{"id":1040,"date":"2022-05-11T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/botswanasending.co.za\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2022-05-11T10:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T08:53:48","slug":"mababe-outreach-27-april-3-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/botswanasending.co.za\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Mababe outreach: 27 April \u2013 3 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rev Hendrik du Plessis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The start of the outreach was greeted with adversity. On the way to\nMaun, the right rear tyre of the bakkie burst. I drove over something on the tar\nand the next moment we only heard a loud bang. About a kilometer further we\nrealized we had a flat tyre and I pulled over to replace the wheel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That evening we spent the night at Dorette Cronj\u00e8. The next day we couldn\u2019t\nfind that specific type of tyre in Maun. Brother Tiddo Voogt in South Africa\nresponded quickly and was able to transfer money to me for two new tyres which\nwould only been available the next week in Maun due to the public holiday. All\nthe tire sites stock would only arrive next week. Driving to Mababe without a\nspare wheel would be a big gamble. Luckily one of the tyre shops in Maun\nborrowed us a spare wheel and we were able to venture on the road to Mababe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just before Mababe we ended up in a waterhole and could not move forward nor\nbackward. After my first attempt, Abdul immediately warned me and said that the\nvehicle is digging itself deeper into the mud. Around us were hippos snoring\nand behind us, an elephant was drinking, and after winding down the windows we\ncould hear the mosquitoes. The thought of sleeping in the bakkie full of mosquitoes\nfor the rest of the night and the wild animals around us was not pleasant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get out you had to climb into the water. I wondered why I drove into the\nhole? If I had driven faster I would have made it, like all the vehicles before\nme did. Their advantage of course is they are 4×4 vehicles that I do not have.\nLuckily I had some of the people in Mababe’s phone numbers and not long after\nthat they came to rescue us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mababe and Sankoyo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for handing out Bibles and tracts, this time we focused on Sankoyo. We\nhad Bibles and Audio Bibles with us. Idea, our host in Mababe, accompanied us\neverywhere. He knows everyone in Sankoyo and knows exactly to whom we gave\nBibles the last time, written aswell as Audio Bibles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief was particularly grateful. In a previous report, I posted a photo\nof him and his brother sitting and listening to the Bible starting from 7 a.m. We\nsurprised them at about 11 o\u2019clock with our visit. We were grateful to hear that\nthey were listening to the Bible since 7 o’clock that morning. The chief did\nnot yet have his own Audio Bible and was therefore dependent on his brother who\ncame to visit him from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He is sitting here above in the photo with the Audio Bible and an ordinary Bible that we gave him. He wants to use the written Bible for their council meetings. His name is Sepoposamakata and like many in Sankoyo is a member of the Yeyi tribe, with the Yeyi language as his mother tongue, although they are fluent in Tswana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Yeyi language differs from Tswana as English from French. Standing in\nthe photo is Idea. Idea\u2019s mother tongue is Ts\u2019iiga and it again differs from\nour Naro here in D\u2019kar as German from Afrikaans. Yeyi is a Bantu language and\nTs’iiga is a Bushman language. They communicate with each other in Tswana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \n \nThe people to whom we have distributed\nBibles are all people among whom Idea grew up and whom he knows personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We went looking for people individually who had asked for an audio Bible\nthe previous time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are people who sit for hours outside busy with their daily chores\nwith the Word of the Lord that resounds in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \n \nOur goal is to expose people, perhaps\nfor the first time in their lives, to the Word, people who have been dependent\non false preachers all their lives to hear what the Lord wants to say to them.\nNow they, even those who cannot read, can hear thr true Gospel for themselves.\nI once phoned one of them from D\u2019kar, and in the background, I could hear the audio\nBible speaking, clearly and distinctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n \nOur prayer is that the Lord, through His\nWord and Holy Spirit, will bring about His Kingdom and that villages will\nrepent. Not only the older generation but also the younger generation were\neager to have a Bible in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During our visit to Mababe, I was able to have in-depth conversations with\none of the few people among the Bushmen who has a degree. He is one of the\nTs\u2019iiga Bushmen. He and his wife live in Gaborone and from time to time he\nvisits his father in Mababe. He is a devout Christian and someone who knows the\nBible very well. He is currently immersing himself in Law because the Bushmen\u2019s\nfate across Botswana is very close to his heart. What stands out to me about\nhim during our Bible studies is his prayer. I would like to see him one day as\na minister of faith. He was recently the leader of a team that wants to start\nrecording their language. It is a language that is dying out if nothing drastic\nis done about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During our conversations with Idea and his wife, I told him that they were\nvery zealous for the establishment of a church, and we are grateful for that,\nbut both them and their children have not been baptized. I said to him that\nthere are only two kraals (like cattle pens) in this world, the devil’s kraal,\nand the Lord’s kraal. There is no middle way or middle ground, and if you are\nconvinced in your heart that the Lord Jesus is the only way to salvation, you\nmust be earmarked (baptized) to use the example of a sheep. Idea and his wife\nresponded very positively to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude, we once again ask for your intercession for Mababe and all the\nsurrounding villages, so that the kingdom of the Lord will come there. Africa\nis full of churches, but with very few Scripture-based churches and the reason\nfor this is people who can not read, or have difficulty reading, and the only\nway for them out then is to rely on the opinions of false preachers who have\nso-called prophetic gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motopi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorette is doing well. She would like to go back to stay in Motopi,\nhopefully by the end of the year. She still conducts the worship services there\nevery Sunday – back and forth you drive 160 kilometers. We also ask for your\ncontinued intercession for her who is no longer young and we are thankful that\nshe can still contribute in the service of God’s kingdom. Unfortunately, we\ncould not go to Motopi this time. Abdul’s son suddenly fell sick and we decided\nto come back to take him for medical attention. In the end, it was glandular\ninflammation that could be treated with antibiotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your brother in Christ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hendrik du Plessis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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