Contact:

Facebook: Leader Sitraka

Email: dasitraka@gmail.com

Phone: +772 065 7513

Bank Account:

Name: NSM RAKOTOMAMONJY

Account number: 13 47 98 619

Branch code: 052 838

www.ywampotch.com

Ezekiel 3:4

He then said to me: Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to

them

GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU FROM GOD

MAY/2014 POTCHEFSTROOM

South Africa, Potchefstroom | 6 Esselen Street, BULT | phone +72 065 7513| dasitraka@gmail.com

NEWSLETTER N: 004

As I told you on my 2nd newsletter that I said I am

hungry to know God and now, I learnt a lot about

Him.

The environment here at the base helps me so

much to know God and Ive learnt that your family

and friends influence the relationship that you have

with God and we need to have fellowship with

fellow Christians who can drive you towards God.

I am not saying that Christians mustnt have

friends who are unbelievers but I am saying that

your friends can help you to know God and grow

spiritually. In my case, the staff of YWAM

Potchefstroom and some of my friends encourage

me regularly to approach God.

Actually, I am busy with my vision, when I asked

God: why am I here? He gave me a scripture:

EZEKIEL chapter 2 and 3. So, I am thinking and

trying to interpret my vision with the scripture from

Ezekiel. The thing that I could say in this moment

is that I am here at the base of YWAM

Potchefstroom to get more skills and training, to be

willing of my future in ministry.

Honestly, the picture I got in my head about my

vision is BEACH, SEA and MISSION. It sounds

like a ministry for the youth in Islands or Ill be a

teacher who will travel the entire world. I dont

know yet but keep praying for me that God makes

clear my vision. Ill share the meaning with you on

my next newsletter.

I really appreciate those who didnt forget to pray

for me and I already say thank you for those who

are continuing to pray and bless me to live here.

There are some peoples whom I give special

thanks:

The Leaders of YWAM Potchefstroom who

are my parents and also my mentors. They

really like me and they treat me like their

son.

McMillans family (staff of YWAM Potch)

always shares their blessings with me,

doing things like: taking me with them to

spend one week at Marloth Park and

spending time with their family.

Matt. and Liz is a couple from America.

They are blessing me and the students at

the base.

JAKES, SITRAKA, MATT

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE BASE

God is good all the time, all the time God is good

He doesnt stop to bless me every day and I

believe that He still blessing me and you forever

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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT

POTCHEFSTROOM *

Bank Account: NSM RAKOTOMAMONJY/ Account number: 13 47 98 619/ Branch code:052 838

More about our program at the base that I shared

with you in my 3rd newsletter IKAGENG and

YWAM Potchefstroom, it is going well and the

door is still open for us, thanks to God

Outreach at the University where there are

47000 students. Actually we are busy organizing a

bible study at the Campus for the students. Also,

we are thinking about using the media at the

Student Centre which is a real good way of

changing the atmosphere at the Campus and for

evangelism. We want to create a short movie

about the testimonies and YWAM but unfortunately

we dont have the equipment yet (camera, Laptop).

So we ask to pray for us to find the person who

can provide the equipment.

Outreach Township in IKAGENG, where we try

to preach and help the people for twice a week.

We do two kinds of activities: Bible study for the

children every Sunday, and for the Fathers every

Monday, Games with the children and after we

teach them about Gods word and we do that every

Wednesday.

To have more information about the activities in Ywam Potchefstroom, you can check our website:

www.ywampotch.com or

Facebook: YWAM Potchefstroom.

1. Potchefstroom has a population of 130,000

people and is known today as the city of

expertise because it is home to five tertiary

institutions and 30 schools as well as numerous

research bureaus and training facilities. Most of

the youth are students who speak Afrikaans. At

Campus, there are 47 001 students (Female:

32085 (68%) and Male: 14916 (32%)).

Unfortunately, among of the youth become

sexually active pre-maturely. On the back of

that, there exists a house (hubbly) where they

can smoke freely.

2. HIV positive rates are growing in

Potchefstroom especially in IKAGENG. (In 2010,

30% of South African women who were pregnant

had HIV). Besides, the violence and crime is still

the biggest social problem in Potchefstroom.

3. Apartheid is still a problem. The most of the

jobless-people and beggars in the town are black

people (23, 3% (2011)). And we notice that black

and white people do not engage with one

another easily.

4. Official languages: isiZulu, isiXhosa,

Afrikaans, Sesotho, English, Setswana,

Xitsonga, siSwati, Tshivenda, isiNdebele, Sepedi

and sign language.

5. Religions: Christianity, Muslim, Hinduism,

Judaism and African traditional.

I want to extend my visa: on November 2014, Ill

do my DTS at the base, next year well have 2

courses of leadership (3months) and youth

mobilization (3months). My prayer request is that

you join me in prayer.

We have graduated 2 missionaries (Matt

and Liz) from America on April who

finished their DTS at the base. In fact,

they want to do ministry in Liberia. So we

need to pray for them.

One big room is available at the Base

Christians students house so we need a

prayer to have a person who can rent it.

God called one of our staff to work out of

Potchefstroom.

The DTS team of this year is busy

planning to go do outreach in Russia.

We received a team of 8 missionaries

from DTS Nations Builders Worcester who

stayed in the base for two weeks. While

they were here they did outreach on

campus with our team and both the teams

learnt a lot about each other.

NEWS AT THE BASE

* Sources: Www. ywampotch.com

http://www.potchefstroom.info/home/education

http://www.nwu.ac.za/

Census 2011 Municipal fact Sheet, published by Statistics South Africa.

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Sitraka RAKOTOMAMONJY