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$1000 at a time
Last night, one of our supporters, Mt Zion Baptist Church in Danielsville, GA with Pastor Duncan, voted to give $1000 for Camp Rhino. That’s 3 churches since last weekend to give $1000 a piece to help buy property to start this new camp ministry. This gift takes us over $74,000 that has been given or…
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August 2017 Prayer Letter
Dear Pastor and Friends, Much has happened since our last update. Thank you so much for your prayers for us and the work here in South Africa. One prayer request from our last letter was for our youth conference. We had a great turn out. The Lord blessed and we saw two people make…
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May 2017 Prayer Letter
God continues to grow his Church. Soweto Baptist Church is a year and five months old now. It is unbelievable how quickly time has passed. There is still so much work to be done. We have seen several saved since our last letter; one of the more exciting decisions for me was a 19 year…
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Camp Rhino Update
“A Week at Camp – A Chance at Life.” In the first week of announcing our goal to raise $100,000 to buy property to start Camp Rhino, we received great feed back. A supporting pastor wrote to let me know his church has a goal to raise $2500 between now and their missions conference in October…
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September Prayer Letter
Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.” When we arrived for…
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Update 8/19
Prayer request’s – Our Sunday School class – Our young men in discipleship – to book meetings – Cultural adaptation – Language learning – Youth on Fridays My family and I are so blessed to be here in South Africa with amazing families to help train us. My wife and I continually see the benefits…
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Update June 22-29
It’s Holiday It is now holiday here in Port Elizabeth. All students (including my daughter) now have a 3-week break from school. With that said we only had 5 people at or youth night this Friday but we are not going to let that hold us back. Our Sunday School class was low as well…
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December 2014 Update from South Africa
Dear Pastor and Friends, Another year is come and gone. It’s now that C.T. Studd’s words ring loudest in my ears; “Only one life, “twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.” We are still attending and serving at Madiba Bay Baptist Church. It is awesome to see all that the Lord…
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Life as an Intern (Beth Staley’s personal testimony)
Beth Staley’s personal testimony about her internship here in South Africa. Life as an Intern The thought of internships don’t usually bring about happy thoughts. No one gets overly excited about being an intern. It usually has a negative connotation to it that means you will be a slave to basically everyone for this period…
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Superiority Complex
Superiority Complex I was talking with a friend the other day and, for the first time, I realized just how crazy life can be here in the townships. Don’t get me wrong, I have heard many stories over the past year while studying in the township, but they really were just that, crazy stories. This person…