| Our Holiday in Australia
Here is the news of our holiday in Brisbane, Australia last August. It was so great to see our son, Michael and his family. Our daughter, Debbie's sons, Vaughan and Declan, also came with us. And it was the first time we saw our newgrandson, Gideon, now 18 months old and our granddaughter, Hazel, 3½ years old.
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Men's Breakfast
William Warmington (D) and Paulo Pinto (D) joined the hearing men for Men's beakfast at Victory Church in Benoni on 20 August 2011.
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Our Holiday
On 24 August 2011 we left Gauteng by car for Northern Cape to see the famous Namaqualand flowers. From Pofadder to Springbok the flowers, bright
orange, yellow, purple and white, started to be displayed everywhere even on the mountains -too beautiful to behold - all the way along the West Coast to Worcester in Western Cape, even along the
Southern Cape to
Eastern Cape. The flowers started to thin out when we entered Free State on the way home.
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Wesselsbron, near Welkom
Hennie & Trilby Jordaan (D) of Kempton Park Deaf Fellowship invited us to join them and their church for the ministry weekend (23—25
September 2011) in Wesselsbron, 20 km from Welkom. There were 25 of us including 4
children.
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5th DMI Conference 7 Holiday, Australia
Hermanus & Chantalle Engelbrecht (D) of Pretoria and William & Bev Warmington (D) of Germiston flew to Sydney, Australia on 10 October to attend 5th DMI
Conference from 12—16 October. On our arrival, the next day we were picked up by Ps. Stanley Grimmett (D) to stay overnight with him and his wife, Barbara (HoH). Then Stanley drove us all down 1½ hours south of Sydney to Stanwell Tops Conference Centre near the city of Wollongong.
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Thailand
We have all been
praying to avoid this for
11 years. It is with the saddest of hearts that I have to share this tearful news with you all. The courts in Thailand pronounced on April 5 that Pongsak (D) must spend 1 year and
4 months in jail, with the possibility of an earlier release for good behaviour. This sentence is non-appealable. The courts read their sentence and then took
Pongsak to jail.
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Colombia
The Deaf Church in Bogota had its One Year Anniversary on February 20 (2011). It has been a year since we made the move to be an independent Deaf Church. God has richly blessed us, AMEN! The Celebration was a day long affair. There were 45 Deaf in attendance that Sunday morning for services and over 60 for the party that afternoon.
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Ministry to Mozambique
The highlight of this week has been the water baptismal service we held this afternoon for the new deaf church. This afternoon we baptised 12 young deaf people. When it is remembered that not all could come, this is an amazing number of people. One young girl, who has been coming regularly over the last week or so, gave her heart to the Lord today as we walked from the church to ITM for the baptismal service. She asked if she could be baptised and so we baptised her as she confessed Jesus as her Saviour.
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News from DNLC North - Melrose
DNLCNorth (Deaf New Life Church North) celebrated the first anniversary on a warm wintry Sunday, 3 July 2011 (27 June 2010) at St Vincent School for the Deaf, Melrose, Johannesburg.
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Visitors from Overseas
Eva (D) & Colin (H) Bevan and his sister, Glenys (H), came to South Africa from Victoria, Australia in mid July 2011. Colin flew to Zimbabwe for his ministry while Eva & Glenys spent 2 weeks holiday in Kempton Park. On Wednesday, 27 July Eva shared her testimony at the Bible Study in Andries & Magda Muller's (D) home in Benoni.
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Ladies Tea
Nine deaf ladies came to Victory Church in Benoni on 28 May 2011 on the invitation to join the hearing ladies to listen to the message on "Birds of a Feather". Linda Jackson (H), an Image Consultant and Woman of God, gave an encouraging message on how God really loves us, women inside out.
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Pray for the Deaf nation
About 40 Deafies met once again to join the Christian Deafies all over the world to Pray for the Deaf Nation at DNLCEast, Primrose, Germiston on 12 June 2011 on the warm wintry Sunday. Several Deafies from the other churches joined us.
