Hi Family!
What I had hoped would be a quarterly letter/blog has become a semi-annual one. And here we are, all of a sudden, at the end of a year filled, as always, with tragedy and redemption, death and life, endings and beginnings, all punctuated with the Gracious intrusions of the God who came near, and stays among us. Lorraine and I have this year celebrated our 40th anniversary, been blessed with yet another grandgirl called Maddison Rose Preston, visited places old and new, retreated and advanced, and seen some dreams fail and others come true. I have enjoyed my new course of study through Stellenbosch University, absorbing what God is saying to the wider church on so many fronts. 
Something great is stirring on the South Eastern most tip of Africa. We believe that God wants to reach our youth of the city in a fresh way.
We believe that He wants to usher in a move of His Spirit that will ignite the flame of passion for Jesus among the youth once again. Our heart is to start locally at Fountain Vineyard church, build a strong base of fired up youth that will be empowered to move into the rest of the city in Kingdom Power. Yeah!
Posted on November 18th, 2011 | No Comments »
Hi Family!
I must apologise for this year-end letter having become a new year-beginning letter. It was Alexander’s fault! (Just kidding, but 2010 did end in a bit of panic and distraction, to say the least!) Lorraine joins me, be it belatedly, in extending our prayers and blessings to you for 2011. I sent this message to my Facebook friends:
Posted on February 17th, 2011 | No Comments »
Andrew and Alexander went to Harare on Thurs 1st July and returned home on Sunday evening 4th July. Their purpose was to have leadership meetings (Thurs night to mid Friday afternoon) and to lead a public conference (Friday night and Saturday), and then to preach the Sunday services in Harare Vineyard (Alexander) and in Chegutu Vineyard (Andrew).
A team of 8 from Willow Hill Vineyard (Andrew’s church in Johannesburg) went directly to Chegutu and spent the whole time there to help an orphanage led by Moses and Refinwe. They took loads of supplies in a large trailer. Andre Kriel met with the local town planner regarding plans to build a new orphanage on the land given for that purpose. They got an extension in terms of building on the land –we needed to break ground by end of June, but to raise funds for this in the current climate in Zim for building is difficult. The team painted the lounge and passages, ministered to the leaders at the orphanage, put on a puppet show for the kids and generally had great fun doing ‘good works’!
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
If you happen to know of any teachers who would be qualified and interested to teach at a UK curriculum (Cambridge) school in Tanzania please put them in contact with us.
Posted on July 15th, 2010 | No Comments »
