Last week Friday (03/05/10) the three volunteers from Water Wins started a new bore hole. They had worked on the rig all week and now started digging. Doug, Steve and Jamie (James) from the GR area and from Caledonia have been staying with us for the week along with the Nigerian director Jeremiah. It hasContinue reading “The new well site”
Author Archives: cgvan
The Mahula house
I taught at the Bible School today, the lesson was how to prepare to do visitation with church members in need. To highlight the importance of preparation we read Mathew 25:1-13. “At that time the Kingdom of heaven will be like…” Jesus says. At the end of time and we are in the end times;Continue reading “The Mahula house”
Momo
Yesterday we went with a car load of people from Mahula to Momo for an all classis church service. It was a great experience. Three different congregations comprising of three different areas with a total of twenty one preaching centers met at Momo. Not everyone could come but the 200 or more people comprised aboutContinue reading “Momo”
Acre
Today I taught at the Bible school, Lesson three, they are doing well with their visitation asignments. I also preached at the Bible School chapel, I picked Matthew 5:13-16 as the passage. Jesus tells us that we are the salt of the earth but if salt loses its flavor it is not good for anything.Continue reading “Acre”
Mahula Course
Yesterday Gremar and I, and Matt and Laura did the first Pastoral Care class at Mahula. We had good discussions about pressure on the youth to stay away from Christianity if they expect to ever get married. Traditional Africans will not give their daughters to a Christian man. They talked about a certain man thatContinue reading “Mahula Course”
Mahula
Every day life at Mahula
Tungun Basalla
Today, Sunday we visited one of the smaller churches in the area. This place does not have an evangelist or pastor living on site so a person from this village attending the Bible school is assigned there. If you take note of the map you will be able to find the places that we visitContinue reading “Tungun Basalla”
“The Person Who Cares”.
Yesterday I had the second class with the students, lesson two “The Person Who Cares”. Of the many passages we looked at I liked the parable of the lost sheep Luke 15:1-7. Jesus spoke in parables so that only those with the Spirit would understand the spiritual meaning. In this case, Jesus tells this parableContinue reading ““The Person Who Cares”.”
Travel Today
Today we have seven visitors from America, Mark Albertson, Bill Pesch, Carrol and Peggy Nikkel, Mario Veldhuizen, and Pete and Jan Lanser, people with World Partners who contribute to the bore holes that are being dug by their Christian workers in this area. They have dug 150 bore holes at the average depth of 100 ft.Continue reading “Travel Today”
Idaci
Our trip to Idaci went very well, we met the new Pastor Ben and many of the evangelists. We will do a Pastoral Care course for them here at Mahula because this is most central according to them. Idaci has a large Christian school and a Jr. Secondary School. Some of the kids at MahulaContinue reading “Idaci”
