Meet Zodwa & the Soshanguve team

sIn the last three months newsletter we have introduced you to our three team leaders from the three cities surrounding Richards Bay and this month we want you to meet the team from Sohanguve. Zodwa Ntuli is one of the first two Campus Crusade missionaries that has been working with us since 2004.

You can read a brief biography about Zodwa on our website. In 2008 Zodwa brought nine members of their church congregation down from Sohanguve to Richards Bay to be trained and to work with us for the two-week program at the schools. They also ran a two-week long tent evangelism ministry in parallel with our program so they were busy little bees doing our program by day and the tent evangelism by night. All of Zodwa's team members are in their twenties and are passionate students and followers of Jesus. We were particularly touched one of he team whom we call Lebo, her full name is Lebogang Moloi. Susan wrote a piece about Lebo and her faith in the August newsletter but I want to tell you the story about Lebo's vision.


Let me preface the story by saying that Lebo lost both of her parents to AIDS in about 2000-2001 when she was still a teenager. In her words this left her completely destroyed to the point that she dropped out of school and had no ambition to do and further studying. Just before our trip last year she was reading her bible and praying and she had a vision from God of herself standing in front of a class of high school students and teaching them. She was completely mystified by this and couldn't imagine how she could gain access to the schools or what she would be able to teach the students. She tried to put it out of her mind and go back to her reading and praying but she got the same vision again. Shortly after this incident she heard about the group of young adults that Zodwa was taking to Richards Bay to do the AIDS training. She went to Zodwa and asked her if she could go on the trip because she had a vision from God and she knew that she was supposed to be on the trip. Zodwa told her that they were only taking two cars and all the seats were taken so there wouldn't be any room for her. Lebo was so convinced that she was supposed to be on the trip that she wasn't going to take no for an answer. She started to pray that some how some way she would be able to go with the team to Richards Bay. This went on until the day before the team was due to leave and Zodwa called her to say that one of the guys that was supposed to be on the trip could not get leave from work so there was a seat available for her.

Please watch the Lebo video to see her tell the rest of her story in her own words.

It is our hope and prayer that we will be able to present Lebo with her own set of equipment when we go out to South Africa in August. This will cost about $800. If anyone feels led to make this happen your gift would be gratefully received.

We will have more news in the March newsletter about the developing partnership between Zodwa's team, the Pastors fraternal from Sohanguve and Campus Crusade Head office in Pretoria