Thank you for continuing to pray for our ministry! We have been busy with day to day ministry life. Brad has been visiting our existing Word of Life (WOL) youth groups, encouraging youth leaders, and even training leaders to start youth in Newtown Baptist Church! 
You’ll notice a couple of new “family” members in our family photo above. Lawrence (left) and William (right) are young South African men that have been living with us since December 2017. William left last month to study at the WOL Bible Institute in Uganda. He is planning to return to Durban as an intern with WOL after graduation in August 2019. Lawrence is still here with us, and is a big help and an encouragement.
Holiday Bible Club (VBS) was a blast at our South African home church, Grace Baptist Church in Durban. We are so grateful to Community Baptist Church in PA for donating several years of curriculum! We were able to touch 110 children with the gospel message and had many children make the decision to trust Christ!
We recently had a wonderful visit from Ken Dady, a missionary ministering for over 38 years with WOL Local Church Ministries. His visit was an encouragement to us, as well as our local youth leaders!
Ken arrived in Durban on Friday and we hit the road running with a STORM event at Bethany Baptist Church, an outreach event for local churches. We had a fun-filled evening and Ken shared the gospel message through his testimony.
Saturday morning, we had a Leadership Conference to encourage and equip our local church youth leaders to lead from the front. Not at the front of the room but in front of their lives, teaching them how to interactively challenge the youth to a passionate walk in the Lord that they might “lead their friends from the front” as well!
Upcoming Events
Coming up is BattleZone Camp, August 9-11. This is a camp to prepare our youth for the every day battle of the Christian walk. The emphasis of this camp will be to equip teens to share the gospel and will also have a focus on the persecuted church. Please pray for the youth that attend to grow in their walk with Christ.
Also quickly approaching is our annual SMASH missions trip (Students Ministering And Serving Him). This gives young people from around Durban the opportunity to minister in South Africa for a week. We will be heading to Kokstad, around 3 hours from Durban, and working alongside the First Baptist Church of Kokstad, running Holiday Bible Club in the morning, and doing various types of outreach ministries as well as work around the church. Please pray for us as we plan and prepare.
