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Trip 4 Update 2
Just a quick note to ask you to bear down in prayer today for our training event Wednesday from 8am to noon (1am to 5am CDT). We will be distributing 100 MP3 players with the New Testament in Swahili. We will be training the people to form listening groups. The...
Trip 4, July 8-16, 2011
Off to DR Congo Encouraging Relationships -- Bibles, Business, Prayer Well, I am embarrassed to say that once again I am drafting an email update on the verge of another trip to DR Congo. The only difference is this time I am actually already in Africa – Zambia to be...
Solomon’s Wisdom – Why the Church?
Solomon (not his real name) is a Congolese college student whom Greg met in Bukavu. Despite his young age, Solomon has great wisdom about the situation in the Congo. As you read his insights, keep in mind his original language is a tribal language, but he has...
Solomon’s Wisdom – Churches at Bukavu
Solomon (not his real name) is a Congolese college student whom Greg met in Bukavu. Despite his young age, Solomon has great wisdom about the situation in the Congo. As you read his insights, keep in mind his original language is a tribal language, but he has...
Solomon’s Wisdom – God, Father of the Humanity
Solomon (not his real name) is a Congolese college student whom Greg met on his last trip. Despite his young age, Solomon has great wisdom about the situation in the Congo. As you read his insights, keep in mind his original language is a tribal language but he has...
Solomon’s Wisdom – Salt and Light
Solomon (not his real name) is a Congolese college student whom Greg met in Bukavu. Despite his young age, Solomon has great wisdom about the situation in the Congo. As you read his insights, keep in mind his original language is a tribal language, but he has...
Solomon’s Wisdom – The Human Being and Money
Solomon (not his real name) is a Congolese college student whom Greg met in Bukavu. Despite his young age, Solomon has great wisdom about the situation in the Congo. As you read his insights, keep in mind his original language is a tribal language, but he has...
Trip 3 – Final Update
Well, much has happened since I wrote the last post. We will all be home tonight. I wanted to get this update out before the "real world" starts tomorrow. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we had the second and third days of the business seminar. We taught on success and...
Trip 3 – Update with Pics
We had a great day on Monday. One of our friends here, Moses, took us out of town to a couple of rural villages. It is always so much fun to get away from the crowds of the city. One of my favorite things to do is to take pictures of people and show them their...
Trip 3 – 1st Day of Business Seminar
We finished the first day of the business seminar yesterday. We tried to create an atmosphere that invited dialogue and the exchange of thoughts – all as we were teaching material to them that was completely foreign (in more ways than one – pun fully intended). The...
Trip 3 – Finished Bible Study Methods Seminar
Finished the first seminar – Bible study methods. Had no idea what to expect. Had 35 people. Seemed to go well. I was reminded of Jim Rose’s sermon on the parable of the sower. He told us to sow seeds broadly and not to be a soil inspector. That is a good word...
Trip 3 – Prayer Requests
We made it to Kigali. We had a great pizza dinner at a restaurant on the side of a hill in Kigali. It was a beautiful evening. Here are some prayer requests -- the same requests that are on a yellow card that you may have. Thanks for praying. Prayers for the...