Last week, I had a truly remarkable experience. I was heading out to my Tuesday Bible
study, which is held out under a bunch of shade trees, when Gift Siampongo
stopped me. Gift is a young man
who has faced many challenges in his Christian walk. He just completed our leadership seminar, where he studied
the book of Acts. I have been
mentoring Gift, age 21, for the last six months, as he has traveled to many
Bible studies with me over that period of time. This, however, was his first time to ask to teach. We have been studying and practicing
many weeks now on lesson preparation and teaching. He has been a very active student, and since the Bible study
this day was to be from the book of Acts, I was thrilled to see him put into
practice what he has learned.
This 21 year old sat in the midst of 25 people, most of them
older than him, and taught about the Kingdom of God through the book of
Acts. I felt so proud as I sat
beside him not having to interject on anything that he said. He was right on the money and conveyed
a powerful message to this group of older, but less mature, group of
believers. This is the point of
missions – to create disciples –as this young man will be here far longer than
I will. I can’t wait for those of
you coming over to know this young man and hear more of his story. He is truly an inspiring young man who
loves the Lord. He provides an
example of the wisdom of Christ who through careful discipleship spread His
kingdom all over the world. Below
is a picture of Gift teaching under the trees.
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| Gift is on the right |
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| This is at the beginning, more people show up later. |
