1 GKSA NEWS Sunday 10 March 2019 JOYS AND SORROWS Best wishes We pray for all who have undergone surgery or are recuperating at home or are yet to undergo surgery this coming week God’s blessing of a speedy recovery. Sincere congratulations to the following ministers/professors and spouses celebrating their birthday 9 March Dr TD Mashau (Derrick) – New Life City Church Sunnyside 9 March Dr DK Semenya (Kwena) – GK Diepsloot 9 March Rev Z van’t Zand (Zander) – GK Middelburg-Noord 10 March Rev JL Lee (Jan-Louis) – GK Brits 12 March Mrs MM van der Walt (Martha), spouse of Prof PC van der Walt (Chris) – TSP 13 March Dr SN Jooste (Simon) – GK Bellville 13 March Dr PT Masase (Thomas) – GK Boskop 14 March Rev RB Fourie (Reynold) – GK Bellville-Oos Sincere congratulations to the following emeriti celebrating their birthday 10 March Rev KA Janse van Rensburg (Anton) – GK Paarl 11 March Dr JM van Tonder (Kobus) – GK Krugersdorp- Wes/Magaliesburg 11 March Mrs AM Snyman (Anita), widow of the late Rev EFJ Snyman – GK Orkney 11 March Mrs LJ Cilliers (Louisa), spouse of Rev SA Cilliers (Sarel) – GK Waterberg 12 March Rev CP Semenya (Cyril) – GK Katlehong 12 March Dr BAJ van der Merwe (Belia), spouse of Dr SJ van der Merwe (Sarel) – GK Mafikeng 14 March Rev AZ Pelser (Abie) – GK Oos Moot 14 March Mrs HS Smit (Sannie), spouse of Rev DWJ Smit (Danie) – GK Springs 14 March Mrs HM Buys (Hanneke), spouse of Dr PJ Buys (Flip) – GK Potchefstroom-Die Bult
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GKSA NEWS
Sunday 10 March 2019
JOYS AND SORROWS Best wishes We pray for all who have undergone surgery or are recuperating at home or are yet to undergo surgery this coming week God’s blessing of a speedy recovery. Sincere congratulations to the following ministers/professors and spouses celebrating their birthday 9 March Dr TD Mashau (Derrick) – New Life City Church Sunnyside 9 March Dr DK Semenya (Kwena) – GK Diepsloot 9 March Rev Z van’t Zand (Zander) – GK Middelburg-Noord 10 March Rev JL Lee (Jan-Louis) – GK Brits 12 March Mrs MM van der Walt (Martha), spouse of Prof
PC van der Walt (Chris) – TSP 13 March Dr SN Jooste (Simon) – GK Bellville 13 March Dr PT Masase (Thomas) – GK Boskop 14 March Rev RB Fourie (Reynold) – GK Bellville-Oos Sincere congratulations to the following emeriti celebrating their birthday 10 March Rev KA Janse van Rensburg (Anton) – GK
Paarl 11 March Dr JM van Tonder (Kobus) – GK Krugersdorp-
Wes/Magaliesburg 11 March Mrs AM Snyman (Anita), widow of the late Rev EFJ Snyman – GK
Orkney 11 March Mrs LJ Cilliers (Louisa), spouse of Rev SA Cilliers (Sarel) – GK
Waterberg 12 March Rev CP Semenya (Cyril) – GK Katlehong 12 March Dr BAJ van der Merwe (Belia), spouse of Dr SJ van der Merwe
(Sarel) – GK Mafikeng 14 March Rev AZ Pelser (Abie) – GK Oos Moot 14 March Mrs HS Smit (Sannie), spouse of Rev DWJ Smit (Danie) – GK
Springs 14 March Mrs HM Buys (Hanneke), spouse of Dr PJ Buys (Flip) – GK
Potchefstroom-Die Bult
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14 March Rev IJV Kruger (Koos) – GK Tsumeb 14 March Mrs ME Venter (Mila), spouse of Rev PA Venter (Piet) – GK Linden Sincere congratulations to the following theological students celebrating their birthday 1 March Jaco Roets 7 March Gerhard Willemse
We wish you God’s richest of blessing for the coming year (Ps 16:5, 6).
