South African Christian Mission 2nd Qtr 2015

INSIGHT OF AFRICA

BIBLES INTO AFRICA Boxes of Bibles were sent in last year's container which arrived in August, the day after I left Cape Town to fly to theStates. The Angola Christian Church received letters from Celestine in Kenya and Brother John in Nigeria, urgently requesting Bibles which they heard, via the grapevine, were stored in the McLaughlin New Life Center.

Pete Decker emailed the letters to me when I re-turned to Cape Town in December 2014. I took it upon myself to write to Celestine and John, ad-vising them of an alternative - Bibles on DVDs and CDs. They both reported that they were in remote areas where people did not have comput-ers, or even access to them.

After reporting this back to Pete, the Angola church decided to supply the postage to send two boxes of NIV paperbacks to each country, after I talked to the post of-fice about rates, etc.

When the funds came through, I packed up the boxes and sent them overland. It took two months before the Bibles were dis-tributed to overjoyed Christians.

We are now complete-ly OUT of Bibles of any kind. No more VBS/SS materials; no Christian topical books; no dictio-naries; or encyclopedias; etc. Yesterday, I had nine local pastors collect two boxes each for their congregations.

This was drastically short of what they needed. But I have to spread the Bibles around so that everyone gets something. Last month, Pastor Is-rael came from Malawi (1800 miles north) for 20 boxes of Christian teaching materials, VBS/SS and Bibles. He went back rejoicing and praising God for His blessings.

The Bibles are going into remote areas of Africa where no missionary has been. People are being changed by the Word.

Steve Zimmerman

Steve & Sana Zimmerman

Nigeria: local minister (John) distributes Bibles

(Just one of a number of thank you’s as received)

Dear brethren in the lord Jesus Christ

Thanks and praise be to our eternal father who loves us daily in Jesus name ,

i hope this e -mail finds you doing well

my name is Micheal cele i requested that brother Celestine Christian to give me your e mail address

i am among the 48 people that received from the bibles you sent to us through him i was not among those that took the picture why i requested for your e mail address is because i wanted to send you an e mail of thanks and tell you what you have done to my life ,

i have already given my life to Christ but i have no bible and my stand in Christ is not strong until i received the bible you sent and i started reading it daily have fellowship with others going to church and attending church meetings because of this bible my life changed completely i read my bible daily in church when we are asked to read any passage in the bible i quickly jump up and i read it out each day that passe by by faith in chrism become stronger and stronger

i can now use my bible to tell other about Christ

i am the happiest person i am writing to say thank you very much thank you very much and i pray the lord will bless you and your work your good work will increase keep up the good work of building lives and equipping them i love you

thanks

yours brother in christMicheal Cele (Kenya)

Teach, Train, Equip

NEWSLETTER - SECOND QUARTER 2015 WWW.SACMONLINE.ORG

The South African Christian MissionPrepared & Mailed by: Stroh Church of Christ PO BOX 100, Stroh, IN 46789

Non-Profit Org

U.S. Potage

PAID

Stroh, IN

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FORWARDING AGENTS: Walt & Bea Mielke are our forwarding agents. Mail donations to:

MRS BEA MIELKESOUTH AFRICAN CHRISTIAN MISSION

2141 BIG CYPRESS BLVDLAKELAND FL 33810-2309

PEOPLE INTO AFRICA My goal was to ini-tially create a re-newed interest in short term mission trips, by having supporting churches to send a represen-tative, and to expe-rience first hand the value of the mission field. That each team member will have a life changing experience connect-ing with new broth-

ers and sisters in Christ.  Looking for Christians being called by God to serve in His Kingdom.

We are able to accept just a few more for this up-coming trip. If you are interested please email me at [email protected].

• Brian Heninger - Central Christian BC,MI

• Rich Buchanan -  Central Christian BC, MI

• Mike Roberts - Bronson Church of Christ, MI

• Dave Foust - Northview Christian, Coldwater, MI

• Jerry VanBlarcom - Northview Christian, Cold-water, MI

• Leatha VanBlarcom - Northview Christian, Coldwater, MI

• Aaron Mccombs

• Allan Sherwood - Northview Christian, Coldwa-ter, MI

Steve has a list of possible projects.

In Christ,

Dave Foust

BIBLES FOR AFRICA UPDATE: We have 3,100 Bibles for the upcom-ing container!

The container on average can hold 800 boxes and we now only need 170 boxes more to com-pletely fill the container.

We are very close. You may contact your near-est Christian Store and see if they would be will-ing to donate Bibles that have slight defects which they will sometimes donate!

For more info you may contact Dave by email at: [email protected].