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Reaching a new generation

Ministry Travels

Friday, 20 January 2012 08:03

I'm here in Johannesburg South Africa meeting with the international board of the Davidic School of Ministry, and some of our up and coming teachers. Alison Papenfus (head of Storm Harvest Africa) is our host. DSM has been around since 1998 and has taught leaders in one form or another since then. At first it was weekend intensives, then correspondence courses; we've been embedded in Bible colleges and even run a full time course in India for a few years.

Now we're starting a new round of efforts. We're taking the Cert. IV (one year full time) course and making it available in Zimbabwe in two locations; for David Beevers and Vulindlela Ndlovu to run it over eighteen months. So we've been bashing the curriculum into shape, making sure it crosses over cultural barriers, in a language everyone can understand.

Vulindlela, who is running the pilot program in Beit Bridge (a border town in Zimbabwe) said to me today, "I never imagined that I could find something in the Kingdom of God so fitted to my dreams, so exciting and fulfilling." Teaching, equipping, challenging the current culture, helping others is really lighting his fuse - and I'm glad.

Lyn Keating, Dean of Students commented, "It's really satisfying to see at least one graduate become a facilitator." You see Vulindlela is the only one of nine pastors who took Lyn's facilitator training 2 years ago to have come this far. I felt the same way about her: student becomes teacher, there's nothing better.

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