South Africa 30 November 2005

Hi, my name is Fred Ward and I bring you greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I invite you to take a journey with me on my missionary trip through Southern Africa over the next few months.

My host and ministry partner, best friend, and worker in the ministry is Cecil Kleu from Garsfontein, Pretoria. Both Cecil and I have a prison ministry, Cecil at the Pretoria Central Prison and I at the South-western Regional Jail in Holden, West Virginia in America. It was my prison ministry that led me to Africa to teach a Discipleship class as well as Sunday morning services with Cecil Kleu at the Pretoria Central Prison last year. I spent almost 4 months teaching inmates and have now returned to continue teaching and travelling in Africa with Cecil to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the tribal people in Africa.

So please join Cecil and me on our mission trip and see and read what our Lord is doing in Africa with the good news of Jesus Christ.

We will update our trip as often as possible. We would ask for your prayers that as we present the gospel to the tribal people that the Lord would bring many into His Kingdom and that our labour will not be in vain. John 4: 35,36

December:

Fred Ward (Prisons –USA) Cecil & Solomon (Prisons – SA)

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CECIL & I GREET YOU ALL IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD & SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. IT IS NOW

DECEMBER 26TH. IT HAS BEEN A VERY BUSY TIME SINCE THE START OF MY MISSION HERE IN AFRICA.

CECIL & I HAVE BEEN GOING TO THE PRETORIA CENTRAL PRISON ON MONDAY FRIDAY &SUNDAYS.

WE HAVE BEEN HOLDING CHURCH SERVICES DURING THE LAST 5 WEEKS, USUALLY WE HAVE

TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS EACH SESSION. CECIL USUALLY DOES ONE GROUP & I DO ANOTHER.

WE HAVE HAD 16 DIFFERENT SERVICES BETWEEN FOUR TO SIX DIFFFERENT GROUPS SO FAR.

I CAME TO AFRICA THE FIRST TIME IN NOVEMBER OF 03 FOR TWO WEEKS TO EAST LONDON,

S.A. ON A CRUSADE HOSTED BY MULTI-MINISTRIES IN JOHANNESBURG, S.A. & GLOVERVILLE, S.C. USA.

I WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH THE PEOPLE & THE NEED & HUNGER FOR THE GOSPEL I CAME BACK

IN FEBURARY OF 04 & STAYED FOR FIVE & ONE HALF MONTHS. CECIL HAD ARRANGED FOR ME TO

TEACH THE DISCIPLESHIP COURSES IN THE PRETORIA CENTRAL PRISON TO SIX DIFFERENT GROUPS.

CECIL & I WENT TO THE PRISON SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. THE COURSES WERE TAUGHT SIX DAYS

A WEEK & ON SUNDAY WE HELD TWO CHURCH SERVICES. WE ALSO WENT OUT TO DO TWO, TWO WEEK

CRUSADES, ONE TO VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE, AND ONE TO SABIE, S.A. WE ALSO WENT ON A 10 DAY

TRIP TO DIFFERENT TOWNS IN ZIMBABWE FOR THE CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE'S TRAINING OF

PASTORS THAT MULTI-MINISTRIES CONDUCTS 4 TIMES A YEAR.

CECIL ALSO TOOK ME TO DIFFERENT REMOTE PARTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA WHERE FEW MISSION-

ARYS, IF ANY, HAVE EVER BEEN TO. WE WOULD STOP AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND CHURCHES &

SOMETIMES AT AN INTERSECTION WHERE THERE WAS A LOT OF TRAFFIC & GIVE OUT THE CHALLANGE

NEWSPAPERS, TRACKS & BIBLES AS WE HAD THEM. WE NEVER HAVE ENOUGH.

I GOT TO SEE WHAT AFRICA IS REALLY LIKE IN THE DAILY LIVES OF THE TRIBAL PEOPLE. I HAVE NEVER MET A MORE WARM & FRIENDLY PEOPLE, ALWAYS RESPECTFUL & EAGER TO HEAR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. I FEEL SO VERY BLESSED & PRIVILAGED TO BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE BEING WITH THE AFRICAN TRIBAL PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN VILLAGES CUSTOMS & BELIEFS. IT'S SOMETHING FEW PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF AFRICA GET THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE & I'M GREATFUL TO CECIL KLEU, MY FRIEND & FELLOW WORKER & BROTHER IN CHRIST FOR SHARING HIS MINISTRY, FELLOWSHIP & FAMILY WITH ME.

DURING THE TIME I WAS TEACHING LAST YEAR I WAS GIVE A GROUP OF JUVENILES INMATES AGES

12 TO 18 THAT WERE IN THE PRE-SENTENCED SECTION OF THE PRISON, & THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THEM IN

THE PRISONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA & I SUPPOSE IN MANY OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

CECIL HAD BEEN DOING CHURCH SERVICES WITH. THERE WERE 70 INMATES THAT CAME TO CLASS.

