Zimbabwe (MNN) ― Teen Missions' outreach in Zimbabwe is facing significant challenges. Due to the economic situation, it is difficult to travel: there is no food and no fuel.
Of the many challenges in teaching and ministering to the villages around them, the team leaders say the AIDS pandemic is taxing. A day does not pass without burying five people. But, the TMI leader says, people are not dying of AIDS; they are dying of hunger. Just imagine preaching the Gospel to hungry people.
However, the school is running very well with 11 students. The team says they've learned that they need to teach people the Gospel as well as survival skills and literacy. By partnering with the ministry of AIDS Orphans and Street Children to build Orphan Rescue Units (ORU), the teams can meet the needs of children who still live in their home villages and attempt to farm the land that had belonged to their parents.
Their goal is to set up an 8' by 12' portable housing unit staffed with two missionaries (many of them graduates of our overseas Bible schools) in villages with high orphan populations. They're well on their way toward having 16 fully operational units in rural Zambia and Zimbabwe in the next four years.
Meanwhile, as word gets out about the outreach of TMI, the training camps are growing. At the last Overseas Boot Camp, there were 150 team members and leaders. One team was in Bulawaye working with the Brethren in Christ Church. They left the building at window level.
Participants learn construction, evangelism, and Bible. Click here if you want more information on how to get involved.
