Floyd & Sally McClung

Hello,

I thought I should share some news and prayer fuel for Red Hill… this is the community where a fire destroyed many homes and wrecked havoc in many people’s lives last February. We have been involved in serving the people of Red Hill and spreading the good news of Jesus there since the fires took place. There are new house churches, but also new challenges. I would like to ask you to consider taking a day or a couple days and commit to pray and fast on behalf of the people of Red Hill .

A passage that was impressed on one of our community members for Red Hill is ISAIAH 62.

As you pray I encourage you to meditate on this passage and let the Lord speak to you through it.

- Please pray for the promises given so many years ago through Isaiah to come true in Red Hill.

- Please pray for transformation of the community, that every aspect of people’s lives would be changed.  As Isaiah said, let’s “give the Lord no rest until he completes his work.”  Please thank God with us for the many wonderful changes already taking place in Red Hill. Gardens have been planted, jobs have been created and found, and people have been set free from alcohol, drugs and sexual addictions. House churches have been started. A leadership team from the community has been selected and is functioning to give a measure of governance for the people.

Here are some other prayer points regarding Red Hill:

- Strengthening, deepening and envisioning of the house churches. Pray for leaders of Godly character and faithfulness to be raised up in each church. Pray for the churches to multiply through discipleship.

- Pray for our All Nations team working in Red Hill, for faith, for financial provision, and for a “bakkie” (pickup truck) to take them back and forth and to haul supplies. Pray for team members Alexander, Joanna, Petrus, Eric, Gawie, and Bruce. Pray for financial provision, for love, humility, and unity. Pray also protection from crime and disease. For the team to grow in devotion to the Lord, and grace to accomplish all Father desires of them.

- The continuous cry for work by the young men in Red Hill. They are desperate to find jobs.

- Nomandla, age 34, due to deliver her baby today by Cesarean. She has diabetes and high blood pressure that could jeopardize the baby’s safe delivery and life. She has had two pregnancies before and both times the baby died. Pray for safe delivery and a healthy child. 3 times she’s been taken in to hospital and 3 times she’s been denied a bed. Please pray that she would get a bed. She and the father want to get married but are hindered by the lobola – the bride price one must pay for marrying a daughter - and the fact that he is not yet a Christian. Pray for breakthrough in this area. Pray he will fall under conviction and give his life totally to Jesus!

- Strengthening of the many young believers in Red Hill especially David with his history of alcoholism and rejection. Pray for Thandisizwe who has turned away and is now running a shabeen. The pull of the world is strong for him.

- Pray for Michelle, Maggie’s daughter who’s interested in Jesus, but giving into temptations. Pray for restoration of relationship with her mother and that she would find the love of Christ in her own life.

- Pray for Asanda and Wonder. Asanda recently got a job in response to prayer and we praise God for that! These young men need prayer to rise and be the young leaders we believe God wants them to be. Also pray for Bantu. He is a smart young guy with a family to care for and recently lost his job. Pray that he would both meet Jesus in a special way (we see leadership potential in him) and that God would provide for him and his family. Pray for him for a job.

- Pray for the raising up of more young leaders for the house churches.

- Pray for an increase in the presence and love of Jesus to prevail and spread throughout Red Hill community, also the fear of God to permeate the community… we long that this would be a Godly community, fully devoted to the Lord.

- Pray for the finances to build a community center that will be used for job skills training, celebration services for the house churches, and weddings and community meetings.

Thank you! It means so much to us that you stand with us for God’s work to be done in Red Hill. Over the years there have been many impressions given to people while praying that a move of God would take place from Red Hill-Cape Town - all the way to Cairo. Red Hill is the southern most community in all of Cape Town. We believe God wants to raise up the poor to spread the good news all over Africa - even to Cairo!

With gratitude,

Floyd and Sally

P.S. We are once again meeting with the owner of the property that we would like to buy for a training center. It will serve as home base for All Nations, and will include facilities for a trade school, church planting training, seminars for potential business people from the townships, and more. PLEASE PRAY!