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I’m heading to Lusaka, Zambia, for 5 weeks. I’ll provide more detail in this week’s “Winning Ways,” but here are a couple of websites you should check out to learn more about the area I’ll be serving in and the people I’ll be serving with:http://easte…
On June 18, I leave for 5 weeks in Africa. I’ll be teaching a course in the Baptist Seminary in Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka. It’s a small school: my class will be made up of eleven men in their second and third year of a three-year…
“If the college die, the churches . . . will not live long after it.” That was what the New England Puritan, John Knowles, wrote to Governor Leverett Of Massachusetts back in the 1600s. He was referring specifically to colleges that trai…
Africa is larger than China, the USA, Western Europe, India, Argentina, and the British Isles–combined!Map found here.If you are accessing this post through Facebook or a Reader, you will need to go to the website to see pictures and hear sound files:…
Enroute to Lusaka, I sat next to a young theology student from the Netherlands who is doing his PhD dissertation on the role of the church in addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. We ended up discussing the role that providence plays in the plot of…
The eleven men I am teaching are a joy to fellowship with. With their permission, I will introduce you to them, their families and their ministries across the following weeks. Most of them are bright and promising young men already serving churches.Itâ…
I am teaching a worship course at the Baptist Seminary in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital city. But there are other ways to develop church leadership. On Thursday night, I went with IMB missionary Franklin Kilpatrick to his twice-weekly class with lay preac…
In Texas I hear it’s forecast to be 106 F today. In Zambia, it’s in the 60s (F) today, and breezy. I’m typing this on my neighbor’s back porch where I can catch a wireless signal, so excuse me while I zip up my windbreaker.You’re welcome.If you…
Meet Lawrence Mwanza. I visited with him at lunch today. He is from the village of Luwingu in the Northern providences of Zambia. He told me he was brought to Christ in friendship with an International Mission Board (IMB) missionary, Josh Bowman, in 20…
While serving in Zambia, my next-door neighbors are James and Songja Pack. The are ISC workers (International Service Corps) with our International Mission Board. James was a pastor in Korean Baptist churches for many years, both in California and in H…