Gospel Opportunities

Bible Club, a couple of weekends ago, was a time of great fun when I decided to teach them how to play musical chairs. Not having chairs, I used the front and back sheets of cereal boxes. There were always less cardboard pieces than children. They had to dance around to the music, then sit on a cardboard sheet when it stopped!

You can also see Aune teaching the main lesson. She is very good with children. For those of you praying for Aune, she has one more exam left to write (maths). This weekend she went to Windhoek for an aptitude test with the hope of going there to study teaching. Now we wait and see if she gets invited back for an interview. She stayed with the Gillhams. It was her very first time to Windhoek and they kindly took her around the Big Smoke and gave her a lovely time. Aune has also applied to the teaching colleges at Ongwediva, Rundu and Katima Mulilo. This will also mean trips to each location, if she gets invited for interviews.

There is also a photo of the children drawing (resting on their cardboard pieces!). Because using coloured pencils is such a rare treat, even the teenagers enjoy the opportunity to create masterpieces. In this photo (standing, in brown), and again with 2 other girls on the last of the 10 photos, you will see a young girl called Kaino. She lives over 3 kms away but is willing to walk the 7 km round trip to come and learn about the Bible. The two girls with her are friends of hers she brought for the first time on Sunday.

Other photos show us at a small church in Onamimbili where David preached (in Oshiwambo) on Sunday. At the end, we taught them a song (‘rejoice in the Lord always’ – Phil 4.4), which they loved! Étienne took the photo and it is a bit blurry but at least it gives you an idea. As you can see, the ‘pews’ are not very comfortable – just planks balanced on concrete bricks!

The weather is so so SO hot now. Humidity is about 3%. It never gets below 30 in the house and outside is VERY hot.

David is off to Opuwo today (Wed-Friday). Next Monday we celebrate his 40th birthday, which will be fun. Next weekend we will have a joint ‘party’ for him with two families: the son of the Dutch family turns 2 and the husband of our French friends also has a birthday around now so we will have a little barbie/braai/bbq together. Then David heads off to Rundu for a few days for more workshops. As for me, I have started packing. As we may not be able to come back to Namibia (if we do not get a visa), I am having to pack with the view of not being around to sort them out so I am marking a few boxes of very special things ‘To Keep’, and the rest I am designating to whom they should be given, should we not come back.

One of David’s NETS students, who has also done one of my Sunday School workshops, has a daughter (now in Grd 6) with a heart defect. David has encouraged her to send Megameno (pron. Maya-meno) down to Windhoek for tests to see if an operation can be done. I put together some pencils and books for her to take down as she will be going alone. And then I gave her a New Testament. She and her mother were very overwhelmed as just that very morning Megameno had prayed for a Bible of her own! How wonderful to be an answer to prayer! (After 2 years, there are still no full Bibles available for her in her home language, Oshindonga, after they went out of print, but it seems the revised Oshindonga Bible is due to arrive in Namibia at the end of this month! The hold-up has been a paper shortage in Korea where Bible Society gets its Bibles printed.) Please pray for Megameno.

I have also posted a couple of shots of us with orphans in Oshakati. David helped me with the singing as I am hopeless at keeping a tune! I usually teach them the words then tell them to listen to the guitar, not to me! At Bible Club I have Colin Buchanan and Johnny Burns on CD to help me :-)