| Men's / Women's Breakfast
On 10 October seven deaf men joined the men’s breakfast at the Victory Church in Benoni. The message was interpreted by Wilma Chelius (daughter of Rex & Marian Bothma (D)) - fortunately not the only woman among the sea of men as there were a few other women serving the men excellent breakfast.☺
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16 School Children baptised
Praise the Lord! Four girls were baptized last March. They were great witnesses to the other learners at St. Vincent School. More and more learners were inspired and also wanted to be baptized. On the 23rd September, it was a special day to
remember.
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St. Vincent School's 75th Anniversary
210 Deaf and their friends gathered
attired in formal dress to celebrate St.
Vincent School for the Deaf’s 75th Anniversary. Excellent food both hot and cold was served. Stephen Venter (D) was a MC.
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7th Deaf Christian Conference 2009
95 deaf and their few hearing friends (including 35 day visitors) from all over South Africa (also 2 deaf men from Swaziland and 1 Interpreter, Folami Ford from USA) applied to attend the camp so ideally located that the airport is ten minutes drive away. The weather poured cats and dogs on the first day but was sunny for the remainder of days.
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News from Deaf New Life Church East - Germiston
On 5 April 2009 was the 3rd Anniversary of the Deaf New Life Church East. (DNLCE turned 3 years old on 2 April). About 40 Deafies came. A few deaf groups led the worship in different languages, English, Afrikaans and Tswana / Xhosa - lovely!
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Mighty Men Conference 2009
About 300 deaf men (including 3 interpreters and some hearing volunteers) from all over South Africa registered to attend the massive Mighty MenConference for the long weekend on the farm of Angus Buchan (H) in Greytown. Dirk Venter (CODA), the main organizer was blessed with the wonderful contacts who generously lent their two huge canopy covered cattle trucks, several kombis and a car to transport the large number of deaf men from Pretoria and Johannesburg.
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'Beauty for Ashes' Conference 22 - 23 May 2009
I was approached by Wilma Chelius (H),
daughter of Rex & Marian Bothma (D), with the invitation to 14th Annual ‘Beauty for Ashes’ Women’s Conference. Marian, Chantelle, Val, Kathy, Kim & I went to Mosaiek Theatro, Fairland, Jo’burg on Friday night and Saturday all day.
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William Mora (D) from Colombia - News from Overseas
March 17, 2009 - “We would like to inform all of you that we are working towards William Mora (D) from Colombia & Pongsak Watcharasampunkul (D) from Thailand to come to the US from June 30 to August 3. It is hoped that they can visit as many of you as possible in this limited time span. We are planning central meetings in North Carolina and Indiana to make this possible. I know it sounds like a lot of time for them to be in the US but it isn’t that long when we already have eight days booked for two camps from July 19—26.
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The Anniston Star - News from USA
It is a world that most can not comprehend (understand) a world ruled by silence,
reduced to vibrations. Lost are the noises of
everyday life—from the roar of
passing traffic to the patter of raindrops. Instead, communication is defined by a flurry of hand gestures, words
replaced by images forged in the mind’s eye … for what the ears cannot hear the imagination must recreate.
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News from Oversea - Uganda
While most flew home (after the 4th DMI Conference in Egypt, October 2008), a small number namely Brenda and Jenny, Ian and Neville, visited Kenya and Uganda en route. We were joined in Uganda by a couple of gentlemen from the US, Wes and Lloyd, who had flown out to see how they could help us get some buildings completed.
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DCMA Students Outreach to the Western Cape
The aim of the outreach was to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and His grace to the Deaf. We saw how great the need for spiritual care is in the Deaf world. We were heartily welcomed everywhere we visited and when it was time to go, it was very hard to leave. We realized that God was waiting for us at each place we visited. We praise the Lord for the fact that He stays with the Deaf even after departure.
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Jozi 4 Jesus
About 30 Deafies from the deaf and integrated churches of Jo’burg including eight from Pretoria deaf church attended Jozi 4 Jesus Rally at the Coca Cola Stadium (Ellis Park) on 8th Nov ‘08. Despite the imminent thunderstorms we worshipped together the great number of the other Christians waving the flags with “Jesus” printed on them.
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4th DMI (Deaf Ministries International) Conference
At first four of us from South Africa applied to attend the conference but shortly before our departure two cancelled. Upon arrival in Doha, Qatar en route to Alexandria, Egypt, we
assumed to wait for eight hours before boarding the second flight. However, we were in for a pleasant surprise. An official at the airport sent for a shuttle bus to transport us to a
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News from Deaf New Life Church East - Germiston
Last year in January David and I shared the burden on our hearts with our pastor Steve Duff and his wife, Jennifer, of the Breakthru Church, Boksburg, where we were the members for about six years. We felt led by God to join the Deaf Church in Germiston. They agreed to give us a
blessing.
