Hello friends. 

So in July I will be heading to Germany. God put this on my heart as a great opportunity for me to be a blessing and encouragement in my German friends, as most of you know how they have been a blessing to my life personally and here in my country. This trip will be to invest, encourage by sharing my life stories and experience I have with my journey with Jesus, already been invited to share in few churches and will visit YWAM Bases (Youth With A Mission). I am very excited because I will be more giving than receiving, of cause nothing physical but what is mostly needed, which personal stories, culture, most of all spiritual experience and Jesus stories.
I would like to invite you to help me get there, I'm trusting God for 800 euros for my ticket visa and travel insurance. So you can stand with me in prayer, having faith that I would be able to get all the money by June. but you can also put faith in action by giving whatever you can, if you would like to give, you can press the donate button here and will guide you. 


If you have any question or want more details please feel free to message me on whatsapp 0719789857 or on facebook. 

Thank you so much!

Lunathi.

                                                  LUNATHI’S NEWSLETTER

Hello friends.
This will be my last update for this year. It's been a great and challenging year for sure, but that's why I can say it was only by His grace that I made it.

I have just finished the Children At Risk School (CAR), an extremely amazing and helpful YWAM school. Over the last three months, I learnt a lot about children at risk and how to help them. This is valuable information to know as I'm planing to build a children centre back home, which I am so excited about, because it's big and
crazy. Now the school is done, I will be leading outreach teams from overseas, whilst I spend time with Father God, planning what to do towards the vision He has put on my heart.

If you want to know more about the centre, I made a short 5 minute clip with pictures to give you an overview, which couldn't post because of internet but will follow. basically the clip provides a little bit of background of life back home and an overview of how life is like for the children there and how the centre will benefit them and their families.
I have already got land, so I'm off to a good start, and doing the school has given me the tools to build an effective team, to get the community involved and how to fund raise. I have located it purposely in the area in which I grew up as I already have a good reputation with the people in the community, which is good and I know how things work, what will work and won't.
This is too big for me and challenging in every way, but with God's word I am convinced that its possible. In Him my strength, courage and confidence lies. It will require a lot of finances and still praying about how to raise the money, trusting in and being fully dependent on God, not relying on myself or other people. Still I'm reminded that many times God provides through people, because He partners with His sons and daughters to meet one another's needs through love and sacrifices to see His will done.
It's hard sending out newsletters asking people for money, friends who are employed and have been given grace financial who generously support the work God has called me to in full-time missions work. It needs a lot perseverance and patience, often making your requests known with no assurance that someone will respond. Praying and being dependent on God, believing in His promises to provide and always going to Him asking Him how to do it, not stressing and asking why the money is not coming in.

I wish I wouldn't even have to write about money so much, but it's a necessary part of life. I have to swallow my pride and to ask people to pray about helping me financially. Asking, not with an orphan heart, but knowing that I am a son of the King of the World, that He responds when we call and lay out our needs. He's always listening.


Please keep me in your prayers;

1) As I plan to host overseas teams, please stand with me in prayer for the teams
that are coming and that we will work together effectively.
2) Pray for finances to come in. I was challenged to take all my monthly support for January to cover all my school fees. This means that I'm trusting God for my rent and food for the beginning of next year. Also, that God will continue to open doors in that part of my life as I continue do His work.
3) I may be going to Germany again to help in a farm and raise funds for the Children's Centre, this is not confirmed yet, so please be praying for me in that.
4) I have my driving test on the begging of February needs to continue to take driving lessons, which is 13 euros per hour. If you can help me out that would be awesome or let me practice in your car if you are around.
Thanks for your support and love throughout this year. Thank you for continuing to support me this year in your thoughts and prayers, you are a great blessing to me.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
THANK YOU and God bless!!!
Lunathi. 

                                                     CAR SCHOOL UNPDATES

It's been 5 weeks already since the school has started and Papa has been teaching me so much through different speakers, my classmates, and our staff.

Before I go through the specifics; I first would like to take time and say thanks to everyone of you, for love, support and encouragement in this new season of my life. Because of this, I feel as if I am being carried by all of you during this journey of mine. Now I know you all wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Jesus's love and grace making us one and empowering us in our weaknesses, but again He gave us a choice. By choosing to stand with me in all you can, I am able to constantly praise God. Thank you!

