Prayer and Praise update - Mountain Marathon Mission

Great Commission Course
Our intensive three-week Great Commission Course included pastors and teachers from America, Zambia and Zimbabwe and participants from all over South Africa, including one young man who cycled over 860 km from the Orange Free State to come to this missionary training programme. The GCC 2022 included daily PT, regular hikes and mountain climbing, studying examples of excellence from Missions history, especially from the Greatest Century of Missions, studies in missionary models seen in the Book of Acts, the Way of the Master 8 part Basic Training Course in Evangelism, Evangelism Explosion training, the full Call for Discernment Seminar by Justin Peters, Muslim Evangelism, understanding Animism and Hinduism, day trips to historic sites, such as the Huguenot Museum and Monument in Franschhoek, Salem Biblical Garden, near Wellington, Eagle Encounter, Cheetah Outreach and visits to Missions and a work party at a rural mission station, outreaches as far afield as Franschhoek, Klipheuwel, Mannenberg and Bo-Kaap, one on one personal Evangelism on the streets, mass literature distribution, door-to-door ministry, Sunday church services, assignments, exams and numerous practicals. Despite cold and wet weather the participants persevered, keeping steadfast and focused as we seek to be faithful to the Lord, to His Word and to His work. Several of our participants had the joy of praying with people on the street and counselling them to salvation in Christ. After the last night when we climbed Table Mountain, I spent the rest of Tuesday night into the early hours of the morning marking the many exams and assignments so that, at the conclusion on Wednesday afternoon, everyone could receive their certificates and marked exams and assignments before departing. “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.” Isaiah 52:7

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Written responses from GCC participants:
"Excellent course!": "Superb and well organised course with great lectures, physical activities, spiritual devotions and outreaches and great Christian Fellowship!"; "I have grown in my knowledge of God's Word and Church History, leadership skills, and fitness. I now know I am called to African Missions." "Everything was fantastic, the lectures, outreaches and outdoor activities, especially the hike up Table Mountain. I have come to understand the Bible better, have more confidence and made many amazing friends."; "All the lectures were outstanding and amazing."; "The programme is great!"; "The GCC is incredible, the people and staff were very friendly. I learned how to evangelise people in the street and they listened to me."; "The programme was perfect!"; "The GCC is a great course, well put together: body, mind and spirit."; "I have been inspired by the examples and equipped for ministry work."; "It was a wonderful course well worth following and implementing in one's life."; "The course is well-planned and most uplifting."; "Very informative content, well structured, I learned a lot not just from the lectures but from the experiences as well."; "I enjoyed every aspect of the GCC."; "The GCC is well balanced and I have benefited greatly."; "My expectations were absolutely met and exceeded!"

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Comprehensive, Intensive and Practical
Our intensive, boots-on-the-ground, body, mind and spirit practical training course for prospective missionaries involved: 55 lectures/presentations; 11 speakers, 4 workshops, 10 practicals, 15 vigorous PT sessions, 8 hikes, 12 outreaches, including to the Waterfront and to a Muslim community, 7 church services in neighbouring communities and radio interviews with many of the participants of the GCC for Salt and Light on Radio Tygerberg and on From the Frontline https://fromthefrontline.podbean.com/ . The programme included 17 films, 8 exams and a series of 10 assignments, including completing the 50 page Discipleship Training Manual. The programme also included 14 Bible Drill sessions and 6 Just a Minute debating skill games. All hikes and mountain climbs included participants carrying backpacks of Arabic Scriptures. PT sessions were completed in the dark, hours before dawn. At one sunrise hike up Lion’s Head, we read through the whole of the Sermon on the Mount, sang hymns of worship and had an enthusiastic time of intercession overlooking the city. At sunset on the summit of Table Mountain, at 1087 metres above sea level, we sang hymns & prayed for the fulfilment of the Great Commission throughout Africa. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings Good News, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation…” Isaiah 52:7

