Friday 13 January 2012

WESLEY GUILD (SA)

Evening Devotion

WESLEY GUILD (SA)

Evening devotion:

Bro. Sonwabile Nomnganga

 

Share the Word of God with us

 

 

Okokuqala ndizakuphakamisa isandla sam sokunene ndizibulisele kuni nonke bazalwana ngelihle igama lenkosi yethu enguYesu Krestu, engumfeli nomvukeli wam. Ehleliyo xa kunamhlanje ngasekunene kuYise esihlalweni sobukhosi. Esazakubiya ngenye imini ize kulanda abangabayo. Athi xa ethetha uPawulosi, asikazazi into eziza kuba zizo, kodwa ngethemba nokholo, xa ethe wabonakala thina sofana naye... ukwenjenje bhotani bazalwana. One way. Nakuwe ndithi camagu mfo kaNcapai.... tatalahote ndlovu enomxhaka. i thank the opportunity presented to me.

 

Shall we therefore turn our bibles to the book Genesis Chapter 37 verse 28. I just want us to focus on last words of the verste that say, "and" they "sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites"... ithi ngolulwimi lwase khaya, "bamthengisa uYosefu kumaIshmayeli ngeesilivere ezimashumi mabini".... Brothers and sisters, I will not dwell on the history about the book, who wrote it, where and why. I will not even brother about the history of joseph, where he was born, and all that... kodwa ngale mva kwemini ndiza kuni uthixo endithume nge theme ethi.... "FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH"....

 

As i was reading the story of Joseph and this whole incidence, something stroke my heart and left me amazed and challenged. and I decided to come and share the challenge that overwhelmed me to you... I first looked at myself and the challenges and daily trials and tribulations that young people are faced with today and i found that, we can learn something or two from the example of Joseph. Joseph, was a young men who had a favor from God like all of us, regardless of the differences in the favours. He was a young man who had dreams and visions like all of us. He even saw himself and ruler and a man of authority, which is what we all at times to see ourselves as. he was enthusiastic about his future. he had wishes about his future like all of us... all the time, he spoke with authority and walked tall and rouse above all coz, more to his plans about future, he felt God's presence by his side all the time.

 

But unplanned and unexpectadly, the was a drastic change in his life.. he found himself in a big disaster that might have even brought him to the hopeless state... surely the moment they were selling him, he saw a dead end and culc-de-suc in his... he saw no way farward. bamthengisa kuma Ishmayeli ngamashumi amabini esilivere. I am sure the heart was telling him to give up in life.... Listen to what God tells me to tell you today, the moment the sold him, it was a major transition and change in his life.. neither did he know that it was the needed transition and change.. but the moment it was happening , it was hard to take and believe.

 

Ndifuna ukuthi kuwe.. there are changes that are hard in our lives that even bring us to hopeless situations... the moment they happen, they become bitter pills to swallow. kodwa those changes are vital and and needed kuhle ke apha ethubeni ubomi bukhe bube ngahti bukujikele... that moment is the moment to bring the greatest miracle and change in your life... hlala uthule uzole naxa benga bakuthengisa kuma Ishmayeli, abazi ukuba kukhulu okukuzelayo... through those changes in your life, there are those that can benefit and be blessed through that change... mamemla ke ndikxelel.. ndithe kuwe our theme says, from strength to strength.. before the change in Josesh.. he was such a strong and motivated person in life who had dream and good visions about his life.... even after the change, he still continued to let the dream in him live and flourish... in the tough situation he was in he still grew to be the strong man... he moved from strength to strength. ... ndifuna ukuthi nawe you might have had dream but the situations changed, that does not mean stop dreaming.. keep on moving from strength to strength... the willing and dreaming person you were before the change, can still become the strong person after the change..

 

kodwa i want you to know one thing, Joseph did not do all by his power, might and glory, but by the grace of God..athi umculi wasekhaya asenzanga ngawethu amandla... athi lomculi, kungawo amandla avela enkosini. God is the able god.. he can move us from strength to strength. You might be in a tight corner, god can move you from strength to strength.. he grace is able to keep and move you from strength to strength.. know one thing, God's hand can never put you in a place where his grace cannot sustain you..

 

xa ndisehlela.. ikhe yathi enye intwazana xa indikuthaza, trying to motivate me based on the situation i am in, she said, "soso efforts may fail, but dont fail to make efforts"... ndifuna ukuthi kuwe,... it might be hard, keep trying.. keep making efforts. whatever the situation might be, keep trying... you will see a miracle, and be moved from strength to strength.. ungamlibali uthixo... and keep inviting him.. ucele amandla emandleni..Mandithi bazalwana, from strength to strength we can go, only if we god with our god. Bonke abazalwana babathi Amen

Thursday 8 December 2011

Shawbury Circuit

Location

Shawbury is situated about 50km from Umthatha, the former capital town of the then Transkei homeland in the Mpondomiseland in Qumbu district.

Tsitsa River

Umzimvubu River


It lies between two rivers - the Tsitsa and Umzimvubu - which are well respected by the Mpondomise people as the place of the dwelling of their kings and it is in Tsitsa where the Mpondomise kings were buried. Shawbury circuit was extensive, covering an area of probably 3000 square miles and embracing the whole Qumbu and a large portion of the Libode district east of the Tsitsa river.

The Shawbury Area


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History

The name Shawbury is associated more with the Institution of Education than with the church.
The circuit is one of the oldest circuits in the Clarkebury district and in the MCSA.
According to the certificate of occupation, Shawbury received the deed of grant in 1891.
Shawbury was not the one of the chain of stations which were planted by Rev William Shaw, but it is an offspring of Rev William Shaw’s missionary work.
The name Shawbury was given by the missionaries to the honour of that great leader William Shaw.
The name, Shawbury, first appeared in the minutes of the meeting which was held in 1843.
It was Chief Ncaphayi of the amaBhaca who had sent the message asking for missionary, for purpose of education and development after the ravage of the wars of that time. Those messengers were sent to Grahamstown, with a present of a pair of tusks. W.H Garner was the first missionary appointed at Shawbury.
Chief Mhlontlo heartily supported Rev William Shaw Davis in his plan of building of a school for indigenous girls in Shawbury.
The great work started and education was the core of the life of Shawbury circuit which impacts the whole region of Transkei and beyond.

The Church Building

A Manse


Another Manse

The Church Building


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Places of Interest

Kitchen Bake House

Workshop and Garage


Teacher's Cottage

Reservoir


Workshop

The Old Chapel


Old Houses from the Missionaries

An Old Fridge House for Dairy Products

 

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