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Outreach at WFD, Durban
WFD (World Forum of the Deaf)
Congress was held in Durban, South Africa for the first time from 18th - 24th July 2011. There were about 2100 Deaf people from 50 countries. The outreach planned by John Graham (Deaf pastor of Canada) and his SOW (Sign Outreach Worldwide) team had to be cancelled due to the shortage of sponsorship.
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Judgment Day: End of the World?
Harold Camping, a pastor of USA,
erroneously calculated the date of the
Judgment Day to happen on 21 May 2011. That day (21 May 2011) came and went past - nothing happened... How embarrassing it must be when he had to face his
people at his church and the rest of the world.
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Egypt
On the other side of the world in Egypt we are facing another situation quite different to that of the Philippines. Some 100 km from Cairo we have a farm with dates, olives, oranges and guava growing. It is in the middle of Bedouin (Arab) lands and in a strong Muslim area. The local Muslim population does not want a Christian presence in their area.
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Philippines and Thailand
As they say, when it rains, it pours! And this has literally been the case in the Philippines. We can usually only cope with one disaster at a time but two at once and then a forced move of our
ministry in Thailand to another location. The typhoon struck with no warning from authorities and has undone a lot of the repair work which was completed after the last super typhoon devastated the area.
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Syria and Egypt
Syria and Egypt continue to be concerns for us. The unrest in Syria has not been in our area but must be affecting the whole country. Our people have received death threats if they go near our land just outside of Cairo. Please continue to pray for this situation and protection for our people and property.
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DMMC, DWWC & KK
MMC (Mighty Men Conference) was held for the last (7th) time last year for the 'Hearies' at Greytown where many deaf men joined. Ps. Angus Buchan (H)
encouraged all the men to arrange their own MMC in their provinces.
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5th Anniversary of DNLC East
We celebrated 5th
anniversary of our church, Deaf New Life Church East, Primrose, Germiston on 10 April 2011. (2 April 2006). How time flew! About 40 Deafies and 5 children attended. Five deaf groups led wonderful worship, praising God for His goodness and faithfulness.
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Ladies Tea
Six deaf ladies were
invited to the Ladies Tea at
Victory Church in Benoni on 26 February 2011. It was a blessed afternoon as we all had fun decorating our cup cakes for the competition.
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Farewell Maria!
A surprise farewell breakfast was given to Maria Ferreira (D) on 5 March 2011
before she emigrated to UK on 11 March.
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Dedication
On 13 March 2011 Evelynn (H) (nearly
2 years old) cute daughter of Timothy & Elizabeth Evans (D) was dedicated to the Lord at St.
Vincent School Chapel.
Timothy and Elizabeth's families attended the dedication.
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Men's Breakfast
Three deaf men attended the Men's Breakfast at
Victory Church in Benoni on
19 March 2011.
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Ministry to Welkom
William & I were invited to join Hennie & Trilby Jordaan (D)'s ministry (Kempton Park Deaf Fellowship, Gauteng) to Welkom, Free State for the weekend of 19 - 20 March '11.
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Egypt
You will all be aware of the situation that has arisen in Egypt. We are very concerned for our people there who are suffering a lot at this time.
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Zambia
Maurine was brought to DMI's Christian School for the Deaf in Oyugis, Kenya by despairing
parents who thought she was mentally disturbed.
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Kenya
Some time ago I received a letter from a prisoner, Heyford held in the Maximum
Security Prison in Kabwe - Zambia. He has a deaf son whom he has not seen since the boy was 2 - he wrote to me and asked if I could help find a school for the boy. Lewis, our deaf Director of DMI Zambia began a search for the boy - his name is Hastings.
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Royal High Tea
On Saturday afternoon, 6 November 2010, we, 10 deaf ladies, were invited to the High Tea at Victory Church in Benoni. We were requested to wear hats. Pastor Nadia Smith (H) gave an encouraging message with Wilma Chelius (CODA)
interpreting.
