We have answered the call to starting a small group with a group of people from Zimbabwe.

After much prayer, and the decision to get started, we finally answered the call to starting a Bible study with the Zim group. Wednesday night was our first meeting and we had 12 people show up, 9 men and 3 women. We talked about the guidelines and the expectations and asked them how many more might join us next week. They said maybe 3 or 4 more. The truth of it is it could be a lot more than that. We asked them if we should close the class once we get started and one of the guys said, “No, God’s house should be open to everyone.” We must be prepared to take on that challenge. We have a small building on the Living Way campus that we have named our Chapel and intend to use it every Wednesday at 11:00 for prayer and service and in the evenings for our Bible Study. It will hold about 50 people but we don’t have that many chairs yet! Our first study will be from a book that we got from Brentwood Baptist titled, The Call to Follow Christ.” It will give them something tangible to work from and it guides them through an everyday commitment to memorizing scripture and praying. We also asked them how many didn’t have Bibles and 4 people raised their hands. We have the awesome opportunity to give 4 gifts of Bibles next week. I also praised them for having 9 men to show up for the group. I told them it is the men who are to be the leaders for their families and they were setting a good example. They were encouraged. Please join us in praying for this group of people only one out of the 12 has some sort of steady work and she only has 3 days. The rest are desperate to have jobs. They moved here from Zimbabwe to get away from the horrible conditions but there just isn’t enough work to go around. We hope they will go through our training classes at Living Way to give them a head start into the work place.