IN THE KNOW with Bill and Lisa Walker
REPORT ON SOUTH AFRICA PASTORS’ SCHOOL https://emchurch.org/ministries/missions October 2024 When Lisa was a teenager, she told God she did not want to be a missionary, and under no circumstances did she EVER want to go to Africa! Well, in August of this year, we went to Africa for the first time, and Lisa was most excited! After a 2-day journey from Georgia to South Africa, our dear brothers and sisters received us (and the Edwardses) with a parade, and the sanctuary was already filled when we arrived! What a welcome! We have never experienced anything like that. Before the evening was over, we were symbolically inducted into diPerent clans. We visited ministry sites and churches across the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Road-tripping with the SA General Superintendent and other South African EMC ministers enabled us to see and experience the real South Africa. The stated purpose of the trip to South Africa was to help the Conference start its own pastor’s school. We are glad to report the South Africa Evangelical School of Ministry will begin its first intensive module in February 2025 and will be hosted at EMC HQ in South Africa (locally known as LUMEC Mission Centre. Click this link to view it in Google Earth (You must have Google Earth installed on your device) LUMEC Mission Center.kmz. DO YOU WANT TO GO to South Africa? Save the date for June 2026. This trip will focus on a youth and children’s camp at LUMEC Mission Centre near Lusikisiki and will be open to a limited number of EMCers from the USA.
Now is the time to pray about joining
MISSION EXPOSURE SOUTH AFRICA 2026!