Dear Loved Ones,
A most interesting thing happens in Botswana this week. President Festus Mogae the third president of Botswana steps down and his vice-president, Ian Seretse Khama will become President on Tuesday and that is no April Fool’s joke! So far, each transition in Botswana has been peaceful and we praise the Lord for the opportunity to live in a stable African country.
We cannot say the same about our neighbors.Zimbabwe held its elections yesterday. The opposition are suggesting a Kenyan like answer if the vote is tampered with. Of course, no one who has watched the politics of Zimbabwe in recent years, believes the vote will be free and fair. Pray for Zimbabwe in the coming days. Its people are really hurting and fleeing the country in order to put food on their tables.
Pray with us for Ian Khama. He is the son of the first President of Botswana and has a wonderful heritage of patriotism for this wonderful country. Pray that he will turn to the LORD GOD for wisdom.
This weekend we held a Family Fun Day for the school and it was well attended. We are so thankful that we have the opportunity to work with Hindu and Sikh families and that the children are learning about the true and living God. Since Kenya, Steve and I have had a special place in our hearts for people of India and we are every so thankful that he has enabled us to keep a ministry with them. Schools here are on a different schedule from American schools. The school year starts in January, they go three months and have a month off. SO, we are looking forward to April.
Church attendance was not what is was on Easter, but we had a wonderful service with a guest speaker who spoke on true worship and that true worship carries on into our work week and our entire lives. We are so thankful for God’s work here. Please keep praying for souls. Pray also for our strength and creativity to do ministry in an effective way in this ever changing culture.
Reaching the Unreached,Steve, Pam, Amanda, Derek and Devin
Monday, March 31, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
HE IS RISEN!
HE IS RISEN!
We are so excited this evening! We started the morning with a great celebratory time of worship in song and watched as the Lord brought 103 people into the service!! We were so thrilled. Steve got so excited, he almost forgot to dismiss the children for Sunday School!
Last Friday, Steve got a call from an editor of one of the national newspapers here. They requested that he write an article on what Easter means to the church. On Thursday, we were shocked to see a full page article – nothing else on the page – not even an advertisement. What a wonderful opportunity the Lord gave us! One man brought his family to church today as a direct result of that.
More good news came on Friday this week. We had a wonderful service and followed it with a church fellowship. Spencer and Marilyn announced their engagement and Marilyn told us that Spencer accepted Christ a couple of weeks ago at the end of the service! Thanks for praying for him. It is so great to see them come every single Sunday.
Needless to say, we are tired tonight and Steve seems to be coming down with a cold. We appreciate your prayers. We have so many things to be thankful for and are greatful to serve a RISEN SAVIOUR.
Reaching the Unreached,Steve, Pam, Amanda, Derek and Devin
We are so excited this evening! We started the morning with a great celebratory time of worship in song and watched as the Lord brought 103 people into the service!! We were so thrilled. Steve got so excited, he almost forgot to dismiss the children for Sunday School!
Last Friday, Steve got a call from an editor of one of the national newspapers here. They requested that he write an article on what Easter means to the church. On Thursday, we were shocked to see a full page article – nothing else on the page – not even an advertisement. What a wonderful opportunity the Lord gave us! One man brought his family to church today as a direct result of that.
More good news came on Friday this week. We had a wonderful service and followed it with a church fellowship. Spencer and Marilyn announced their engagement and Marilyn told us that Spencer accepted Christ a couple of weeks ago at the end of the service! Thanks for praying for him. It is so great to see them come every single Sunday.
Needless to say, we are tired tonight and Steve seems to be coming down with a cold. We appreciate your prayers. We have so many things to be thankful for and are greatful to serve a RISEN SAVIOUR.
Reaching the Unreached,Steve, Pam, Amanda, Derek and Devin
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
March 9, 2008
Dear Loved Ones,
Thank you for praying for us this past week, it was a hard one. Steve was able to get the hall finished where we meet for church, we even have a platform....we’ve never had one of those here. We are praying for 100 by Easter. Today I think we were somewhere between 75-80.
We had a nice group of youth today for our lunch and Bible study. We talked about “if you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto me.” It was interesting to hear that sometimes when they try to help someone, the person the are trying to help gets offended because they don’t want people to know they need help! In our prayer time, we had some good requests, pray for these young people. We usually have between 12 and 20 and they are all in varying stages of Christian growth - some are still unsaved. Pray for us as we teach them, that we will communicate effectively.
This week, Steve and Devin were invited by a young man to go on a fishing trip – Easter weekend. I said to him, “ well, you know, Easter is pretty big at church.” His reply? “oh, REALLY?” It has burdened my heart all week. Easter here is typically a vacation time and his response is not unusual. Pray for us as we work to motivate believers and unbelievers to be in church as we celebrate the greatest event in history.
Please also continue to pray for our chapels at school. We desire the Spirit of the Living God to move in hearts at our school. Probably 90% of our students are not yet saved. Many hearts are hardened, we pray for fertile soil for the Word to be sown in.
We continue to be overwhelmed at what God is doing. We want to be found faithful, abiding in Him in every circumstance. We treasure your prayers.