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Persevere in Prayer and Action
Please continue to pray for the participants and those we reached during outreaches on this Great Commission Course. “I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His Kingdom: Preach the Word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.” 2 Timothy 4:1-2

Resources for Missions
The textbooks of the GCC: Putting Feet to Your Faith, The Great Commission Manual, Security and Survival Handbook and The Greatest Century of Missions are available from Christian Liberty Books PO Box 358, Howard Place 7450, Cape Town, South Africa, Tel: 021-689-7478, email: admin@christianlibertybooks.co.za and website: www.christianlibertybooks.co.za. If you are interested in our primary textbook, the Great Commission Handbook is available in ring-bound format. I have been revising and expanding the Great Commission Manual for over 24 years and have now shaped it into a handbook format. As soon as funds allow we will have it printed and published.

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Audio Visuals of GCC presentations
will continue to be updated on the https://www.frontlinemissionsa.org website in the coming weeks, such as these:

Samuel Zwemer and the Mission to Muslims
This extraordinary Missionary to the Muslim world pioneered many of the strategies we need to reach Muslims for Christ. “The desert tribes will bow down before Him and His enemies will lick the dust…All kings will bow down to Him and all nations will serve Him.” Psalm 72:9-11
To view a video of this presentation, click here
To view a screen capture video of this presentation, click here
To listen to the audio of the lecture, click here
To view a PowerPoint of this presentation, click here.

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C.T. Studd - Cricketer for Christ in China and the Congo.
“…by the power of the Spirit of God, … I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ. And so I have made it my aim to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man’s foundation.” Romans 15:19 – 20
To view a video of this presentation, click here
To view a screen capture video of this presentation, click here
To listen to the audio of the lecture, click here
To view a PowerPoint of this presentation, click here

What Would David Livingstone Say to us Today ?
To listen to an audio of the lecture, click here
To view a video of this presentation, click here

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The Greatness of Christ's Great Commission
To view a video of this presentation, click here.
To listen to the audio of this presentation, click here.
To listen to the audio of The Challenge of Missions message, click: https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=62222108143120
For more information on upcoming Great Commission Camps, Seminars and Courses in Africa visit: www.FrontlineMissionSA.org and view Upcoming Events.
You can also view Great Commission Camp and Course pictures, audios and videos on the Great Commission Camp and Course facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GreatCommissionCourse .

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Frontline Gym Bible PT
The day after concluding the intensive three-week Great Commission Course, we received and off-loaded a 20 foot container with over 17 tonnes of Bibles, New Testaments, Gospels, Sunday school materials and other evangelistic and doctrinal literature. Early morning rain complicated the off-loading and we had to be innovative to protect the precious cargo from damp damage! We praise God for those who donated time and treasure to make this shipment possible and for those who helped us off-load, categorise, organise and designate these valuable spiritual resources. “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Colossians 3:16

We pray that God will enable us to deliver and distribute these Scriptures to those who most need, will most appreciate and most carefully study and apply these Biblical principles in all areas of life. "So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11

​According to Operation World, more than 100 million churchgoers in Africa still do not have their own copy of the Bible or even a New Testament. The spiritual needs are desperate and urgent. The opportunities are vast. “Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already ripe for harvest!” John 4:35
See our Literature4Africa video: https://vimeo.com/channels/1692025/437081457

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Creation Science Workshops and Seminars
We praise God for our good friend, Creation Scientist, engineer, author and speaker, Dr Philip Stott, who was our guest for speaking engagements at schools, seminars, Bible study groups, universities and churches. We organised church services, Bible studies, seminars and an educational workshop for home educators for Dr Stott while he was in the Cape peninsula. He was also a special guest speaker at the Great Commission Course. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20

To view a video of Dr Stott’s presentation, Revolt Against God and His Word, click https://vimeo.com/channels/1483613/730288901
To listen to the audio of the lecture, click https://soundcloud.com/user-779428885/revolt-against-god-and-his-word

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To view the Frontline Special 40 Years Thanksgiving Newsletter online, Click here . Please view online, print out and share digitally with others concerned for the Persecuted Church in Africa and the fulfilment of the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ. "Give thanks to the Lord, call on His Name; make known among the nations what He has done... Give thanks to the Lord for He is good; His love endures forever." 1 Chronicles 16:8,34

To view a video of  the Frontline 40 years Thanksgiving Service presentation click here. To view the presentation as a screen capture click here . To listen to the audio of this presentation click here.

