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Welcome to our first Newsletter for 2005.
PE Church Net is an inter-denominational non-profit organisation working towards unity among churches and Christians in the Nelson Mandela Metropole. This newsletter is sent out every second Thursday to over 3,000 recipients round the world.
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THE
SILVER RING THING
Clearly
the best mix of high tech sound, lighting, special effects and
comedy performance about guys, girls, dating, love, second chances
and choices! The Silver Ring Thing is a se xual abstinence program
where guys and girls pledge abstinence to s ex before marriage. To
solidify this pledge as many as 70% of teenagers at a SRT show choose
to put on a silver ring as a public reminder of their commitment.
Overseas 20% of teens trust Christ as Saviour and many others respond
to the “second chance” message.
An instant positive peer pressure group emerges that encourages and promote abstinence. As we all know, HIV and AIDS are an epidemic crisis in South Africa and the truth is, there is no such thing as safe se x. Over 50% of teenagers are at risk of getting HIV and AIDS and no condom can protect 100% against HIV, pregnancy or any other of the thirty known s exually transmitted diseases. Knowing this, the Silver Ring Thing was introduced and started in America by Denny Pattyn in 1995. In the last year this cutting edge presentation has taken youth culture by storm and has been getting extensive media attention by BBC, CNN, MTV and this PEOPLE magazine. This programme launched S.A. in Johannesburg on 4th Feb 2005. The vision of SRT is to reach the first million teenagers by 2010!
We ask believers to pray that this launch be a beginning that will turn the tide and that it would bring a revival amongst teenagers that will make a national impact and beyond.
More info: (011) 782-4222 or visit the website at www.silverringthing.co.za
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CHRISTIAN
LITERATURE MINISTRY IN BLUEWATER BAY
In
Christian Literature work we are in a ministry employing one of the
most powerful tools, I believe, to reach out to people who are in
need of spiritual support. Therefore our business is not in the first
place Christian book selling. We are here to supply in people's
spiritual needs. In doing so we want to play a supportive role to the churches.
Reaching out to people in person “face to face” remains the ideal. It was calculated that by the year 2000 the world will contain six thousand million people. From this number one third are Christians while another third are only nominal Christians living amongst Christians but they never made a commitment for the Lord. The last third are unreached people groups. From the one third Christians only 9,9% are believed committed Christians.
It is this population explosion which has caused Christian leaders to conclude that if the entire world is ever to hear of Christ, the church must become totally involved in world evangelism. There is general agreement among them that one of the key ingredients in the fulfilling of this great responsibility is the increased use of literature. Many have expressed their belief that the only means of reaching every person with the Gospel is through use of the printed page.
We have identified the need of our Xhosa speaking people to have access to Bibles, Hymn books and other quality Christian Literature. Primarily we want to supply in their needs within their reach. We want to reach out to them but this is not something we can really accomplish all on our own. We need the support of the church to make this possible.
Our books are sold at normal trade prices but we are quite prepared to subsidise, within our means, where people cannot afford to buy it at market related prises.
Ds Giep Louw
The official opening of FUNDANI CHRISTIAN BOOKS, took place on 17th December at 10:00 at N2 City Shopping Centre in Bluewater Bay. (FUNDANI means “You have to read”) - Tel 041-466 5306
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CHILD
& YOUTH MINISTRY OF AMOR BEZUIDENHOUT
"Dear
friends and co-workers in Christ,
My
childhood years were spent in a small town in the Freestate and
later I attended an Agricultural High School near Magaliesberg in
North West. Our playground was the hills or 'koppies' of the
Freestate and the Magaliesberg mountains. We played and ran around in
these hills and mountains as if the ground were level - never
falling, slipping or hurting us when playing and/or running downhill,
many times running fast to get away from snakes or other animals.
I
was often reminded of this during this year. It was a year filled
with joy but also with many downhill experiences as well as a year
marked with many uphill situations. I had to trust God to strengthen
me and to give me the same standing and sure-footedness that I had as
a child running around on the hills and mountains of my childhood
.... "
KENTON-ON-SEA FRAIL CARE FACILITY - A few years Canon Peter Bowen was involved with starting the Dolphin Frail aged nursing home. Realizing that there was need for more bedspace, we expanded further and built an extension with an additional TEN beds - for the oversight of which we have had to employ additional staff. For this there was absolutely NO State Subsidy, and we have had to rely totally on the generosity of the local Christian community. Suddenly, in a short space of time, three of our patients have died, and we are losing community money while their beds remain empty. At the same time as this, we have seen Sale Notices in the E.P, Herald indicating that furnishings from the Laubscher Park and Fairhaven Frail Care units are up for sale? At this end we are asking "What has happened to the former occupants of these units, and where are they now?" Perhaps we can be of mutual assistance to one another - if they are looking for beds, and we are looking for patients. We do already have Altzheimer patients from elsewhere whose families have left their loved ones with us, and who are far more than satisfied with the quality of caring that their loved ones receive here. More info - Matron Hester Zietsman on (046) 648-1325.
NEW
AIDS & LIFE SKILLS VIDEO - In
Your Face - a new Doctors for Life AIDS and life skills video
production was launched in Cape Town recently at an Africa Christian
Action hosted film premiere. In Your Face presents a direct,
uninhibited, unreserved message - the truth of the consequences of
immorality - compressed into a hard hitting half-hour video. It is
educational in the most positive way showing that what you sow you
reap - challenging young people to take responsibility for their own
choice. This is a life skills tool which teachers and youth workers
can use to expose disastrous results of se xual promiscuity and
encourage young people to exercise self control. Every day, teenagers
face the temptation, pressures and dangers of an unplanned pregnancy,
a Sexually Transmitted Disease, or AIDS. This film will empower young
people to choose abstinence before marriage and resist the pressures
and temptations.
In
Your Face is available at R120 a copy from:
Doctors
for Life - www.dfl.org.za
Help Line: 082 407 3929 or 031-764 0443
PRAISE PARTY - After 5 years VIC Party is finally back and this time it's going to be BIGGER and BETTER than ever! So if you want to be part of the 2000 strong praise party then be at Linkside High School on the 8th of April 2005 at 19h00. Entrance is R5 and there will be a tuck shop. Try your luck on our gladiator arena and come and worship Jesus with some of the top musicians in Port Elizabeth. Enquiries: Quentin Roulstone on 082 659-2517
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CONTACT ONLINE - The January 2005 issue of Contact OnLine is now on the server at www.contact-online.org
IINDABA (official Gazette of the Anglican Diocese of PE) - the January issue of Iindaba is now online at www.anglicandiocesepe.org.za/iindaba
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