'Grandma, let's go to God's place'
At about noon each day a 3-year-old Mwinika boy begins pleading with his grandmother to go to "God’s place."
The young boy has named the site where evangelistic Bible teaching is taking place as "munna, nikarowa oMulukuni" -- the place where God is.
The boy reads -- using the pictures -- the story of Joseph to his grandmother, a story he has heard from his father who learned it as a literacy student.
"He’s a funny little character," Phil and Elin Henderson wrote about the boy. "Even though he is young, he can talk like a 6-year-old. He is quite amusing to hear."
Phil and Elin are praying that the boy and his grandmother will continue to attend the teaching regularly and that the rest of the family will become faithful to attend.
The Hendersons recently used a Mwinika proverb -- "Clean the brush around the houses before the wildfire arrives" -- to encourage the people to build a shelter as a teaching site before it rains. Friday, a sizeable group showed up to begin work on the shelter.
"With rainy season in full swing it seemed prudent to build something so we have a place to hide under if it starts raining during our teaching sessions," the Hendersons wrote.
Last week several graduates from the first literacy class began reading Scripture that accompanies each lesson.
"This has been a help to us in that it highlights the value of literacy," the Hendersons wrote. "All along we have been saying that our primary motivation for teaching literacy is so that people will be able to read God’s Word for themselves. To see their own people publicly reading God’s Word has helped the interest in literacy increase."
Please pray that the people will develop a keen interest in God’s Word and that their eyes will be opened to recognize Jesus as their Savior.