Marapong Township  in Elisras  -  Crusade:

This time we had hundreds of children hanging around us before the crusade began every night, so we got our team to do action songs and play soccer with them before the start of every meeting to help draw them in at the crusade at Marapong in Ellisras.

We had hundreds of salvations over this crusade period!!

We first went to the arena in Marapong to do our crusade, but found it was too far away from the people, (as most of them don't have cars and would have to walk there, also too dangerous to walk around at night) so we uprooted everything and went to the middle of the township on top a deserted rubbish dump between 2 shabeans (PUBS) and put down our roots there with all our speakers, sound tower, truck, stage, everything and preached from that location. Much better response!

  The people were really excited that we would actually go out to where they were. I remember as we were playing our African crusade music before it started, there were some African ladies that actually came out of their shanties (houses) to dance outside to the music, they were so excited at what was taking place.

The Pastors of Marapong were also really challenged as they saw how our team worked together (as our team is made up of a mixture of people - and all working physically as hard as each other). The Marapong Pastors were really impressed and said that this crusade is the first one where the black and white Pastors of that region had come and actually worked together.

It looked like quite a problem area for teenagers in the area of homosexuality, as we saw quite a few young boys sticking together like a gang, but with very gay tendencies. We invited the boys to stay for the crusades (which they attended every night).

On the last night when the alter call was made, some of them stepped forward and received Jesus. One of them being the main leader. 

     Praise the Lord!