CEF SA Missionaries

Daisy Naicker - Seychelles

I used to serve with my husband in South Africa, Zambia and the Fiji Islands.  He passed away in 2005. I am now preparing to go to the Seychelles where Child Evangelism Fellowship has not established any work yet. This will be the 158th country for CEF.

The Seychelles has a population of 87 000 of which children make up 22 000 of the population.  The Seychelles is predominantly a Roman Catholic country – 83.3%. My vision is to establish the work of Child Evangelism Fellowship in the Seychelles.  I plan to train the nationals form the seven Evangelical Churches who in turn will be able to reach out to the children.

Currently, I am waiting for a work permit to be issued before I can go. Please pray with me for this. I am also in the process of raising support. Pray with me that the Lord will raise 50 people to give R100 per month towards ongoing monthly support.  Also pray for shipping and airfare expenses, as they are very high.
May God bless you for your prayers and support.

Daisy Naiker
 

Dries and Marlee Volschenk - Madagascar

Dries and Marlee serve as provincial directors for Fianarantsoa province and lives in the town with the same name. It means “A good place for learning / a place to learn good things”. ‘Dries is also responsible for the national education department for the south of the island.

Madagascar is a big island with 16 million people, of which half is under the age of 15 years. Poverty is a big problem, not only physically, but also spiritually. The majority of the people are animists, praying to the ancestors. The churches are full of ancestral worship in places.

It is wonderful to see how God is making Christ known through the work of CEF. There are 23 fulltime workers on the island. Three of them work with Dries and Marlee in Fianarantsoa. They also have 27 volunteer workers in the town and a few more in the rural areas.

Weekly more than 1900 children are reached in 46 Good News Clubs in the province. A lot more work needs to be done and we trust the Lord for wonderful fruit in the ministry. In 2006 more than 950 children accepted Jesus as their Saviour in Fianarantsoa.
 

Marius and Amanda Storm - Netherlands

After pasturing two congregations in the Dutch reformed church in SA, we were sent out as missionaries to Holland in 1992. We did our leadership training in Switzerland and have been directing the national CEF work here in Apeldoorn for the past 15 years.

We have three children, of whom the oldest is married. We have 6 full time workers and one of our goals is to have a growing work in all of the provinces in Holland. Dutch children have physically everything that they want.

• Will you please pray that they will understand their own spiritual need for Jesus Christ as Saviour.
• Also pray that  the Bible believing churches will partake in the vision to reach out to the unsaved children
• Pray that new national leaders (a couple) will be called to take over from us in the next 10-15 years.

Johan and Rita Bloemhof - France

We are missionaries sent to France 24 years ago. We are responsible for the development of new regions and National projects in France.

More than 50 million people in France (of 60 million) do not attend Christian churches or practice the Christian faith! More than 30 000 towns (Communes) out of 36 000 do not have a Protestant church! Almost 13 million children attend schools in France. Most of them (more than 99%) will accumulate a lot of knowledge during the school year, without knowing their Creator.

How will they know about salvation and redemption if somebody does not take it on his heart to announce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to them?

We are thankful to God that the workers had the opportunity during last year to reach more than 36000 children in some way or another to hear the Good News in France and on the French Islands. Though many regions are still waiting for God‘s servants to help the churches to reach thousands of unreached children. See the map above.

We praise God for 40 workers in CEF France (full time or part time - see map). Quite a few workers will need to retire in the next few years and need to be replaced.

More than the half of the regions in France have never had any CEF worker and we would like to extend Lord willing to those regions. We trust God to raise workers for those regions.

How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher? Romans 10.14
(On the map of France at the top a ? indicates “Unreached regions with no CEF workers)

Mariana Le Roux - France

After 15 years with CEF in France, the Lord is bringing me back to South Africa to my four own children and grandchildren (7th one on photo at the bottom), with Es. 44:1-4, 54:13 and 59:21 as promises.

His vision for me is:
1. to continue working for His Kingdom among the children of France by visiting churches in South Africa, trusting  Him for many prayer missionaries for the French regions without fulltime children’s workers;
2. to continue developing the music ministry, “Let’s Sing the Word!”, which He entrusted to me in France, trusting Him for translations into other languages, according to His perfect design;
3. to write my testimony of what He has done during these 15 years alone with Him in a foreign country, as an encouragement for others to follow Him intimately;
4. to come back to France every summer, helping with “Let’s Sing the Word!” camps and  summer outreaches.

Please pray for the financial support for Jeanne and Patrick, who’ll take over most of my responsibilities in the Paris area, as well as for 10 new Good News Clubs in the year to come!
 

Gerhard and Valerie van Eck - Switzerland

After spending 6 years in the south of France, near Marseille, the Lord has called us on to the European Headquarters of CEF in Switzerland. Since 2004, my family and I are serving the Lord here.

Kilchzimmer serves the 563 fulltime workers working in all of the 48 countries of Europe. Last year more than 750 000 children were reached through the ministry of CEF in Europe. Praise the Lord!

We are responsible for the centre in all its facets, making sure that staff and students are cared for, that guests who use the centre as guest house during the first 6 months are looked after, that the administration of the centre is in order and that there is good interaction between the different departments working into greater Europe. We are also responsible for the Member Care program in Europe.

Please pray that God will give us the wisdom and insight to handle all the different aspects according to His will. We would like to develop Member Care more and build it out so that every country in Europe has an official structure in place for Member Care. Our hearts desire is to see our team members be the best that they can be for the work that the Lord has called them to.