RENEWAL COURSES
A little history :: If you have read our story (on the "About Us" page) you will know that in the wake of a major spiritual renewal beginning at SONSHIP Week 1990, our smoldering passion for cross-cultural missions was rekindled -- propelling us back to Kenya in late 1993 where we had served from 1973 to 1977. My job description, given by Dr. Jack Miller at breakfast the very morning Becky, daughter "Libba" and I flew to Nairobi, was, "Write a "sonship" course contextualized for sub-Saharan Africa. Then, Jack said, teach it to national pastors and train them to teach others. As in so many places, the church is paralyzed by legalism and "sonship" is a specific antidote to that. When believers begin to serve Jesus out of a love for Him and a desire to see His glory rather than out of duty so that they receive glory, the church will be empowered by the Holy Spirit to share the Gospel and win the lost to Him! That was already my passion, and Jack gave it a BIG FAT RUBBER STAMP at breakfast that morning!
What follows is not our boast, for this Gospel, this Good News we share is not ours, for we did not shed one
drop of blood for the sins of anyone. Nor could we, apart from the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit, so
much as get out of bed in the morning, much less write, teach and see the anybody renewed in the Gospel without
His divine working! We have nothing and we are nothing, so to Jesus alone be the honor and glory for this fruit that has been borne!
Jack Miller's "mini-great commission" saw Becky (a wonderful teacher of women!) and I teaching at Daystar University's Athi River campus, at Nairobi International School of Theology, and Nairobi Evangelical School of Theology in Kenya, but also in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Niger, Spain, Chile and twice in Tunisia, once for two weeks, and another for three months.
Our wonderful, dedicated, hard-working and Spirit-dependent "ART" - Africa Renewal Team of Serge (then WHM) disbanded in late 2003, our members dispersing around the world into other ministries, Eddie & Gail Brown to church plant in greater Raleigh, NC, Jeff & Esther Talley to Czech Republic with MTW, , the now married Scott & Lynea McDowell to church plant in Victoria British Columbia, Canada, and Becky and I to London where Grace4Life was written and used to disciple some wonderful British pastors from 2005
to 2011.
To our joy and amazement, these courses are being taught by nationals and expat workers in Madagascar (the Malagasy is still in the translation
process), Niger, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Zambia, Algeria, New Zealand, in
Mandarin-speaking Chinese areas (the Mainland, Thailand, etc., and the USA--these we know about.
As of 2021, two new projects were underway. One, with a team of workers in Rwanda, Kenya, eSwatini and Burundi, to write a simplified English version that can serve as a basis for translation into Kinyarwanda, siSwati and we hope, Swahili. The other, just begun in April 2022, is a translation of Grace4Life into Mandarin (Chinese) for use in a Chinese-led ministry to disciple university students and visiting scholars.
RENEWAL COURSES
A little history :: If you have read our story (on the "About Us" page) you will know that in the wake of a major spiritual renewal beginning at SONSHIP Week 1990, our smoldering passion for cross-cultural missions was rekindled -- propelling us back to Kenya in late 1993 where we had served from 1973 to 1977. My job description, given by Dr. Jack Miller at breakfast the very morning Becky, daughter "Libba" and I flew to Nairobi, was, "Write a "sonship" course contextualized for sub-Saharan Africa. Then, Jack said, teach it to national pastors and train them to teach others. As in so many places, the church is paralyzed by legalism and "sonship" is a specific antidote to that. When believers begin to serve Jesus out of a love for Him and a desire to see His glory rather than out of duty so that they receive glory, the church will be empowered by the Holy Spirit to share the Gospel and win the lost to Him! That was already my passion, and Jack gave it a BIG FAT RUBBER STAMP at breakfast that morning!
What follows is not our boast, for this Gospel, this Good News we share is not ours, for we did not shed one drop of blood for the sins of anyone. Nor could we, apart from the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit, so much as get out of bed in the morning, much less write, teach and see the anybody renewed in the Gospel without His divine working! We have nothing and we are nothing, so to Jesus alone be the honor and glory for this fruit that has been borne!
Jack Miller's "mini-great commission" saw Becky (a wonderful teacher of women!) and I teaching at Daystar University's Athi River campus, at Nairobi International School of Theology, and Nairobi Evangelical School of Theology in Kenya, but also in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Niger, Spain, Chile and twice in Tunisia, once for two weeks, and another for three months.
Our wonderful, dedicated, hard-working and Spirit-dependent "ART" - Africa Renewal Team of Serge (then WHM) disbanded in late 2003, our members dispersing around the world into other ministries, Eddie & Gail Brown to church plant in greater Raleigh, NC, Jeff & Esther Talley to Czech Republic with MTW, , the now married Scott & Lynea McDowell to church plant
in Victoria British Columbia, Canada, and Becky and
I to London where Grace4Life was written and used
to disciple some wonderful British pastors from 2005
to 2011.
To our joy and amazement, these courses are being taught by nationals and expat workers in Madagascar (the Malagasy is still in the translation process), Niger, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Zambia, Algeria, New Zealand, in Mandarin-speaking Chinese areas (the Mainland, Thailand, etc.,
and the USA--these we know about.
Now in 2021, two new projects are underway. One is with a team of workers in Rwanda, Kenya, eSwatini and Burundi, to write a simplified English version that can serve as a basis for translation into Kinyarwanda, siSwati and we hope, Swahili. The other, just begun in April, is a translation of Grace4Life into Mandarin (Chinese) for use in a Chinese-led ministry to disciple university students and visiting scholars.