Category: Ministry

Recently I attended a traditional ceremony in the community. They always invite as many local “kings” (clan leaders) as they can to these ceremonies. The main job of the clan leaders is to act as a priest/intermediary to the ancestors. These ancestors from the main clans in the area are always mentioned in the prayers […]

Some of you may remember that a couple of few years one of my friends was very sick. We asked for prayer for him and people all over the world responded by praying for him to get better. Our prayer at the time was twofold, first that he would recover and second that he would […]

As we strive to make certain Biblical truths clear we are always on the search for good examples and skits to help bring clarity. Along the same lines as the banana example we tried a little something new in our Bible teaching this past Monday. We mixed in a little theatrical play acting! In this […]

Another example that we used this week to illustrate the point that God only accepts things that He does was based on bananas. The illustration went like this. God talked to two men and asked each one to bring Him a banana. One man, realizing he wasn’t able to manufacture a banana on his own, […]

After teaching the banana example, everyone wanted to see this fake banana that looked so real. Several of the kids even started crying. They thought it was a real banana and that they were going to get a snack, only to be disappointed when it they took hold of it and realized it wasn’t edible!

We are now in our fourth week of literacy. Next week we will finish up the first of four primers. We continue to move at a rapid pace and the class is keeping up well despite the heat. (It went into the triple digits this past week!) Once we finish primer one the course will […]

Sometimes when we see how many people live in this area and how few come to the teaching we get discouraged. When we look at the bigger picture, however, we see many things to be thankful for. Recently as we were reflecting on these things, we were reminded that many of the key village leaders […]

This is BINGO, Mwinika literacy style! It is a fun way for those studying to learn their syllables. To say that they enjoy the game is an understatement! They come early just so that we have enough time at the end to play. They get so excited when they win that some of them burst […]

This weekend we had a visit from a Kenyan missionary who works in Northern Mozambique. We had a nice time fellowshipping together. He was able to participate in literacy class that Elin taught and played a few rounds of “pinko” with them. In the picture he is the one seated on the left with the […]

It is amazing how two different worlds can collide. We have been preparing material for an upcoming translation check and we have been working through the book of Mark. As we worked on chapter 14 we came to the section where Jesus and his disciples are in the garden of Gethsemane and Judas Iscariot leads […]