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Good News from Fruitful Africa It was on tour in 2008 on an Arik Air flight to Benin from Lagos, Nigeria, that I saw a vision. This was the first tour of the Harvester Blues Band including Apostle Andre and myself, the Collins Brothers Dale and Leigh, Greg “Ching” Smith, and bass man Jean-Pierre Joubert. At that stage it was hard for people to understand the maths of missions. It felt like we were sowing and sowing, going and going and the ground was hard. Apostle Andre said that he initially did not think he would go into Africa, but rather to the English speaking nations of the world. Today there are already two French Churches relating to Harvester in Côte d’Ivoire and there are 45 more French speaking nations to reach. With the recent connections in Uganda with Pastor Richard Sisendi and other brothers in Liberia busy adopting the Harvester Constitution, it seems clear that those early seeds sown in obscurity are producing tremendous fruit. The vision was of a huge tree the s...

There is a beautiful little valley tucked away behind Stellenbosch called Jonkershoekvallei. Most tourists stop at Lanzerac Wine Estate, but five minutes down the road is the site of our MBC camp this year, "Die Eiland" or "The Island" so named because of the fork in the river cutting out the area of the camp. This year we have a full time group of students compromising mostly "Africans and an American" as Apostle Leigh put it. So when we arrived in this picturesque Eden, with water jets flowing over time rounded rocks it took no time for our students to discover the natural "Jacuzzi"! On Sunday at Church we had to explain what the students meant after their testimony about the wonderful MBC Camp: God providing delicious food, a soccer field and the time they spent in the "Jacuzzi." The river is of course a shallow and cool mountain river fed by nearby fountains in the mountainous surrounds, so you can position yourself on a large pebbl...