We are in the midst of a "Training Trainers" week here at the Christian Resource Centre of Luanshya.
Bro Twakkies DuToit from Pretoria, South Africa, is the Africa Director of Evangelism Explosion. He has come at our invitation to lead a seminar for church leaders who will, in turn, take this material back to their churches and train the believers how to lead their friends, neighbours and family members to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. The numbers were not huge, but those who did attend are excited about sharing their faith both in their respective churches as well as from "house-to-house" in Luanshya. On their first visitation they led a woman to Christ. This morning she came with two of her nephews and said "They need to hear what you told me." We look forward to seeing what God can do with a few well-trained evangelists in Luanshya!
For the past few weeks Sherry has been planning a "Community Fair" in Luanshya for 3rd August in order for local merchants to present their businesses and get to meet one another. This was also a way for them to meet us! We invited anyone who wanted to come and set up booths around park in the middle of town last Monday. The biggest booth was right next to the entrance where a choir from one of the churches sang several times a day. Right in the middle of the booths was the Child Evangelism Fellowship presentation. Twice during the day CEF conducted a "Bible Club" for the children and gave each child a book. We also gave each child a book. Many of their parents were there had a chance to meet us. Sherry assigned me to oversee the games for the children and youth. We did typical community fair activities including 3-legged races, sack races and an egg toss. This was mostly just for fun, but getting to meet people was also a part of the plan. We made several contacts and will be able to follow up on many of them in the next few weeks. With the EE Training we will have an opportunity for our church leaders to make contact as well.
Next week I will attending a Bible Conference in another small town in Zambia about 2 hours from Luanshya. This is being hosted by local Zambian churches and I was invited to participate. It is always great to see local Christians initiate and run programs for believers. This is what we came to do – Train national leaders to lead! The conference will be from Monday through Friday. It promises to be interesting. I will let you know how it went in a couple of weeks.Few things are more exciting than leading someone to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour. Training someone else to do that is on that list. Through the EE seminar, Community outreach and Bible conferences we have an opportunity to reach out to those who do not know the answer to the question: "Have you come to the place in your life where you know for certain that if you died today that you would go to Heaven?" Because of your faithfulness to this ministry we can not only ask the question, but we can show the answer from the Word of God. Thank you for your support!
Together in His Service,
