Dear Family and Friends:                                                               Sept. 8, 2011

Last weekend we had a great conference in Johannesburg, S. Africa. There were twenty five pastors there on Sat. and the picture on the forwarded email below is the Sunday group in front of the tent we purchased for Bro. John Lukusa two years ago. He has founded a church in the nearby gov't housing addition and has his four children leading the praise and worship who were very talented. The nations represented in addition to S. Africa were: Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. There was a good response to our new discipleship emphasis and many good comments were heard about the teaching. I believe our South Africa group will really take off now that we have had a conference here.
Janice and I have been in Cape Town since Mon. vacationing and this is such a spectacular place to see!!!! Much to our surprise a good pastor friend of our host pastor is a chauffeur for tour groups here and he volunteered to be our personal guide for the week!!!!!! We are so used to giving to the Africans; this was an unexpected treat we will never forget. He even chauffeured for Queen Elizabeth when she visited Cape Town a few years ago. On Mon. he took us up on famous Table Rock Mountain on a cable car with an awesome view 3,000 ft. above this city of 3.5 million. On Tues. we went to the Cape of Good Hope and saw wild ostriches, baboons and penguins. The view was stunning of the surf on the rocks 1,000 ft. below with emerald water near the beaches. It was rainy on Thurs. so we went to the aquarium and saw some very fancy shopping centers. The U.S. has nothing over this area for modern conveniences, so this is a very different part of Africa we don't usually see. Then Thurs. evening we had a nice treat as the wife of the Minister of Commerce for S. Africa is a good friend of our driver. She hosted us in their gov't mansion near the vineyard area of Cape Town. She was very gracious and is coming to our conference as well. We learned so much from her about the apartheid years in S. Africa as her husband was an activist that opposed the treatment of the blacks and helped end the practice in the mid-nineties. He is white "African" while she is black, so they were a great couple to speak for equality.
Today we just returned from a great white shark cage diving trip which was very exciting as we had sharks coming to our boat side for over three hours. We even got to see a shark catch a seal near the rock island where thousands of them call home. So after braving "jaws" we are now ready for our Cape Town conference to begin tomorrow.
The pastors here seem very excited we are here so pray we can touch this area with a spark of revival too.
 

In His matchless grace, Ron and Janice
 

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