DATES TO DIARISE

LETTER FROM JOHN

Dear FMI Family

We are living through very intriguing times in our nation and right across the world. Simultaneously and in contrast to the chaos and uncertainty of the social and financial upheaval, we see the beautiful outpourings of the Holy Spirit across the globe with multiple grassroots revivals springing up. In our own spheres we celebrate the increased hunger we are feeling in our Churches and rejoice at the growth in numbers in our congregations.

In 2020 the Lord gave us the insight that “everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that the unshakable Kingdom might remain”. We are living through these shakings of the systems of this world.

Let’s keep our eyes on the Lord. This is always the best way to live. Walking on water requires us to keep our eyes on Jesus - otherwise the distraction of the wind and waves will see us going under! He who called us is Faithful and True, and He who began a good work in us will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

We are particularly excited about the focus of our upcoming Spring Conference in September (18th to 21st - please take note of the new dates). The Lord has connected us with Dr Hendrick Vorster who has created an anointed and extremely fruitful curriculum in raising up disciples who in turn raise up disciples. He will be our main visiting speaker during these important days together. We sense this is going to be a catalytic input into our FMI Family which will have significant fruit for years to come.

Enjoy reading reports about Relating Leaders and please see details about other upcoming events.

For the King and His Kingdom

John Crumpton

LET US WORSHIP

FMI SPRING CONFERENCE FOCUS

We are particularly excited about the focus of our upcoming Spring Conference from the 18th to 21st September (please note the revised dates). The Lord has connected us with Dr Hendrick Vorster who has created an anointed and extremely fruitful curriculum in raising up disciples who in turn raise up other disciples. He will be our main visiting speaker during these important days together.

During our previous Spring Conference in 2022 we sensed the Lord was preparing us for new avenues of gift ministry inputs, that we have successfully laid firm foundations and that the Lord is preparing us to build upon these with strategic intention. Our prophetic sense is that our gathering in September for our annual Spring Conference is going to see a catalytic input brought into the FMI Family which will bear significant fruit for years to come.

Please mark your calendar with these dates and begin to make plans for your leadership teams and on-fire believers to be fully represented at this event.

Church Planting Institute (CPI)
Church Planting Institute (CPI) pioneered by Dr. Hendrik Vorster, is a church planting and discipleship-making organization with a vision to equip those who are called, to plant disciple-making churches in all the nations of the world. Dr. Vorster and his team equip church planters globally by providing training courses on the essentials of church planting and the process of discipleship, as well as an implementation plan to launch their God-given church planting dreams.

ABOUT DR VORSTER
Dr. Hendrik Vorster is the Missional Leader of Cornerstone Ministries International and oversees many churches in Australasia, South East Asia, India, Pakistan, and Africa. He has successfully equipped church planters in 75 nations, on 6 continents over the past 34 years. He served as International Director of Partnerships with DCPI through a 12-year partnership. He serves on the Board of Directors of Church Growth International of Dr. Yonggi Cho, since 1999. He is married to Ursula and they have 5 beautiful daughters and 6 grandchildren. Dr. Hendrik is passionate about equipping those who sense the Call of God in their lives. He is a prolific speaker, pioneering new church planting movements, as well as revitalizing established denominations to plant more churches. Anyone who attends one of his three-day Church Planting and Discipleship Training Conferences leaves inspired, ministered to, and with a clearly defined plan and strategy to go and plant a dynamic, disciple-making church.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Registration links and additional details will be communicated soon.

Coastal Relating Leaders Gathering Report

09 - 10 February, 2023

Gateway Community Church, Tarkastad

On 09-10 February, the first Coastal Relating Leaders gathering of 2023 was held at Gateway Community Church in the beautiful mountains in Tarkastad. Thirty-three leaders, from different towns and regions of the Eastern Cape, gathered for a time of connection, worship and sharing. What a blessed time it was to connect with brothers who became great friends over the years. It was wonderful to have some who joined us for the first time and to listen to what the Lord is doing in their midst. We shared our stories and lives around meals while we were spoiled with some brilliant dishes by the Gateway ladies & husbands who served us during this time.

We were encouraged by the words from the members of the Apostolic team and the sharing from the leaders of different churches in the FMI family. There is such an awareness that this is a season of increase. The numerous testimonies pointed to the coming harvest and best we can do is to be positioned and prepare ourselves for increase and multiplication. At the same time, there is a call for holiness while the Bride prepares herself for a visitation from the Lord.

The next Coastal Relating Leaders gathering will be at Morgan Bay during the week of 6 November 2023.

Chris Liebenberg

Northern Relating Leaders Gathering Report

27 February - 02 March 2023

Esperanza

 
It was a wonderful time of rich fellowship, sharing our lives together, catching up, feasting on good food, worshiping together and wonderful encouragement from one another.

I noticed a fresh hunger for something fresh and new from God: there is a sense of rumblings of revival fires. A sound of rushing waters coming - new wine being poured out. A fresh sense to prepare ourselves and our churches for what is here and coming. A fresh expectation.

I am so excited and privileged to be part of a group of people sold out to God!

 Coenraad Dormehl

ZIMBABWE TRIP REPORT 

Dear FMI Family,

Thank you for the privilege of representing FMI in Zimbabwe with the leadership conference. 

We started with the conference on the Friday morning with around 80 church leaders. Tatenda said that there were 120 leaders that signed up for the conference but that not all of them made it, probably due to travel challenges. 

Me, Craig and Mark were deeply moved by the passion of the Zimbabwean people to see revival and change in their country. 

Me and Craig took the main sessions on Friday and Saturday with Mark sharing his testimony and a short message between our sessions. We also spent some quality time with Tatenda to encourage him.

Tatenda took us to the orphanage that he is preparing for about 50 orphans. 

He also took us to another site where they have built a school. The walls and roof are already in place. Next funding would be to put in windows, doors and paint.

Their church hall (that we helped with to put a roof on) was the venue we used for the conference. They are already building the next hall that are almost double in size and will use the first one for the youth. 

We were truly inspired to see the people of God building His Kingdom in the midst of all the chaos and economic decline of Zimbabwe. 

We ended off our trip on Sunday morning preaching at 3 different churches. 

Many impartations and healings took place. 

The Kingdom is advancing in Zimbabwe. 

Regards 

Hansa Underhay