Teichert Prayer Letter for April

The family of Karl and Jenny Teichert are serving the Lord as missionaries with OC Africa, in South Africa. They moved to Johannesburg in November, 1997 with their four children; Ann, Scott, Stephen and John. Karl serves as the Southern Africa Director of the Southern Africa Regional Team. Their vision is to see a healthy, Bible-based church established in every un-reached village and community in South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and beyond. Their strategy is to partner with key African church leaders to research, train, and mobilize the body of Christ to complete the Great Commission. They are striving to equip local leaders in Southern Africa to reach their nations for Christ and send missionaries into other countries as well.

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April Letter ...

Dear family and friends,

A few months ago a local pastor approached me and asked if Barbara (my teammate) and I would train the Sunday school teachers in his church. It had been over a year since Barbara and I had held a Sunday school workshop so we re-made old puppets and added new crafts to our boxes and began to get our materials in order.

Weekends are the times when there are many funerals and weddings in the rural areas, which from past experience have left us with only a few teachers to train. Since we usually hold these workshops on Saturdays, we never know whether or not we will have a good turn out.

When we arrived at the venue no one was there and we wondered who would attend this time. Then the pastor and his wife and teenage daughter arrived. They were eager to be trained along with a couple of the elders and few other young teachers from the church. We waited for a while and then decided to begin the training. As we introduced ourselves and played an icebreaker game to get to know each other, a few more teachers came, then a few more, and a few more. Before long there were over 22 teachers!

Barbara and I enjoyed teaching them new ideas for lesson plans, Bible memory games to reinforce the lessons, ideas for discipline in the classroom, drama and finally, we made marionette puppets together out of Styrofoam cups. They were so enthusiastic and said it was a much-needed teacher training for the over 100 children that come from around the community each Sunday.

The following week the pastor wrote to express his appreciation and said, “Thanks, it was a very helpful training. My daughter has already started using the curriculum. The kids gave her a hard time with difficult questions from the material used … it said to me this is good as at least it makes the class teachings interactive and interesting.”

We pray that many children will come to know and serve the Lord in this community and beyond.

Thanks for your prayers.

In His love,

Jenny, for the Teicherts

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