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Baptism
Greg Language (D) was baptised on 19th
October in the pool of Stanley & Kathy Aikman’s home in Boksburg. Hallelujah!
After the Sunday morning service we came with our picnic baskets to witness the baptism. Remember him in your prayers!
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News from Emmanuel Church
Seven of us, (Nikkie & Gerda Nortjee, Jannie & Elize Erasmus, Bennie Nel, my wife, Trilby and myself) from Emmanuel Church, Kempton Park (north east of
Johannesburg) went to Bloemfontein in Free State last July (13th July) to visit the Afrikaans deaf people there.
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News from Deaf New Life Church East - Germiston
The Pray for the Deaf Nation was held at DNLCEast (Deaf New Life Church East), Primrose, Germiston on 8 June - the day was not very cold. Sixty Deafies came.
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Official Press Release from Go! Sign (UK)
Go! Sign heard the very sad news of a respected and experienced Deaf Christian former pastor, elder and leader in the last thirty-five years, Mr. Paul Floyd, who died peacefully after long battle against cancer, on Saturday 5th July 2008.
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Grandfather's Day
The youth group surprised our senior men with a short movie called “The Lump”. They were reminded that...
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Grandmother's Day
The senior ladies felt special and loved when the youth group gave them a book marker with each one’s names on it. There were tears of appreciation in their eyes when Marc shared a message on how mothers and grandmothers play an important role in their children’s lives.
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6th Deaf Christian Conference - Report Back
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6th Deaf Christian Conference
The 6th Deaf Christian
Conference was held at Living Waters Camp near Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal (about 45 kms away in Mid-Illovo) for the long weekend of 1 - 4 May 2008.
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DNL Church East Celebrated 2 Years
On 6 April 2008 we celebrated our church, DNLCEast (Deaf New Life Church East)’s 2nd Birthday. (DNLCE turned 2 years old on 2 April 2008).
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Baptism - DNL Church East
We praise God for the baptism of four precious sisters in the Lord - Chantelle Lotter (H) of Germiston, Sandy de Arouja (D), Rachael Hilbert (D) and Jeanne Lopes (D) (all from Edenvale) on a beautiful sunny day on 9 March 2008 after Sunday service.
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Happy Grandfather's Day
The Deaf Youth spent a special Valentine’s Day at Col. Rowland Home for the aged Deaf and Blind in
Bedfordview on Saturday morning, the 16 February 2008.
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Passover breakfast - News from BTC
We decided to host a Passover breakfast at Breakthru Church for our deaf community and their friends and family.
The response was super and
pictures tell a thousand words so enjoy looking at them.
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The National Initiative for the Reformation of South Africa
22 - 23 April 2008 hundreds of South Africa church leaders gathered in Boksburg for The National Initiative for the Reformation of South Africa (NIRSA) which was convened by Michael Cassidy, Founder of African Enterprise and Rev. Moss Ntlha, the General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance of SA. Michael Cassidy emphasized the seriousness of the crises
confronting us in South Africa, namely poverty, AIDS, crime, corruption, the undermining of marriage, racism, sexism, xenophobia and the electricity crises.
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News from Durban
On 2nd of December 2007, 14 Deafies from our Durban Deaf Fellowship went to the restaurant for Christmas lunch (Roast of the Day costing R35 per person excluding drinks).
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News from Port Elizabeth
Hermanus Engelbrecht (D) from Pretoria came to Port Elizabeth on 4th October to stay with us till the 15th. The Deaf Afrikaans people enjoyed hearing God’s Word. He explained the Chronological Bible Storying (CBS). They never heard of it before.
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News from Deaf New Life Church East - Germiston
To participate the annual ‘Pray for the Deaf Nation’ effort, the prayer warriors met at Deaf New Life Church East in
Primrose, Germiston on 10th June 2007.
About 25 of us met on a cold wintry day, attired (dressed up) in T-shirts with overseas logos, wearing hats and scarves representing different nations. Country flags and tea cloths with imprinted countries adorned the cupboards.
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News from Deaf New Life Church East - Germiston
On 1 April 2007 Deaf New Life Church East celebrated the first anniversary of the Lord's call to stand in the gap to bring the Gospel to the Deaf in Primrose, Germiston. The first service was attended by the leaders from various deaf churches and a few Deaf to dedicate the church to the Lord.
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Farewell
On 27 April ‘07 about forty Deafies gathered at Hennie and Trilby Jordaan's house in Kempton Park to bid farewell to the long time deaf leader and his wife, Heinrich and Carina Kutzner, who were transferred to Durban.
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