AFTER AN HOUR OF TEACHING I GAVE AN ALTER CALL, ( WE NEVER END A SERVICE WITHOUT ONE ) & ALL 70 OF

THEM RESPONDED & PROFESSED NEW FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. NOW THAT I'M BACK TEACHING I HAVE THIS

SAME CLASS OF JUVENILES EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THEM HAVE EITHER BEEN SENTENCED OR RELEASED.

IT HAS NOW GROWN TO OVER 300. DURING MY FIRST SESSION WITH THE JUVENILES AT THE END OF THE SERVICE

I GAVE AN ALTER CALL & OVER 155 PROFESSED NEW FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.

AS OF NOW WE HAVE MORE THAN 200 REQUESTS FOR BAPTISM AT THE PRISON WITH MORE REQUEST COMING

EACH TIME WE HOLD CLASSES. WE BELIEVE THIS NUMBER WILL GROW AS I TEACH THE GROUPS ON THE

IMPORTANCE OF BAPTISM AS JESUS CHRIST HAS COMMANDED US TO OBSERVE. SUBSEQUENTLY IN ALL THE SERVICES CECIL & I HAVE DONE WE ESTIMATE WE HAVE SEEN OVER 600 RESPONSES TO THE CALL TO GIVE THEIR LIVES TO JESUS CHRIST & WE PRAISE GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS IN OUR ENDEVER, THAT WE CAN WITNESS HIS SPIRIT MOVING AMOUNG THE PEOPLE TO THE SALVATION OF MANY & THIS HAS BEEN TYPICAL OF OUR SERVICES. WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD NEW RESPONSES TO OUR CALLS FOR SOMEONE TO GIVE THEIR LIVES TO JESUS CHRIST.

ON DECEMBER THE 1ST MULTI-MINISTRIES DIRECTOR HAROLD PEASLEY & ERROL WESSON HAD 38 AMERICANS COME OVER FOR THE ANNUAL REAP CONFERENCE THEY HOLD EVERY YEAR. THE REAP TRAINS TRIBAL PASTORS & TEACHERS WHO HAVE NO FORMAL SEMINARY OR BIBLE SCHOOLING. THIS YEAR NEARLY 400 ATTENDED FROM 11 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES REPRESENTING 37 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FROM ALL OVER SOUTHERN AFRICA. AMOUNG THE 38 AMERICANS THAT CAME TO TEACH THE CLASSES AT THE REAP CECIL & I JOINED WITH 8 OF THEM TO GO TO THE ODI PRISON IN MABOPANE,S.A. TO TEACH THE CHILDREN IN A LOCAL SCHOOL THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY THE ODI PRISON FACILITIES. WE ALSO DID LOCAL CRUSADES IN THE TOWN & SOME OF THE LOCAL CHURCHES. WE ALSO HELD SERVICES FOR THE INMATES AT THE PRISON. WE SAW HUNDREDS GIVE THEIR LIVES TO JESUS CHRIST AMONG THE CHILDREN, INMATES & LOCAL PEOPLE IN THE 4 DAYS PRIOR TO THE START OF

THE REAP CONFERENCE.

THE REAP CONFERENCE WAS A GREAT SUCESS WITH EVERYONE RENEWED & ENCOURAGED & NOW BETTER

EQUIPPED TO GO BACK TO THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES & CHURCHES & PROCLAIM THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST.

THEY NOW HAVE A GREATER KNOWLEDGE OF BIBLE DOCTRINE & TRUTH OF WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES SO THEY MAY

BETTER INSTRUCT THEIR RESPECTIVE CHURCHES & VILLAGES IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. WE MUST REMEMBER THAT

IN THE TRIBAL SOCIETIES ANCESTRAL CUSTOMS, WITCHCRAFT & TRIBAL BELIEFS ARE COMMONLY INTERTWINED IN

THEIR WORSHIP SERVICES EVEN AFTER THEY ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST. THIS IS WHY TRAINING OF BIBLE TRUTHS ARE

SO IMPORTANT AS MULTI-MINISTRIES HAS BEEN CONDUCTION FOR PASTORS FOR THE LAST 16 YEARS.

THIS PAST WEEK CECIL & I WERE INVITED BACK TO THE ODI PRISON TO TAKE PART IN A REVIVAL

MISSION FOR THE INMATES. PASTOR SOLOMON IS THE PRISONS CHAPLAIN & PASTOR OF THE GOD'S KINGDOM CHURCH

THAT HOSTED US BEFORE THE START OF THE REAP CRUSADE. WE HAD A VERY SUCESSFUL TIME AT THE PRISON WITH

MORE THAN 42 FIRST TIME PROFESSIONS OF FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST EVEN THOUGH THE DEVIL RESISTED OUR EFFORTS

GREATLY. BUT WE ALWAYS GO EXPECTING & PREPARING FOR THE DEVILS ANGER IN OUR SERVICE.

