As you read John testimony please pray with us for funds to be able to send him to a mission training, where he will be further be disciple and also find a clear direction for the further:

JOHN MOROKA’S TESTIMONY

I. Childhood and life
before Christ:

I was born in Elissras, South Africa. My mum is Esther, 38 years old, and my step father William, 32. My real father was Thomas, who passed away in 2005. In 2010 my step father told me that he was not going to provide food for me anymore.   There was no love, protection and hope at home.

I stole my father R300 and decided to find a better life in the city of Pretoria. I quickly discover that life in the city was not as I imagined.

I was homeless, jobless and had no food. Overnight I became a street kid and I had to learn how to survive.  

I started distributing some flyers from Monday to Saturdays and got paid 350 for that.

Together with my two friend, whom also distributed flyer with me. We could rent a room in one of the dilapidated buildings. After 4 months of staying at Shurbat they closed down the building.

Once again I was back on the streets sleeping in parks for almost a year.

II. Encounter with Christ, a closer walk with Him

Nyepa showed me ´The Coffee House’ on December the 14th 2011. There I started to hear the gospel and to understand about Jesus´ love for me. I stopped smoking and stealing and said to myself: “I´m tired of this life doing bad things. Let me give my life to Jesus!” One of the volunteers at ´The Coffee House´, Lassie, started to teach me there about The Bible and Jesus with different programmes by March and April 2012. I started to go to the Cornerstone church with him. Carlos one of the coffee house workers, started a discipleship road with me around July 2012 to help me understand who Jesus is, who am I and what the purpose of my life is as I learn to study the Bible.

III. Present and future with Jesus:

´The Coffee House’ leaders saw a change in my character and attitudes and valued my willingness to help. They let me started to work as a volunteer and to stay Wendy house. “I feel that I am in a new world. I´d like to learn music: how to play the guitar and the piano and to worship Jesus with instruments. Please pray for me;   One of my dream is to go for a mission training to learn how to reach out to people and know about God I´m going to a shelter. I hope I can learn there and be equipped to serve God.

Julia’s Story

On the 6 March 2013 around 9am while doing our staff devotion a 30 year lady named Julia’s arrived at the coffee House dirty, sticking of alcohol and with a head injury.

Julia’s is originally from Malawi, both her parents died when she was a little girl. When she was growing up, she was passed from one family to another. 

When she got the opportunity to come to SA she thought this is a beginning of a new life for her. And for a while she was living the life she always hope for. She got job as a domestic worker but after 8 month of worker for her boss. They told her that they are leaving Johannesburg and that she no longer will have a job.

For 3 month she was jobless and had no hope in a foreign country. Her Malawian friend who offered her a place to stay introduce her to her pimp. She now was  physically abused, using drug and sold her body to keep the pimp happy.

We took Julia in and is now on the process of healing and restoration.

Please pray for her to find salvation and total deliverance and healing.

Tebogo’s Story
SEVEN TIMES MORE ALIVE THAN OTHERS
By: Carlos Andrés Montañez

Despite his difficult life, Tebogo Mpufane from Rustenburg is a living miracle: due to different life circumstances he ended up contaminated with HIV /AIDS and has survived without ARV´s (Anti Retro Virals)! For a normal person with HIV /AIDS a count of CD4 White blood cells below 125,000 will be deadly. Well, Tebogo has a count over 889,000 just drinking vitamins!!

He never knew his father until he came back from Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1995. According to Tebogo this army changed and destroyed his father! When his father came back was drunk almost all the time and abused his mum, Tebogo and his two sisters verbally and physically. He eventually ended up abusing sexually all his daughters as well as his wife.   

Tebogo finished his matric in 1997. In 1998 he came to Pretoria and studied for an Information Technology Diploma at Tshwane University of Technology. He couldn't finish his studies because of lack of finance during his second year. Then he started looking for a job. In 2000 he worked at a pizza restaurant for 9 months and then went back to Rustenburg again.  There he had to take care of his mother who was very sick. In this time he did small jobs that he could find close to home. Since then his mum was always in the hospital and in 2010 after Tebogo's mother died his father committed suicide! 

He always heard about God around Him but started his own journey towards Him as he moved away from home. His family was scattered after both their parents´ death:  Marcia, who is 29 years old, started hanging out with the wrong crowds, drinking and misbehaving because she couldn't handle the fact of both her parents dying. She told her aunt that she was coming to Pretoria to look for Tebogo, but he's sure that was a lie... He hasn't heard anything from or of her ever since. No one knows where she is. He desperately wants to find her! 

His other sister, Precious, is 36 years old. She came also to Pretoria and studied at the same University Tebogo did. She studied production management and finished her course but she's struggling after having three miscarriages. He doesn't really know where she is. They've always fought a lot, and so their relationship isn't very good. 

In 2011 Tebogo came to Pretoria and found a job in Centurion. He left the job, because he felt that he was treated wrongly, unfairly. In 2012 he started volunteering at different NGO's so he could maybe find his sister. He quit smoking in April 2012.  
During his time working with Christian NGO´s he seriously understood God´s love in Jesus and committed his life to Him.  By December 2012 he was living in a small flat with a guy who had MDR - TB (the most dangerous, strongest form of tuberculosis) and he never got sick despite his condition!!  Tebogo could not pay his monthly rend and was homeless sleeping in front of the police station for several months. 

Tebogo got to know about ´The Coffee House´ through other people on the streets and came to us during the last months, showing a sound mind, a clear and supernatural testimony of God´s healing and caring and a willingness to improve in his life.   He is very keen to share with people of all ages, especially teenagers about God´s plan and design for sexuality and life in general. He wants young people not to make the same mistakes he made and to come to Jesus. 

By God´s grace We manage to find a shelter for Tebogo where he is now staying and he was privileged to find a job.

Charlene Story

Charlene was born and raised in Cape Town, but because of her parents’ addictions, she had to grow up in a children’s home. While in the children home she became very rebellious and was a difficult teen.

During her visits to one of her family members, she came in contact with her mother, who trafficked her and later introduce her to drugs and made her sell her body to men. Charlene became an expert in drug and prostitution trade and one day decided to flee from her mom’s control and became her own boss.

One of her clients fell in love with her and decided to marry her, provide her basic needs and drugs. During the marriage Charlene had convert from Christian religion to Islam religion. Her name had to change to Phatima (Islam name) and had to live according to the Islam regulations.

While married to her Muslim husband, she gave birth to a daughter. But because of her drug addiction, she neglected her daughter and ended up being divorced by her husband. She then became homeless and jobless. She was forced to go back to her old lifestyle. She then got married a guy who used to smoke crack and cocaine like her. But during this marriage she was abused a lot. And decided to leave the marriage and went to her old lifestyle again. From there her life went from bad to worse. By chance she got an odd job at a shop that was owned by an old single man. She seduced the old man to marry her for security purposes; the old man encouraged her to seek help. She was lucky enough to get government rehabilitation centre program.

During the rehabilitation she fell in love with a guy who was at the same centre with her. Charlene and new boyfriend left the program and ended up homeless and addicted to heroin.

For the past 3 months Charlene has been begging us to please help her. At first we were very hesitant, because we know her history of instability. We took Carlene to one of the rehabilitation centre. She was only there a week and decides to live the program because she misses her boyfriend.

Please pray that God will totally and completely set Carlene free from the drugs and all her past hurts.