About the Children at Risk School (CAR):

We started off the first week by sharing our testimonies and getting to know one another as a class, which was fun. The CAR school represents about 8 different nations. Through we are a diverse group, we love Jesus and have a passion for children. Our first topic was God's heart for children. This was a good foundation for us, we got to learn to look at children through God's eyes- not the world’s eyes or what society has thought of us. I was blown away by how God values children; and how the enemy hates and want to destroy them. Other topics such as Worldview, Child development, Advocacy taught about human trafficking, Trauma, and how to deal with kids who have been through super difficult times. Last week the topic was Celebrating Children and this is about Addiction, how to help children who have addiction, there are 8 weeks still to go.

We also have different local outreaches every Wednesday. My team works specifically with street kids here in Muizenberg. We basically just go out and love, play and pray for the kids as Holy Spirit leads us.

Personal testimonies:

This school hasn't been just about learning tools for kids ministry, it also impacts me personally in a deep way, some things I never thought affected me or I tried to avoid until now. I realized there are things keeping me from joy and the freedom of the healing process the Father has been working in me.

The school has been fun as I am learning to be joyful and to be a child again. It's like God is taking me all the way back to the experiences of a child again, and there are memories there I don't want to think of or remember. That is my challenge, but I can actually feel walls breaking off and healing happening inside, as I experience Father's good love, patience, kindness and His voice whispering in my ears that He loves me.

He wants me to know that I am not a mistake! He constantly reminds me of His promise that He will always be here and will never leave me. (Duet. 31:6) This gives me hope, for He doesn't only say that. He also says that I AM FORGIVEN and will never be separated from Him in any mistake, sin,or act of disobedience. He disciplines me in love and will never leave me!!!!

Prayer request and encouragement: For some reason I misunderstanding the cost of my school fees, I thought it was less but actually its not. So that leaves me trusting for more than I thought, which is 12,000 rand instead of 10. As you all might have seen on Facebook I have been trying to fundraise, sending updates and  some testimonies of how God has been providing, It's been hard because it's a lot of money, but I still know and trust God's faithfulness (Psalm 138:3 “In the day when I cried out, He answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul.” 

His strengths me and renew my faith and hope to help me face my fears and see the impossible. This is for all of us (Heb10:19-25) God's strength is enough to help us to be strong in our difficult times! Let's press on to the goal which is Jesus and never loose sight of what His doing or teaching us, even when we don't see may our faith be stronger, after all it is an assurance of things we hope and pray for (Heb11:1) This is my prayer request: Please praying for doors to open up, not only that but ask God if there's any way you can help, I can use any help I can get. The Lord is good, a strength and stronghold in the days of trouble; he knows, recognizes, has knowledge and understand to those who take refuge and trust in him. 

NAHUM1:7

I know that he will make away even in this season, he is a good father. Thank you again for reading through and God bless! For more details contact me.

Lunathi.

                                                                      Updates 

Hello. It's been a long time since I actually wrote any updates on my blog. I have decided to start blogging again and will soon send it out through an email, since some of you prefer to have it there as well as for those of you who are not into Facebook.

I'm sure a lot of you have heard about what I am going to be doing in couple of days, but just in case you don’t I am sending this update. Here are some more details on what I'm actually going to be doing, why I am doing it and what it will look like. I am still in a process of creating an overview of my passion and vision for the future in a clip, but I will save that for later. In a week

I will be starting a school called CAR (Children at Risk), which focuses on children who grew up in unhealthy homes or have a rough background or family life. I'm sure you have noticed or heard that I have a big heart and passion for children and young people in general. God has seriously put children on my heart and it can sometimes be overwhelming, yet they seem be drawn to me and trust me.

God has led me to do this school, and I am very excited. When I said yes to His heart for these little ones, I immediately wanted to go and do something. Yet I know that I am not just going to be sitting in class, but preparing myself for the future. For when God says to do something, I always know it's important and needed and He has also been showing me why He wanted me to do the school. 

