Pieter, the Town Mayor works for Every Home for Christ, and they have been doing outreach programmes to some of the villages around Opuwo for some time now. He invited me to go out with the outreach team for a five day trip last week, so I headed out to the bush for a very interesting experience. The purpose of the trip was to assess how to do follow-up in about 30 villages so we spent five days driving from village to village, talking to the Elders and the Christians in the villages, trying to find out what their needs where and how these could be met.
There were a lot of interesting discussions, mainly revolving around: what meats can a Christian eat, and are there any restrictions?; and if a man with three or four wives becomes a Christian does he have to get rid of all his wives but one? We also heard lots of news about new Church plants and how they are growing.
It was also interesting in that we camped in dry river beds, ate lots of maize porridge, cooked bread over a camp fire and was given a goat by one of the village Chiefs which we were able to kill/butcher/eat over a couple of days.
We also some some amazing scenery, as well as wild ostrich, springbok, jackals and a leopard.
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