Starting out we had awesome food sharing and cheese and chicken and all the good things. That puppet show was great, tickets and all. I must say the administration was great and the acting(Erhardt) so special, with constant direction from the director(Richard).

One of the main focuses of the evening was KEEPING the vision.  What would it require to keep the group active and growing (Survival) à Active Implementation. This is not just a social gathering.  As each one is on their own journey, we also become soundboards to each other.

VISION – The analogy of the 2 fish bowl in Starting Point: His divine conspiracy is activated by attempting missions meaningfully.

“Anything other that instant obedience is disobedience” - Estelle

What is your calling? If you have an answer to that one, is it really relative or even important? Are YOU the centrality of Gods work in YOUR life? Who is it about? Where does plan and purpose fit in and can we pin it down in our plan?

KE – “Can be one of the spokes in the wheel of the revolution that is here” – Mark

1. KE wants to make the implementation of the journey more effective with the Vision of training (experience) in mind.
2. Each project will start with a visionary implementer, the person with the heart for the project.
3. It will be the person staying with that project and giving others a chance to Serve and show Christ’s love to others. (Be the blessing)
4. This will give others a platform to serve effectively and grow (Telescope of vision).

Upcoming implementation: Kim is organizing a trip to an orphanage she already visited in Hammanskraal.  Dates to be announced for July.

“Do what you can and God will do the rest” – Marion

“Do what you can while you can” - Pauline

Living Word

Living Word is the love of Jesus that enters through the ear and settles in the heart, there is becomes life as it moves out through the hands and feet as actions.

As James says “Faith and works”

As opposed to coming in the ear running through the brain and becoming theological talk out the mouth. As Paul says “I came not with lofty speech” (1 Cor 2:1)

PS: Bring your flash drive (4-8 gig) / Memory Stick next time, if you don’t have one get one.

Saterdag 11 Junie 2011

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Danie & Esther Sending Cel Meeting: 4 - 5:30 pm

Tuesday, 7 June, on their way to see the gypsies

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SATURDAY 4 JUNE - KE WORKSHOP NO 2 at the Base in Midrand
(specifically for people connected to church)

Sat 28 Mei 2011

Stocktake - where are you at?

• 3 steps - catch the vision / keep the vision / obey the vision
• 4 tools - caravan / telescope of vision / skouer aan die wiel / world prayer life
• it's not only about you, your calling and what you can or cannot do
• some practical advice on how to get your life in order before you attempt to reach for anything
• we are not going to stop saying it: sender / coordinator / goer

We heard of a couple of local churches that stopped running the Perspectives course because too many people responded and the leadership didn't know what to do with all the people who caught the vision......

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Money - does it or does it not matter?

WHAT FOR / FOR WHAT??  That is the question that we always need to ask ourselves.  Is what we’re doing an end in itself, or just a means to an end, and if so, which end?  If we do community, is it just for the sake of community, or is it for something else?  If we give, is it just to give because as long as we give we’re ok, or is it for something greater?  And if it is for something greater…is it really for Kingdom?

 When it comes to money and Christianity, most of us have been conditioned to think that as long as we give, we’re ok, we’ve done our share – what they do with the money, is their baby.  But then how do you know if your money will really produce a reward for you for eternity, on the day that you stand before the Lord?  You have no guarantees – the best that you can do, is to hope that it does.  Also we never just would have given our money away blindly, and neither should we with God’s.  We need to ensure that it is invested correctly, we need to go with our money - God demands a return.  The servant who buried his talent out of fear for his master, lost even what he had – that talent was given to the servant who showed a return.  So go where there’s a return for God’s Kingdom.  But anywhere in the bucket-line is fine, as long as the water goes to the fire (Kingdom) – be it at the back (modality), or at the front (sodality).

Of course start-ups need a bit of venture capital too, but that requires intense partnering and major major research – a topic for the more mature investor.  Someone who won’t give petrol to somebody going in the wrong direction, but who can take him to the nearest fuel-station and can explain to him on the map, where to go to.

 

And what about the goers – they hold in their hands an investment-opportunity, an opportunity for you to become part of and buy shares in a Kingdom investment.  But then that is also what they must offer, and not just a need.

And above all, the currency in the Kingdom is serving.  Money too must become a servant of serving.

Saterdag, 14 Mei TURNING POINT

Don 12 - Son 15 Mei 2011, KE Base Midrand

 Nuwe gesigte 

 Bekende gesigte (sommige doen P2P vir die 1st keer en ander 'n 2de keer) 

JP - neutral coordinator - Kingdom Program revolutionary 

Catch the vision / Keep the vision / Obey the vision

Daar gaan nog 'n rondte van Starting Points wees - wat gereel word wanneer julle mense uitnooi om te kom kyk na die journey -
gevolg deur nog net 1 Turning Point wat gehou moet word sodat mense kan reg wees voor

Mapping Point, Don 7 - Son 10 Julie 2011

(dan eers weer volgende jaar voor Julie)

Julie 2012 is daar 'n huis in Bangkok beskikbaar tot Junie 2013 om in te gaan bly vir KE volunteers .....

