Update from East Africa
by Ulf Bjorling SOC Field Worker
I am now in Amsterdam on my way home. I have attached some photos. I was very encouraged in especially Rwanda and Tanzania.
East Africa Report
Once again I am returning from a very encouraging trip to East Africa. I have visited graduations in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
In the city of Dodoma in Tanzania we graduated the 2nd school in that province. It is the 9th province in this nation that we reach with the school. It was a very mature class of 23 students. All of them were pastors and many of them were senior pastors and bishops with a lot of influence. The testimonies were similar to those we have heard before; they testify about how they have been through many seminars and bible schools of different kinds, but this is different, this is life!
The graduation was a very special moment. I felt very strongly what Brother Clendennen described that he felt in Russia when he preached there, some months before the School of Christ was founded; we have not merely come here, we have been sent here! God is doing the work and we are just a vessel. The fruit in the churches of those pastors that have been through former schools continues to be a very great testimony in this nation.
In Hoima, Uganda we graduated twenty-six students. About half of them were pastors. The over all theme during the Graduation was the testimony of Life. The students who testified said: "we have experienced Life during this school! We will not be the same after this!"
In Ruhengeri, Rwanda we graduated twenty-five students. It was also a very mature class with many bishops. The hosting Pastor who also was a student testified during the Graduation that he had prayed to God that their church should be a place where ministers would come to hear a true gospel. I believe the School of Christ was an answer to that prayer.
Yours in Christ,
Ulf Bjorling
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