Ministry

So now that Beat the Drum has finished, what have I been up to in

Swaziland?
 The first two weeks I’ve just been settling in my new home and getting adjusted to living here once again.
  God wants for his daughters in

Swaziland to know Him more and study His Word, specifically about their identity and value in Christ.

 

In the last two weeks, I have been presenting my need for Swazi, Christian young adult women to help me co-lead the Bible Studies for the high school girls.
  I have also been visiting schools that I worked in last year and reconnecting with students and teachers and showing them the Bible Study that I am asking them to participate in.

 

The bible study is called
Cherish, and it was truly divine the way that this study made it into my hands.
  When I was in

Bakersfield, I was asked to go to a tea sponsored to hear about a ministry.
  At the tea I spoke very briefly with a young woman who formerly worked with YWAM (Youth With a Mission) and she informed me she had a friend in

Johannesburg (a 4 hour drive from me).
  The friend in Johannesburg, Ruth, emailed me and told me of her ministry and wouldn’t you know it, she was already doing what God had ignited me to do – discipling high school age girls through studying God’s Word.
  I was blown away even by the details of her groups and the topics she was covering as it was exactly what God had laid in my heart in the preceding weeks.
  Ruth and I agreed to meet at the

Johannesburg airport when I flew back from the States and it was then Ruth put
Cherish in my hands.
  Ruth spent all of last year writing this amazing curriculum after reading a few books and getting to know and understand the life of a high school South African girl.
  As I began to skim the 60-page curriculum for women, I was amazed that the exact topics God was wanting me to talk about with the girls were all in this curriculum and Ruth said I could make as many copies.
  I cannot make enough copies of this study, all the Swazis who have shown so far have absolutely loved it and have confirmed “Yes, this is what Swazi girls need to understand”.

 

Two groups are planned to start in the next 3 weeks and I have three other groups that are possibilities – 2 at schools and one at my church.
  Pray for the preparation of my heart before I lead these groups and pray that God would prepare the hearts of those who will participate in the groups.
  Pray that the female high school population of

Swaziland would have a yearning to know and study God’s Word.
  Pray that God would show me where he is working so that I may join Him and he may be specific at which schools he wants me to be ministering in.