What a way to end a fantastic trip to South Africa. The service and ministry never ends with the students here at Southern Africa Bible College. They first all gathered and took pictures with us all, those pictures are coming soon. I got a picture of all the students gathered in their SABC shirts. I am going to miss their...
They wanted two bible class teachers to join so Mary and Cathy came and did bible class all during services and sang and taught the whole time. Lawrence used an interpreter and spoke for quite a while. It was a wonderful message on renewing our mind. I was asked to do the Lord's supper and then Lawrence translated for me....
What an incredible experience going to Venda and meeting all these wonderful people.
It was quite a trip to get to Venda, a 8 hour bus ride. On the way we were in the plaines and saw nothing but beautiful trees and small homes here and there. We did pass by Praetoria which is the capital of South Africa...
We traveled by a very nice bus the couple hours to get there from Benoni. We were supposed to drive through the park with the bus to get to our hotel, but the park had not paid it's workers for a few months so the workers closed the gate that would allow us to go visit the park like this....
Today was a fantastic day!
Started with a study in Isaiah with wonderful instruction by professor Burke here at Southern Africa Bible School. We then had chapel and had a great lesson by a first year student. Went to the Ezekiel class after this taught by professor Eddy and had some lunch. After that we finally got to visit...
Today was a wonderful day of getting to know the students and graduates better. Helping to mentor and learning about their hopes and desires for the future and the future of the church in South Africa.
We started with classes and had the opportunity to look at some old testament studies with Lawrence. Then we had chapel and a...
What an amazing day of worship here in South Africa. We got up early as usual and then ate breakfast and got our Sunday best. We broke up into four teams and went to the local churches near the college. I went with all the first year students to the start up church that Songezo is creating. We got to...
Today we had our leadership workshop for Bible school teachers, preachers and elders. The turn out was amazing as they only planned on about 150 meals and they ended up serving 240. Over 160 participants showed up for this great event. The group was split up into ladies classes teaching children and ladies, preachers, elders, and teaching teens and...