August 2010
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Our family has now been living in the village of Bungeni for just over a year. So, what has taken place in a year? There seem to be two answers to this question, depending on how we look at it. In many ways, a whole lot has happened. In other ways, it seems like not very much has taken place. Picture a fast-flowing mountain river in the spring, swollen and overflowing its banks as waters from the melting snow caps race downward toward the valley. Now, picture yourself, trying to walk up this river…
What of those that have never heard of Christ?
In hundreds, no, thousands of villages, hamlets, towns, and cities across this planet, there sit people just like you…
-Bungeni-
Various thoughts and pictures from the Simkus family’s first year in South Africa: Our family, our church, our ministries, and our tiny farm…
Care Group Inauguration
Various pictures from the inauguration ceremony of a new Care Group in the village of Bungeni—a view of traditional Tsonga culture.
To plant a local church and start an orphanage. From these ministries, our prayer is that the Lord would raise up national laborers for the harvest fields of southern Africa…
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Missionaries to South Africa. It is our heart’s desire to be used of God in reaching those that sit in darkness.
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Taking the Light... Is it worth the sacrifice?
“I have dwelt forty years practically alone in Africa. I have been thirty-nine times stricken with the fever, three times attacked by lions, and several times by rhinoceri, but let me say to you, I would gladly go through the whole thing again, if I could have the joy of again bringing the word ‘Savior’ and flashing it into the darkness that envelopes another tribe.”
—Willard Hotchkiss, Pioneer missionary to Central Africa
For more information about the unreached people groups that exist on our planet, please visit: Joshua Project and FirstBible International.
