Impartation and Expectation

Lately our friends have been telling us that we are the busiest people ever, and lately I’ve been feeling that it’s true!

Career Students in front of the Campfire



This past weekend we hosted a career camp for 100 students in grade 11. These camps take a lot of preparation and work to pull off, but we can say that it was successful. Career camps are one of our favourite things that we do here at Africa Ablaze because we are giving students from the rural areas a very unique opportunity. This weekend, a company called Iliad sponsored the entire weekend and paid for 100 students to come and even volunteered their Saturday to come in and share career guidance with these high schoolers. The students work so hard to come on these camps because they know that only the top students in discipline, grades, and attitudes get chosen to come.



The CEO of Iliad speaking to the students




Piet was the front runner of the camp and worked very hard to make sure everything went smoothly. We had a few glitches with transporting the students to and from schools, but everything turned out ok. Because we had the students for the whole weekend, we got to play lots of games and activities with them and share the Gospel. They are all very receptive to the Lord because we see them regularly through school ministries as well.

One thing that you may not know about South Africa is that the education in the rural government schools isn’t always the best. These career camps are such great opportunities for these students to make something of themselves and realize that they can rise above their backgrounds and be successful. Something that I picked up over the weekend from the series of speaker is to never give up. Continue persevering through circumstances until you achieve your dreams and your goals. And this is exactly what these students must do.

Crazy 11th Graders

About two months ago, one of the school principals came up to us to say that each one of the students that have previously been on our career camps have finished school without failing and have received distinctions! How incredible to know that we are impacting the lives of young people in such a tangible way!

We also have an update about our SUV that is on the way. We have received some of the money, but we are still waiting for the rest to come in. We already have $5482 in cash and assets (we just need to sell our car, but we’ve already had two offers). At this moment we only need $2857 to purchase our car. Remember only a few weeks ago we had saved about $450 and now look where the Lord has brought us! We have found such a nice SUV that we are highly considering to buy because it is exactly the price that we are trusting the Lord for and it’s a very practical car, and very good on the dirt road. Our goal was a new car by October, but it seems that we might get it a lot sooner, which is great. We don’t want to finance the car, but we are trying to negotiate that we can make three payments on the car since we don’t have all of the money in yet. So please stand in agreement with us.

Thank you for your prayers, here are a few prayer requests that we have at the moment:

-The finances for our SUV that is on its way.
-We are hosting a church planting camp this weekend. Please pray protection over all of us at the campus and our families, as well as for the souls of the young people we will be equipping to start small groups that will hopefully turn into churches.
-Our marriage
-Wisdom in ministry

We love you all, thanks for your support. We definitely cannot do this without you! We are an extension of all of you.

Love is Real.

The Bakers