NATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY OUTREACHES

For 12 years in a row, Africa Christian Action has used National Women’s Day (09 August) as an opportunity for outreach in the shopping centres.

Last years, Africa Christian Action members and volunteers set up literature tables and photo displays in prominent shopping centres and distributed thousands of balloons with Scriptures and pro-family messages to children. Soon the shopping centres were filled with these Scripture messages on balloons. It is very hard, even for an irate atheist adult, to take a balloon away from a child!

We also managed to distribute many thousands of Gospel leaflets to shoppers, and many conversations resulted. The overwhelming majority of passersby were positive and some were enthusiastically supportive. Numerous counselling opportunities resulted and we had the privilege of praying with a number of shoppers, including with a Muslim who was very convicted.

Africa Christian Action displays were set up at Century City - Canal Walk, Somerset Mall and Sanlam Centre in Khayelitsha. The ACA table in Khayelitsha was absolutely swamped with enthusiastic shoppers eagerly clamering for balloons and literature. Some of our people were busy on their feet for almost 12 hours at Canal Walk and for 9 hours at Somerset Mall. The conversations, discussions, witnessing and counselling opportunities came thick and fast and at the end of the day our legs were sore and our heads were whirling.

All who took part in these outreaches rejoiced at the opportunity to sow Gospel seed and make a stand in the busy shopping centres, being salt and light in the community. We also had the opportunity to encourage over a hundred women passing by with the gift of a rose. It was heartwarming to see the surprised and joyful responses of so many as they received a balloon, a rose or Gospel leaflet.

Thank you so very much to each one who had a part in organising, sponsoring, praying for, or conducting, these outreaches. Let us continue to pray that the Lord would mercifully and graciously continue to work in the hearts and lives of those who have been touched and impacted through the literature distribution, witnessing, conversations and counselling, or even the simple Scripture and pro-family messages on the balloons.

You can organise a Women's Day Outreach - click here

This year, if you would like to get involved with Africa Christian Action and its pro-life, pro-family, pro-moral campaigns, please contact Taryn Hodgson, PO Box 23632, Claremont, 7735, Cape Town, South Africa. Or phone: 021-689-4480; fax: 021-685-5884; or E-mail: info@christianaction.org.za.

“Who will rise up for Me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for Me against the evil doers?” Psalm 94:16

Please do also visit the www.christianaction.org.za website for updates and useful articles and resources for Reformation and Revival. If you do not yet have a copy of Make A Difference - A Christian Action Handbook for Southern Africa, this book is also available from ACA.

If you are interested in starting a Christian Action Group or a Transformation Team in your area, write to: Africa Christian Action for a Starter Pack.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men. You are the light of the world…in the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in Heaven.” Matthew 5:13-16