Author: Nadia Hattingh

Touch by the children… A peek at our Mwinika children, taken during the last two weeks at the teaching: #1 This little girl was Baby Sitting her younger siblings while her mother listened to the Bible teaching. She has a beautiful smile and willing heart to keep her high maintenance siblings occupied during the teaching […]

#1 The Bible teaching started this week with a bang: the first 9 plagues in Egypt! We have small pictures for the plagues that was given to the Mwinika in a small booklet form. The women and children crowded around the booklet, some only shaking their heads and others commenting… “Look, that man is crying! […]

#3 People listened with rapt attention as the story unfolded during the Bible teaching this week. On this picture are two men from a Mwinika community a long distance from us. They were invited by someone who has been coming since the beginning. We praise God and pray that people from far and wide will […]

Francois welcoming someone to the teaching on Monday. We are overjoyed to see our friends and neighbours come and very grateful when we see people we have not even met before! On this picture is someone who has been coming since the beginning. He is also the man who invited the others from far to […]

OurHalifa’s “little mother” (his aunts) come to the teaching this week. On this picture she is listening to a MP3 solar recorder to the lessons she has missed. We are so excited to see here there! Continue to pray for the influential as well as the very lowest of the society to come to a […]

How great is our God! We are anew aware that He is faithful and trustworthy… and so aware of our own inability! He can really trust Him for our lives, our practical needs, our children and our co-workers. We can trust that He has a plan for the Mwinika and that this is their time […]

The Bible lesson development is still going strong. Francois finished up to lesson 59 last week. He is discussing very difficult concepts with his helpers and we ask your prayers for them all! The helpers are learning that ancestral worship and witchcraft are not God’s way; that the possession of spirits (demons) is not “normal”, […]

We have been encouraged by co-workers and friends who came to visit us in the last week despite rain resulting in having to cancel one afternoon’s teaching. On this picture Francois is asking questions at the beginning of the teaching to make sure that everyone is tracking well and understand what has been taught the […]

#1 This is a picture of a Nsepa ceremony. This is a healing ceremony that the Mwinika perform to “chase” the bad spirits – believed to cause the sickness – away. If a person has been identified with a sickness caused by “nsepa” (a specific spirit), a witchdoctor that has knowledge about the nsepa must […]

This man is the main “king” or “chief” in our area. In the Mwinika culture he is a big clan leader over other clan leaders and therefore has much power. He not only is a “king of kings”, but he is also the reigning political party representative (called a “secretary”). We (the Hattinghs) live in […]