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International Speakers
Pastor John Graham (D) from Canada and Pastor Emory Dively (D) from USA flew to Durban on 8 November 2010 for a week to seek a venue for the Coffee shop for the outreach effort as WFD (World
Forum of the Deaf) will be held in ICC (International Conference Centre) from 14 - 24 July 2011.
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Combined Church Service
On 5 December a combined service
was held at Blaauwpan, in Kempton Park,
organized by Hennie Jordaan (D) of KP. About 120 Deafies from Kempton Park Deaf Church; Deo Gloria
Gemeentes for the Deaf, Pretoria
and Deaf New Life Church East,
Germiston attended the open air
service by the dam. DNLCEast Deafies led the worship and Hennie Jordaan preached.
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DVD Show
A short DVD was shown only for the deaf men at Deo Gloria Gemeentes
in Pretoria on Friday evening of 18 February, interpreted by Ps. Dirk Venter (CODA).
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DCAMP
Our friend, Jackie Barker (H) (Pastor of St. Mungo’s United Church, Bryanston)
invited us to join DCamp (December Leadership Training Camp) two years ago. We realized that the young Deaf need intensive training and
become future strong leaders. Eight Deaf
students from St. Vincent School for the Deaf and about 200 Hearies attended DCamp last year, 11 - 16 December and it was the first time that young Deaf got involved at DCamp.
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Students Received Certificates
Colette Gouws (D) received a Certificate IV and Diploma in Biblical Ministry whilst Jaco van Wyk (HoH) and Phumie Jemane (D) each received an Advanced Diploma from Veritas College International. The first year students have not yet completed their CERT IV but each of them did receive a DCMA (Deaf Christian Ministry Africa)
Certificate for Life Skills as well as for
Experiential Learning, Support Raising and Bible Storying. We are very proud of each and every one who worked so hard.
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Masidumise Deaf Fellowship
I asked Pastor Dirk Venter (CODA) of Pretoria for the donation of the data projector for our church and a big tent. Phew! The past two Sundays many Deaf people came to the church and the room was packed full with Deaf people. It was very hot! Dirk will contact the other people about our need. The church services went very well and the Deaf people were very excited to hear God’s Words. When I preach, I must use two languages in Xhosa and English. I told them that I plan to use English mainly in the near future and they are willing to learn.
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Qwa Qwa Deaf Christian Church
Qwa Qwa Deaf Christian Church is now 1 year old! Psalm 122 “Let us go to the house of the Lord and praise His Name!” It is wonderful to know what the Lord has done in His wonderful way! When we look at the past year, we don’t have enough words to thank Him! He did so much more for us that what we could ever imagine. God loves Deaf people too!
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I am the Resurrection and the Life
The Resurrection of Christ is the pillar of our faith. It is the greatest event the world has ever known and it changed the course of history and the future of
humanity.
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Vision of Roses
When I lay on bed praying, I complained to God about how we get old and often are in much pain. Due to osteoarthritis my knees gave me excruciating pain. My eyes started to grow dim and my face had wrinkles. I asked God why we did not retain youth throughout life without having to undergo the groans of growing old.
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Make Jesus Your Anchor
Are you also thinking about the recent rain in South Africa? It is really something to be concerned about if you see the destruction the water has left. When you see the impact and destruction of the water and then hear on the news that more rain is predicted, you can’t help but hold your breath. And it is not only in South Africa, but also in other parts of the world where we see rain and destruction.
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ChristChurch Earthquake
On 4th September, we had an earthquake of 7.1. This is a photo of the very old St. John Church at Christchurch city (New Zealand) that was damaged by the big quake.
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DCMA - Deaf Christian Ministry Africa
DCMA (Deaf Christian Ministry Africa) deaf students, Jaco van Wyk, Colette Gouws, Phumie Jemane and Rev. Jan Oberholzer (H) (Head of NID) from Worcester spent 3½ weeks ministering to the Deaf in the Cape, Free State and Limpopo in August.
