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PO Box 1522, Kimberley 8300 ** www.einfeldtfamily.org** 02 July 2008

Dear friends and supporters,

This is just a short note to let you know that our website has been updated.  Especially the Photos page, and e-letters.  If you’ve never visited our website, we invite you to do so.  If you have, you may especially want to check out the updated Photo page.  The website address is above between our postal address and the date.  Just click on it or copy and paste it into your browser. 

The schools in South Africa are recessed for the winter holiday now, so we are using the time to catch up on visiting people we have not seen, doing office work, and in general getting ready for Term #3 of the school year.  Today is one of our special teen’s birthdays.  Joyce wanted to come over anyway, to have “Uncle René” help her with a biology project, so she spent part of the day with us.  Sonia made Joyce her favourite “American brownies”.  She said this was the first time she had ever blown out candles on her birthday.  (She had seen other people with candles, but never had them, so she said it was special.) We recently were able to help out some area churches who had invited a speaker for a theological refresher course for pastors who haven’t had much training, but the three pastors who invited him all needed to be out of town for the weekend before the seminar, so we agreed to host this guest for three nights.  We enjoyed having him here!  [Our guest room is open for use – who’s next?  You are welcome.] There is a new baby overdue (one of the former teens from the Florianville youth group) and there is much sickness, so we are anticipating additional visitation in homes and the hospital soon, as well.  Just before the holidays, Brigitte, a friend of ours who had worked with us in Life Skills for the children’s homes, went with Sonia to look for a venue to re-start that Life Skills/Bible study with the children’s homes.  It looks like we will have use of a large classroom at a school that is very centrally located for the children’s homes.  Pray that this programme can be re-started soon after school re-opens! 

 We recently organised a meeting between a young, newlywed pastoral couple, and some “veteran” missionaries to Senegal.  The young couple plan to go to Senegal as missionaries in a few years, but the wife, who is pregnant with their first baby, had some valid concerns and fears about bringing up children in such an “uncivilised” environment.  Both couples met at our house (over tea and cake, of course), to allow this couple’s questions to be answered.  We were able to get them a DVD of mission work in Senegal, and we ourselves answered some questions about living and ministering in West Africa.  The two couples have now exchanged e-addresses so they can continue to be in touch, in case there are further questions.  Pray for this young couple, Pastor Warren and Mamou Theys, who are so eager and willing to serve the Lord. 

 Our thanks goes out to those who have already expressed some interest in providing more DVDs for Ambassadors Resource Centre.  Those resources will certainly be a great start in helping provide what we need to help others! 

 UPDATE on our KIDZ!  Ryan and Rachel made it safely back to the US, and have located a flat in Chicago where they are setting up house.  They embarked yesterday on a trip to Atlanta to pick up our car which we left with René’s cousin.  They will stop briefly to see relatives in SC, and then on to Cheraw, SC where Kurt, as well as Calvary Baptist Church (Ryan and Kurt’s home church), will receive them.  We are imagining Kurt and Ryan and Rachel all being together soon, and would love to be there to enjoy them all.  Most of Ryan and Rachel’s wedding gifts were stored at the church building last year, so they will fill the car with as many as they can possibly take back to Chicago with them. 

 Happy July!  Enjoy the month.  Imagine!  Half of 2008 is already history!  Two of our children (Kurt and Rachel) have birthdays and we will celebrate our 32^nd wedding anniversary this month.  God is SO good to us!! 

 Blessings,

René and Sonia

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EINFELDTS in South Africa

Ambassadors International Ministries, Inc.

PO Box 1522, Kimberley 8300 ** www.einfeldtfamily.org ** 13 June 2008

 Dear prayer supporters,

WINTER is upon us here in South Africa.  We have had some bitterly cold mornings – cold, that is, for a country in which houses are not heated like those in the U.S.  And definitely cold for those of us who lived in the tropics for 14+ years!  So many people think: “You can’t possibly be cold; you live in AFRICA!”  Yes, we do, but the next land mass south of us is Antarctica!  We’ve had mornings down to 0 degrees (32 degrees Fahrenheit) with hard frost on the ground and windscreens of the cars.  Try that kind of WEATHER in the U.S. with your furnace OFF.  It DOES get nippy in the house.  We thank God for the abundance with which He has blessed us.  We know that while we sleep in a WARM WATERBED with blankets, and have some little space heaters in our house, many in this country, and probably even some of our students, are not nearly as WARM each night.   

