Rev Hendrik du Plessis
February Outreach
When planning the outreaches, we never anticipated that it would rain so much. We were excited and looking forward to it. Another reason for our delay was our elder’s wife who had to be reburied. She died in 1973 and was buried in Gantsi, and because a road had to be built over her grave, she had to be reburied with the help of the authorities. Unfortunately, this could not be realized and the date had to be postponed. However, we could only leave for Bere on Saturday. We drove in the rain and arrived there in the rain. Because we left D’kar late, we arrived in Bere in the dark. It was around ten o’clock in the evening. We had no choice but to pitch our tents in the rain, and so it rained all night. To our shock, we would discover that all our clothes and even our mattresses were wet. The only dry clothes we had were the clothes on our bodies, and our tents also started to leak. The next day it was the same. We had to sit in the tents and brave the rain. If the need arose, you had to stand in the rain and get wet. The next evening when there was no prospect of it stopping raining, we decided to go back to D’kar. We pitched our tents in the rain. At least we were able to say goodbye to our two chiefs. We visited them with our backs against the wall to avoid getting wet.
The photos above are of the Bere Road on our way back to D’kar.
On Monday morning we drove back to D’kar. How welcome a hot shower was. My clothes could then be washed and I could prepare for our outreach to Motopi. On Friday evening, Dorette, as always, welcomed us very warmly. What I always will remember about Dorette is our deep spiritual conversations until late at night around the table. The photo on the left is the road on the way to Maun.
On Sunday morning at 10:00, the church was quite full of young people and old people. After the service, the youth gathered for a meeting.
Recently a young man joined our church and began to mobilize the youth. Dorette has attended some of their meetings. They have a chairman, a scribe, and a treasurer who records everything. That evening we had a Bible study with the young people using a film. It was the film that we have shown there three or four times now, “Walking with Jesus.”
We were supposed to leave for Mababe the next day, but everyone advised us against it because the road was impassable. It had rained a lot and everywhere on the way you would find large pools of water that would swallow your entire bakkie, was their advice to us. “Don’t dare to come.”
To conclude:
For us it was sad on the one hand because we wanted to visit all our people with whom we had built a relationship and taught them in the Word of the Lord, but on the other hand, one is grateful for the mild rain that is so necessary for man and animal to survive. As far as rain is concerned, this year has been exceptionally blessed. Here in D’kar, we have already had 753 mm of rain for the season and it is still raining intermittently. Our prayer is that the Lord will also bless us with the expansion of his kingdom and that the Word of the Lord will also rain on the hearts of people there because in this regard we are so dependent on Him. Your brother in Christ, Hendrik du Plessis.