John D'Alton
The work in Tsumeb has grown since we started here seven years ago. With a blank page, we started the Bible School, having no idea how to go about it or what awaited us.
On the first visit we had from elders, we outlined a very rough
idea, and they had the foresight to make funds available for our needs at the time. This included funds to purchase our own home as well as a house to be used as a hostel / church building / school building. On a visit to the Larimore house in Alabama, I was reminded of the similarity between that work and our own here in Tsumeb.
From a very humble beginning with two male students, we have gone through good times and bad, and now have a usual attendance of ten to fifteen students. Four congregations meet on the first day of the week – one in Tsumeb town, one in the township of Nomtsoub, another in the Grootfontein Prison (now relocated to the capital city, Windhoek), and one in the Mukwe area. With the radio broadcasts that have been made possible due to the efforts of the Whites Ferry Road church in Texas, we are reaching an ever increasing number of people in especially the Okavango region, the area that borders on the war-torn country of Angola. We are now also looking at radio broadcasts in the northern regions.
Since we desperately need to expand to the town of Rundu, in the Kavango region, we request prayers for our efforts, that we may find a suitable property to establish the work there.