We’ve had some INTERESTING discussions and conversations in our classes lately, as well as written comments and questions.  PRAY for our students!  There is much in this world that is calling to them to do drugs to have “fun”, to be “fulfilled” by giving themselves sexually before marriage, and other temptations for IMMORALITY.  We also have a class of married couples in which there are some serious needs – please PRAY for them, and for us as we teach them.

Here are a few questions from some of our teen students: “My father is drinking alcohol and smoking.  What can I say so that he could stop this?  Help me please.”  “My friend is smoking and now he is in hospital because of smoking.  I am smoking too; please help me Mr. and Mrs. E to stop smoking.  I started smoking when I was 14 years old.  People say I already look old in my face.”    
…and some notes from students of what they have learnt in our classes:

“Mr. and Mrs. E helped me because now I know what is abortion and what to do to not have sex when you are not married, and not drink alcohol and smoke drugs, etc.  And when you are married love your wife and do not play games.”  “I can help a person with this knowledge.  I am going to help my mother quit smoking.”  “Thank you, you make me clever because these things [that you taught] are important to us.  If you did not teach us about these things we will know nothing about them.  Mr. and Mrs. E. are great teachers; we all love Mr. and Mrs. E.”  “I learned about saving sex until marriage so that I can have a safer life and I learnt about things that are not good for my health and could damage my brain cells.  Drugs can destroy my goals in life and can destroy my future life.”  “Mr. & Mrs. E made me realize that drugs are so dangerous that even if you’re over 18 or matured enough you must not use them because they can take everything a person has.  And stay away from sex till I have my own house and wife.  Thank you very much Mr. & Mrs. E.”  “Mr. & Mrs. E helped me – I must not take drugs.  I must not have sex now.  You helped me I must not do stupid things!”  “From Mr. & Mrs. E I learned that I can abstain until I get married.  They told us you win or lose by the way you choose; decide to decide right.  I have a freedom of speech and to say no if someone bribes me to have drugs.  I have a right to take care of my body.”  (We could go on and on with these comments, but PRAY for our students, and the commitments some have made! – Thank you!)

The NEW Ambassadors Resource Centre is NOW open, as from June 3!  We are excited that it is ready to be used.  We have not yet had as many come to use it as we had hoped but with time and word of mouth we are sure that many will come.  PRAY with us that God will use this resource in the lives of many, especially believers, to strengthen their walk with Christ and their witness to others here in Kimberley. 

God allowed us to leave a film to watch and some worksheets for our students while we took a TRIP to Botswana recently for a week of the School of Discipleship for Face the Nation, a Christian, abstinence-based programme that is going into all the senior secondary schools of Botswana.  It was so exciting to see these young people excited and eager to get God’s TRUTH out to these schools, and eagerly drinking in the TEACHING from the 5-week School of Discipleship.  Our friend with whom we used to minister in Kimberley is now living there and is involved in heading up the School of Discipleship for this wonderful programme.  She invited us for the week to hear Pam Stenzel, a renowned American speaker on the subject of purity and abstinence.  We LOVED getting to know her and hear her, LOVED seeing our friend and being encouraged by being able to “talk shop” with her – we understand each other well because we share the same goals for ministry outreach.  And we were able to pick up several new ministry resources, as well!  We praise the Lord for being able to make that TRIP!  PRAY for these 135 university-age young people who are now teaching TRUTH all over Botswana in the schools. 

The END of May marked the EXIT from our property of Mona Lisa, who insisted on going her own way.  Please PRAY that God will turn her around before she is in deep trouble.  We found some papers after she left indicating that she had been continuously lying to us.  L  This month marked the END of the school year in Cameroon for Ryan and Rachel, and they have just returned to the U.S.  Please pray as they get settled and find jobs for this next year, and seek God’s face as to what He wants them to do in their future.  Kurt anticipates taking on responsibility for the website of a Christian organisation building hospitals in Africa.  We thank God for His working in our children’s lives. 

