| It is hard to believe that we are celebrating four years in South Africa this year! To God be the glory!! Thanks to your prayers and support, we have truly settled in here and consider South Africa our home. We are so honored to serve with such great fellow staff members at Impact Africa, and hearing all of the testimonies that each person brings to the table on a weekly basis is like living in Acts. Pulled up some pictures reminiscing about this time: |
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   We just wrapped up a big summer season that was filled with short-term missions teams coming out and serving for a week or ten days at a time. Our home church from Virginia, The Victory House, was also able to send a team this year. Kindle and I had the amazing opportunity to lead their trip, and we saw a lot of testimonies, and fruit! One of the team members, Oxford, made a little video about the trip that we’d love to share. WATCH IT HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ACfrjacuy7md4Tlp_X33hW_isfJrkmKa/view?usp=sharing       After years of doing missions all over the world, Kindle and I both believe that Impact Africa facilitates some of the best missions trips anywhere. We plug people into meaningful ministry that supports a long-term, sustainable mission and are able to do lots of face-to-face evangelism. Lives are truly transformed!  Impact Africa also just welcomed our Fall Semester interns a couple of weeks ago(some pictures of them in action below)! When interns show up, I always give them this Leonard Ravenhill quote: “The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.” There truly is a shelf life to each season God sends our way. Some seasons are pivotal and special. It is up to us to get the absolute most we can out of those seasons. For our interns, our prayer is that they would be filled with a revelation of the worldwide need for evangelism, and that they would take a missional heart into the rest of their lives—whether in full-time missions, ministry, or in any vocation God calls them to .     This semester we are teaching them worldview, cross-cultural communications, and Zulu as a language class. Kindle also teaches a weekly discipleship service. Our prayer is that these classes will give them tools to use for the rest of their lives. I particularly love our cross-cultural communications textbook. It is a super easy read and will help you understand your friends from different cultures. Here is a link to it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ministering-Honor-Shame-Cultures-Foundations-Essentials/dp/0830851461. I truly believe this is a must-read for Christians.  A heartfelt thanks to all of our prayer and financial supporters that have kept us here for the last four years! It is an honor representing you on the mission field. |
The Bridgfords in South Africa 