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Just In Time for Christmas: Cape Town Pano

Rebecca — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:28:02 +0000

Scratching your head about that one-of-kind Christmas gift you are having trouble finding? To help fund the printing and framing of a 12-print black-and-white exhibit we recently developed for Africa Revolution, we are selling a limited number of large format panoramic prints of Table Mountain in Cape Town. The print itself measures almost six feet [...]

MADE IN AFRICA

Rebecca — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:28:34 +0000

Well, we made a little something in Africa… That’s right, we’re pregnant! God blessed us with this discovery the day before we left Mamelodi, which was very special as the month before, the news that “a child—the child you have been praying for—is coming” was prophesied by two of our friends in the [...]

Departure Day…

Rebecca — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:13:28 +0000

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. —Philippians 1:3-5 Today we say our final goodbyes, then head to the airport to fly out tonight to [...]

Guest Post: Megan Clarke on Zim Day

Megan Clarke — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:41:16 +0000

The two weeks that we recently spent serving and learning in Mamelodi proved to be two of the most well-spent, most obviously God-ordained weeks of the past year of my life. I was faced with the endearing joy that is so prevalent in the Powerhouse Church, and it made me face the lack of joy [...]

Guest Post: Rebekah McInnis On Engaging In Spiritual Warfare

Rebekah McInnis — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:18:46 +0000

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.—Ephesians 6:12 People say that traveling abroad changes a person, that traveling gives one a better, more rounded and realistic view of life. [...]

Vision Trip 2009: Experiencing A Taste of God’s Goodness in Mamelodi

Rebecca — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:02:51 +0000

For two weeks in late May/early June, 19 individuals from our home churches in North Carolina (our church: Grace Community Church) and Atlanta (Will’s church: Atlanta Westside Presbyterian) experienced a taste of what life is like in Mamelodi, South Africa, in service alongside our brothers and sisters at the Powerhouse Church. Simply put: the trip was [...]

Introducing Vukosi Nyathi!

Rebecca — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:53:31 +0000

At long last, Baby Nyathi is here! Vukosi (pronounce Bu-koh-see) Nyathi was born naturally without complication to Gloria and Vincent last Friday, June 5th, at 8:05 a.m. He weighed 2.98 kg (6.6 lbs) and measured 50 cm (19.7 in) in length. June 6th was the final day our friends from Chapel Hill and [...]

Campus Outreach in Mamelodi

Nathan — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:35:56 +0000

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.—James 1:27 Last Saturday about 20 college students from Georgia who are spending two months working with Campus Outreach in Johannesburg came to Mamelodi for [...]

Celebrating Women In Business

Rebecca — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:23:06 +0000

Last Saturday afternoon, the Powerhouse Women’s Ministry hosted an event celebrating women in the township running small businesses of their own. Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.—Proverbs 31:30 In Powerhouse style, the event kicked off with worship and a devotion, which I had the honor [...]

Mamelodi Stories Wins A 2009 Horizon Interactive Award

Nathan — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:59:22 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that MamelodiStories.org took best of category for Blogs in the 8th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards. The Horizon Interactive Awards is “a prestigious international competition recognizing outstanding achievement among interactive media producers.” The contest received more than 2,000 entries from 32 countries and nearly all 50 states. We [...]

Back to Bulembu

Rebecca — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:04:03 +0000

This past week, the AR team, along with Vincent & Gloria and potential AR staff for the coming year, returned to Bulembu, Swaziland, where we visited in December. A few things struck me on this second visit. I loved Bulembu the first time but was secretly [...]

People Over Task

Rebecca — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:00:31 +0000

It’s a little crazy that we can now count on 10 fingers the weeks that we have left here in South Africa. In these final two months, with so much still to wrap up before we can begin to feel closure, it’s tempting to kick into high gear and do, do, do in order [...]

Powerhouse Photo Class Covers Election Day

Nathan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:01:00 +0000

Instead of canceling class today (since almost everything else it closed today) we decided to go out and cover the presidential election. We broke up into three groups of three and spread out to various polling stations in the township. It was a lot of fun and great to see so many people [...]

Tar Heels In The Township

Rebecca — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:58:38 +0000

We just couldn’t miss the National Championship game last night, so we decided to watch it—live on ESPN at 3 in the morning! Will, Nate and I went over to the Nyathis’ house around midnight and were welcomed by UNC sweatshirts and T-shirts draped over the dining room table and chairs and, even better, [...]

April Visitors

Nathan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:02:18 +0000

April is a month for visitors, starting with Annie’s parents Stephen and Marilyn Herwaldt from Lansing, Michigan, for two weeks. Allan’s sister Allison, her husband Steve and their seven-month-old daughter Amelia are also visiting this month from England. And later in the month two of Will’s buddies will be coming for a week. [...]

Future Photographers

Nathan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:06:23 +0000

Tshepo, Peter, Martha, Adelaide, Phina, William, Babongile, Mpho, Mmantwa, Simon, Simongile, Johannes, Vincent, Pinky, Joshua and Thembani. I am excited about the first photography class! There are 16 students that are all eager to learn. I really enjoy teaching photography and we’ve had a lot of fun so far the two times we’ve met. [...]

Iris Ministries: Maputo, Mozambique

Rebecca — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:33:00 +0000

Last week, the AR team and Pastor Vincent traveled to Maputo, Mozambique, to visit Iris Ministries, a ministry started in 1995 by American missionaries Rolland and Heidi Baker. We first learned of Iris through the book Always Enough, which Nate and I each read a few months ago. We found the book very [...]

Web Design Cooperative

Nathan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:36:25 +0000

Through a connection with Allan’s friend from Pretoria, Nic Marsay, we have set up a brand new web design cooperative in the township that will be designing sites for clients in a few weeks or months. It’s called Ikamva Web Development Services—Ikamva means “future” in Zulu. Nic has started a consultancy firm that [...]

Focusing On The One

Rebecca — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:58 +0000

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”—Mother Teresa These days, as we find the months passing too quickly and there still so much left to do, it’s easy to become overwhelmed. A recent happening, though, reminded me of how important it is to pause and focus on the one instead of [...]

Latest Student Websites

Nathan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:12:05 +0000

The second web design class wraps up this week and today they finished their websites. We shortened the class down from three months to two, and I’m very proud of the work they’ve done on their sites. Have a look, read their stories and if they’ve included their email feel free to drop [...]