This final
week of teaching CPM is always Jack’s favorite part of this 45 hour course as
he invites guest speakers for most classes.
He enjoyment is not due to not having to teach, but how the students
respond to his guests, East Africans who are in ministry in our part of the
world: Samson Kisia, a pastor/church
planter (check out today’s Prayer Nudge from
East Africa); Zack Mahalangwa who explains how House Groups were the
foundation of the beginning of our church, Parklands Baptist–Mombasa Road;
Jeremiah Chacha representing SEMA, a leather working project which employs
urban Church Planters; Shem Okello, the Coordinator of Baptist volunteers using
Houses for Hope to develop churches; Euticauls Wambua, a Nairobi pastor who has
led his church to plant eight churches in a remote area of Kenya; and Pius
Wantene, a Regional Coordinator for the Baptist Convention of
Kenya, who teaches his region how to plant churches through discipleship.
Pray for
Jack as he continues with classes through Friday and for his guest
speakers. It is a good thing that Jack
has a lighter teaching load this week as he is fighting a bad cold, so pray for
quick healing. Pray also for the seminary students as they return home this
weekend from this three week session.
Pray for safety in travel and for opportunities to use what they have
learned and time to do ‘homework’ before they return for the next round of
classes in July.
Join us also in praying
for our seminary as it continues to struggle as it works through being ‘owned’
by our convention/ local Baptist churches. Pray especially for the Board
of Governors (Jack is currently a Board member and though I am no longer on the
board, I served for many years as a
member) as they make difficult decisions related to seminary’s on-going ability
to serve and train. Another prayer is for God’s choice for the new principal
to become very obvious and available.
I have
‘moved’ since beginning this as the electricity disappeared again at our
cottage and my computer finally died!
So, I’m now sitting at Brackenhurst using their generator as I work and
repower my computer! Yes, our lives come
with problems, but it is hard to ever get bored as there is never a routine/
according to schedule day!
My major
frustration at the moment is that I’m feeling much, much better and have so
much catch-up work to do. Plus, I do love my work and get so excited as I learn
what God is doing in our part of the world and how He is allowing us and our
co-workers to be a part of His
work. Sometimes friends say I am overly
passionate – but it is impossible to not want to share as many of these stories
as possible through blogs, e-mails and Facebook! Pray that I will be patient with
interferences and totally rely upon God for His guidance and insights as I
work. I encourage you to view 2012 Prayer Nudges
from East Africa at http://easternafrica2012prayernudges.blogspot.com/
to view these stories or find them on Facebook (info on the right column). 
The electricity went off and
back on a few minutes ago, which means the generator has been turned off and
the electricity has returned, so I was going to stop and walk back to our
cottage, but the power returning coincided with the coming of a very heavy
downpour of rain, so I’m stuck here for a while. Yes, I did bring a very large umbrella, but
this is wind and rain and I’ve learned the hard way that no umbrella is large
enough to stay dry… so I will stop writing, but not return to the cottage until
the rain slackens! Oops, almost forgot,
I do need to add what I usually say, but it is not simply the ‘politically
correct’ thing to say, but from the bottoms of our hearts: THANKS again for
all you do to support us and God’s work in East Africa, BERT YATES 
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