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Annual General Meeting 23 October 2024
On the 23 October 2024, CYPSA hosted its Annual General Meeting. The meeting commenced with a short devotion from Matthew 26:7, where all in attendance were encouraged to hold nothing back in serving God and others, but that rather, like the woman with the alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, we should give all that … Read more
Open Letter to Parliament – Stop the BELA Bill
The situation is critical. Our country’s youth, once full of hope and ambition, are now facing grave challenges. They are losing their lives to drugs, disease, and hunger on the streets. Their aspirations of becoming educators, legal professionals, medical doctors, or nurses have been crushed.
Development of an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit due to dagga use: a population-based cohort study
The study looked at whether using dagga is linked to seeking medical help for anxiety. Researchers checked health records from Ontario, Canada, between 2008 and 2019. They focused on people who hadn’t gone to the doctor for anxiety before and compared those who went to the emergency room (ER) for dagga-related reasons to those who … Read more
BELA BILL Public Hearings Dates 2024
Provincial hearings already completed: KZN, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West.
CYPSA SUBMISSION TO NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES: COMMENTS ON CANNABIS FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES BILL
We have grave reservations about the Bill itself, as well as specific provisions of the Bill, despite further amendments having recently been made to the Bill.
BELA Bill – CYPSA’s Written Submission and Points of Concern
Mr E M Nchabeleng MP Chairperson: Select Committee Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture (NationalCouncil of Provinces) For attention: MsNoluthando Skaka Per email: [email protected] Dear Mr E M Nchabeleng MP Comments on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill [B 2B-2022] (S76) 1.We refer to the invitation for written submissions on the Basic … Read more
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Umphakathi Okhathazekile (the Concerned Young People of South Africa) is a non-profit organisation which was started by concerned people of South Africa in 2009 and then registered as an NPO in 2010.
The moral decay in our communities caused such great distress to us that we could not keep silent any longer. We have united in taking a stand against the devastation caused by drugs, immorality, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, crime, prostitution, pornography and abuse, amongst other evils, in all their forms.
Have You Not Known?
“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor? Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding?
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings. Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.
“To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”? Do you not know? Have you not heard?
- The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
- He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
- He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord, will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
Some thoughts for today – 25 April 2020
So many start of well, but soon lose strength in their spiritual walk. We can sometimes be so busy with a lot of our own thoughts and what we plan for the day. Then we meet up with circumstances that are difficult and we may even lose our peace in our effort to work for God. Through all our own efforts we grow weary and tired.
This portion however provides a secret of how to run our spiritual race and not grow weary and walk and not faint. The key lies to wait on Him. This waiting is something active. To wait on Him in prayer, asking Him to guide our thoughts. To be attentive to His guidance throughout the day. To follow His directions throughout our day. To have a serving heart for His sake. Having done so, we have the promise that we will soar like eagles, running and not growing weary and walking and not becoming faint.
Oh, may we continually draw our strength from Him who does not tire and has all under His control!