Some people have asked about our training and experience before we joined NTM in 2004. Here is a short summery:
Ministry for us already started when they were living in South Africa and ministered in the Garden-Route area where Francois was a forester and Nadia a teacher. We served in a local cross-cultural evangelism ministry.
Francois finished a course in Missiology at ASM, White River, RSA and Nadia had further training in Child Evangelism at Petra Collage.
In February 1997 we moved to Mozambique to minister in the National Church as sent ones from the Church in South Africa. For most of our first term (1997-2003) we worked as members of a multi-disciplinary Church Planting team, but were also extensively involved with inter-agency consulting, training and teaching within the National Church in many of the 11 provinces of Mozambique. Francois was involved in community development and small business training of church members while Nadia was training pre-school teachers and later trainers of these teachers.
After learning about NTM opening a work in East Africa, we went to North Cotes, England for further training. We finished the Cross-Culture Communication’s Course in July 2004 and moved back to Mozambique in November of that year.
In June 2005 we moved into tents among the unreached Mwinika people on the east coast of Mozambique! Today, the first phase Chronological Bible teaching with the first small group of Mwinika has been done!
“God is not looking for brilliant men.. (But) men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but IN GOD.” H.A. Ironside
