From 19th to 21st November 2008, an African Pastors’ Conference was held in the Orapa Conservation Center, in the beautiful Orapa Game Park, Botswana. This was the first APC in Botswana. Pastor Bonang Lekoba (Central Baptist Church, Gaborone) was instrumental in spreading the word and bringing together, under God, 17 men, many of whom said that they would be able to bring more pastors to subsequent Conferences.
Irving Steggles, pastor of Birchleigh Baptist Church, South Africa, delivered his first two messages titled “What is a Christian?,” followed by two on “What is Revival?” Ronald Kalifungwa, pastor of Lusaka Baptist Church, Zambia, delivered three messages on “What is a Church?”
During each session, the delegates were assiduous note-takers. They exhibited a humble, God-glorifying teachableness throughout the whole Conference. A number of useful questions were asked during Q&A sessions, including: “Are there still apostles?”, “How does the church raise money?” and “What about generational curses?”
During times of informal fellowship between sessions and during meal times there was a beautiful servant-spirit among these brothers.
The gracious sponsors and supporters of the APCs were instrumental in providing a selection of greatly discounted books—500 in total. Of those, about 330 were sold to only 17 men! Pastor Enias Chaitezvi of an Apostolic Faith Mission church expressed his desire to get similar, good biblical literature into the hands of his 500 strong congregation. Lucky Chishiki, another delegate, emailed us shortly after the Conference to let us know that he is “reading some of the fantastic books Our Lord blessed me with through you.”
After the final session on the Friday, free CDs of the conference messages were made for the delegates.
Pray that God’s promise concerning His Word might be fulfilled:
“…it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11)
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