Excerpt from Christi’s Journal:

Miss Pat, Jerry Lackey’s mom, killed a snake on Sunday in the Children’s Church tent.  Some of the children were screaming as there was a snake under one child’s chair!  One of the young men said he was going to kill it but Miss Pat was so fast she beat him to it and grabbed a big rock and crushed its head.  She said it was not a real big snake but she thinks it was a kind that paralyzes you. After killing it, she grabbed it by the tail and held it up triumphantly with a big smile on her face!  Anyway, Miss Pat just took it all in stride and then came in to the big church and read a very nice poem she had written for one of the visiting teams.

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On Saturday, we took Linda’s place at the local school near the graveyard. The Abstinence Club was having a Choir Competition to raise awareness about HIV and AIDs. Ron spoke to them and the choirs sang. It was a very enjoyable event to participate in. There were lots of interesting signs painted on the walls on the outside of the public school — several of them were about abstaining from pre-marital sex.

The tents that house the Children’s Ministry at the All Nations Village Church have been sent away for repair.  Consequently it was a beautiful picture to see a very large group of young people in brightly colored clothes gathered under a big tree for their classes. We’ve had a wonderful team of children’s workers from Resurrection Life Church, Grand Rapids Michigan who have been working with the children the past two Sundays.

During our recent conference, approximately 38 people were baptized on a Sunday afternoon! Many of these were from the Branch Churches of the Village Church, Love Botswana Outreach Mission. We are just coming in to spring here so the water was quite cold for the people, but they were singing and rejoicing anyway!

Excerpt from Christi’s Journal:

This week, on Sunday Afternoon we had a special Ladies Meeting at the Village Church. A missionary team from New Salem Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio brought us a workshop on Worship and Choreography. We had a good number of ladies that came, young and old. We spread out throughout the tent and followed the Pastor’s wife from New Salem Baptist Church as she taught us beautiful dance steps, we also gathered around the altar and sang three-part harmony with their great worship leader.