Mission in Lusikisiki

Pastor Mwambe of the Lusikisiki Christian Church invited Discipling Nations to teach an intensive mission course at his church, train leaders who could teach it to others in turn, and to teach a course in Inductive Bible Study

It made for a hectic week last week 

There was a long and dusty trip to start with -through the Karoo and the Eastern Cape, running the gamut of potholes and livestock; waiting at stop/go road repair points and chatting with the people operating the signs


Rail or air travel not options for getting to Lusikisiki. The only way in is via a network of country roads. But the invitation constitutes a call, and we realise that sometimes we have to take trouble to fulfill our mandate.





 






Lusikisiki is a lovely, dusty, dirty regional centre with livestock, cabbages, a bank and a prison - and lots of Christians eager to study Mission!

I learned a LOT of new isiXhosa language and culture

  Cows, sheep, goats, dogs, ravens, cats, horses, chickens... you KNOW you are in the country!

 

 Remote places like Lusikisiki have very much fewer opportunities for study - the delegates seemed to lap up everything we said with great earnestness.  And it seems like besides starting prayer groups and Bible study groups after we left, a team from there is likely to be traveling to Botswana to pass on the message and facilitate yet other churches in reaching out beyond themselves into the world around
 

 I took this pic because of the colour combination! Pastor Walter (yellow) was one of our team members from Gugulethu in Cape Town. Pastor Mwambe (purple) is the Zambian pastor of the local church. And Pastor Moodley (blue) was one of the few non-Xhosa delegates. It was a seriously multi-cultural event! Our team was drawn from four ethnic communities, and the delegates from five (although really 80% amaXhosa)



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