by Mission Staff
I am writing in answer to your request for any items of Mission news. We are happy to know that the Mission in Rhodesia is specially considered as a topic for special prayer for revival of the Lord’s Cause.
We have just received our first rain of this rainy season. We hope that this will be followed by more rain so as to enable the people to plant and grow their crops, which for some provide the necessities of life; sometimes the former rains are not followed by the necessary latter rains. This past season was excellent for crops after several years of drought and hardship.
We also need the Holy Spirit to bless to ourselves and to the young and old here, the Word of God which is regularly read, preached and taught in our schools.
Isaiah 55: 10. “For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
At Ingwenya Secondary School the External Examinations for our two classes of Form II will be over by early December. Out of the seventy pupils who will sit this examination we can only take thirty into our Form III so as to sit Cambridge School Certificate the following year. Later on (D.V.) we hope to enlarge so as to accommodate double streams of Forms III and IV.
Many of those boys and girls who have been sitting for the last two years or more under the constant sound of the Gospel will be going into an environment where they will have no true Gospel influences.
We do hope that our special need of teachers, two from overseas to replace Miss Graham and Miss Mackay; and two Africans will have been met before school reopens on 25th January 1973 (D.V.).
Nkai Communion is expected to be observed on the last Sabbath of January 1973 (D.V.). The people there have done necessary renovations to the Church. This was where Alexander Mpfufu lived.
Sisters Turner and Cox at Mbuma Hospital miss the services of Dr Dunbar and Sister Coote who returned to U.K. recently; but they are managing to cope with the situation, though handicapped through shortage of trained nursing staff.
K.M.M.
If we are not secure from trials, we are secure from harm.
Cecil.