Full Circle: Generation Next Now at MBC
On Monday we register a new student group for 2016 at
Miracle Bile College, Cape Town.
Every year I am aware that God sends people for us to
train. We are always so honoured that people answer the call to study the Word
of God on a daily basis for a year. This is truly the most absorbing way of raising
the standard of hearing God’s voice through an open Bible that you can get
today.
Sean and Prophet Celeste Glass have journeyed with us for
2 decades and now their eldest is enrolling. From the letter you notice how God
uses different people in the Church to connect people into an orbit of
discipleship:
“Dear Apostle Aje,
…In January of 1996 Pastor Stefan
(then dating Wilna) abruptly stopped me in the middle of the road at a
tri-athlon race, and asked if I was in a church, told me he was picking me up
the next morning and that's that. (We weren't friends at the time, we just knew
each other from seeing at training or events)
At the service in Milnerton High
School hall, seated in the row behind me was Ebernice who had been my ACSV
group leader in 1992.
In February of 1996 the sports
company i worked for sent me to their Tygervalley branch and on my first day
there Eric Collins walks in and cracks jokes about 'The Ministry of Funny
Walks" and invites me to spend my lunch at their coffee shop inside their
book store directly opposite from where I worked. I had never met Eric before,
but his face rang a bell.
Walking into the shop at lunch time
I see a dark haired fellow painting a mural and realize, his face looks
familiar too, and it hits me the two are brothers Eric and Leigh Collins and
they ministered to our senior youth at Bergsig NG Church in 1992.
Eric then starts discipling me and
brings me to their home cell, where it turns out Stefan is a member and where I
meet Richard Glass and we become friends.
September of that year I lay down
all my plans and dreams and decided to begin my first year of full time Bible
College at Life of Christ Bible Institute together with Eric.
You were class captain, your father
the lecturer.
This coming Monday 18 January, when
Rebekah enters the same Bible College after on her own deciding to heed Gods
call to study the Word full time - it will be 20 years from my first being
added to this church and this training centre!
I was the first in our family line
to answer, by God's grace and the help of the Holy Spirit alone, to fully
commit my life to this continuous present day reformation and Rebekah
represents the next (now) generation continuing in that legacy.
Sean and I give God all the glory
for this! Every fiery trial, every suffering, every rebuke and times of
discipline has been SO worth it! This reward far outweighs all the suffering
combined.
We thank God for the example your
parents have set, for the times they continued to encourage me to stay at
ladies meeting so I could receive instruction and impartation from Prophet Nola
on how to raise my children to serve the Lord. For the example you as a family
are because I always thought, if God could do it for Apostle Andre and Prophet Nola
- that their children willingly and whole heartedly serve the Lord with joy -
then He can do the same for us and our children and by His grace...
There is no God like our God. He
gets all the glory and the praise and the honour.
Thank you for allowing God to use
you all in the way He sees fit, it has set the course for our family line for
the good.
Grace and peace”
Celeste
We register at MBC on Monday 18th January at
10:00, all are welcome to join us for drinks and snacks with an orientation
session by the staff of 2016. Look forward to seeing you there!
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