Congratulation to
Rev Gerben and Anne Meijer of GK Vryburg/Schweizer Reneke with the birth of their daughter Dr Gerard and Henriëtte Meijer of GK Oos Moot with the birth of their granddaughter
Graduation Congratulations to the following theological students who have received a degree in
• BTh Bible languages: Marten Boersema, Jacques Kuhn, Mukesh Kumar, Mduduzi Mahlangu, Wikus Opperman Floris van Staden, Erasmus Venter and Quintin Venter
• Hons BTh: Riaan Andersen, Jandré Coetsee, David Letebele, Jaco Linde and Izak van der Westhuizen
• MDiv: Reinhart Boersema, Philip Hattingh, Dirk Meijer, Peet van der Westhuizen and Hendrik Verryn
Congratulations to Ms Martie Lakay at the Theological School whose son received a BCom financial accounting degree at the NWU Symphaty to Mrs Oniccah Modise, spouse of Rev Paul Modise of GK Kagiso, whose grandfather died
The Youth Deputies are inviting all high school learners and students from all over the country to travel to Malawi. We will be giving out Bibles, talking about discipleship and will be having great fun! We will leave on 23 June from the Reformed Church Pretoria-Alkantrant and will return on 4 July. Accommodation is tents in Monkey Bay, Malawi. It costs R4000 per person. A R2000 deposit paid before 29 March will secure your place. Do not miss out on this exciting event! Go to www.gkjeug.co.za for more info. You can also phone Reynold Fourie (084 707 6276) or Zak Scholtz (079 885 4206).
GKSA DID YOU KNOW? There are certain words we use in the church that are not used outside the church.
I undertook my studies from 1994-2000 and was ordained in 2001 as minister of the GK Glencoe/Ladysmith-combination in the north of Natal. I remained unmarried until I, to the great relief of these congregations, married Jacky on 1 May 2004. Our son, Nikla, was born on 27 August 2005 and after a long wait of 7 years we
were blessed with our daughter, Janique, on 26 November 2012. We as family love nature and the outdoors, so we spend time outside whenever we get the chance. Jacky is a Gr R teacher at Worcester Primêr and enjoys the little ones enormously. Our ministry in Natal will always stay with us, since it meant that I ministered two days a week at GK Glencoe and two days at GK Ladysmith, followed by an eight o’ clock service at the one and a 10 o’ clock service at the other on Sundays. The warmth of the congregations made up for the cold eight o’ clock services. The wonderful scenery, including the mountains, made the travelling between congregations a great deal more pleasant. We think back with precious memories at our formative years in these congregations. We accepted the calling, led by the Holy Spirit, to GK
Postmasburg in July 2007 in the hot, but beautiful Northern Cape. Our ministry in Postmasburg came with its own long distances and bad roads, but the members and surroundings made up for it. We saw the quiet town, filled with Dopper history, grow and explode with the new mine that opened just outside Postmasburg that also meant growth for our congregation. The annual fete was and remains a high point of cooperation within the congregation toward the building up and out of God’s Kingdom. It was also a true privilege to minister to the GK Groenwater, a Tswana Reformed congregation outside of Postmasburg. Before my departure to GK Worcester, the congregation was in the process of building a church building for GK Groenwater and with the aid and perseverance of members the building
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was completed after I left. We accepted a calling to GK Worcester in 2014, led by the Holy Spirit, an area encircled by mountains on all sides that immediately makes you think of Psalm 125. Our ministry in Worcester is again unique in that we minister to sight-impaired members and our wider ministry also includes the deaf and multiply disabled children and adults. Worcester congregation and community are filled with love and sincerity for their fellow man and we are actively involved at these schools and institutions. We are grateful for the love and care from our members, since a large number of members are spread to all corners of the wind around Worcester. Please visit our Facebook page – Gereformeerde Kerk Worcester. We as family thank the Lord for more than 17 years of ministry, for all His grace, faithfulness, care and love that we experience daily as well as the congregations and members that shared in our growth, with which we could live through prosperity and adversity. We pray that God will bless our future the same way He did our past.