What often affects you the most in your life is your child hood; I think all of us know that. Now there are thousands of children at risk, they don’t choose the environment they grow up in or who their parents are. So often they don’t experience true joy and love and it hurts not only their childhood but also the rest of their lives are affected in a bad way. I could tell you a lot of stories of children I know who grow up and were considered at risk children, some of them are very close to me. Yet a lot of you probably wouldn’t have time to read through, so i'm doing a short clip with some of that.  

This school will be very helpful and a good tool for God's calling for me, as I plan to start a children center back at home. I will share more about that on the clip.

No as you know children are very expensive and a big gift from God, to do this school as well is not cheap. School fees are 10,000 rand, 620 in euros and 700 usd. I would like to ask if anyone would like to consider helping me by donating any change for me. You can donate by pressing the the donate button or send me a message for other details, as well as if you want to hear more information. 

Thank you for taking a time to read through! May God in all His riches bless you abundantly.

Lunathi.

Restoration of Identity

 Hello friends and family. It's been a month since my last update, and so much has happened already; stories full of adventures and amazing testimonies of our loving God and Father pruning me through DTS to grow and produce fruit.

I will start off by sharing a short testimony from  Nations 2 Nations celebration week, one of our celebrations here in YWAM. Where we celebrate our differences, equipped and encouraged to go to all nations. Also a place of reconciliation and restoration of identities which was a big thing for me. In all of my life I struggled to know who I am, which culture I belong to, and where do I came from. With these I carried deep hurt inside me of been called by names and told I'm not black enough, not coloured enough, even here people will make jokes about it. If you didn't know my whole family is coloured in my dad's side, but lived in a Xhosa village, and that's where I came. My dad meet my mum (a Xhosa) and they had me, I don't know how I would be called.

We had a Koisan mama from Namibia, from the first original people of Southern Africa, where we came from as Coloureds and Xhosas.
They called her to pray for us in Koi language, and when she started praying I broke down in tears, the Father restoring my identity and healing deep scars pain if I have any value, not knowing who am I. Now I'm learning to appreciate who I am and not being ashamed of it, because my full identity is found in Christ and not in what people say I am or where I came from. Amen!

At the end of that week, we went out to do outreach in the city as DTS's. I got the chance to preach on the train, with the support and prayers of the people I was with. One person was touched by the Father and accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior, in perfect timing of the Holy Spirit. People were encouraged and blown away by the love and wisdom we had, the Holy Spirit was just moving through out the city.

To finish of, The Father has been teaching me about maturity, how to respond to things in a matured way but still be fully myself. I find out that even though I have victory or free from rejection and depression, base on the facts of my mess up past I still suffer deep pain, lies of I am worthless, I don't have any who cares about me, depression and suicide thoughts. I know it's the lies of the enemy which attack all of us in different ways or times. 

But we choose how to respond to them, we rather believe the lies or except the truth of our God and Father. This is what the Lord has been teaching me; He reminded me of all that He gave me and the wonderful family and friends He brought to my life. Constantly reminding me to be faithful on the little things, that it starts with me to be a faithful friend that loves and cares without expectations, continually praying for others and encourage them. Acts of kindness, in humility except correction, and that I am not always going to be right, to be okay to make mistakes and being wrong. This is my next journey; walking in maturity! That mean walking in all that the Lord commanded me to. 

Now what I am going to do after DTS; I am tired, so I will be taking a break. That means enjoying time without schedule, being in the community taking time to get to know people in our community international, being involved in one or 2day ministries locally, helping out in one on ones if needed. I wanted to do the worship school called Sound of Nations, but I couldn't. One of the leaders came to me and said "I can always come around everytime and join them", which is a big blessing to me hoping that I will get a chance one day to do all of it, because worship is one of things that is deep in my heart. Those are ideas of what I'm going to be doing during my break. 

Prayer requests; Prayer for long term supporters, so I could be able to cover all of my cost of living monthly, as I continue learning and serving here in missions. Pray for a friend that can! and willing to commit to support me monthly. Another thing I mentioned and asked you to pray for is my visit to Germany. It has been confirmed by the Father, will be leaving in August but still trusting for my ticket, still in need of 10.000 rand, trusting by the end of this month I will have all of it so I can buck. So if you can there's a donation batten, it doesn't matter how much whatever you can it will mean a lot to me.

