Category: Ministry

We had another 3 session-week this week. Francois taught on Monday about the feeding of the 5000. After the lesson there were a lot of good questions and quite a bit of animated discussion on whether the outward form of religion (prayers, fasting, etc.) was really pleasing to God or whether God looks at the […]

This Past Week: The weeks are flying by now. It hardly seems possible that we are only a few weeks away from finishing this first phase of teaching! On Monday Francois taught about the paralytic whose friends let him down through the roof of the house to see Jesus. The fact that Jesus could read […]

This week we had lots of interruptions, not all of them unwelcome. The weekend was very full with leadership meetings each day. We praise the Lord for His guidance in the works here in Southeast Africa. Sometimes we feel pressure to make decisions and it was good to be reminded that we must depend on […]

On the day’s that we did teach, things went well. Tuesday we taught on Jesus’ miracles of healing the sick and casting out evil spirits. This proved to be a very thought-provoking lesson for those that attended. These topics are very important in Mwinika culture. On Wednesday, because of the community meetings, we didn’t think […]

One of the challenges in translation is figuring out how the audience will take or “read” a situation. Here is an example. We were recently translating the passage on the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. The text says that the crowd cut branches and laid them, along with their coats, on the road for […]

This Past Week: Another intense and busy week here! It started off with the extra-curricular meeting on Sunday about what the scriptures of the majority religion in the area say about what we are teaching. Interestingly few if any of the religious leaders attended while many younger people did – even though the elders were […]

This Past Week: from three to thirty. that was the story of the number of women attending this week’s lessons (and the men’s numbers weren’t much better). Between gardens, a vaccination campaign, and just general complacency attendance was so low that at the beginning of the week, we began doubting if anyone would come. Both […]

One of the big tasks of each week is making sure that all of the Scripture portions are printed out in booklet form for people to follow along with. Even though many of them are unable to read, the women will still try and follow what is being read. When we finish this first round […]

This Past Week: To say the least these are busy days for us. Between lesson preparation, translation and the constant interruptions that life brings we find ourselves clinging to Him daily: His faithful grace and strength overwhelms and sustains even the crazy days! Praise the Lord, Phil hasn’t come down with the cold that has […]

We praise the Lord that in the last 2 weeks we have received another shipment of Megavoice players. This brings the number of Megavoice players to 36 with more on the way. (Thank you to the Junior Class of the NTM Bible School in Waukesha, WI who raised the money for this particular group of […]