OUR CHURCH HOME

On 30 December, we visited the church that has become our Namibian church home on weekends when we aren’t ministering somewhere. His People Christian Church located in the southern side of Windhoek has lively, contemporary worship, a grace-filled atmosphere, and challenging teaching. The pastor is Andrew Gossman, a white South African. After several weeks of “this church speaks too much Afrikaans for us language-challenged Americans, this church’s worship is too tame, this church is too segregated”, etc., we finally found a church that is just right.

What we like most about the church is that it is thoroughly integrated, with equal mixes of whites, blacks and coloreds. What’s more, they are in the midst of moving to a larger facility, which was previously a Boy Scout center. We had a workday this past Saturday to clean-up the grounds. It reminded us of the olden days when Northland first took over Skate City, except I didn’t see any rats at the Boy Scout center.

We have also joined a home group that meets in our neighborhood. The leaders are Bonnie and Dawn Pereko. Bonnie is a music professor at the University of Namibia (UNAM) and an excellent worship leader. He also just released his first worship CD with songs he wrote in several languages (Oshivambo, OshiHerrero, Sotho, Afrikaans, Nama/Damara, and English). It’s a great CD