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News from Deaf New Life Church East - Germiston
On 5 September about 55 Deafies had a
combined church service at St Vincent School for the Deaf, Melrose, Jo’burg. We had picnic on the school ground and it was enjoyed by all.
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Baptism
On a clear and hot day of 22
October 2010, after William Warmington (D) gave a short message, 11 deaf
students were baptised by Frank Moran (H) & Bogumil Gieros (D) at
St. Vincent School for the Deaf.
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Masidumise Fellowship
Phumie Jemane (D) was ordained as full–time pastor on 13 Nov. 2010. We had the privilege to attend the ordination.
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Emmanuel Deaf Church, Kempton Park
We, from
Emmanuel Deaf Church, Kempton Park went to Welkom for the weekend
Ministry (18 + 19 September).
We were in Wesselsbron, 45 kms from Welkom.
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David Bulime will be greatly missed
We have all been shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of David Bulime (D), leader of the work in Uganda. David had a great heart for the Deaf and desire for the Deaf of Africa to come to know the Lord. His tireless efforts have resulted in our work for the Deaf in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
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First Christian Church Huntington Beach
A group of 10 members from FCCHB under leadership of Scott Roderick,
recently spent a couple of weeks
ministering to the Deaf in both Uganda and Kenya.
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A New Church Launch
A new church launch was held in the chapel at St. Vincent School for the Deaf on 27 June 2010. The dream to use the school as a base for the deaf ministry had been on the heart of William Warmington (D) for a long time. He desired to give back something to the school where he had received an excellent education. An opportunity cropped up when a deaf
couple living close to the school
approached us entreating to start the church for the Deaf at St. Vincent School.
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Pray for the Deaf Nation
Pray for the Deaf Nation
Annual “Pray for the Deaf Nation” was held on a warm wintry day, the 13th of June 2010 at DNLCEast (Deaf New Life Church East), Primrose, Germiston.
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8th Deaf Christian Conference: Report Back
When arriving at the camp, I was in awe of the mountains around the camp —so beautiful! I learned that in Christ, we, no matter races, are one! Even though I could not understand Sign Language among the Deaf,
I am happy to know we are one in Christ!
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Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Deaf Ministries - 14th March 2010
This year 2010 we celebrated 30th anniversary of God’s work among the Deaf Christians in South Africa. It was held at DNLCEast, Primrose, Germiston on 14 March 2010. We started the day with the Deafies taking turns in leading the worship in English, Afrikaans and some tribal languages. Then William shared the Brief History (mentioned below), the message of motivation and Bert Barritt’s message. About 70 Deafies, including 10 children, came.
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Baptism of 4 Deafies
On Sunday 7 March 2010 on a beautiful sunny day after the church service we
followed Lorato Rasebopye (D) to her mother’s home in Kempton Park. Lorato, Michael Roux, Mark & Louisa de Villiers and were baptized by William Warmington (D) in a beautiful swimming-pool. The
baptism were witnessed by the Deafies and Lorato’s family.
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4th Anniversary of DNLC East
On 4 April DNLCEast celebrated 4th anniversary. For that we give our God praises and thanks for His faithfulness. The hall belonging to Rest-a-while Old Age Home / Retirement Village was closed for upgrading for 4 weeks in March / April.
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MMC, Greytown, KZN, 16 - 18 April 2010
I had a breathtaking experience at the MMC (Mighty Men Conference). There were about 50 Deaf men from Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Worcester. On behalf of the Deaf, we would like to thank Dirk Venter (CODA) heartily for giving us the opportunity to hear God’s Word by catering for the Deaf needs.
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8th Deaf Christian Conference, 23 - 26 April 2010
The 8th Deaf Christian Conference was held in a beautiful vicinity of wine farms near Wellington for the long weekend of 23 - 26 April 2010. The weather had been kind to us - lovely and hot during the day and cool at night. The camp is up flanked by crown-like mountain and smooth-topped mountains on either side of it. That’s why it is called “Bergkroon” in Afrikaans = Crown Mountain in English.
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