April, 2020
Dear brethren,
Greetings! We always pray that you are all fairing well in these days. The advent of COVID-19 pandemic has really brought many things to a stand-still. Nothing much is indeed happening especially where most of governments have introduced stringent measures to observe social distancing. We delayed the closure of the Institute until the second week of April, we realised the emergence to close when we had one case of covid 19 in our own town. We closed on 14th April and we continues to pray to reopen soon.
We have constant communications with all our students during this time. They have reported that they are busy with the assignments given to them when we suspended classes and using the opportunity to conduct Bible studies, in selected homes of believers. A month ago all forms of social gatherings in Zambia were prohibited. Even if the adherence to these measures were followed, we saw a very sharp spike to the cases of this pandemic.
As the church in Luanshya we have continued to meeting in our homes as we observe the activities that are done on each Lord’s Day. While doing this we observe all the recommendations given by health Ministry in combating COVID-19. And as teachers we have also continued to use opportunity to teach during this period and as a result we had a soul (Ronald Bupe) added to the Lord's Church and two souls restored.
May our God continue to strengthen the bond that is existing and the partnership. We pray that God will bless the work that you are involved in. We continues to pray for your safety and wellbeing.
In Christ,
Cephas and Fred