New old photos

I've finally found time to scan in, adjust, and upload photos from Mulungwishi that I received a few months ago. If I learn more details about any of the photos, I'll add that information. I'll also be working on photos I have received by CD from a member of the Hoover family.

September Prayer focus

During September, pray for the Nutrition Program -- the staff and children. The Nutrition Program provides food for preschool children on the station as well as malnourished children in the surrounding community. This effort regularly touches the lives of about 200 children.

August prayer focus

Pray for the clinic head nurses, Jean and Alfred, staff, and patients. The clinic at Mulungwishi serves 20,000 people within a 25-mile radius. Medical care includes a full maternity program, health education, satellite clinics, and a vaccination outreach program

KMU Graduation 2007

Flavier Kongolo notified us that he has placed several videos of the 2007 graduation at Katanga Methodist University on YouTube. Each video is about eight minutes long. The French language is no barrier to enjoying the videos. You'll also glimpse our missionaries in the videos. In fact, one covers the graduates from the Women's School. The first movie starts with a video montage and has background music. While enlarging the video to full-screen makes it a bit blurrier, you get a "being there" feeling if you do. And you don't have all the other distractions of a YouTube web page. Our thanks go to Flavier for his work in getting these videos on the web.

• Katanga Methodist University - Graduation 2007

Prayer focus for July

The Mulungwishi Ministry calendar for 2007 asks us to pray for the Masters of Leadership program — visiting professors, church and secular leaders. This program provides adult learning by extension, bringing needed skills to church and secular leaders in the region.

Teaching in Zambia

The last couple of weeks of May and the first week of June found us in Zambia. After David had finished his courses and directing the master’s thesis of one of the students, we were free to go to Zambia to teach at the Kafakumba Pastor’s School. This is a school for village pastors who come for training 6 weeks a year. It is comparable with our Conference Course of Study. The training is over an 8 year period. Some 120 students from the Methodist Church in Tanzania, Senegal, Congo and Zambia were present. This is now the second year that we have come to teach. David taught classes on Contextualization, Leadership and the Holy Spirit. Lori taught the wives Nutrition and led the morning Bible study. She also had a session with all the pastors on Nutrition. It was a wonderful time of fellowship with John and Kendra Enright, who are the moving force behind the Training School. John’s parents were contemporary missionaries with our parents and we grew up together. Kafakumba is also involved in banana and aloe vera plantations as a means of supporting the school and other programs. We have started to partner with them in order to make the Seminary at Mulungwishi more self supporting. While in Zambia, we also had our health issues. David, with quite a number of others, came down with a stomach flew for a few days. Lori had a bout of malaria that delayed our return by a few days. We returned to Congo on Sunday going through the border at Kasumbalesa. More about our border crossing in the next posting. Now back in Congo, David has a mild case of malaria. Please continue to pray for our health and the next few weeks as the academic year comes to a close.

June prayer focus

During June, please pray for Katanga Methodist University, president Kasap, faculty, and students. The University was formed in 2002 with the addition of Schools of Information Technology and Education to the existing Seminary. The University provides an opportunity to train young people in a Christian setting while helping them get the skills they need to become leaders in the new Democratic Republic of Congo.