Hello from Cape Town :-)

The Lord has brought me safely through the first term of theological college here in Cape Town. There have been the joys of discovering more of who Jesus is: for example, in our Mark’s gospel class, I’d never noticed before that in Chapter 5 Jesus cast out 2,000 or more evil spirits from Legion and restored the man to be a disciple of his. That’s power and authority! This passage was a topic of great discussion as any work in Africa requires much teaching on demons, evil spirits and witches. One Zambian brother was telling me that on any visit to a rural Zambian church the first thing expected of a preacher would be to talk about witches/witchdoctors (and a Christian response, I presume). As a college in South Africa which bridges Western ideologies as well as African, please pray for God’s wisdom for staff and equipping for all students, many of whom will return to the more African end of the cultural spectrum.