Before we were missionaries we had a life-changing experience in South Africa. A nation, no, half a continent who had heard and believed in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of their guilt but had not heard that Jesus also wanted to show them how to live a whole new way of life.
We were reading a book called the Shackled Continent while we explored that incredible country. The author was describing some of the social problems in Sub-Saharan Africa and one of them was that people were stealing telephone and electricity lines. It sounded too crazy to be true! But as we drove around we noticed that at random locations whole stretches of cable would be missing from the poles. This broke our heart – shouldn’t people who believe in Jesus know better? Shouldn’t we do something to help them live differently? Shouldn’t we teach them not to steal?!
Well, God used that experience to lead us into cross-cultural ministry, but our friends, DeWet and Marysol, who moved there and started Titus Project, the ministry we also work with, had that exact thing happen to them last week! It still happens! Most sadly, the thefts happen not in the downtowns of major cities where the powerful might feel it and do something about it, but in the poorest neighbourhoods, where small business and ministries have no ability to deal with it. Read our friends post and pray for them as they fight for the poor in South Africa!
Teaching Adventures 