NOW BEFORE YOU SAY IT SURE LOOKS LIKE EVERYTHING IS GOING GREAT & THE PREACHING & TEACHING

OF THE GOSPEL IS A EASY, LET ME TELL YOU WE DO IT UNDER MUCH RESISTANCE & AT TIMES PERSECUTION. THE DEVIL

IS DOING HIS JOB ALSO & HE'S GOOD AT HIS JOB. WE HAVE HAD DELAYS, INTERFERENCES IN OUR SERVICES,

ANY NUMBER OF INTERUPTIONS, ENCOUNTERED BREAKDOWNS IN OUR EQUIPMENT AT KEY MOMENTS, & PEOPLE WHO

WE'VE ENTRUSTED TO MAKE PROPER & TIMLEY PREPERATIONS AHEAD OF OUR ARRIVAL, FORGET TO PREPARE FOR US,

NEVER CALL & INFORM US OF CHANGED PLANS, & AT TIMES NEVER EVEN SHOW UP. BUT THANKS BE TO GOD WHO

TELLS US IN ( I JOHN 4:4 ), BECAUSE GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD. NEITHER WILL

HIS WORD GO OUT VOID. ( IS. 55: 11 ), SAYS, SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOETH FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH: IT SHALL

NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH IN THAT WHICH I PLEASE, AND IT SHALL PROSPER IN THE

THINGS WHERETO I SENT IT.

I HAVE SEEN GREAT STRIDES IN OUR MINISTRY, ESPECIALLY IN THE PRISONS. NOT ONLY ARE LARGE NUMBERS

COMING TO GIVE THEIR LIVES TO JESUS CHRIST, BUT MUCH SEED HAS & IS BEING SOWN FOR FUTURE HARVEST AS THE

LORD MOVES MEN & WOMEN TO A SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF HIMSELF. IN CECIL & MY MINISTRY WE CAN DO NOTHING OF

OURSELVES EXCEPT PRESENT THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST, HIS VIRGIN BIRTH, DEATH ON THE CROSS FOR OUR

SINS & HIS RESURRECTION FROM THE GRAVE TO THOSE WHO WILL LISTEN. THE CONVICTION OF THE HEART BY CHRIST

HOLY SPIRIT & THE ACTUAL SAVING OF SOULS IS ENTIRELY UP TO JESUS CHRIST AS HE DRAWS MEN & WOMEN TO

HIMSELF.

I DO KNOW THIS FIRST HAND AS I HAVE WITNESSED,THAT LIVES ARE BEING CHANGED DAILY & THAT HUNDREDS

& EVEN THOUSANDS ARE BEING ADDED TO GOD'S KINGDOM EVERY DAY IN AFRICA. YOU WHO FOLLOW CECIL & MY

MISSION TRIP CAN BE A PART OF THIS MINISTRY IF YOU WISH ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR PRAYERS & IF YOU WISH BY

HELPING FUND BIBLES THAT WE PURCHASE IN THE TRIBAL LANGUAGES AT THE BIBLE SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA IN

JOHANNESBURG, S.A. WE NEVER HAVE ENOUGH BIBLES TO GIVE TO THE PEOPLE WHO BEG US FOR THEM, AND AS ALWAYS

100% OF THE FUNDS FOR BIBLES GOES FOR BIBLES.

MOST OF THE TRIBAL PEOPLE CAN & DO SPEAK ENGLISH BUT THERE ARE OFICIALLY 9 TRIBAL LANGUAGES

JUST IN SOUTH AFRICA ALONE & MANY CANNOT READ IN ENGLISH. THIS MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT TO SERVE THE LORD

IF ONE DOESN'T HAVE A BIBLE TO READ & GUIDE THEM.

CECIL & I ARE GREATFUL TO ALL OF YOU WHO SUPPORT US IN OUR MISSION, ESPECIALLY ALL YOUR PRAYERS,

THEY MEAN SO VERY MUCH. IN THE WEEK FOLLOWING THE NEW YEAR CECIL & I WILL BE GOING TO ZIMBABWE TO

CONTINUE OUR MISSION WORK. WE ALSO HAVE PLANS TO GO TO ZAMBIA, BOTSWANA, MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA & NAMIBIA

IF THE LORD ALLOWS. PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR UPCOMING TRIP, ESPECIALLY AS WE TRAVEL INTO ZIMBABWE. AS I TYPE

THIS UPDATE I RECEIVED AN UPDATE FROM THE U.S. CONSULATE GENERALS OFFICE OF THE DEPT. OF STATE IN CAPE TOWN,

S.A. OF INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CONTINUED THREAT OF TERRORISM TO ALL AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD. WE DO

ASK FOR YOUR PRAYERS FOR CECIL & MY SAFETY AS WE TRAVEL THROUGH AFRICA AS WE STRIVE TO BRING THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. I WILL UPDATE YOU AS OFTEN AS TIME ALLOWS

AS WE TRAVEL.

JOHN 4: 35-38

MAY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BLESS YOU ALL

FRED & CECIL