W&W From South Africa to Lesotho

Today's blog is written by a friend of mine and a wonderful woman of God Rev Eunice Sedith.  She is the pastor of the Toekomsrus Church of the Nazarene.  Please read her story of the recent Work and Witness trip her church took to Lesotho.  

Toekomsrus Church of the Nazarene W&W trip to Lesotho.

In the beginning of May the Toekomsrus Church of the Nazarene, Toekomsrus South Africa, sent a Work and Witness team of 19 people to Lesotho

The team went to install a ceiling in the dormitory of the Cornerstone Nazarene Boarding School.  Toekomsrus, South Africa is a 4 hour drive to Maseru, Lesotho. The school is another hours drive into the mountains in Lesotho.

The team consisted of the congregation from the Toekomsrus Church of the Nazarene who paid their own way and as well as gave toward the ceiling fund for the school.  Some of the families had 3 family members present in the team, this is more than 2 months worth of groceries for a typical Toekomsrus family. 

We thank God because the giving was from the heart. And I know they would do it again.

As the pastor I am excited to see that we are a ‘going’ church. Full-filling the great commission of Jesus Christ to and teach all nations. The people of Lesotho Basotho were so receptive to the gospel.

While walking around the town, the team saw a school and went in. Soon all the teachers realized there were visitors and came together in the staff room and the team shared the gospel and prayed with them. Most of the teachers gave their heart to the Lord that morning. Some of them came to the revival services held that night. The pastor of the Noordgesig Church of the Nazarene joined the team and held revival services every night.

So in addition to installing and painting the ceiling, the team delivered pots, blankets, yo-yos and clothing to the school. The principal and teachers were very grateful.   

One of the team mem was a 70 yr old man in a wheelchair with 1 leg. He paid his own way, and helped around the school with various tasks, not complaining once. 

One of our team members have been delivered from drugs and he went to a local school to share his testimony.  These are regular people who are blood washed and In the words of Phineas Bresee only wanted to “share the gospel in the same manner they have received it."

Pray for us, our feet are itching and we just want to GO GO GO, because the bible says how lovely on the Lesotho mountains are the feet of him who brings good news. (okay I edited the verse a little)

We were hosted in Lesotho by our LINKS missionaries, the HORD family. They too are self-supportive missionaries, and it was our joy to join hands with them in this mission. We want to say thank you to the Missionaries, the Doctor and the advocate (all neighbors) that hosted the team for the weekend. God bless you for opening your home to us.  I also wanted to say, we just want to inspire other not to count the cost, but to just GO. it was a life changing experience for our team.  The Sunday before the team, they were prayed over by the church. The church surrounded them and said we are a team and we are supporting the team in prayer.  It was a beautiful moment.  You could really sense that those who didn’t go, were in full support of the ones who could go.  I have never experienced such a thing in my life.  I think this is how the disciples felt when Jesus said (GO in my NAME).

Written by Rev. Eunice Sedith Pastor of Toekomrus Church of the Nazarene.