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Extracts From the South African News Letter

Christadelphians of Gauteng, June 2013

PRETORIA CENTRAL

Bro. Ramazinni & Sis Sangani Emena & their lovely family of eight children emigrated to USA, the "land of the free and the brave", on May 20th. We see this as God's answer to prayer as they have been living in appalling conditions here in SA. Only those who have travelled away from Africa for good, will appreciate their excitement of this new adventure, which is probably coupled with the fear of the unknown. They will be comforted knowing that our Lord and Saviour watches over us all the time.

Congolese ecclesia continues steadfastly and there are always one or two students attending the Sunday Morning classes.

News from Poland. Sis Krystyna Wlodarczyk sends greetings to us all "We in Poland, settled here & doing things, step by step, which we were planning to do here before leaving SA. We are fine here, but at the same time missing family, brethren & sisters in Christ, friends and the weather. June is the month which should be warm & nice here. But we have had, instead, cold & miserable weather most of the time this year.

SOWETO

As anticipated, we greatly benefited from the visit of Bro Anthony & Sis Pat Oosthuizen at the beginning of June. Bro Anthony started our seminar series on "Society in Crisis" with two seemingly unrelated topics: Marriage & Drug Abuse. However, being temples of the living God we are to honor God in all our relationships and behavior. We were treated to further ministrations by Bro Anthony in the exhortation and Bible study. We thank them both for their visit and encouragement especially as they are now well known to most of our members.

Apart from the outreach on the home-front in the form of the Saturday seminars, the topics of which ranged from How to combat Immorality, presented by Bro David White, Homosexuality, Gambling and Prosperity Theology, this month saw much activity and