Ministry Updates
What God is doing and how to pray
South Africa is Planting Churches!
Confirming the Churches
a bumpy dirt road
December 2022After a two-and-a-half hour bumpy dirt road journey, we arrived... at a grass structure filled with people waiting to hear a preacher. I do not speak the regional Bemba language, so through translation, I declared the gospel of The Unknown God and how He...
Why bother with a boat?
August 2022Why bother with a boat? And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them... ~ Matthew 13:2-3 It took five churches to move this boat. A...
Three Planes and a Boat
June 2022Three Planes and a Boat For from you sounded out the word of the Lord ~1 Thessalonians 1:8 It took three planes and a boat to arrive at the ends of the earth, the northern Zambia shore of Lake Tanganyika. I watched a national pastor negotiate buying another...
Buy a book. Change a life. Grow a church.
May 2022Buy a book. Change a life. Grow a church. Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me… when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. ~ 2 Timothy 4:9-13 God is raising up more national pastors to shepherd His people and plant...
South Africa in February
February 2022South Africa in February And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. ~ Acts 15:36 On February 21 another church planter and I fly to...
35 years ago I gave Miles Schilder a gospel tract
September 2021 35 years ago I gave Miles Schilder a gospel tract. Now we work together training South African pastors and church planters.As an eight-year old boy, my dad and I were distributing tracts at a train station. My job was to put them under the windshield...
Mr. and Mrs. Mahlangu
Mr. and Mrs. Mahlangu July 2021 I remember well when Tryphine showed up at our house with chocolates. Of course as anyone in South Africa knows, if you really want to be polite when visiting someone, you bring a gift. Tryphine brought chocolates, but she came to...
Next week we travel to South Africa!
Next week we travel to South Africa! May 2021 Praise God for travel and assembly restrictions lifting in South Africa! Please pray for our safety and health as we travel internationally through Europe and extensively within South Africa. Praise God for health...
A way forward for the McCrum family
A way forward for the McCrum family April 2021 Many “mission fields” are now ready to send missionaries. Regions who historically have only received missionaries, are now lifting their eyes and seeing the harvest and beginning to send missionaries. The “ends of the...
God is taking South African ministry training further
God is taking the church planting and ministry training in South Africa further. Feb/Mar 2021 When Julie and I first went to South Africa in 2004, we could not imagine God’s goodness in ministry. The first six years we gave ourselves to building churches and...
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