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| Sarah Murphy, ESBS 2009-10: missionary in South Africa |
I thought it would be fun to catch up with Sarah Murphy, who is currently doing amazing things with YWAM South Africa. She's out there making disciples, training the church, and having a huge impact. Here is an update from her recent newsletter:
Eastern Cape Outreach
I spent July and August leading an outreach team from the School of
Biblical Studies in the Eastern Cape (a province of South Africa). We
were a small team of 2 staff and 4 students teaching in various
churches. Five of us squeezed into my little Toyota to drive 2 days up
to Lusikisiki to our outreach location. Our aim was to help people to
see that the Word of God is accessible to them and that they can study
for themselves without needing a pastor or serious study guides.
We taught a Biblical Overview showing God’s plan of redemption from
Genesis to Revelation in many different churches and also taught
seminars on how to study through smaller books of the bible like
Philemon, Titus and Ephesians. We had a great response to our teaching
with people seeing how they can study the Bible for themselves and
giving testimonies such as “this is the first time I have really
understood my Bible!”
It is a wonderful privilege to see people getting to know God through
his Word and realising that God is knowable. Teaching the bible is an
awesome blessing in my own life as I realise the truths about who God is
continue to become more and more established and deeply rooted in my
own life and heart.
I was also greatly touched by the hospitality of the Xhosa and Zulu
people. We stayed in peoples homes and it was a great blessing to be so
warmly accepted into these families and churches. Yes we came to teach
but I left with my heart deeply touched by peoples love, care and
generosity.
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School of Biblical Foundations and Leadership
For years our mobile bible teaching team has been dreaming about
offering more in-depth biblical training to Pastors and church members
in the Cape Town area. This dream is finally being realised as we are
pioneering our first intensive bible seminar - School of Biblical
Foundations and Leadership. Normally we teach in churches across Cape
Town however for this seminar we have invited Pastors and key leaders
from churches we work with to join us for this five week seminar in
Muizenberg. We have 10 participants who are coming Wednesday and Friday
evenings and all day Saturdays.
We are introducing our participants to the Inductive Bible Study Method
we use in our Biblical Training Schools and teaching these principles
through the books of Titus, 2 Timothy, James, Ephesians and Mark. As we
go step by step through these books we are looking deeper into the
context, understanding the historical background and implementing
application in all our lives.
Sarah's full update and contact info |
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