The Church is growing but there is still a lot need to be done because of lack of stability in our communities that also affects stability in the church. Members are coming and going. This is because we are ministering to poverty stricken people. That forces the church to play a holistic approach in our ministry to transform the lives of that community.

The church is doing very well, by the grace of God. We Baptist 1 convert and accepted 4 people into the membership of New Beginnings, in February. We are planning a picnic on the second week of April for the church at Sum Cay, just to have fun, fellowship and having braai together as the church. This time we will also serve to celebrate 4 years of New Beginnings Community Church. Small Groups We have planted two small group, one in Mission vale and one that rotates between Gelvandale, Sidwell and Algoa Park. We have two leaders leading these groups. Small groups are doing very well. People are growing spiritually, in their relationship with God, and towards each other. We have completed our study in the book of Acts. We will start working through “what’s your story” toolkit from heartlines and we are excited for what God will do in our lives. Youth: Is doing extremely well. Beginning of the year we have decided to start the youth ministry from scratch. Within 6 weeks we had 15 youth coming, and last week we had 20 young people coming. Please pray for the team for wisdom and guidance.

“I have indicated  earlier that the slow growth of the church is so discouraging to the point that I sometimes want to quit and shut the ministry / church down. It is very hard, we are losing members and the challenges of life both physically and social are a contributing factor to the discouragements. The level of commitment is dropping from members and I suspect that people now focus more churches that do miracles and prophets. The word based  and disciple making  churches are having a hard time these days. Matthew 24 is now becoming a reality. We need prayers and more advice on how we can make the church desirable and relevant again.”

”The Church planting is doing very well, and we started to preach at a new place named Mpindwenwe. We held a tent revival and after the revival we have got new Converts and we do Bible lessons , Discovery Bible Study and prayers to grow them up. God is so faithful to us as the family, in ministry we see God doing so amazing things and people get healed by the power of God.”