MARCH-MAY REPORT 2020
INTRODUCTION
Grace and peace from our Father and Lord Jesus Christ. The school has
resumed its operation after a month of inactive. The class attendance
has been affected negatively after six weeks lockdown. Homiletics and
Holy Spirit are the two courses taught in March and May. Five baptisms
were recorded and a single restoration.
HOW THE LOCKDOWN HAS AFFECTED THE SCHOOL?
On the 29th of March 2020, Lesotho went under national lockdown for
six weeks. Schools and churches were not allowed to operate hence, we
temporarily closed BVBIL for the period mentioned above. Although we
were encouraging the students to read their notes, posting quiz on the
BVBIL WhatsApp group, nothing much was done during the national
lockdown. We were fortunate that in February we had two courses which
were taught, the weekend class and the weekdays evening class.
The national lockdown has also affected our class attendance in May a
lot of people lost their jobs and some who were fortunate are
earning 50% salary, which caused some students to work on weekends
therefore, absent in class. Although it will take time, our prayers
and hope is that things will get back to normalcy so that we can have
all our students in class.
COURSES TAUGHT
Brother Robert Likhang taught Homiletics to 18 students in the month
of March 2020. The students appreciate the knowledge and experience
they are gained through BVBIL, three students have so far presented
their sermons at Maseru church of Christ after they are taught the art
of preparing and delivering a sermon. Not only are the students
happy about the knowledge they are receiving, the church appreciates
too.
On the 29th of March, brother Tankiso Mohono preached from the book of
1 Cor 3, he did exceptionally well. Prior to his sermon, one of the
elders did not like brother Mohono to preach the reason being, he was
not eloquent in speech but after he delivered the sermon, the elder
went in front of the congregation cried and confessing that he was
wrong. The elder thanked the school for the good work it is doing to
produce competent preachers.
Brother Tawanda taught Holy Spirit to 13 students in May 2020. The
school chose Holy Spirit as one of its elective courses because in
2013-2014 the church in Lesotho split, some believed miracles,
speaking in tongues and healing are the spiritual gifts which God is
currently giving to Christians, while another believed in the
cessation of those gifts. The students who were present benefited,
they are able to differentiate the pre-canon gifts and post-canon
ones, they can tell when the miraculous gifts ceased based on 1
Corinthians 13:8-13.
BAPTISMS AND RESTORATION
Before lockdown, one of our students, borther Leuta has been
evangilising in Ladybrand (South Africa), we were happy to be informed
by the brethren in Ladybrand that in April, four souls were added in
Christ’s body. In Maseru one soul put on Christ in baptism and one
restoration was recorded in May.
CONCLUSION
Our desire to spread the word of God in every town and village of
Lesotho can be possible with your assistance to establish a World
Bible School in Lesotho. Like other Southern African countries where
WBS is active, congregations can be planted, churches can be grown and
communities can be transformed, so as in Lesotho, with the
involvement of WBS and BVBIL, great things can happen. Looking
forward to hear from you and at the end it is all in God’s hands. Amen.