God's story through Lenie

I am still learning to know her story and which I can tell it in detail.

I visited the farm with the name: "Mooiberg" where the Family church are doing God's work.

Lenie is a lady that I can see the potential to be a great influencer of the community. Two weeks before I talked to Lenie and asked her if she are not ready to share to others about what God teached her through her tough life as she endured and is growing as a christian. She responded immediately that the Lord is talking to her to start witnessing.
This Sunday during the service she stood up and started to share some of her story to about 20 people sitting there.

She told them about her alcoholic parents and the suffering she had to go through. Her mother tried to protect her, but she herself drink a lot. Lenie worked from a very young age and could not go to school. She later married and her husband was also an alcoholic. She handled it well, till the point when her daughter became the victim, that hurt to much. She could not protect her own daughter. As she was talking, her daughter was one of the members in the congregation as both of them came to the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord made her very enthusiastic about the new life, but she could not read the Bible. She so much wanted to read that book! On an age of 50 she started to sneak from the farm, to ashamed for the others to see, to the school a few kilometers from there. She sat with the grade one learners in the class and started to learn ABC. She told church how she Lord feed her from so many things. Today she is 54 years old and she wanted to share with everyone that she now can read Psalm 23 for the first time in her life. She picked up the Bible and started reading while we could not stop the tears. She told everyone that it is the work of the Lord and gave all the honor to Him.

On the other side of the hall, Bok was sitting and listening. The morning early I arrived and sat with him and his friends under a smoke coated little roof where they sit and drink cheap wine around a fire. I started talking to them and they told me how the business people sold them a 5 liter can of wine for R50. If you want to pay cash they ask them R60! You should have debt with them. Bok was somewhat drunk but told me that he is also going to chuch. He never missed a service. On that stage I did not believe him, but when I walked to the church he came along. I heard from the others that he never missed a service and that he is always playing the "tamboryn" with great enthusiasm. He even gave another to a girl to play with. Then he sits down very quietly listening to the message. The accept him totally and I believe that it must have an influence on his life.