Charles with three other prospective students plus our team

 Charles setting off with his bibles

What a joy to be at Chozi – down a rotten road, 28 kms taking an hour, but fellowship with the believers there was sweet. We met and picked up Charles on the way. He is a graduate from Samfya and was sent out by the Chozi fellowship to plant a church, and has also planted a second one. Chozi fellowship partially support him as they are able. While teaching in Bemba which the people understand well, their mother tongue is Nmawanga and we are trying to source a box of Bibles in this language.

Charles teaches and works among the five churches that have been established since Chozi was established in 1986. He used to work as a security guard and was transferred to nearby Nkonde. He took up the post, however resigned shortly after as it took him away from the church work he is called to. He has worn out his bicycle and so we were able to purchase another one for him and we also left a box of Bemba Bibles which will bless the local churches that he ministers to.

We were able to leave two boxes of Bibles with the Chozi mother church as they have three prospective students and the sale of these bibles will provide sponsorship for their fees. The effective work that graduates are doing in these remote places is a blessing to witness and the need is to raise up more trained workers for the vast needs. Yesterday we drove through an area that has no real evangelical witness. To train and mobilise workers is essential.

We have also been visiting other graduates in Mbala/Mpulungu and visiting a number of churches where there is great interest in seeing members sent for training.

 two graduates at the old stone church established by the London Missionary Society in 1893 and then vacated because the missionaries dying from sleeping sickness. They had to over 10 miles up the hill to find relief from the tetsie flies