with the gospel.

We want to share with you about a new aspect of our ministry, the Timothy Discipleship Project. We are meeting with a few teens and young adults on a regular basis in a more formal setting, doing Bible training and life on life discipleship. We are thrilled to be pouring into their lives, getting to know them better and challenging them to know the Word and live their faith.

Brandon started his second year at the Word of Life Bible Institute in New York in September,  and he is enjoying spending another year learning the Word and developing ministry skills. It's hard to believe it's already been almost a year since we have seen him. We are so proud of him and missing him so. We are ecstatic that we were able to purchase tickets for him to come home for Christmas Dec 9 - Jan 1!

We asked you to pray for our S.M.A.S.H. trip in October. There were 20 of us on the team and we traveled about 3 hours to work alongside First Baptist Church of Kokstad, running Holiday Bible Club (VBS) for 108 kids and ministering in a variety of ways in order to share the Gospel with those we met. It was exciting to see the faith of our youth grow as they relied on God to meet their needs of financial support and come to know Him as their provider! Even more exciting was the fact that we saw 53 people come to know Christ as their personal Saviour. Thank you for your prayers!

In September, 20 years ago, Word of Life South Africa was established and we were raising support to join the team. It’s amazing to look back on all that God has done and the blessings that we have experienced over those 20 years. One of the most recent blessings we have seen God provide is a Word of Life Property in Durban! There is a photo of the main house at the top of this letter. It is a large property (just under an acre) in the suburb we were living in previously, just minutes from our South African home church. We are amazed at how God supplied the funds for the property so quickly, overwhelming us with His faithfulness. The purchase was finalized last month. We have quite a bit of renovating to do to be able to meet the ministry’s needs, but we are confident that God will provide in His perfect timing. The first renovation on the list will be to replace the 30+ year old asbestus roofs on three of the buildings. We will share more photos on another blogpost. If you would like to be involved in giving toward the property project, you can do so online by going to this link or contact us directly and we can give you more information.