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VIRTUAL PRAYER WALK MAP
FOR
THUNZINI BAPTIST CHURCH
After completing the Bible Way Correspondence
Course, Nomsa Mkhonta came to us and said she wanted to know more about the
Bible. She attended the AmaZioni
Church but with her children she boarded a bus from her home in Thunzini to our
home where the Nhlangano Baptist Church met (1996) to learn more about the
Baptists. Wayne asked if we
might come to her home and start a Bible study. Nomsa said she had to ask her
father. She did and he consented
for us to come weekly and conduct a Bible study at their home but he was not
interested in the Bible study becoming a church.
He had his church (AmaZioni). But an amazing thing happened. Mr. Mkhonta
came to know who was Jesus and accept Him as His Savior.
In 1998, the Mkhonta Bible study became the Thunzini Baptist Church.
“I
must go back to my church once in a while and tell them about Jesus.”
After his
salvation experience, Mr. Mkhonta shared he knows the AmaZioni way is not right
and occasionally will go back to his old church and testify about Jesus. The Mkontas also have chosen not to participate in
traditional ceremonies and activities that are contrary to the Christian way of
life. Pray
many Christians in the Thunzini area will also make the same commitment as the
Mkhontas to follow Jesus instead of the cultural way. Pray for the Mkontas to continue to be strong in their desire
to fully follow Jesus.
The
Thunzini Baptist Church is approximately 10 kilometers from Nhlangano and travel
takes about 10 minutes. Along the
way we will pass the Nhlangano Sun Hotel, several homesteads, a primary school,
several shops, a couple of churches, a few cows and many people walking the
tarred road. We also
will pass the home of Mrs. Nsibandze who is a great help in children’s and
ladies’ ministries. At the
Thunzini
Baptist Church she is the children’s Sunday School
teacher and also helps train others in the Shiselweni Region to teach children.
Pray many will feel the call of the Lord to lead and guide the work with
children in their churches in the Shiselweni Region.
The
Swazi children and youth are the future of the Swazi Baptist churches. The
Thunzini Baptist Church needs youth to commit to becoming strong leaders.
Pray
a strong youth program will be developed to train youth to become Christians and
spiritual leaders.
The Thunzini Baptist Church also provides a
preschool that meets five days a week from 8:00am-12:00pm.
This year the school has an enrollment of approximately 25 students.
Pray
for this preschool to be strong in preparing children for their school years and
be a wonderful witness in the community of Thunzini.
This is my prayer:
that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and dept of insight, so
that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and
blameless until the day of Christ. Philippians
1:9-10
When Pastor Dlamini was asked, how can we pray for the
Thunzini Baptist Church his response was, “Pray
for our spiritual growth. And pray for the church to have Solomon’s wisdom and
more Joshuas and Ruths of this day.”
