Hi
Southcity
What a
day yesterday! Days like that give great insight into the glory of our eternal
life and I am overwhelmed by the goodness of God as our lives are interwoven
together with each other as we love Him.
What a
brilliant day, being able to start as a local community and ending the day as a
coastal community, so well done to all of you that were a part of it. I trust
you have been encouraged, strengthened and fallen more in love with our
incredible King, Jesus Christ.
Days like
these don't just happen, and I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank
all of those who helped Southcity host this event so outstandingly. Please read
below, so we can honor those who went over and beyond.
As we
gaze upon the awesomeness of God, we turn our attention forward with an
incredible few days ahead. As we start our church fast today from after lunch,
I trust you are anticipating eagerly for great breakthroughs, wisdom, and
clarity for us as a worshipping, believing, witnessing group of friends. And as
we fast together, standing in unity, let us make every effort to come and pray
at 6:30pm tonight in our auditorium, so we can seek God together, hear his
voice together, know him together, and encourage one another together.
Then on
Tuesday evening, after continuing the fast through the day, we look forward to
breaking the fast together in our community groups as we take a closer look at
the Lordship of Jesus Christ. What a brilliant evening that is going to be!
And the
Kingdom continues to advance as strong, forceful men take hold of it as the men
get together on Wednesday night to have dinner and take a stand on this coast;
a stand which says God reigns, and we humbly follow Him as our lives are
submitted to Him and to each other. What a privilege for our wives, the widows,
the single ladies, and the children to know that the men in this community are
serious about the things of God.
May God
bless you richly as you bless him through your faithfulness this week.
See you
tonight.
Much love
Rich
Thank you
to those who made last night happen:
Ian
Pretorious for setting up the half a ton of scaffolding on Thursday afternoon
to build the stage extensions. Mark Bolton from Nuform in blessing us with the
scaffolding at no cost.
The
muscle men; Johan Schoeman, Johan Viljoen and his boys, Rob Hoatson, Harry,
Terence Strydom, Guy Spittal, Miguel, James, Eddie, Daine, Jason, Duane Wood
and his boys and all those others that jumped in and moved, cleaned, set-down
and set-up.
Miguel
for learning how to operate the lights, rehearsals and running the lights
throughout the evening which he did so exceptionally well. Clint Stevenson from
Wired Media in blessing us with all the lighting at no cost.
The kids
supervision team: Gea, Joey, Jenny, Ryan Mather-Pike, Dianne Griffiths, Shelley
Jacobs.
The
cappuccino makers, Liz and Heidi. For managing the tea trolleys; Jenny, Penny,
Chris Louw, Joey, Ursula, Bev. Washing all the dishes; Katie, Debbie, Dave and
Karen, Rose Ledward, Benita. Taking care of the tuckshop; Esther, Catherine
Mark
Hoatson and Avril Greco for driving the combis and bringing SCRC residents and
taking them home afterwards. Traffic control; Gert, Nick Buitendag, Kevin and
Darren. Fred for organising the car guard. Grant hill for his groundwork in
barrier’ing and red taping all over to
create parking and direction
The band,
Deon and Alex, Nobs and Amy, Jason van Zyl and from the other churches, Jason
Price from Norwegians, Nati and Mark VP from Glenridge, Wayne and Jen Duncan
from Coastlands. Davin from Gates of Praise in lending us some of their sound
equipment, and Luanne on the computer (baby and all).
The
everything champions – from picking up litter, to
opening doors, to moving trolleys, to clearing stages to filling urns etc,
Dwayne de Beer, Gert Meyer, Daine who was the sound champion all day from
7am-9pm setting up stages, rehearsals, sound checks, making lunches and doing
pretty much everything – I think Daine covered more
mileage than a marathon runner in this one day.
Clifton
for being around pointing everyone to where they were able to be involved and
for coordinating the entire evening from many weeks ago.
Thank you
to all of you from all of us who got to enjoy the evening and we honour you. We
appreciate all the work you have done, and in addition we want to make a
special fuss over Jenny, Daine, Gert, Dwayne and Joey and Miguel who made
themselves so available and worked so hard and were key in making yesterday a
success....
