A transformed life

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isaiah 40.8)

These were the words Daniel recited to me (in English, doing a translation from Oshiwambo on-the-fly) soon after his graduation.
Daniel’s graduation was a moving experience.
He started his NETS course at Oluno prison, Ondangwa, close to where we live. Everyone testifies to the fact that he was a “very bad man”. No-one wanted to cross him before he came to prison. The names of God or Jesus would not cross his lips, except in blasphemy.

But Daniel was transformed in prison. By God’s grace alone – and it came through very clearly in his testimony he gave at his graduation at Farm Scott Prison, Tsumeb. Spoken in eloquent English, and translated back into Oshiwambo, he majored on the sovereignty and grace of God, “choosing” him and “calling” him and “saving” him. In fact, if you closed your eyes, you could have been excused for thinking you were listening to the apostle Paul, or John Calvin.

It was the first time I had visited Farm Scott Prison. There are few people who are transferred there, it is a (yup, you guess it) farm which grows food for the other rehabilitation centres in Namibia. The inmates are entrusted with big machinery and can go off for kilometres on the headers and tractors without supervision from officers. Only in Namibia ….. !?

Whilst there, I was able to find four other students keen to enrol in the NETS DDE programme, meeting together to use the NETS TEE material to know God better and be trained as leaders. Daniel will be supervising their weekly meetings, so I know they are in safe hands. In fact, as I said at the graduation ceremony, I praise God that NETS has another person in their team – Daniel Nafuka.

Praise God for Daniel’s transformed life. And pray for him, and for his continued example at the prison. And pray for the 4 students in his group.

(Sorry for typo in below photo - Ed.!)