Angolan Trip

Menongue

There's a name to conjure with! A small provincial town in south-central Angola, half way down to Ultimo Sul. It has an airport, bank, hotel and a massive informal settlement. And in the middle of that informal settlement is an OM Christian Discipleship Center. I'm heading there in June with my friends and collaborators in Discipling Nations, Willem Conradie and Chris Lawrence to do a missions training course with about 20 Angolan pastors-under-discipleship. I might possibly do a street-art seminar, introducing the idea of public art as a means of grace and evangelism.

That is what we are there to give. What we are going to receive is the opportunity to observe and participate in a wide range of discipleship activities, and to learn how to apply some of those principles to our work in and amongst South African churches.

We will also be taking a San Pastor from South Africa to visit people from his clan who have been "settled" 150 km South of Menongue, and if it is appropriate spending some time there with him. 

This is going to be a difficult trip. The first time I will have driven to Keetmanshoop after the death of my son and mother-in-law in 1992. And the first time I have been to Rundu since my military days in 1977-78. Not easy.