Saturday House Church

Most every Saturday evening we drive into a division of the Location called Saam Staan. Saam Staan means "Stand Together" in Afrikaans. Siska (In the blue dress and head cover) opens her home to us so we can hold a church service. We have been having church here for almost a year now.





It all started when we were driving around this part of the Location one day when we heard someone yell, "Pastor, Pastor!" It was Siska. Siska is a single lady in her thirties that we met at the morning devotions we held at NAMTI. Siska and three of her uncles were constructing her new house. It is a one-room house made of corrugated metal (referred to as zinc here). The house is about 12 feet square with a dirt floor. She was so proud to be getting her own house! She asked if Fredna and I would come in and pray over her new home.


We did, then she wanted us to pray for her uncles, then her neighbors, then her friends... I think you get the picture. Before we left that afternoon there were about 20 or 25 people that came for prayer. Not long after this we began having church services as the Lord opened the doors of opportunity. Many people have found salvation through House Church.

Notice the white couple sitting next to Fredna. They are Aaron and Margaret Wetterling. The Wetterlings are MAPS workers that are here for 3 months doing work at NAMTI. Aaron is building cabinets for the Bible school kitchen, and Margaret is cataloguing the NAMTI library. I will tell more about their adventures later.