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| Ringo Felix, Arusha City Councilman |
As it happens, immediately before our Sabbatical, Doug had been in Arusha, Tanzania launching Vineyard School of Ministry (VSM) courses. He was there again last week teaching How to Interpret Scripture. One of the students was a city councilman and church leader named Ringo Felix. As Ringo was heading home one day he was reflecting on that day's lesson on Ruth, and a women's right to inherit land in a man centered world. One of his neighbors joined Ringo as he walked along. He told the story of how one of his female relatives was told by her brothers that her part of the family property she had just inherited from her father, could not go to her according to their culture. What should this woman do? Ringo was reminded how relevant the Bible is to his world and began to work with this man on a solution.
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| Mapping a Church Plant |
Later in the course the class was challenged to read how Paul planted the church in Ephesus and then diagram or map out a church plant based on Paul's model. Ringo's team designed their map based on an actual church plant and so merged both Scripture and actual practice.
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| Christine gesturing. |
Relating the Scriptures to real life contexts stimulates passionate conversations and sometimes debate. Christine (pictured on right), is an attorney and church leader. The course helped her process a challenging church crisis, one in which she had had little support. Christine found support in this class.
This course included an airline pilot, a Bishop, an attorney, a HIV AIDS worker, a youth worker, a city councilman, a couple of school teachers, and several pastors.
Please pray for:
- the spiritual growth of our students ("knowledge puffs up, but love builds up." 1 Cor.8.1)
- the completion of VSM's registration process here in Kenya.
- the Administrative Staff as they work with Daystar University to ensure our student records are current.
- the on-going funding of the ministry as it grows.
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