Category: Ministry

A while back, Francois started to teach the 2nd phase Bible lessons in the small groups of believers in three locations. However, this week he added a Monday teaching in a more public setting where even more people who participated during the evangelism phase can now participate also. This is more like a “celebration” meeting […]

After several days with the team, Francois returned. He was blessed by one of the team members who brought him all the way to the city on the back of his motorcycle! A mixed blessing, at times, I think. Since the terrain they crossed was a real challenge for someone on the back of a […]

Arriving at the guest house (see picture on the right taken the next day) the Maindo team was happy to receive Francois. They sat down for a 3 hour wait for a chicken and pap (maize porridge) evening meal. By this time, Francois was ready for bed! He slept in the “other” guesthouse in town. […]

Francois’s visit to the new Maindo Church Planting team went very well. His trip was very interesting, as I wrote before. Here then, are some photos of the trip and visit. We praise God for the two couples that are settled in and now in the process of getting the paperwork done and materials ready […]

We would like to introduce the Mwinika guys who are praying together each morning. Most you already know from our blog posts and as new believers, they need our prayers! Vrydag. Years ago, when we just arrived he said: “I can’t wait for you to translate the Scriptures! I want to know God. Even though […]

This week something wonderful happened: the guys who are helping us in our work and are (mostly) believers now, started to pray each morning together before we start our work! It all happened one morning when I shared about something the Lord put on my heart. Something our kids and I talked about the previous […]

Francois is on his way to visit a new Church Plant work south of us. The town he is heading to is in a marshy area that can only be accessed via a boat or on the back of a motorcycle and truck and boat. He is using public transport again and I want to […]

Francois is back home after a flight, 14 hours on an African bus and 7 more hours on the back of an open truck! The last trip was quite interesting as the further they went, the more people were added to the “load” until his legs was quite numb from being packed like a regular […]

We are mid-way in our first week of the fourth Literacy class we present to teach the Mwinika to read and write their own language! The students are very motivated and the candidate teachers are doing even better than expected! The group of students are all able to read and write some Portuguese, so the […]

We started with our first ever intensive Literacy teacher’s training course this week! Our aim is to have Mwinika teachers trained and ready to do the literacy classes in their community. Up till now, we have been training our teachers – those that have done the course already – as we were teaching the Literacy […]