Building Relationships and Buildings

The team is progressing with various items on the Multipurpose Hall and attached ablution block. As always in Zambia there are many frustrations with time and materials and equipment to achieve the work but you have to learn to be patient – a fruit of the Spirit!!

I have had profitable meetings with two of the teaching staff, Peter Chomba and Francis Chola. Peter expressed how much his training in South Africa in Expository Preaching and Biblical Counselling have impacted his life and teaching. He has incorporated the things that he has learned into his classes, but also commented on how much his marriage and family life has been blessed through the exposure to God’s Word in this training. In regard to his teaching he expressed how much of a change the Expository Preaching course has made as he unfolds God’s Word. Peter is very thankful for the support received to achieve this training.

Peter would value your prayers as he endeavours to communicate the truth that he has learned  and breaks it down to a level accessible to the students who come from village areas.

Francis and his family will soon move into the new staff house that is nearing completion. The house they are in now is incredibly small so it will be a great blessing to them and will enhance their ministry opportunities. Francis has a real desire to do further studies and is considering whether the Biblical Counselling training would be a good option for him as well. I now he would be blessed if he was to take this on – please make this a matter of prayer. Francis is enjoying the ministry and rejoicing in the progress that is happening around the Bible School property.

Both Peter and Francis also spoke about the needs for more Village training visits. Would you please pray about this as it is a vital part of growing the church and seeing further students identified. The challenge is the costs to travel the hundreds of kilometres from where graduates live and minister. An annual grant of say US$2-3000 would go a long way to helping this need.

Thanks for you ongoing prayers