A simple, clear gospel message I am teaching 8 young men from Biula who accompany me to weekly village outreach meetings. We looked at how to prepare a simple, clear gospel message. Some of them have very little education, so it was instructive for me as to pare it down to the basics that don’t depend on education, but instead on the Holy Spirit. These… Read more
With the Lord On Saturday, May 26th, in her 91st year, Marjorie Beckwith passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord she loved and served so faithfully for decades. Marjorie served as a nurse and mission worker through MSC for many years in Angola and continued translation work from home in Quebec in recent years. Please join us in celebrating her long life… Read more
Evident interest With eight young men and an elder from the assembly, we visited two villages with a series of weekly open-air gospel meetings. In between meetings, we distributed gospel calendars to eight villages. There was evident interest in the messages, and one of the village headmen said on our leaving: 'Our hearts are hard, but you have spoken the words of… Read more
Our hearts are warmed We visited a village and left a written request with the village headman to start open-air gospel meetings on a weekly basis in mid-December. Last week we stopped by and his response was, 'Can't you start coming this week?' So, our hearts are warmed. Read more
Our local church There are now two men in our local church who are preaching the good news of Jesus Christ with clarity. A small number of men have started doing Emmaus courses, with one young man relating how he stays up late into the night with a flashlight working on filling in the response book. Praise the Lord! Read more
‘Two Roads, Two Destinies’ There is a growing appreciation for the teaching of Bible truth. I have started a series with the well-known 'Two Roads, Two Destinies' chart in Chokwe, and there is a keen interest as the Gospel is taught with a clear visual help to illustrate. Pray as I hope to be able to start using it in some villages where we… Read more
Luma Cassai I began monthly clinics in Luma Cassai, an old mission about 60 kilometers from Biula where there is a small clinic. People there come from small, isolated villages in the bush, often not being able to pay the token fees we charge, with evidence of much more basic health needs. The Christians there are industrious and have gone out of… Read more
Planning for a ministry in Luau We are excited to share that the Lord has been guiding and prompting us concerning our longer term ministry here in Angola. In ways that only God can ordain, He has been leading us to start planning for a ministry in the small city of Luau in Moxico province. It will take time to prepare a home there and the transition to… Read more