The committee remains active on campus and has created a visible presence. They have attended a workshop about the rules, regulations and privileges of the clubs. They have been asked to take part in several campus programmes.

7 Bible Study groups have been started. These groups are a good mixture of first year students and volunteers who have been through FTN. Those in 2nd year and above are being encouraged to mentor the 1st years. Please pray for the club. We really do believe that they can play an important role in the future development of FTN as a whole and can make a huge difference on campus. The university is very positive towards the Club.

Our two Namibian volunteers have been busy ever since their return home.
• Face The Nation curriculum has been approved by their sending church’s AIDS Committee. It is to be used in the Youth Group and also be part of the After-School- Programme Life Skills classes.
• A nearby high school has been approached for the opportunity of introducing the Face The Nation curriculum to the Grade 11 (16-17 years) students in Term 3 of 2010.
• An introduction of Face The Nation has been made to the Namibia Council of Churches Namibia Steering Committee on HIV & AIDS.
• They have approached the church council to assist with counselling after the morning services

• 140 Volunteers were trained by FTN this year
• They were drawn from +60 Churches
• 60/140 were either returning volunteers or heard about FTN while students at school
• 28 senior secondary schools were reached
• Total of 55 000 teens were reached
• 10 volunteers from Namibia & Zambia were trained to expand and strengthen FTN.
• 2 Rally Teams performed more than 70 rallies
These happened in Senior, Junior, & Private schools, Churches; a Museum; two feeding stations; seven police stations; Open Market places; . . . and a Prison
• +70 Prayer Partners supported our volunteers
• IN SCHOOLS: 5 116 Salvation commitments were recorded
• IN SCHOOLS: 9 295 abstinence pledge cards were signed
• In the Communities as an added bonus:
• 867 salvation commitments were recorded
• 1 716 abstinence pledge cards signed
All together that brings us to totals* of:
• 5 983 salvation commitments, and
• 11 009 abstinence pledge cards
*These are not our final numbers. We are still awaiting statistics from two schools.

To God be the glory, great things He has done!

The “active” phase of Face The Nation has been completed for another year! I put active in inverted commas because life at the office has been no less active. We praise God for the safe return of all our volunteers and the successful completion of their time in the schools.

“Face The Nation…going the extra mile.” was our theme. This was held early in August. It was a joyous reunion time of the teams and a time of celebration, as everyone looked back over the goodness, provision and faithfulness of God over the past three months. The testimonies of some of the volunteers were incredible. Each one is a story in and of itself. I will be sending these to you over the next weeks.

Suzanne Taylor from Johnson ferry Baptist Church in Atlanta, joined FTN for 5 weeks to do filming and travel with the North Rally team this year.

National Geographic notified her that she has received the internship to work as a Production Assistant with the TV group. 2 people were short listed for the position and her experience in Africa, with FTN clinched her the position.

Well done, Suzanne

Send us Lord…..

Being on the road as a member of the rally team wasn’t always great but we had the privilege of seeing Scripture come alive. Scriptures like, the joy of the Lord is my strength, God honours obedience more than sacrifice, unless the labourers work with and under God they work in vain.

What I learnt about God is that God just is. God can work with and without man. God brought me to a place where I realised it’s not the dancing or the dramas that drew the kids to him but He draws, by using the dancing and the dramas. From that I learnt that you have to take your quiet
times and devotions very seriously and your first priority is seeking God. So that when you perform you become invisible and your maker is visible.

In one school in Letlhakane, I counselled a lot of troubled young ladies, some had been raped, and when they reported no one believed them, not even their parents because of their past lives, some where abandoned by their parents and others were without parents. These kids had nothing and they were hurting, and you’d think they would want nothing to do with God and we had to tell them God loves you, that was hard. But this is where I realised that God works when and where he wants because these were the very same girls who came crying, saying “I don’t understand it but when you were performing I felt something different and I want it” Wow! Not man but God. Now they are walking with God and their lives are not perfect but a lot better than before.

It’s very easy to adopt these kids and you can’t help but love them and when they find Christ they don’t want to let go of him because they have found life. Even when they get off track, they never go back as far as they were before.

It was really awesome going back to the schools and finding students with worn out abstinence pledge cards from last year and they were still walking with God. They are proud of themselves. Abstaining has become cool in the schools and it is cool.

Pastor Norman talked about prayer and how prayer back home made a big difference for the volunteers on the field. That is so true. The spiritual war fare was so tangible this year and it can only be the hand of God that took and lead the rally teams all around the country safely. God woke us up one night at 3a.m to pray because we had forgotten that we were in the fore front. Every time we did a rally God broke down walls and the devil threw stuff at us but the prayers of the saints were at work way before we started. Thank you for the prayers and the encouraging smses. Please send more next year and the year after that.

Living a life of moral purity is impossible in the eyes of man but nothing is impossible with God. There is evidence of God’s marvellous works and I am glad to have been a tea spoon in his kitchen

My testimony of Face the Nation 2008
By Onnetse (Kez) Samagabadi