South Africa Mission Project
February 2012 Update:
Another volunteer mission team went to South Africa January 30 through February 8, 2012 to assist in starting the new church and ministry in Pretoria!
Selected team members include (L to R): Dee Thweatt, Kim Desmarchais, Clyde Taylor, Brenda Zeigler, Mona McDonald [Team Leader], Steve Zeigler, John Herr, Todd Miller.
The trip cost was about $24,000, and the team members gave over one-third of this amount. We all can have a part in this great accomplishment; our church is receiving an offering to help provide the remainder! If need be, some can come from the the remaining funds of the original gift, but we want to preserve as much of those funds for other possible provisions for the new church and ministry.
Please pray for the whole project, and the offering.
History . . .
In 2010, one of our members donated over $40,000 to be used in a mission project on the continent of Africa. After speaking with Clifford Vick, our Southern Baptist missionary in Pretoria (note the map), Associate Pastor Keith Matney enlisted a South Africa Mission Team (Associate Pastor Matney, Mona McDonald, Wanda Bagwell and Dave Barber — L to R in photo below ) to visit and prayer-walk in Pretoria with missionary Vick, and in February 2011 they made that trip!
Once in Pretoria, the team met Pastor Julius Mbu and his wife Cintia. Julius was a spiritual and intellectual candidate for pastoring a new
congregation. Upon the team’s return to FSBCS, our congregation voted to provide another $63,000 for the project, which would cover three years of compensation for Pastor Julius as he built the congregation and opened an inner city ministry in Pretoria, a city on its way to becoming one of the cosmopolitan centers of that part of the world. Three individuals immediately donated this money for pastoral support! And so God’s work continues today…
