Happy New Year 2020 from our family! We hope you had a great time as you crossed over into 2020, & pray that this New Year finds you blessed & doing well!
Below we are listing an update that we recently emailed out just before Christmas...
We are so very
thankful for YOU who stand with us in prayer & also in financial support to
our ministry. Thank you so much for your love to us this past year of 2019! We
really appreciate it!
We would like to
briefly share two big blessings that happened to us in 2019:
Both blessings were birthed through painful beginnings, as the LORD produced
something beautiful through His Work & Grace.
Firstly, Some of you
might know a little bit how our life & ministry changed in 2011.
To make a long story short, Pastor Walter, who was like a father to Zwakele,
& our partner in Timbutini area from 2004 till 2011, went through a
personal problem & also chose to break relationship with us. It was
an extremely painful, sad, & stressful situation that had the effect of us
moving to Mbabane, & transitioning to another ministry. We had no
contact with Walter for over 6 years. Then, about a year and a half a ago,
the Lord started a healing process. To make another loooong story
short...over this past year Walter came to us hoping to reestablish
contact. He wanted to meet with Zwakele & I. At first honestly
I was not open to it. But the Lord Jesus started working in my heart.
I could not escape
Colossians 3:13 "...bearing with one another, and forgiving one another,
if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you
must do."
As Jesus has forgiven
me of so much how can I not also forgive my brother? So over a period of time,
and many tear-filled talks, Christ brought us back together as His family!
We are now working
together in various ways...we both are partners with AIM as well as serving
together every Tuesday in our Hospital Outreach Ministry. Really God has
done a personal miracle for us! He has brought forgiveness, and reconciliation
to our relationship! It is such an incredible story, and I
thank & praise God for His work!
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| Pastor Walter & I @ the Mbabane Government Hospital |
The Second blessing I
want to share deals with our quest for our own land and house. For years
we have been trying to raise the money, & find the right place for
purchasing our own land. This land is both to live at as a family, and base our
ministry, "Catalyst eSwatini," from.
It's taken a lot of
time & there were some serious bumps along the way in this process.
But finally we have now acquired a new piece of land. The place is great,
the purchase went through without any hiccups, and now we can move
forward. Right up to the day before we flew to Buffalo we were working
hard trying to do as much as possible. We hired a backhoe to level and
clear the land. We also put up a temporary fence. In eSwatini you have to
put up an initial fence to mark your borders to your neighbors, & to
prevent others from stealing all or part of your land. We do not have the
funds yet to start building a house, but we are doing as much as we can bit by
bit. In the next couple of weeks we will be sharing more about this
project.
That reminds me, if
you are interested in hearing more about our ministry & your in the Buffalo, New York area, we will be sharing @ a Missions Breakfast Saturday January
4th @ 8:30am @ our Home Church, Kenmore Alliance.
Again, Thanks so much
for your love to us! We are so thankful for your prayers! We pray for you often as well! May God bless you in this New Year! May the Lord Jesus bring us closer to Him in 2020, and may we all reflect Him more & more to the world around us!
Dennis (for Zwakele,
Thandeka, & Busani)
