Hi to all our family and friends – WOW time seems to just fly fly by!!! Just checked out our blog and my goodness the boyz have grown so here is another update to touch base with all of you.
Thought it would be good to go month by month! Enjoy all the pics and all our news.
We had a great time of CELEBRATING Gran Abrams (Mark’s granny, the boyz great granny) 80th birthday. We enjoyed a special meal with her and the extended family at a hotel in the Natal Midlands. What a joy to have such a godly grandmother so able and fit to be part of our lives. We pray God’s special blessing on her.
SOCCER FEVA!!!
Yes we did get to enjoy the vuvuzelas, wistles, shouts and loud hub-bub atmosphere of living in the world cup host country. We had a family outing to the beachfront to enjoy the soccer fan club with activities on the beach all day long.
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roydie got to run in a huge ball and all the boyz enjoyed a little train ride and Tan ate the messiest ice-cream ever! We were very involved in ministry outreach during the world cup and so enjoyed the extra opportunities to share Jesus with others.
One of our activities was our Holiday Bible Club THE ULTIMATE GOAL – “SUPER LEGUE” It was all centered 
around sharing the gospel and being apart of “God’s Team”. We had two teams the Strikers and the Defenders and Mark was the leader and was nicknamed “FIFA”. 
Each of our leaders had a team name like, left back, forward, kicker, goalie, scorer, linesman etc. Our senior pastor did the Bible teaching each day and each story built onto the next in learning about God’s salvation plan for our lives.
We split the group of about 60 kids into “team talk time” to do a craft were we made, flags, peaks, and shaker and soccer board games. Our game time was busy with many a ball game loads of fun and creativity to make it a challenge and a great time for the kids to play.
Each day we had a crazy dress activity so you can see from our pics we even had a change of hair doo!
What a wonderful week of sharing God’s love with the children. 
Troyden so enjoyed his FIRST Bible Holiday Club and has been asking when is the next one.
We ended our week with a weekend away in Margate down on the coast were we had time to relax and rest after a busy week of ministry.
We took the kids to the bird park where the birds sit on your head when you feed them and Troydie got to fee the bunny rabbits.
We paddled the paddle boats on the lagoon to see the waterfall. The boyz all so enjoyed riding on the water and mom and dad had a huge work on the thighs paddling the boat.
We treated ourselves to WAFFLES at eh waffle house and the boys so enjoyed playing in their playground on the horsie.
And in between enjoyed walking along the beach, digging in the sand and paddling our 
toes – great WINTER weekend on the beach!
FAMILY NEWS
Troyden has now learnt how to get dressed by himself and is most proud when he gets his T-shirt on and off all by himself. Can’t believe how quickly he is growing up. We have had so much fun chatting and the things he says are too cute. The one day we were talking about where do you go when you die and we explained that God lived in heaven and that we would go there if we love the Lord with all our hearts and he asked “well how do we get there?” and mommy promptly said “we will FLY!” (the only way I could explain quickly) and you should have seen his eyes and his response with all the expression you could imagine “FLY!!! WOW!! How cool!!”
Then when speaking about tomorrow or yesterday he says “dad, on the other morrow can we do….” So now we use that all the time – on the other morrow lets…. All too fun having kids in the house!
Our puppy, MAC has grown and we took him on his very FIRST walk and oh did he love that!!! Dad even enjoyed the ride with the boyz!!!
MINISTRY
Our main ministry update for the month of June was really all the Soccer outreach that our church family was involved in, services, screening of the games with supper provided in the rural areas and of course our fun holiday club.
We have also started a new bible study that Mark is leading for the young families. Tan leads the moms group and these moms were feeling that their husbands never get an opportunity to chat with other men with the same family, social, work pressures and wanted to have a bible study time for them as couples to study God’s word together. We now meet twice a month with a quick supper for the family and child care provided during the study time. What a blessing this has been to be amongst adults our own age all with different spiritual needs and how refreshing to have new Christians and even some who don’t know much about spiritual things meet together to discuss and learn. We have so enjoyed this new ministry opportunity. Please pray for those who are seeking, asking and wanting to follow Christ more closely.
Thanks for taking the time to catch up with us – chat again soon
God Bless and take care - In His hands
Mark, Tanya, Troyden, Treyson & Tryston
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