Well well well. Guess who's been hard at work. The crazy Fast missionaries. We have been busy planning a retreat for pastors & church leaders at the end of April, and it's been well... hectic as they say in South Africa.
One of our goals for the retreat is to give these pastors some rest and refreshment in the Lord. Burn out and moral failure are unfortunately very common, and the pace the pastors operate at often contributes to this challenge. So we won't ask them to run through the mud (although it's rather refreshing), but we want to make this awesome!
Our theme for the weekend is "Leading like Jesus", and we will be looking at a number of passages together with these pastors to grow our understanding of Jesus' leadership so that they can model their own leadership after Christ's.
But now we have a [good] problem so I decided to make a little video to illustrate this [good] problem to you, as I figured you were getting bored of my crazy blog ramblings!! I hope you enjoy it (keeping in mind I'm no film director!!!).
Pastor Zweli, featured in this video, is the pastor Hope Africa Collective has hired to help Mike with church mobilization, so you will get to "meet him" in the video. Huge thanks to all the Hope Africa staff that participated in the making of this 5 minute video.
So as you can see in the video, we had booked a retreat site where we could host 25 pastors. However, now have 80+ pastors that want to come! So yes, we have a good problem.
The last few weeks Mike has been trying to find a larger venue to hold all these additional pastors. We have successfully found a venue that can host about 65, so we are very pleased with this. Good things people are used to sharing tight spaces here!
If you are interesting in giving towards this: please contact us so we can tell you how to proceed.
Until then, cheers folks and thanks for stopping by!
