Chigonele, MozambiqueTuesday, April 27, 2010
.
Invitations to Attend the Bible School
We are SO SUPER EXCITED! On May 3rd we are officially opening our Bible School here at the IRIS base in Lichinga! This has been a long time dream for the missionaries here. Part of the reason that this dream has become a reality is the call of God on Kevin and Katherine Bubna’s life. They are friends of ours who had been in Lichinga a couple of years ago with IRIS and have just recently returned as full-time missionaries. God’s call on Kevin’s life is to really head up the Bible School, working in conjunction with Peter, Jesse and I.
.
Since Kevin and Katherine have arrived, we have been meeting and planning to open the Bible School. We are actually going to have four semesters this year that are each six weeks long. The first semester will be “Bible Basics” for the first class and the Gospel of Mark for the second class. Classes will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7:00am – 12:00pm. We made invitations on our computer for this first semester and began traveling to the villages to hand them out.
.
Jesse and Condeila rode “Acceleration,” I rode “Impartation,” and Dominic rode, “Multiplication-Provision,” or “Multi-Pro” for short, which is the new quad that the Lord blessed our team with. We traveled to the villages of Kazigwa, Chigonele and Luica handing out invitations to many who we have been discipling for a while. We will travel to Asumani, Micoco and Lussenhando later this week. We are so excited in that we are inviting over 30 Mozambicans, almost all Yao, from 10 different villages.
.
The opening of the Bible School called, “Great Harvest School of Ministry,” is really key in reaching the entire Niassa province with the gospel because Jesus didn’t commission us to simply go, evangelize and MAKE NEW CONVERTS. He commissioned us to go and make DISCIPLES, teaching them to observe all things Jesus commanded. Those entering the Bible School are people who have given their lives to Christ under our ministry and who God has highlighted as future church planters and leaders. As we are entering a season of widespread evangelism, we need to be able to bring those people that God highlights to us back to be trained, and then send them back out to start fellowships in their respective villages and beyond. The opening of the Bible School is a historic event in the lives of the Yao people here in the Niassa province.
.
Jesse and Condeila rode “Acceleration,” I rode “Impartation,” and Dominic rode, “Multiplication-Provision,” or “Multi-Pro” for short, which is the new quad that the Lord blessed our team with. We traveled to the villages of Kazigwa, Chigonele and Luica handing out invitations to many who we have been discipling for a while. We will travel to Asumani, Micoco and Lussenhando later this week. We are so excited in that we are inviting over 30 Mozambicans, almost all Yao, from 10 different villages.
.
The opening of the Bible School called, “Great Harvest School of Ministry,” is really key in reaching the entire Niassa province with the gospel because Jesus didn’t commission us to simply go, evangelize and MAKE NEW CONVERTS. He commissioned us to go and make DISCIPLES, teaching them to observe all things Jesus commanded. Those entering the Bible School are people who have given their lives to Christ under our ministry and who God has highlighted as future church planters and leaders. As we are entering a season of widespread evangelism, we need to be able to bring those people that God highlights to us back to be trained, and then send them back out to start fellowships in their respective villages and beyond. The opening of the Bible School is a historic event in the lives of the Yao people here in the Niassa province.
.
Christian Young
No comments:
Post a Comment