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The Christmas star 2020

On December 21, 2020 there will be an unusual planetary constellation in the sky. It should be on the evening of December 21 at exactly 7:21 p.m. CET. In the evening hours there will be a so-called Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. This means that both planets are approaching each other in the sky, are only 0.1 degrees apart and thus seem to join into “one bright star”. What is special about it is that the two planets last came as close to each other in 1623 as they did in 2020.  Continue reading The Christmas star 2020

More and more refugees find Jesus in South Africa

“I know a lot of refugees who want to become Christians, but they are too scared,” said Zawadi. Zawadi’s decision to follow Christ pleased her husband David, who had prayed for his wife for ten years.

Zawadi’s husband had been a Christian for some time and he attended a refugee congregation in the city. But for long time he did not experience real discipleship. “Many churches are simply interested to have a good and funny weekly worship experience,” explain the Yngsdals.

“But many visitors leave the service every week spiritually starved and therefore without the supernatural strength that is necessary to life a changed life.”

Discipleship is when the leader orients himself to the needs of his people and not the other way around. Jesus called to build people up and provide them. He says in Matthew 28:19: Go to everyone and make them to people, who are ready to learn from me every day.