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TOE die kerke se deure tydens die streng inperkingsperiodes weens die COVID-19 pandemie toe was, het pastoor Elize Hall van die AGS Lofoord op Kariega gesorg dat \u2019n ander deur oopgaan na di\u00e9 wat dit nodig het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pastoor Elize Hall, die eerste vrouepastoor van AGS Lofoord op Kariega. Foto:HEILIE COMBRINCK<\/div>\n
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Sy het naamlik \u2019n WhatsApp<\/span>-groep begin om in di\u00e9 onseker tyd daagliks boodskappe van hoop uit te stuur. Vir die ontvangers was dit s\u00f3 bemoedigend dat die woord vinnig versprei en al hoe meer mense gevra het om aan te sluit. Nou bars die ledetal uit sy nate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDit het begin met stemboodskappe vir my kinders, en toe voel ek die behoefte om dit ook vir vyf mense op my kontaklys te stuur,\u201d vertel Elize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die vyf ontvangers het verbaas geant-woord en gevra hoe sy geweet het dat dit wat sy gestuur het, juis hul behoefte vir die dag was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToe weet ek as die kerk se deure toe is, is hierdie die deur na bediening,\u201d s\u00ea Elize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In sekerlik di\u00e9 mees uitdagende tyd om \u2019n gemeente te bedien en te bou, is Elize as die eerste vroue-pastoor by AGS Lofoord aangestel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Op 10 Februarie 2020 het sy haar Pastoor Elize WhatsApp<\/span>-groep met 20 mense begin. Haar kontaklys het s\u00f3 gegroei dat sy nou drie groepe met \u2018n totaal van 343 mense bereik en sy stuur haar daaglikse boodskappe ook uit na vyf ander groepe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOm in isolasie te leef, is baie sleg. Mense voel vasgevang en hunker na bemoediging. Ons het \u2018n bang nasie geword, mense leef in vrees vir die virus en is selfs bang vir me- kaar omdat jy nie weet wie het die virus nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elize het op die ouderdom van 51 met haar deeltydse teologiese studies by die AGS se teologiese kollege begin. Op daardie stadium het sy op Dunbrody naby Kirkwood by die Heartfelt Home, \u2018n tehuis vir mense met Alzheimer-siekte, gewerk as huidhouster en fasiliteerder. Nadat sy haar studies voltooi het, is sy vir voltydse bediening by Lofoord-gemeente aangestel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Di\u00e9 vrouepastoor was ook voorheen \u2018n bobaasbakker op Vredendal. Dit is juis di\u00e9 vaardigheid wat sy voortgesit het terwyl sy in die jare voor Heartfelt Home haar bejaarde ouers op Kirkwood versorg het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie trek Kirkwood toe was \u2018n groot ge-loofstap. Maar, as die Here s\u00ea move<\/span>, dan move<\/span> ek. Ek het nie Kirkwood toe gekom om te bak nie, maar om vir die Here te werk want ek het geweet Hy het groter planne vir my lewe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elize s\u00ea haar lewenspad het \u2019n Oos-Kaapse draai kom maak oor drie redes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEerstens om te leer wat onvoorwaardelike liefde is. Tweedens om die Here se hande en voete op grondvlak te wees en derdens om my te verander sodat ek reg kan wees vir Sy voltydse bediening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018n Bonus van Elize se WhatsApp<\/span>-groep en Lofoord is dat dit ook haar man, Percy Hall, oor haar lewenspad gebring het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOm weer te trou, was nie deel van my plan nie, maar die Here het dit s\u00f3 bestem. En hy voldoen aan al my vereistes: \u2019n sagte hart; \u2019n ruggraat van staal om my te be-skerm; hy verstaan my passie vir die Here; en hy is nie bang om \u2019n pastoor se man te wees nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastoor Elize Hall is op 1 Augustus 2020 amptelik aangestel by die AGS Lofoord-gemeente en het pastoor Corrie Muller, wat afgetree het, opgevolg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sy is weeksdae van 09:00 tot 14:00 by die kerkkantoor en Sondae is die diens om 09:00. \u201cMy deur is oop. As iemand bemoediging of raad nodig het kan hulle met my kom praat.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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