Thank you again to everyone, for your love and support! you all are big blessing to my life. Again none of who I am now and all that I have, learned would've been possible without meeting beautiful, wonderful people like you. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

God bless!  

   

                                        Love transforms 

Short summary of how the Father has been transforming my life in this season through DTS and how He blessed the people He gave me. An awesome school with amazing students from 14 different nations and an amazing staff group who always pushes me with encouragements to walk tall.

 Lots and lots of fun times, the Father stretching me in every way. But above all people have been blessed from the first week to the last week, through local outreaches to general things like going to the shops and the beach, work duties, worship and intercession times. From the classroom to outside, getting to know one another and learning to love and embrace different backgrounds and cultures.

    

Staffing DTS gave me a chance to hear teachings all over again from different awesome speakers, not only that, I get to see how much I have grown in how I viewed leadership and in my calling. And since this is my third time hearing teachings some for the fourth time, they are not only a knowledge now but an application, looking back and seeing where I missed walking them out, which is an awesome thing ever. 

What I noticed since I started this journey I never worry that I am wasting my life, because it's been life changing and people's  lives were encouraged everyday. But that doesn't mean I don't think about it, is my rent going to come this month or will I ever visit my new family and friends that God has given me, because I don't get paid. But praise be to God alone who has given me such a chance in my youth, a chance to walk in His fullness and gave me a new life, life that is better and more satisfying than all that the world can offer me. It is risky sometimes, but risk is worth taking for the truth, I have nothing to lose in this life! And this is the truth, there is no other better way and name to restore a broken world and comfort broken hearts than Jesus Christ! Billions of people are crying out for this truth, the world is in need and He is asking all of us; "Who will go for Us?".I answered; 'Here I am, I will go!' with knowing the full cost. 

As you all watched my video thats how my journey continues of Knowing Him And Making Him Known. Hope you all can see the donation batten if you feel to give as the Lord leads. Thank you all! 

God bless!

   

     

                                        Grace and Peace               

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and an exciting new year.

December just seemed to be a down month for me, But in all of that I do have an awesome story to share.

 So as everybody knows I grow up without my mom, and through the healing of the Lord and friend's encouragement I started looking for her. Got her number and was in contact with her for the last 6months, went back home during December and I got to meet my mom for the first time in 20 years. It was such a wonderful experience to see her face to face, as well as seeing my big sister and little sis. I also got to see all the work the Lord has done in my life, from hearing their stories about their expectations of what I look like; it's so funny because how they thought I was going to be like all the Xhosa man, with all the pride and serious face with a lot of questions.

She told me why she had to leave, but of course there is no excuse of not checking on how I was doing.

Again thank you to all of you who have been part of this journey with me.

In this new season:

Like I said, a new journey has started, with a lot of confidence, joy from the Father and excitement of what His going to do. The Lord has spoken these words to me for this new season: deep freedom, confidence, discipline in specific areas, teachable and patient. I invite all of you again to partner with the Father to fulfilling what He wants to do in this young man's life, in and through him. A lot of you have been and are still part of what God is doing in my life in different ways, and I can't be more thankful for all of you. Thank you.

As you all know I'm in full time staffing Disciple Training School, In the few months I am gonna be leading a team probable to Asia to outreach, and I need your prayers and support to make this journey possible. I am still praying asking the Father how He wants to provide for this, got some ideas of fundraising but still waiting for a conformation from Him, As well finding time.  I ask for your prayers as well as ideas that I can use. I opened a PayPal account for those who are not in South Africa but would like to give as the Lord leads. You can contact me for more details.

Again Thank You to all who Financially Supported me during last year! I would not be who I am and did what I did without your generous support & for your belief in me, I am for ever grateful! If you've given monthly, one time, a few times, or gave me ideas to help me raise funds, I am overwhelmed by all of your love and thankful. Just for all of you to know everything you did and do means a lot to me, your friendship, encouragements, feedback on my newsletters, in  what I am doing, your support financial even if it was R5 for laundry, all are valuable to me. God bless! 

If you have any questions regards to this, if you didn't understand something I wrote please contact me, as well as feedback.