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 unreached 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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Dear Family and Friends,
“Love Chinese” is the name of a group of believers in Mossel Bay, South Africa, who have started meeting monthly to pray for the increasing number of Chinese people who are moving into their area. Mossel Bay is a town of about 100,000 people on Southeast coast of South Africa. The Chinese people are primarily coming from the Fujian province of China to start small businesses. They work very hard and know very little English, but are open to building trusted friendships.
The leader of the Love Chinese group contacted our Southern Africa Chinese Outreach Network (SACON) to find out if our team could assist them to discover practical ways to reach out to the Chinese people. As a result, last February Karl and five members of our SACON team in Johannesburg flew to Mossel Bay to facilitate a weekend training.
Our training team consisted of a mother and daughter from Singapore, a South Korean missionary, another American missionary, and a South African who had been a missionary in Taiwan for 16 years. Our diverse team taught on Chinese culture, religion, and language, and practical strategies to evangelize and disciple Chinese people. Over 40 people from eight churches and organizations participated in the significant training.
After the training, our team prepared a traditional Chinese New Year celebration dinner. Since the Chinese New Year was starting the following weekend, this provided a meaningful way to build relationships with the Chinese. Invitations in Mandarin were distributed in the greater community, and over 40 Chinese people responded. Traditional food, music, dance, and gifts were enjoyed. Several of the Chinese visitors later shared that they have never celebrated the New Year with South Africans like this before. Many invited the members of our team and the Love Chinese group to celebrate with their families as well.
As a result, one of our team members returned to Mossel Bay several weeks later to continue building relationships with the Chinese and encourage the South African believers. It is our prayer that many Chinese would come to Christ and grow in Him through new Chinese speaking churches. We are also hoping that more laborers would come from around the world to reach the Chinese people in Mossel Bay and many cities across Africa.
Thank you so much for your fervent prayers and faithful financial support as we equip others to evangelize and disciple all peoples of Southern Africa. We are grateful for your partnership in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For His Glory,
Karl and Jenny
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