Author: Nadia Hattingh

You may remember that our friend and village Bible teacher, Salim and his wife lost their 5 year old daughter earlier this year. We are therefore all the more happy to celebrate the birth of their newborn baby girl! Both Salim and Fatim are overjoyed – we all are! We praise the Lord for his […]

Yesterday was a very special day for Ramad. After months of pouring over the Literacy Primers to learn to read and write in his own language, this Mwinika man received his 1st Level Literacy certificate! Ramad is 41 years old and from one of the most prominent families in our community. In the last three […]

How encouraging it was this morning when I visited old MayeApete’s house and found a young guy chopping fire wood for her! How unusual in this culture for someone from one family to help someone from another family. As you may know, MayeApete was nearly abandoned by her family by the time she became friends […]

What do we know about giving? Very little, is seems. I was humbled to recently receive this handful of food from a neighbour (photo). She is one of the poorest of the poor people in our neighbourhood! I was visiting and on the way passed her house. We started talking… Suddenly, she stopped, ran into […]

The yearly Hunger Season is inevitably upon us again. During the super hot and dry last months of the year, before the rains and planting of the fields, people are lacking good food. They have no ability to store food from one season to another and literally live from hand to mouth… When the temperatures […]

We are in the second week of the 2nd cycle teaching in our village! We praise the Lord for the people who are attending despite super hot temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (100 F) and over! Please pray for these baby believers, the Mwinika teachers and their families. The 2nd cycle teaching is continuing in […]

I love this picture of Francois and his little “disciple”, Shatito! Shatito’s father died a few years ago (see earlier blog posts) and since then Francois has taken him under his wing. We often see Shatito at Francois’s side observing what he is doing, learning in the process. He went to the Bible teaching each […]

The air was festive and the group bigger than usual. It was the last day teaching from Genesis to Revelation for those who have never heard the Gospel in our village! When Francois ended the day’s teaching with the words: “Come Lord Jesus. Come!” Several of the people repeated the words hands in the air! […]

Pictures in chronological order, adding colour and festivity to the day! The air was festive and the group bigger than usual. It was the last day teaching from Genesis to Revelation for those who have never heard the Gospel in our village! When Francois ended the day’s teaching with the words from Rev. 22:20: “Amen! […]

“I still can’t believe that NO ONE told us this before.” Papa Bakar, like many others, came to the teaching in our village daily for 6 months. He testifies that he believes what was taught is true, but struggled to understand how a life time of trying to please God; a life time of trying […]