Reaching the Unreached,
Steve, Pam, Amanda, Derek and Devin
Thank you for praying for us this past week, it was a hard one. Steve was able to get the hall finished where we meet for church, we even have a platform....we’ve never had one of those here. We are praying for 100 by Easter. Today I think we were somewhere between 75-80.
We had a nice group of youth today for our lunch and Bible study. We talked about “if you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto me.” It was interesting to hear that sometimes when they try to help someone, the person the are trying to help gets offended because they don’t want people to know they need help! In our prayer time, we had some good requests, pray for these young people. We usually have between 12 and 20 and they are all in varying stages of Christian growth - some are still unsaved. Pray for us as we teach them, that we will communicate effectively.
This week, Steve and Devin were invited by a young man to go on a fishing trip – Easter weekend. I said to him, “ well, you know, Easter is pretty big at church.” His reply? “oh, REALLY?” It has burdened my heart all week. Easter here is typically a vacation time and his response is not unusual. Pray for us as we work to motivate believers and unbelievers to be in church as we celebrate the greatest event in history.
Please also continue to pray for our chapels at school. We desire the Spirit of the Living God to move in hearts at our school. Probably 90% of our students are not yet saved. Many hearts are hardened, we pray for fertile soil for the Word to be sown in.
We continue to be overwhelmed at what God is doing. We want to be found faithful, abiding in Him in every circumstance. We treasure your prayers.
Reaching the Unreached,
Steve, Pam, Amanda, Derek and Devin
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
March 3, 2008
Dear Loved Ones,
We thank the Lord for another week in His service. I was reminded this week of how the Lord has blessed me in ways that I don’t often think of. A lady came to my office to apply for a teaching position. Her husband had died of a heart attack a couple of years ago. I was again thankful for the 5 years Steve has had since having his heart attack. Then a friend’s husband died this week while driving to Lobatse. When we arrived here, we drove to Lobatse every week day. The traffic is crazy and dangerous. We are just thankful again for the many miles we have traveled safely.
This week our focus was on getting the church hall painted and carpeted. Work was still being done late yesterday afternoon, but this morning, it was beautiful in there. Everyone was excited to see the changes. We were excited because we had five visitors before church started this morning! Two were teenage Batswana girls! It’s the first time any of our Batswana youth have brought their friends to church. We can’t wait to have them at youth meeting next week. Also a family has moved here from Uganda and they have two sons, so we are building the youth guys again.
Our attendance remains right at 70 – so at our prayer meeting we are praying for 100. Spencer continues to attend and today Helen Mey’s husband attended for the first time. She was saved a few weeks ago. They are white Africans and are really struggling in the new Africa to find good jobs.
Kwame and Thabo have not been there for a few weeks. They are a young couple, contemplating marriage that were recently saved. When we talked with Thabo this week, they have apparently had a breakup. They really need to be in church. Pray that they will both be back in church soon. We have been unable to reach Kwame for the past three weeks, so pray we can reach him and connect again.
Please continue to pray for our strength, our communication skills, and for wisdom for every part of our ministry. Pray that we will keep our priorities straight and always choose God’s way for our lives and ministry. We thank you for praying, we know many of you pray daily for us and we treasure that gift.
Reaching the Unreached,
Steve, Pam, Amanda, Derek and Devin
We thank the Lord for another week in His service. I was reminded this week of how the Lord has blessed me in ways that I don’t often think of. A lady came to my office to apply for a teaching position. Her husband had died of a heart attack a couple of years ago. I was again thankful for the 5 years Steve has had since having his heart attack. Then a friend’s husband died this week while driving to Lobatse. When we arrived here, we drove to Lobatse every week day. The traffic is crazy and dangerous. We are just thankful again for the many miles we have traveled safely.
This week our focus was on getting the church hall painted and carpeted. Work was still being done late yesterday afternoon, but this morning, it was beautiful in there. Everyone was excited to see the changes. We were excited because we had five visitors before church started this morning! Two were teenage Batswana girls! It’s the first time any of our Batswana youth have brought their friends to church. We can’t wait to have them at youth meeting next week. Also a family has moved here from Uganda and they have two sons, so we are building the youth guys again.
Our attendance remains right at 70 – so at our prayer meeting we are praying for 100. Spencer continues to attend and today Helen Mey’s husband attended for the first time. She was saved a few weeks ago. They are white Africans and are really struggling in the new Africa to find good jobs.
Kwame and Thabo have not been there for a few weeks. They are a young couple, contemplating marriage that were recently saved. When we talked with Thabo this week, they have apparently had a breakup. They really need to be in church. Pray that they will both be back in church soon. We have been unable to reach Kwame for the past three weeks, so pray we can reach him and connect again.
Please continue to pray for our strength, our communication skills, and for wisdom for every part of our ministry. Pray that we will keep our priorities straight and always choose God’s way for our lives and ministry. We thank you for praying, we know many of you pray daily for us and we treasure that gift.
Reaching the Unreached,
Steve, Pam, Amanda, Derek and Devin
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