Ok, you got me. I said I wasn’t going to post anymore on this trip, but I couldn’t resist. At 8:30 this morning, we met with the Walvis Bay brethren at their new location. If you click on the link in the previous sentence, you come to a Google Map. This doesn’t show much, but [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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Today we went by Laurence’s shack, where the church had been meeting. You may recall I mentioned in Thursday’s post that sometimes homeowners allow others to build shacks on their property, in return for rent. This is where Laurence, his brother Eric, and their families had been living. After taking some photos, we then went [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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Milton. Milton came to the Chariot on Wednesday, wanting to study. Jon asked the usual questions, one of which is “Have you been baptized?” Milton said he had. He had, in fact, been baptized by Dimpo on the Chariot’s trip through Walvis Bay last year. He had experienced some trouble in getting the WBS lessons [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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Today was our last day of teaching. We are taking the day off tomorrow, and on Saturday we will be working in the neighborhood where the church meets. The church had been meeting in Laurence’s “house”. What is very common in Walvis Bay is that many houses have additional space in the yard. What they [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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Today (Wednesday) was actually our first full day to conduct studies (see Monday’s and Tuesday’s posts), and we discovered the old adage about the 3 most important things in business (location, location, and location) is also true for setting up a visible location for Bible studies. To recap, we had a total of 12 studies [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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By late morning today, our second day of teaching, we hadn’t had a single study. The Chariot had been set up next to a well-traveled path where many people go to and from work on the docks. We passed out many fliers for World Bible School, but no one had time to study “now”. We [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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The team got a late start today, because the workers had to set up the Gospel Chariot tent. This was not due to lack of preparation, but due to the municipality of Walvis Bay. The city permit that lets us set up in a vacant lot allows us only three days. After three days, we [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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Today our team of 5 from Fredericksburg, plus a former member now worshiping in Buda, made it safe & sound to Walvis Bay, Namibia. Many of you are familiar with where Namibia is, because this is not by any means the first trip to that country from the Fredericskburg congregation. It is however, the first [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2010 by Bob Mathews
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