Busy March and April

It's been a while so we are letting pictures speak 1,000 words!

Mark teaching at the April training with Masango translating 

Pastors proudly holding their newly translated teaching material

William teaching in Xicumbane and Derrick translating

going through the newly translated teaching curriculum

The river has gone down alot since February. 

Easter conference in Zimbabwe

William teaching at the Easter Conference in Zim

Sharyn worked with the children's ministry in Zim

While Mark and The Hixon's were in Moz for the April training, I stayed home with Luke and The Hixon kids.  It was school holidays here so we had some fun in the sun (probably for the last time until summer returns).  Meriam's two daughters and her granddaughter came to play with Bentley and Allie one day.  Later in the week our neighbors came to play for the afternoon.   Fun was had by all.  

The guys have been busy at the mission farm working on vehicles and trailers.  I went out on a weekend to help Mark work on two of the trailers.  It was fun playing, I mean working, with power tools.   A nice break from computer work and a fun time working with my man.

This weekend Mark is busy doing maintenance on our water pumps we use for the showers and kitchen tent water. 

 

March and April in Mentz

Tuesdays continue to be a highlight of our week.   We are nearing the end of our curriculum we have spent the last several years using, New Tribes Mission: Building on Firm Foundations Book 2: Evangelism:  Genesis to the Ascension.   We have spent the last 6 weeks studying:

-The Jewish leaders plotted to kill Jesus because He healed a man on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-19)

-Jesus tells the parable of the sower (Mark 4:1-20)

-Jesus calmed a storm and released a man from the control of demons (Mark 4:35-41; 5:1-20)

We continue to move slowly so that we know they have an understanding before moving on.  It has been great to see many of them are beginning to ask questions and relate things to their situations in life.   We have also had to start taking both of our vehicles because we pick up many of the people on the way to Mentz who have just got off work.  

 

    

 

   

 

 

 

   

Bible Study in Mentz

We have continued to meet on Tuesdays in Mentz.  We are still working through the New Tribes Curriculum and we are currently in The New Testament.  This past Tuesday we taught on John 3 where Jesus taught that people must be born again.   

[Jhn 3:1-21 ESV] 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him." 3 Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." 4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 9 Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."

We love our Tuesdays, they are all learning so much and they are starting to ask more and more questions!   This next Tuesday will be our last time together until the New Year.  We are excited that we will be able to end this year showing The Jesus Film!

Please continue to pray for this group we meet with on Tuesdays!