What a Privilege...
20 Jul 2010
It’s been a superb few weeks at NCC with John and Linda Lanferman joining us on the 11th and Scott & Clare Marques on the 18th! Both John and Scott brought words to us which were tremendously encouraging, urging us to keep believing God for the promises spoken over us and to cover all that we do in love, for God and each other.
There was one thing in particular that Scott mentioned worth reflecting on. A few years ago when Scott was last with us we took a spontaneous offering to help the ground breaking (no pun intended) work being done in Zimbabwe, aimed at training local people to be excellent stewards of the land in farming and agriculture. This was a remarkable moment, when as a church we gave £15,000 towards the £100k needed to launch this new initiative. Scott informed us last Sunday that this initial figure of money proved to be the catalyst in enabling the other churches in Zim and Africa to follow suit, incredibly then finding the additional money required to launch the project. This training centre has, to date, equipped over 10,000 (!!!!!!) men and women to run their own farming businesses, thus providing for themselves and their families. Wow!
What a privilege it is for us as a Church in South East London to be involved in a project which is affecting a whole nation. Through Scott and Brian Oldrieve’s leadership the Foundations for Farming initiative is being adopted by other African nations, blessing thousands upon thousands of people.
We’re involved in no small thing!
Check out the Ebenezer Agricultural Training Centre here: http://ebenezerzimbabwe.blogspot.com/
Tim Blaber
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