Sunday service, a new literacy class and a baby on the way.

October 7, 2012

Hi friends, here are some pictures from our service this Sunday. Our church service and setting will be a little different from yours but the same components of worship are all there. We have a fire, dogs and even sometimes pigs disturbing us. You will see what Noah normally get’s up to at a Sunday […]

Discipleship – it’s a call to me, but a journey of “we.”

August 25, 2012

Discipleship is often limited to it’s formal forms in the western church, but discipleship can happen at any time, it has many forms; but always we should meet people where they are at in order to share what we have in common so we can grow together to be more like our Savior. Michael Spencer […]

Anton, exercising his gift from God.

August 5, 2012

We have another story that shows Gods grace and work amongst the Mengen people. You have heard Antons name before, He is a constant presence in Lourens’s office and mine also. He helps us check that our lessons are communicating well, and apart from that just sits and listens to Gods word. Anton is really […]

Olden – speaking the truth! Praise God.

August 2, 2012

One of our youngest believers, Olden is soaking up the truths of the word of God. Olden is around 6 years old. Just the other day Olden was coming back from school with some of his friends. He asked them all, if they worshiped statues? They all said yes. Olden proceeded to tell them how […]

Baptism service today – God is building His church.

July 15, 2012

Dear Friends and Family, We had the privilege today of watching 13 brothers and sisters in Christ be baptized. 10 of these were under age 18 and one was about 9 years old! We were thrilled to see the Lord is reaching young and old alike here. Simon, along with 3 of our believers […]

Flanagan’s bush house makover.

June 24, 2012

Answered prayer is a wonderful thing. For a long time now Annika and I have been praying that Annika particularly could get some more storage space in her kitchen, for cups, plates and normal things like that. With moving into the tribe and building a house we didn’t have the time or money to complete […]

N. Ireland work team – Fantastic

June 23, 2012

Hi friends, For those of you who don’t know, Simon’s parents along with a team made up of friends from churches that pray and support us, joined with Summit N.I.; came out and took our Islands regional conference and worked on our house. We had some time with Simon’s parents before conference and then the […]

Merenge a wandering child of God.

May 1, 2012

This is baby Cletus, Merenges first born child. Just a new believer and Merenge stood against his family for God. He chose to trust in God and not the local shaman. CLICK HERE to listen to his story. Unfortunately baby Cletus died in the weeks to come. Since the death of his first born son […]

Reconciliation

April 23, 2012

CLICK HERE to hear how the gospel is bringing about peace in our village. The Mengen way is a life for a life; God is making a difference. Thanks for praying, Simon, Annika, Nya and Noah

Book of Acts in believers hands

April 20, 2012

Great news! This week I was able to put printed copies of the book of Acts into our believers hands. We gave out 60 copies and guess what? People didn’t put it in their bags to read at home; they sat down just where they were at and started to read, some sitting for an hour […]