The Rossouws are still having a ball having holiday.
It is time for us to go home in a week’s time, cannot wait to be home again,
sorry mum!! Sitting here on the stoep in a col Swakopmund, after about 2 weeks
of Oosweer ( the wind blow from the desert and its nice and hot in the middle
of winter) and look at the sun goes down, is what Namibia is all about. We love
nature and the way God created it makes us loving it. We are rounding up our
visit here and will be here in Swakop just for 2 days more and then up to
Windhoek for the final few days till we will be on the plane n 6th
of August. Please pray for us as we need to pack and say our final goodbyes.
You would think it will be easier after all these years, but it gets harder and
harder every year.
Mordegai’s mum, Matra gave us a bit of a scare a
week ago and we children had to make some sudden changes to accommodate ouma.
We got her a small apartment in the capital where she is near good doctors and
near my brother and sister. We still need to organise our little house in the
country side but with the help of my little sister, nothing is impossible. We
came together as a family and could visit and talk things over. Ouma is not out
of the woods yet. She end up in hospital with a clot in the lungs and bad lung
infection, now 2x in a row. Currently she is at my brother’s house in Whk and
need to stay close to a doctor. Please pray for her as she needs to shift her
head into another dimension of life as her need to be cared for. Too long on your
own can be a problem when you are thrown into a situation like this. Pray as
she makes hard and quick decision.
Please pray for my good friend Deon as he is struggling
with his 4th week of therapy. Currently he is in a lot of pain and
the irritation in his throat is worse because of the radiation. Pray for him
and his family as they are riding out this difficult time in his life.
Quintin Calitz is doing much better and I improving
daily after his operation. We are staying with them when we go back to Whk and
it makes for a nice time to reflect on things and help with encouragement.
Continue to pray for Fe.
July 26,2018
Faith Journey Update
FINISHING my RACE with JOY!
Today, i finished my 17th Chemo( 5 more
to go). I was alone because my friends were busy but happy to have my nephew Junjun
Jonathan , around. Lately, I am thankful that I had the chance to get
reconnected to Pastor/ Christian contemporaries and friends in some gatherings
here in Iloilo. So blessed to see God at work at the heart of the Philippines
in a very significant way. God's appointed time for us to be home.
My Paul and Josh are liking school here
now...Paul getting confident in speaking Ilonggo dialect and in taking Public
Utility Jeepneys...what a relief! Josh is a work in progress. Loving his
foreign identity😀.
Praise God Noel had the chance to train
missionaries to go to the missionfield at Asian Center for Missions. His being
one of the pioneers at ACM and his almost 2decades exposure to the field gave
him more confidence in doing it! Thanks ACM Visayas!
Please pray for our friend’s Thearith and Charia You
and their family. Their dad passed away about a week ago. He was a real loving
grandpa who came once and visit me when I was in bed after my accident and
brought me some of his favourite bread, such a sweet Khmer uncle. My heart
aches for them as he is not there anymore. Seeing him with his children always
blessed my heart and gave me hope for the Khmer people. What an example of a
true blessed man he was.
Most of you will remember the rescue of the soccer
team from the caves in Thailand. Here is a small testimony after they were
freed. Thanks Gordon and Bee.
While this drama was unfolding the Lord
led us to pray very specifically into the situation – that He would do a
miracle to bring the water level down and that it would become known that this
is a miracle from Him. Over the next 12 hours that is exactly what happened.
The water levels in the cave dropped unexpectedly by 30 cm opening up 100s of
metres of tunnel and greatly reducing the risk – enabling the rescue operation
to begin. This really was a miracle. The Lord was teaching us that it is
important to listen to his heart for a situation and to pray as He directs (not
as we think).
The media has reported on the Buddhist
element in this story. Thailand is a Buddhist country. The coach was formerly a
Buddhist monk and led the boys in meditation to keep them calm during their
ordeal. Last Tuesday the coach and 11 of the wild boars team ordained as monks
for one week to make merit for the ex-navy seal who died. (This is a positive
aspect of Thai culture that leads young people to honour someone who has made
such a sacrifice on their behalf. It helps them to come to terms with their
guilt). Less reported is the fact that one of the soccer team is a Christian.
Adun Sarman is the one whose voice is recorded when the British divers first
discovered them. He was the spokesman for the team as he was the only one who
could speak some English. He is a member of Mae Sai Grace church and has been
sponsored for some years by Compassion International, a Christian organization.
Thai Channel TV gave extensive coverage
of a special thanksgiving service held at Adun’s Church last Sunday. All of the
wild boars plus the coach attended the Christian service as a show of
solidarity. Link below is in Thai language.
This report shows Adul weeping during
the service and the Thai news commentator is talking about the Creator God who
loves all people – that Adul is weeping in response to God’s love. The clip
then shows Adul giving his testimony in front of the congregation and his
fellow soccer team members. He said they had lost all energy and all hope. The
only thing that he could do was to pray. Especially on the 10th day he prayed
for himself and all 13 of the team members that they would be saved. This was
just before the British divers discovered them. Adul testified that God
answered his prayer and now he will serve God and use his football to share
Gods love throughout Thailand and the world. Although he will not ordain in the
Buddhist temple like the coach and the other 11 team members, he will honour
the ex-seal who gave his life, by dedicating his life to be a good citizen.
This is a powerful testimony. The whole team and the coach heard the message
(and any of the Thai public who were listening). Pray that the Lord will break
through to the 12 during their times of meditation in the temple over the
following week (I for one have personal experience of God turning up in
Buddhist temples).
God is saying something here. The soccer
team are ordaining for 7 days to remember the man who gave his life so that
they could be saved. Pray that revelation of the God who loved us so much that
he gave his only Son will break through to them (and other Thais) in the weeks
and months ahead.
Link to Compassion International report
below
Thank you very much for praying for us even when we
are on holiday. We are so blessed.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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