Author: Nadia Hattingh

After many hours, days and months we finally reached the last two weeks of the Literacy course! Thank you for your prayers for the 8 men, women and young boy who are learning to read and write in their own language. The group was a challenge in many ways, one of which the distance I […]

For a while now there has been some tension between the believers of the two villages where we did the Bible teaching in 2011. (Let’s call them Village P and Village M :)). The people from village M continued to get together on a weekly basis after the first cycle teaching ended, reading the Bible […]

Even though the Mwinika believers are facing challenges and are not yet exactly sure how all they know about God fits into their life, we also see positive changes! One of the most recent examples is when Francois was invited to “sweep the graves” of the ancestors of the people in our community. This is […]

Monday afternoon: Believers’ Meeting at our partners’ village. Francois is teaching about Abraham and Isaac and how the Lord provided a perfect ram to die in Isaac’s place. He taught that just like this ram died in Isaac’s place, Jesus died in our place, once and for all. Then the group started to talk about […]

There are many things that I want to share with you about happenings during this week. Let me start with the youngest and latest news: a birth! The birth of the baby of one of the believers seems so symbolic of the birth of this new body of believers! Swarthand has helped us built our […]

We are in our second month teaching through the Bible in our village. This is their first time to hear the Word of God, since their main religion’s holy book is in a foreign language. In Francois’s words: What can be more exciting and a greater privilege than to be part of God sharing Himself […]

I am walking down a sandy footpath. The sunset in front of me, painting the sky in beautiful hues of golden oranges and yellows, full of light and hope. How I thank God for this beautiful display! It has been a long, hard day and in this sunset I see His goodness revealed in a […]

Today’s teaching, like every day since we started to teach through the Bible here in our village, was a real team effort! We rejoice in seeing our Mwinika brothers co-teach with Francois. Today however, Francois was sick and could not attend (I insisted! :)). Although it is not yet ideal that the Mwinika helpers teach […]

During one of the Bible lessons in our village this week, a skid was acted out to show how the enemy of our souls works. Hendrik, one of the Mwinika men who is co-teaching with Francois, was teaching about the spiritual realm. In contrast to angels, that are God’s messengers, demons would pose as your […]

…and 81 to go! We are in our second month teaching through the Bible chronologically. We praise God that we finally are able to teach the Mwinika in our village the truths from God’s Word.