Training Seminar

We just had a team from the US leave after a week here in Mozambique. Their function is one of accountability for our Every Community for Christ (ECC) program and they need to validate that this program is doing what we say it is and they also have a Pastor roll with our Mozambican Country Coordinator. This visit was a bit different as our ECC Pastor is retiring and brought his replacement along for orientation. We always enjoy showing new people the work here and when we went over the ECC statistics for the year and just what has happened the last few months, it took our breath away. We presented our new field plan for the next fiscal year and also discussed some of the challenges that we have. Right now we have 84 initiated churches throughout this country with the majority of them being in northern Mozambique. We continue to pray about moving north ourselves but we do need a bit more language proficiency before such a move.

One of the great things about this visit, is that the team always brings a day of training for our leadership and the leaders always look forward to it. The one photo is of Dave introducing Rev. Dave Graffenberger who is our retiring ECC Pastor and I'm afraid the introduction was with a bit of emotion as he was a great help to us last year and we hate to see him move on. The other photo is of most of the seminary participants. We did the class at our beautiful seminary and provided a meal with the seminar. It is always a thrill to have the seminary full of people learning about Biblical principles.

Today, as we worshipped at Sao Damasso, the pastor's message included the many of the versus from the training as it had so impacted the Pastor. It's a great model - training others to train others. I suspect it happened in more than one church this morning!

Thanks for standing with us!

Dave & Ann

"So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!—to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others." 2 Tim 2:2 (The Message version)