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Jan Pienaar reports on the work in Paraguay where he will be for December 2008 - January 2009:

The visit to Paraguay has been a great blessing. I was blessed to find Herbert and Mientjie immersed over their heads in the Lord's work. They are having services every Thursday and Sunday in the home where they live with Rudi, Herbert's brother, in Asuncion. They have moved to Paraguay about a year ago, and Herbert believes that spiritual work goes together very well with physical work. He actually said that all the people he has seen coming to the Lord, were touched by the way Christians were working together. So Herbert and Peter Siebert, who has visited the mission in South Africa for a year about 5 years ago, and who is Herbert's right hand when it comes to practical work, are not afraid to tackle new projects together. Because of this, Rudi's property has had a change of face. Many loads of topsoil has improved the soil and also lifted the surface which tends to be marshy. A new security fence has been erected, and the flat where Herbert and Mientjie live has received a beautiful new bathroom and kitchen and the bedrooms new floors and fans for cooling. They have just finished some terraced flowerbeds outside, and are now laying beautiful paving from natural paving stones next to the house and between the house and the flat.
The spiritual work involves, a regular hour long broadcast every week from a community radio station in Santa Rosa (holy rose), about 240km north from Asuncion. Herbert prepares the services in his study at home, and then e-mails it to a friend near by, who then takes it to the radio station. Except for the services he has at home, he has also been invited for services in Rio Verde (green river). He visits people in jail and in hospital, and has made many friends with overseas visitors which he receives and then shows around.

We have conducted quite a number of services since I arrived 3 weeks ago. We were invited for 3 services at Rio Verde which went very well. I was amazed by the number of people (Russian Germans) who attended. It was held in Johan Wolf's house and between 30 and 40 people attended each service. Most on Sunday morning when there was at least 40 people. They seem to be hungry for the word of God.
The service on Friday evening was from 1Sa 25:32
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me.
And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you who have kept me from coming to shed blood today, and from delivering myself with my own hand.

The service was about a women being submissive to her husband and how she could be a blessing and a help meet to a man.

On Saturday evening Herbert spoke about Psa 107:23-28
"They who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;
these see the works of Jehovah and His wonders in the deep.
For He commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.
And they cry to Jehovah in their trouble, and He brings them out of their troubles.
He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. "

It was about a person leaving his comfort zone and then seeing the miracles of God.

On Sunday morning we spoke about walking in the light with your life. Bringing our sins to the cross. And to be set free from your sins. We read from Luk 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,
to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
And rolling up the book, returning it to the attendant, He sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on Him.
And He began to say to them, Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears.

For next Saturday and Sunday evening the plan is to go to Santa Rosa, not far from Rio Verde, where the radio station is from which Herbert's sermons in Plat Deutsch are broadcasted. We are expecting more spanish speaking Paraguayans there.

Then for Christmas 3 days at Rio Verde, and then for a week to Bolivia where Jacob Unger has invited us. Jacob is a Russian German who also visited KSB together with Johan Wolf.

In the mean time Herbert is preparing for his Radio sermons for the weeks when we will be away.

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