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February Prayer Letter

2/6/2019

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February. The month we celebrate “love.” My wife and children have been going over the biblical descriptions of love, and it sure is convicting. Patience, kindness, humility, long suffering. I love this quote my wife found on the internet, “God loves through believers, who act as channels for his love; they are branches who must abide in the vine if they are to have that love. We have the assurance that we have passed from death to life because we love others.” When I put this into perspective of how I’m loving the Xhosa people God has called me to, I’m eager to do more. To love deeper. I’m so thankful for a God that looked past my sin, and loved me anyway!

This past month we really started digging into the language. This can sometimes (A lot of times) get frustrating, but with every sentence we learn, we feel more connected the Xhosa people. So we are motivated to keep working. I have also been blessed with opportunities to preach and was able to preach a 5 minute message in Xhosa in a children's class.

When we were here in 2015, I had the opportunity to disciple a little boy named Miso. At the time he was 9. I was excited to see he was still faithful in church when we returned a couple months ago. Miso is still my buddy, and now he helps me with visitation on Saturdays. I’m praying God will send more young men just like him, to train and disciple!

While we are in language school, we are attending a church planted by missionary Mark Coffey, in the township Kwadwesi. While making this 30 minute drive to church, we pass about 3 other townships. You can look in any direction and see house after house, shack after shack. There will always be people walking, children running around unattended. I don't have numbers or statistics for these exact townships; but as I make that drive to church every week, I think of the thousands ​of people living on top of each other. There is 1 gospel preaching church for them to attend. There needs to be more. Please pray that God will send laborers and that we can learn this language as quickly as possible.
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