Category: Ministry

February 21, 2011! If you were a Mwinika person living in the immediate vicinity we would be asking you to mark this date on your calendar. This is the date we have set for the start of the Bible teaching. There is a lot of work that we need to do to be ready for […]

“Muluku ootepa waphetesa atthu a mwilaponi dhaala, aahavaha mwana mmodha yole awi khula mutthu onimwamini yowo ahikhwe. Ahikhwiye, thoo onokhalana ekumi ya-eparipari ehikamala.” We worked on translating some portions in the book of Yahaya (John) last week. This is our rough draft edition of what John 3:16 looks like. It will need a lot more […]

With the teaching so close to starting I have started turning more of my focus to helping our partner Francois with the lesson development. I have been reviewing the lessons he has been preparing and starting to think about the way in which I would teach each lesson. Please pray for this process of lesson […]

Current Prayer Requests for January 22 2011 1. Pray that we will learn to find Him sufficient for everything we face each day. 2. Pray for the Elin and the kids as they homeschool each weekday. 3. Pray for Phil and his translation helpers to make good progress in translation. 4. Pray for the translation […]

Our partners, Francois and Nadia Hattingh, have recently started the second literacy class in their village. They began this week with Nadia as the main teacher and 2 of the graduates from the first class as teachers-in-training. They have 8 students in the class. For many of the people in this class it is their […]

Lesson Development. It’s huge! We had little idea of the magnitude of this task. I began by doing a very rough draft on several lessons. Since then our teammate Francois Hattingh has taken over the bulk of the lesson development. Both of us have found that it is a lot more involved than we had […]

Our challenges are not isolated just to our ministry here in the village. The Lord uses our different roles and responsibilities to mold and shape us. Being involved on the leadership team for the field of South East Africa is one of those challenges. One of our mission leaders shared something in a conference a […]

We have recently completed work on the Old Testament portions needed for our initial teaching program. In all, there were about 1300+ verses translated from the Old Testament, including the complete book of Jonah. We are still working on these portions getting them ready to be checked by a translation consultant who is scheduled to […]

Thank you for praying for us over the past few days. We were able to hold both of our meetings. The more important was held yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon regarding our plan to begin teaching the Bible lessons in a few weeks. We had a good gathering of religious, government, and clan leaders in attendance. We […]

The community leaders informed us yesterday that our meeting with the community is set for Tuesday the 14th. This is the meeting we asked for to discuss with them the details of the teaching program. See the earlier blog entry “Sitting in the Same Shade” for more details. Please pray for us as we prepare […]