Step by step, God is leading Abundant Life to recruit and send missionaries from South Africa. Recently, four student missionaries finished three weeks of intensive training. We thank AFM trainers Dale Goodson and Laurence Burn for coming all the way to South Africa to help with the training. Most of all, we praise God for leading and inspiring our trainees! Laurie Smit from Dundee, who has been serving as a missionary in Zambia for the last seven years, is on her way to the AFM Susu Project in Guinea, West Africa. Bianka Engelbrecht from Hoedspruit and Maryke Reinhard from Bloemfontein are going to the AFM Pnong Project in Cambodia. Naledi Khumalo from Johannesburg will be going to an AFM project yet to be determined. These SMs are eager to go and do God’s work. Please pray that their fundraising will be complete soon.

AFM Training
By Bianka Engelbrecht, previous ABL student and current AFM trainee.

On January 26, the Abundant Life 2014 term started with Adventist Frontier Missions training. Our American trainer, Dale Goodson, took on the first week, during which the Abundant Lifers, together with us short-term AFM trainees, learned more about what it means to become a missionary. Maryke Reinhardt and I enrolled to become missionaries this year, but I didn’t really have a clue what this would mean.

It’s not just about reaching the unreached, but also living Christ’s example. This means first learning new cultures and languages and then introducing God to people who have never heard of Him. It’s all about becoming part of their family.

I want to share AFM’s three goals with you, which actually apply to every Christian life:

1. Reconciliation with God. This also brings reconciliation with others.

2. Growing in spiritual maturity. This only happens by struggling through hard times and using them to grow us. Only then will we become stronger and more trusting of God.

3. Fight on God’s side of the Great Controversy, not by yourself. By letting God fight on your behalf, you will also be helping others take a stand with God against evil. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Rom. 12:21).

Today I would like to leave you with one thought: “Don’t try to preach Christianity, live it!”

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