news from south africa

EDENVALE
I spent a profitable three weeks in the Transkei and our team have signed up over 1000 for the Correspondence Course; we have now covered about 26 towns and have only another eight to complete the Transkei proper. We still have a long way to go to complete the Xhosa-speaking areas. We have had a total response of about 1700. The next challenge is the follow-up! This trip I did 7550km. We now have a short-list of about 30. I really should be living there to do justice to the interest. We are hoping to build a meeting room, but are being delayed by forms. The drought in RSA is bad and in some parts is the worst for 88 years. Many subsistence farmers in the black areas haven’t been able to plough because it’s too dry – nor make bricks for that matter. The young ecclesia, started this year, went through a dip but is now fired-up again. I enclose the Xhosa Bible Basics done by Zwaiake; it is proving very popular. There is very little in Xhosa – even in the world generally.
Bro. Norman Durk

FERNDALE
Back here in Kempton Park we are quite happy; the ecclesia is slowly growing in numbers and in spirit and maturity. We, as an ecclesia, maintain a literature stand on the main street in Kempton Park near a busy Mall. The response from people is quite encouraging. One of the major things of this is that it is a permanent feature every Saturday from 10am to 12 o’clock, so people do start to know us. We have got a number of students from this. By God’s grace we are hoping to have some fruit from this.
Bro.Wacek