See it as it is

Every year we have a mid-year conference for all the students we have been spending time with in the res/dorms. This conference is always a great time to gather all the students from the campuses we are working on together for a few days of fun and teaching. We are praying that about 400 students from these universities will take three days of their winter holiday off to engage with God and get crazy with other varsity/college students their age. Here's our recruiting video for this year. Take a peek and be jealous if you can't fly across the ocean to be there :) Asher, Casey and I will definitely be rocking it as Jeff leads worship for the event. Can't wait....24-27 June, where will you be?

Justice and Jesus

Hey friends- I actually made a podcast. The process took about a week of trial and error in figuring out how to load files onto the internet, etc. What a mission, but finally success!! BTW, totally recommend http://www.buzzsprout.com. You can do a free account with 2 hours of uploading available per month or buy space. Check them out. Oh, the podcast is not for the Viljoens. I am not sure what I would do with a podcast of myself. This one is for our church, Sophiatown Community Church. We are small but striving to preach the word in the incredibly diverse and rich culture of Johannesburg, South Africa. Jeff preached last week on retaliation. You can check the sermon here(I haven't edited the audio file or anything, that's my next phase in putting the sermons on the web). Beginners grace is needed. :) Great sermon and applicable in any culture I think.

Singalong 2

Phil Wickham has put out another free CD. Yay!
  

We LOVED his first Singalong album from 2008. If you love acoustic music, you will love this. For the link, click here. It's free until the 15th of June, so hurry over there. Also he's teamed up with Compassion International who help millions of children worldwide. We support a little girl in Uganda through Compassion International and have enjoyed watching her grow up and hearing about her family and love for Jesus. Click here to find out more about Compassion International.

Enjoy!

We love CCP!!

Each year a group of American students from the Atlanta region come over for 8 weeks of their summer/our winter, to partner with us on the campus of UJ Kingsway. They arrived last week Thursday and we have been busy busy busy with them here. We will be busy busy busy with them until they leave in July. Here's a picture of their team and expect to see lots of them on the blog in the coming months. :) Here's a starter below as well.  To see their blog click here. Enjoy! 

CCP 2012(N.Georgia, GA Tech and UGA students)

 

 

 

 

Jeff, Asher & John Langford(CCP Director)

Thanks John Newton!

I read this from Justin Taylor's blog(go see it here) that gets dumped in my email each day. I always enjoy the little things he has to say. I hope you find it equally encouraging. This tidbit is by John Newton who you can find out more about here. Good news friends, good news indeed.


I am not what I ought to be.
Ah! how imperfect and deficient.
Not what I might be,
considering my privileges and opportunities.
Not what I wish to be.
God, who knows my heart, knows I wish to be like him.
I am not what I hope to be;
ere long to drop this clay tabernacle, to be like him and see him as He is.
Not what I once was,
a child of sin, and slave of the devil.
Thought not all these,
not what I ought to be,
not what I might be,
not what I wish or hope to be, and
not what once was,
I think I can truly say with the apostle,
“By the grace of God I am what I am.”
—John Newton (1725-1807), cited in Letters of John Newton, p. 400.