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engaging
ways
had
charmed
them!
From the newspaper advert there
were another nine students and
six regular students attended, all
making for a most interesting
seminar. Bro Lucky was well
prepared and question time was
very lively with some students
staying on afterwards till dark. It
was really helpful to have sisters
accompany us, as about half of
the students are women. There is
a very good spirit among the
Gaborone brethren and sisters
and so encouraging was the fact
that our newly baptized brother
Stephen Kethokile (baptized in December in
the Shashe river near Francistown- see photo)
managed to join us. It was heartwarming
to see the Gaborone brothers and sisters
embrace him so heartily into the family. We
are very blessed to have the use of a guest
house with kitchen, lounge and dining room
which all helps to create a warm family atmos-
phere. Bro Kgamakwe Mokoena (Mafekeng) has
taken responsibility for the preaching in the
Gaborone area and visits at least once a
month.
Postscript: Bro Leon Shuker has taken up the
challenge of moving from Paris to “exile” in
Gaborone where he is assisting the small
ecclesia there and holding seminars every
Saturday. We salute Bro Leon for his tremen-
dous preaching spirit and being willing at his
advanced age to move out of his comfort zone
and be about His Father’s business in a strange
land.
Limpopo
A few days after Botswana it was Limpopo
with Bro Daniel Makhado and Sis Precious
Madzivhandila (both are Venda speakers from
the Soweto ecclesia). Because the postal
service is SO unreliable we have had to think
of a new strategy for the correspondence
courses which seems to be working much
better than expected. We had placed an
advertisement in the local Limpopo Mirror for
the Bible courses in March and
made a trip with Bro Daniel to
make the personal contact and
hand over the material. Daniel
did another trip on his own two
months earlier and this one was
the third. Because black folk are
such ‘people-people’ - their
greeting ‘sowabona’ (‘I see you’)
reflects just that. We are finding
that making the personal contact
really seems to work.
We left at 6am and got to Louis
Trichard (now Makhado) by 11.00
having met one student in
Pietersburg (Polokwane) en-route
Bro Stephen Kethokile flanked by Sis Leonie and Bro Paul Verster
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Bro Lucky Sekhasembe, standing, teaching at the seminar in Gaborone