Ministries
There are many different places where you will be able to find YOUR PLACE in this team.
1 Aanbidding
We are brought together as a congregation by the wonderful grace that we may know the Lord and that we have an inner need to glorify Him. We want to celebrate our salvation together in and through Jesus Christ. In the congregation this happens on a regular basis during:
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1.1 Worship services on Sundays
1.1.1 Preaching
1.1.2 Sacrament service – Baptism and the Lord’s Supper
1.1.3 Praise together Music team
1.2 Current meetings – Sunday evenings
1.2.1 Easter carol service
1.2.2 Christmas carol service
1.2.3 Pentecost song service
1.2.4 Praise evenings
1.3 Children’s Church – every Sunday, Children’s Church is offered for the Grade 0 to Grade 6 children during the worship service.
1.4 Toddler church – every Sunday the pre-school children are also served at their level, while father and mother can take part in the worship service in peace.
1.5 Bible study
1.6 Small group ministry
1.7 Youth work – 2 weekly
1.7.1 Bubble mouths – Grade 0 to Grade 4
1.7.2 Mini-Teens – Grade 5 to Grade 7
1.7.3 Top teenagers – Grade 9 to Grade 11
1.8 Faith growth campaigns – annually.
2 Gemeenskap van Gelowiges (koinonia)
Koinonia or Community of believers is when members are willing to share their spiritual gifts with others and give them to others, BUT are also willing to receive others’ gifts in their own lives. This is a matter that cannot be forced. For Witfontein, the koinonia is special, because over time it has developed into a team that works together with one goal in mind – to do it all for a crowd of one and that is for the Lord.
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Places where koinonia occurs spontaneously:
2.1 Tea pouring every Sunday
2.2 Congregation functions
2.3 Spiritual gathering of congregation and groups
2.4 Before, during and after religious services
2.5 Small groups
2.6 In life – where life simply just happens and people need each other to help and support each other.
3 Dissipelskap
To be able to learn more and more from the Lord like Jesus’ disciples in order to be like our teacher is very important to us. Discipleship is for us to become more and more like Jesus, knowing that we can never be like Him. A pupil would like to be like his teacher.
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Here, a particular effort is made to expose members to a little more than just a normal worship service. Focused sermon series and different programs are used here to make the entire congregation focus on one issue. There have been dozens of series that have seen the light and made a difference in members’ lives. Contact opportunities are also created during the week to further equip members about the week’s theme.
We make use of sermon notes and accompanying handbooks, as well as light images that are displayed via the data projector. (Our congregation already has a library of almost 900 sermons on CD).
It is when we grow spiritually in depth that the congregation can spontaneously also grow in breadth in its numbers.
4 Bediening
Members have been blessed by the Lord in different ways with spiritual gifts, with a heart and passion for certain matters and ministries in the congregation, with different abilities and skills, with different personalities and different experiences. We try as much as possible to engage members in the various ministries for which they were FORMED.
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We pay attention to the following ministries:
4.1 Youth
4.2 Gray Youth – elderly members
4.3 Mercy – the need is great, especially in Wolmer.
4.4 NHSV
4.5 Home visit
4.6 Music team
4.7 Data team – technical team during worship services
4.8 Beautification team – take care of flowers and arrangements and decor.
4.9 Finance Committee
4.10 Church council – elders and deacons
4.11 DPS-House Ninapark
4.12 New Movers Welcome Function
4.13 Funeral refreshments team
4.14 Youth Worker Team
4.15 Memorial Wall Committee
4.16 Faithful Witnesses Team
4.17 Children’s Church
4.18 Men’s camp
4.19 Women’s camp
4.20 Congregation Camp
4.21 Family week – focus on different relationships
4.22 Teen Retreat
4.23 Adult Catechism
4.24 Delwersfest – although fundraising, this is the biggest proof of cooperation and sharing of different skills with each other.
4.25 Marriage preparation courses – 2 times a year
4.26 Bible quizzes
4.27 Gemeenteblad editorship
4.28 Bereavement support
4.29 Media library: Spiritual books, DVDs and CDs can be taken out here for FREE. We are very excited about this modern field of ministry.
4.30 Hospitality Team
5 Evangelisasie
The congregation also wants to be the bearer of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus not only to those who need to grow spiritually because they already know the Lord Jesus, but also to those who have gone astray and become lost. There is also the further need to touch those who have never made the choice for the Lord. This is primarily the reason why we are a church: for those who are not yet part of the church.
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Our congregation has dozens of members who have gone through the Faithful Witness course and who are comfortable having a faith conversation. Training takes place all the time and goes out to members and people who need such a conversation.
This is and continues to be the main business of any church’s congregation – to bring people closer to the Lord and guide them to make a surrender to the Lord. Perhaps a gap in our church is the fact that most of our members may not have FAITH. They know about the cross of the Lord Jesus, but to believe that Jesus himself hung there for them personally is another matter.