Raining in Scotland!!

Well we have made it to Scotland (just over the border in Lockerbie) and are having a great time of fellowship with Geoff & Janet Rushton. This couple run a trust that supplies book resources to works all around the world and today we are going to their warehouse to chose some books for the Samfya Library. There trust has also done some work in printing Bemba bibles, so we are investigating possible means
of working with them on this. Please continue to pray for our meetings with people.

The church in Eythorne, Dover, was a real blessing. They have a history that extends back to the 1500’s, the oldest Baptist church in UK. There are people in the church who are very interested in being part of building teams that may go down to assist in the building at Samfya.

To encourage you further, here is part of a report from one graduate by the name of Charles Chola. He and two other men went on a short mission trip into the Congo from 1-6 September. They were working with three recent church plants in a very remote part of Congo:

Distance Travelled - 78 kms
Transport Used - Bicylce, boat and on foot (most on foot!!)
Type of work done - Evangelism (open air and door to door), Teaching
Number of those who believed - 27
Problems - Having just one bible and no hymn book at each church, and the fall of the church building at Kabumba (due to severe winds)
Way forward -
* Pray that God can raise up people to help in the rebuild of this church wall before the rains
* Pray that God can open doors that some people can help this area with Bibles and Hymn books
* Pray that the church of Christ can start growing in Labanga area and that the Spirit of the Lord can move in this area
* pray that God raises people to be visiting this area

It is such a blessing to see the commitment that so many of these graduates have to gospel ministry. We were able to give Charles two boxes of bibles (48 total) which he will sell to these churches and the money raised will go to rebuilding the church wall. But as you can see the needs are ever present. We just can’t seem to supply enough bibles for this work! It would be wonderful to supply double that we do - please pray that God will raise up further partners with us in encouraging the work of God in village life Zambia.