Who Will Tell?

Joel, Kelly, and Wyatt with Given and Eric.

Our specific burden is threefold:

1. We desire to plant a local church in Bungeni—either directly or through assisting a national pastor.
2. We desire to start an orphanage. (The AIDS “pandemic” of southern Africa is wiping out millions of parenting-age adults, leaving behind multiplied-millions of orphan children.)
3. We desire to see the Lord raise up national laborers for the harvest fields of southern Africa (particularly the nations of Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique) and around the world.

We see the local churches and the orphanage as “training centers” for, by God’s grace, future national missionaries, Bible translators, pastors, faithful husbands and faithful wives, and solid Christian citizens who will positively contribute to their community as well as boldly proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Perhaps our deepest burden is for the unreached of southern Africa. By unreached, we mean those that have never heard the Gospel, and who have little chance to ever hear, because they have no Bible in their native language and no missionaries to tell them of Jesus Christ.

Joel, Kelly, and Wyatt with various young men from Mbhokota (a village near Bungeni).

Our prayer is that the Lord would multiply our effectiveness by allowing us the privilege of training the young people that He brings into our lives in the truth of God’s Word, and that, ultimately, they will go and reach many of the unreached peoples of this world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.