Simxolele, a young man with a face full of prison tattoos, sometimes comes to Bible study in Maximum. Most weeks he’s evangelising other inmates and can’t make it. He’d been in and out of prison many, many times, always visited by his parents and thinking he always would be, until his mother told him that if he was sent back again, she wouldn’t visit any more. She wanted him to change his life. The next time he was sentenced she was true to her word. She has neither visited nor answered his phone calls. He was sure she hated him and covered his face with bitter and dangerous symbols. Then he met Jesus.
Now he has left gang activity behind and is living out his faith humbly in the room, helping the older men, washing up for them and showing the change in his life. Give thanks for the warders who care and try to help the men.
Pray that Dawn will have wisdom and understanding to interact with the men. There’s an opening for someone to do another Bible study at Allandale Prison. Pray that Dawn will know whether to volunteer for that gap.
The NetACT Journal Board meets soon to appoint a new editor. Pray for wisdom. Fraser is setting up the Mukhanyo Library system to automatically print spine labels and book plates. It is painstaking finicky work to get everything matching the labels they already have..
Serina, a lovely lady in our Wellington church, holds a street Sunday school in the town, sometimes in a field where the gangsters gather at the edges and gang-related gunfire accompanies the lesson. Pray for her safety and that of the children.