Our Frontline - Behind Enemy Lines for Christ book includes: 46 chapters, 448 pages, with over 440 pictures. It is available, in both hardcover and softcover, from: Christian Liberty Books, Tel: 021-689-7478, Email: admin@christianlibertybooks.co.za and Website: www.christianlibertybooks.co.za. (The hardcover is: $28 and the softcover $22. The e-book will be $7.) find the Book here. It is also available through Print on Demand and as an e-book. Please help us make this book known and more widely available. If you know of any radio or TV programmes that would be interested in interviewing the author, please forward this information to them.

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See the Behind Enemy Lines for Christ video here  “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.” Isaiah 43:2

You can view my Tribute to Mrs Dorothea Scarborough with pictures and audio and video links to the Funeral and Memorial service on FrontlineMissionSA.org website. To view, or print out, our Tribute as a newsletter with pictures, click here.

The Gospel Defence League newsletter 1666 and the SABBATEAN ROOTS of the NEW WORLD DISORDER can be read, or downloaded and printed, from here:  https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/66879555/gdl-edition-1-of-2022
Or you can read it on the Gospel Defence League website, which also includes links to the video and audio of this presentation:https://www.gospeldefenceleague.org/index.php/articles/163-1666-and-the-sabbatean-roots-of-the-new-world-disorder

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The latest Christian Action magazine is available online:
Celebrating 30 Years of Africa Christian Action https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/67092059/ca-mag-edition-1-of-2022
Redeemer Broadcasting: interview on Godly Self Defence here

View our Behind Enemy Lines in Sudan – Video Interviews .
The Georgia Guidestones and the Occult Roots of the New World Order   https://vimeo.com/731023797

Bibles for Africa
We are very grateful for your prayers, encouragement and support, without which none of our ministries would be possible. By God's grace and thanks to designated support, we have recently been able to equip many pastors and evangelists in South Africa with Bibles in their indigenous languages, particularly in Afrikaans and Xhosa, as well as pastors and evangelists in Malawi with Bibles in Chichewa, young people in KwaZulu with Bibles in Zulu and ministries in Zambia with Bibles in Tonga and Bemba. "For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12

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Priority Projects for Prayer and Action
To view our Frontline PRIORITY PROJECTS for PRAYER and ACTION with pictures, click here
We are very grateful for your prayers, encouragement and support, without which none of our ministries would be possible.

May God continue to be your joy and strength.
Yours for the fulfilment of the Great Commission

Dr. Peter Hammond | Director
Frontline Fellowship
PO Box 74 | Newlands | 7725 | Cape Town | South Africa 
Tel: +27 21 689 4480
peter@frontline.org.za
www.FrontlineMissionSA.org

Frontline: BEL Video Trailer
Frontline: Behind Enemy Lines for Christ
 
See also other Prayer and Praise Updates
God's Grace and Guidance, Provision and Protection
Prayer & Praise Update - Africa For Christ
Multigenerational Ministries of Multiplication
Steadfast in the Storm
Let the Whole World Hear His Word
Working for Reformation and Praying for Revival in Africa
Applying the Lordship of Christ to All Areas of Life
Surgery, Scorpions and Scripture
Evangelism, Education and Edification
Bad Times Are Good for Spiritual Work
Bibles, Films and Outreaches
Resources for Redemption and Reformation, Remembrance and Rescues
Responding to Ramadan with Digital Evangelism
Perseverance and Productivity Despite Pandemic Panic
Equipping and Empowering Evangelists
Mountain Climbing Marathon

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