Vrydag 6 - Sondag 8 Mei

Danie & Esther se stuursel het vir die eerste keer by hulle gaan kuier op ASM in Witrivier

 Hazyview Cabanas (ons gaan weer soontoe enige dag)

 Oppad na ASM

 Die produksielyn - stickers op blikkies, versiersuiker vir die koek, groente vir die potjies

Afrika op haar mooiste

'n regte Dinasorus koek vir Esther se verjaarsdag

3 potjies en 'n magdom honger mense 

Dus, wat is die stuursel se opgelegde taak nou? 



Sat 30 April 2011

Kingdom Investment  VS  meeting a need

So how much of your resources go in tact and through you to Skin contact 1?

How much return on how much seed - r u sure?

Money is not the blessing, you are

Go with your resources / ask the right questions to determine what is fertile ground Kingdom Investment

Plugging a debt is not an investment

In providing for His Kingdom, you are taken care of

Sat 16 April 2011

KE Werkswinkel Fri 15 - Sun 17 April:  the centrality of missions in church

By Kingdom Encounters glo ons dat sending die gemeenskaplike fokuspunt is wat die hele Liggaam sal lei tot elke gelowige se eie roepping in God se Koningkryk.   Ons gebruik 'n wye beskrywing van "sender, co-ordinator, goer" om mense te help om duidelikheid te kry oor hoe en waar hulle in die Koningkryk inpas. Die werkswinkel was spesifiek gehou vir mense wat aan 'n kerk behoort en die strategie van sending as sentraliteit wou ondersoek.

 Ons was droog en ons tente binne was droog al het dit katte&honde gereen

 We choose The Road Less Travelled...

Die storie van Jana hulle se double volume matras!!

 Unless you pick up your cross you can not be My disciple

 KE PTA op die Base in Midrand Saterdagaand 

 6 maande gelede was ons 2, nou was ons 10 

 Happiness is .... Ally singing, ag sweeping the floor!

Who is ready for a Kingdom strategy challenge?

 Father, Your will be done, Your Kingdom come

Ons se baie dankie vir JP & Rita vir alles wat hulle vir ons gedoen het!!
We love you guys and thank the Lord for you! 

Saturday, 9 April 2011 (2 - 6pm)

(3)COMMUNITY: A BY-PRODUCT OF FAITH?

Before you answer, read Acts 2:42-47 & Acts 4:32-36.

Is the byproduct of faith, spirit filled saints who live and share in community? If you lay down everything, what is available to the advancement of His Kingdom and what would be left for yourself? Could that be the key to revival?

It was proposed that being a disciple goes hand in hand with community living. God loves us so (chose to,  not because he needs us, but chose to use us as His vessels), that He gave  His Son Jesus and will not stop trying to put us in situations where we might choose Him also. 'Pruned if you do and pruned if you don`t choose Him'.

For example, compare the tragedies that hit Japan and Haiti as well as the results of a community sharing and caring and one that did not, which was better off? This community is amongst unbelievers. God can make a donkey speak!... maybe he wants to tell us something through these disasters, not only for the people suffering as a result of having nothing left, but also for us the far away believers?  Does God hold your life in His hand...and can He take it away now...and can He send disaster to your house or your land?  By exposing us to disasters and tragedies, could it be that God not only shows his love towards us, but also demonstrates that he is a God that deserves to be feared.

Now we can think of community living again, and calculate the cost. (Luk14:26-28)

It truly was a special occasion and once again an opportunity to reflect on how much are we willing to sacrifice for God`s Kingdom.

We received valuable feedback from Philip`s journey and was grateful to hear from a new member, Shawn, and his journey with God.

Thank you Jeroen, for researching this topic, so relevant in these times, as you rightly said "In our culture we have lost community living, and is an essential part of supporting and encouraging one another as fellow believers, it was not designed for us to walk alone"

(2) Danie & Esther van Niekerk, stuursel vergadering 9 ur.., 10 am

 Beplan 'n uitreik saam met die stuursel, wat die res van hul sending loopbaan kan bepaal

(1) Boeremark: Philip van Wyk Stuursel 5:45

  

Happiness is moer koffie en pannekoek!!

Saturday 2 April

The reason we are in Jhb, Gauteng, SA, Africa is because of Kingdom Encounters

(and not the best Cantonese Chinese we could find close to home....)