RISING costs have brought hardships to the people of South Africa – whereas the petrol price was until RECENTLY just over a dollar per litre ($4 a gallon) the price has RISEN to about $1.30 per litre now, and forecasts say it will be over $2.00 a litre ($8 per gallon) by the end of this year.  This, of course, affects food costs which have RISEN drastically.  Poor people are greatly affected.  Many in South Africa are taking their frustrations out on illegal foreigners who have come and, in their estimation, “stolen their jobs”.  Some legal foreigners have also been caught in the cross fire.  Pray for this violence to be contained and for the prices also to be contained! 

 Even though WINTER is hard on our bodies (and spirits!) this time of year, we are always thankful for the promise and hope that the SUN brings when it shines.  We are also thankful for the promise and hope that the SON brings in the lives of those to whom we minister.  Whether the darkness is rising prices, hopeless home situations, peer pressure, or lack of knowledge, Psalm 119:130 says, “The entrance of Your words gives light.”  This is our theme verse for Ambassadors Resource Centre (ARC) and the theme of our ministry here in Kimberley.  Thank you for your prayers and support.  We LOVE ministering here.

 Warmed by the Son,

 René and Sonia Einfeldt

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mission:  Ambassadors International Ministries, Inc., PO Box 627, Longmont, CO 80502

sending church:  First Baptist Church, 39 E. Main Street, Randolph, NY 14772

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EINFELDTS in South Africa

Ambassadors International Ministries, Inc.

PO Box 1522, Kimberley 8300 ** www.einfeldtfamily.org ** 08 MAY 2008

Dear friends in Christ,

1 HOUSE, 2 BABIES

 Just a SHORT NOTE to let you know how the foreclosure sale went this afternoon.  During the sale we were able to be in phone contact with the lawyer and our friend who has Power of Attorney for us.  This was possible and affordable thanks to Skype, a programme that lets us call long distance (computer to phone) to the US for 2 cents a minute.  (Thanks, Lord, for technology!) 

 The sale, as these things usually go, did not last long.  The lawyer gave our opening bid, but from those who were there, there were no other bids.  As a couple we had discussed what we would ask for as an opening bid, and had also discussed it with two lawyers, the foreclosure lawyer and one here in South Africa.  This means the house now reverts back to being our house.  It is not the answer we were hoping for, but we must trust our Sovereign Lord that this is His plan.  There is not really a feasible way for us to go to the US now to clean and fix up this house to get it ready for sale.  Nor is it feasible that we wait to do it (and meanwhile pay NY taxes!) till we next go back to the US in 2010!  We have been told that possibly some folks from our supporting churches will perhaps be willing to help us in this matter.  We pray that this will be so.  Please pray that it CAN be fixed up some, and that we will be able to find a buyer for the house as soon as possible. 

Here's another bit of BETTER news: Shortly after the dedication of the new building for the church we helped to start in Mali, the pastor’s wife (the one who for 11 years could not have children, then after the birth of her first child was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer but is now totally free of cancer) gave birth to a healthy, big baby boy, named William Eliakim Drissa Thera.  William is for the man who worked so hard to help Mariam get to the US for cancer treatments, Eliakim is a good strong Bible name, and Drissa is the uncle who helped to bring up Mariam from age 3 till her marriage.  They will dedicate themselves to the Lord to bring him up in God’s ways, this Sunday, on Mother’s Day. 

AND --- just today we received word of another baby boy being born – Liam Thomas Niehoff put in his appearance this morning at 7:50 a.m., in the hospital in Welkom where our colleagues, Brian and Lois, are ministering.  He is their first child.  We praise the Lord for Liam’s safe delivery! 

 THANKS for your prayers!  You – and they – are a blessing to us.

 Because of His grace,

René and Sonia Einfeldt

mission:  Ambassadors International Ministries, Inc., PO Box 627, Longmont, CO 80502

sending church:  First Baptist Church, 39 E. Main Street, Randolph, NY 14772

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