Kantete Village Leadership Training & Bibles

Kantete Village is approximately 76kms from Samfya and there is nothing there – not even a small roadside shop stand! Six graduates of the Bible School and some of their leaders gathered for a time of encouraging and training during the Saturday. These graduates work together through a large number of churches and are also active in church planting and teaching across the close border with the Democratic republic of Congo.

They report the common needs of bicycles to assist in the work, sleeping bags for their mission and teaching trips, mosquito nets… They have been in receipt of Bibles from the Bible School in the recent past, which helped them in their DR Congo work. The bibles are sold at affordable rates to the local people and the money raised goes to support their ministries. We are pleased that we have been able to acquire two new bicycles which will go toward they work they are doing.

     The great handshake tradition to close a service

One of the big challenges that these local churches face is understanding their own responsibilities to give towards supporting their workers as they go and do mission work. 1 Corinthians 9:14 is very clear that those who preach the gospel should get their living form the gospel, however these local churches have not been taught well about the New Testament principles of giving. Please pray for the Bible School staff as they endeavour to bring teaching to these rural areas that will change the way that they look at ministry.

                                              The graduates at Kantete

It is encouraging to see the levels of commitment that many of these graduates have to the ministry of the local church. Our ongoing support of the Bible School ministry ripples out to these wide spread rural areas, and sees resources and encouragement extended to these dear brothers and sisters.

                                                Taking a break

Last years consignment of bibles saw 12 boxes sent out to provide scholarships for students at the school. This year 9 of those people are in training! The other 3 are from DR Congo and are expected next year. Again this years Bibles will be used for the same purposes so we expect to see good numbers of students encouraged to study (20% of Bibles). Of course there are also the bibles sent to graduates that they sell to support their ministries (50%) and a portion that are sold at the Bible School itself (30%), the money raised from these goes to sending the staff out to village areas to conduct training. So as you can see support for Bibles gets them into the hands of village Christians, but also goes to support vital ministry!

                                      Our Camp site at Kantete