Tuesday 28 May 2013
Prayer letter for May
Dear friends,
We send you greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Travel and study
We are back in Northern Ireland for a couple of months. Thank the Lord for the provision of a place to stay and a vehicle to use. Debbie has been given admission into a Doctor of Ministry programme which is offered by the Irish Baptist College and accredited by the University of Chester. She will be working on the module on Theological Reflection for which course work has to be submitted by September this year. Pray for her as she studies this summer. It is a part-time programme which should take a few years to complete. We plan to return to Kagoro at the end of July.
Generator
Those of you who get our monthly email updates will know we purchased a new generator. We thank the Lord for this provision since the local electrical supply is very poor these days. Our next challenge will be coping with the fact that our Kerosene fridge is no longer working well. When we get back we will have to set up an alternative system that will allow us to keep food frozen.
Kaduna trip
We were in Kaduna city recently and had the opportunity to catch up with two of our graduates: Nehemiah and Justina Maikai. Nehemiah is one of the pastors in a church which about 2,000 people attend on Sundays. That church is ‘planting’ two more churches in the city. It is always great to see our graduates in the ministry (cf. 3 John 4). At the church we go to at Kagoro both of the pastors are also graduates of the Seminary. We have the problem at Kagoro of not having enough space in the building to get everyone in on Sunday mornings.
Missionary Conference
In late June we are going to a 10-day conference arranged for missionaries who are working in stressful situations. The venue is a Christian guesthouse near Interlaken in Switzerland. We are looking forward to that conference. Some of our fellow SIMers have been to the conference in the past and highly recommended it to us.
Highlights of the January to May semester
Thank you for praying for us during the semester. It was a demanding one in many ways. Debbie was teaching two courses she had not taught before and one she had not taught for nine years. I was teaching courses I had taught before but I was quite busy in the registry since we didn’t have a deputy provost at the Seminary. Thankfully, a new deputy provost has just been appointed which will help to share some of the administrative tasks. We had 350 students register for study which was more than usual. In April our Provost arranged for a two-day retreat at Miango for all the members of the faculty. We studied a devotional book together and it gave us all the opportunity get to know each other better.
Hajara’s wedding
One of the former students we are close to, Hajara, who comes from Niger, just got married to one of our students: Daniel. The wedding took place here at the Seminary with many of the students and Seminary staff present. Pray for them as they start their new home and for guidance as they plan for future ministry together. Daniel has a few more courses to take this summer and hopes to graduate later on this year.
Thanks for your prayerful support.
In Christ,
David and Debbie Colvin
We send you greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Travel and study
We are back in Northern Ireland for a couple of months. Thank the Lord for the provision of a place to stay and a vehicle to use. Debbie has been given admission into a Doctor of Ministry programme which is offered by the Irish Baptist College and accredited by the University of Chester. She will be working on the module on Theological Reflection for which course work has to be submitted by September this year. Pray for her as she studies this summer. It is a part-time programme which should take a few years to complete. We plan to return to Kagoro at the end of July.
Generator
Those of you who get our monthly email updates will know we purchased a new generator. We thank the Lord for this provision since the local electrical supply is very poor these days. Our next challenge will be coping with the fact that our Kerosene fridge is no longer working well. When we get back we will have to set up an alternative system that will allow us to keep food frozen.
Kaduna trip
We were in Kaduna city recently and had the opportunity to catch up with two of our graduates: Nehemiah and Justina Maikai. Nehemiah is one of the pastors in a church which about 2,000 people attend on Sundays. That church is ‘planting’ two more churches in the city. It is always great to see our graduates in the ministry (cf. 3 John 4). At the church we go to at Kagoro both of the pastors are also graduates of the Seminary. We have the problem at Kagoro of not having enough space in the building to get everyone in on Sunday mornings.
Missionary Conference
In late June we are going to a 10-day conference arranged for missionaries who are working in stressful situations. The venue is a Christian guesthouse near Interlaken in Switzerland. We are looking forward to that conference. Some of our fellow SIMers have been to the conference in the past and highly recommended it to us.
Highlights of the January to May semester
Thank you for praying for us during the semester. It was a demanding one in many ways. Debbie was teaching two courses she had not taught before and one she had not taught for nine years. I was teaching courses I had taught before but I was quite busy in the registry since we didn’t have a deputy provost at the Seminary. Thankfully, a new deputy provost has just been appointed which will help to share some of the administrative tasks. We had 350 students register for study which was more than usual. In April our Provost arranged for a two-day retreat at Miango for all the members of the faculty. We studied a devotional book together and it gave us all the opportunity get to know each other better.
Hajara’s wedding
One of the former students we are close to, Hajara, who comes from Niger, just got married to one of our students: Daniel. The wedding took place here at the Seminary with many of the students and Seminary staff present. Pray for them as they start their new home and for guidance as they plan for future ministry together. Daniel has a few more courses to take this summer and hopes to graduate later on this year.
Thanks for your prayerful support.
In Christ,
David and Debbie Colvin
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