{"id":1156,"date":"2012-09-09T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T18:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1156"},"modified":"2017-09-10T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:23:46","slug":"missionaries-marc-and-judie-blackwell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1156","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries &#8211; Marc and Judie Blackwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"internal\" class=\"missionaryprofile\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"focus\" class=\"intBG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"artImg\" id=\"artFocus\" src=\"\/wordpress\/images\/artFocus.png\" alt=\"Focus\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"ourMissions\">Missions<\/h1>\n<p style=\"position:relative; z-index:90000;\"><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?page_id=681\">Return to Missionaries<\/a><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Marc &amp; Judie Blackwell &#8211; South Africa<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"statcard\">\n            \t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"intImg\" src=\"\/wordpress\/images\/missions-Blackwells.jpg\" alt=\"Marc and Judie Blackwell\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Faith Global Mission<\/p>\n<table id=\"missionarystats\">\n<tr>\n<td>Birthdays<\/td>\n<td>Marc<\/td>\n<td>November 12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Judie<\/td>\n<td>November 23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Anniversary<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>February 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h4>Contact Information:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"mcontact\">Mark &amp; Judie Blackwell<br \/>\n                    Association of Baptists<br \/>\n                    P.O. Box 3298, Tygervalley, 7536<br \/>\n                    Republic of South Africa<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<dd class=\"stats\">\n<p>Marc and Judie have been serving the Lord in Africa for many years. Most of these years have been in Southern Africa. They have 3 grown children also working in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Their main thrust is church planting. They are working with the following Multilingual team that makes up their collective church planting outreach efforts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faith Fellowship in Durbanville North<\/li>\n<li>Paarl Valley Congregation<\/li>\n<li>Swartland Baptist Church in Malmesbury<\/li>\n<li>Tygerberg Baptist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Prayer Requests<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray that they will rightly identify the people and projects that need their focus and attentive love.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that they will see many more saved, and discipleships move forward.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for counseling to take root and congregations to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for couples to be stabilized and families get involved in more ministry.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that the people will better understand the necessity of holiness in life.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that each congregation will have a loving commitment to one another.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that they might use every encounter with unbelievers as an opportunity to witness for Christ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are also involved in these church help ministries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Church Ministries Institute &#8211; apprenticeship training.<\/p>\n<p>Young adults taking leadership and being involved more deeply in evangelism outreach. Pray for student preachers to develop.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Paardeberg Mt. Retreat &#8211; camp ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Camp season sees hundreds of children flowing through the camp.<\/p>\n<p>July is the concentrated camp ministry led by the 20&#8217;s age group and a few married couples.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Afrikaans and Multi-lingual Team &#8211; discover more effective and practical church planting methods that are usable in the churches.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On-going Requests<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Judie\u2019s efforts to keep her diabetes under control.<\/li>\n<li>Keep growing in their walk with the Lord, and more controlled by the Spirit in their relationships and attitudes toward others.<\/li>\n<li>Remain committed to maintaining their physical health to be spiritually effective.<\/li>\n<li>Relationships with family, friends, and supporters will glorify the Lord.<\/li>\n<li>To be more communicative of Christ\u2019s love, to manifest Christ more clearly and more directly to every South African possible.<\/li>\n<li>To not compromise God\u2019s Word, and feed meat to those that can handle it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"intBgBtm\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missions Return to Missionaries Marc &amp; Judie Blackwell &#8211; South Africa Faith Global Mission Birthdays Marc November 12 Judie November 23 Anniversary February 3 Contact Information: Mark &amp; Judie Blackwell Association of Baptists P.O. Box 3298, Tygervalley, 7536 Republic of South Africa Marc and Judie have been serving the Lord in Africa for many years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missionaries &#8211; Marc and Judie Blackwell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":681,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1156\/revisions\/2880"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northhillsbiblechurch.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}