S.M.A.S.H. (Students Ministering And Serving Him)

Dear Family & Friends,

In less than a week my dad & I will take a plane trip to Cape Town to meet up with the SMASH team of approximately 50 other youth and staff from Joburg. I’m looking forward to this opportunity to serve God in various types of outreach.

I’m so grateful for the funds provided for me to embark on this journey. It was faith building for me to see God provide all the money needed almost immediately after the need was shared.

I think it would benefit my ministry trip if I had some prayer supporters throughout my time in Cape Town. Word of Life suggests I have at least 5 prayer supporters. If you would commit to praying for me during this time, please let me know. I would really appreciate it.

You can follow our trip at the ministry facebook page, SMASH Cape Town 2013.

Thank you,

Brandon Hawkins

Update

From Brad:

Had a great couple of days with the kids at camp last week! Several of the campers made decisions for Christ and many others made decisions to better know God through Quiet Time, Scripture Memory, and Bible Study.  It was such a pleasure to share God's Word with them and the leaders. Check out the video below!

I am heading off tonight to the first Young Adult Bible Study for this term, but only for this one as we are all heading to Jo'burg next week. We are going up to help with Word of Life's Student Fusion, a missions team arriving from the US.  I am excited to have the family coming along on this trip, as often that doesn't always work out. We are grateful to God's "yes" answer to our prayer to find a house sitter so that we could all go together. Pray for us as we now need to get the house ready for the month we will be gone and pray for God's work in the lives of those coming on the trip.

July Hawkins Headlines

Holiday Bible Club #1 - Grace Baptist Church, Queensburgh

We had a great week at Holiday Bible Club (VBS)! It was exciting to see all the children being challenged to know God and His Word more, to obey and serve Him!

On Friday a little girl told Marissa that she wanted to know Jesus, and Marissa was able to clearly share the gospel message with her. What an exciting opportunity for Marissa, and little Danika now knows for sure how her sins can be forgiven!

Here is a little video I put together from the week:

School Holidays

We are on a 3 week "holiday" from school, but it is not really a break for us! Keep us in prayer as this week Brad & the kids are at Holiday Bible Club (VBS) at Grace Baptist in Queensburgh. Next week, the kids & I will be at Holiday Bible Club at Grace Baptist Amanzimtoti. And the 3rd week, Brandon will be back to school while Marissa & Brad head off to camp, Marissa as a camper and Brad as the speaker. Pray for health, servant's hearts and most of all, lives changed for Christ!
at the same time, our teammates in Joburg have travelled the 2 1/2 hours to Welkom and are running a satellite camp for teens. Please pray for them as they work alongside existing ministries in Welkom to help them lead others to Christ and strengthen Christians.

This weekend we hosted a team of 14 young adults on a missions trip from Joburg. They came to the South Coast to assist at a youth camp. It was so encouraging to have them here! We have known quite a few of these young adults for years through Word of Life clubs and camps, and a number attended the Word of Life Discipleship Training Centre. They seem like family to us. They ran the service Sunday evening at Grace Baptist Church in Queensburgh, and we felt like Paul when he wrote, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." (3 John 1:4)

Great weekend! Went to a Youth Event where there must have been around 200 young people and meet several new churches. We visited a new church on Sunday that I pray we will be able to assist in the near future and then took a group of young people to a different church Sunday night. Love seeing people serve and humbled by being apart of it!