On Monday the 14th Oct a team of 8 people left for an outreach to the Caprivi in Namibia and Zambia, the team included; Tom Fouche, Craig Engelbrecht and Pieter van Rensburg from the Pelindaba branch, Gideon Jacobs and Lilani from Smithfield and Thomas Maphanga, Sibongiseni Khumalo and John Powys.

The journey started from Pelindaba at 04h00 and the first night was spent in the bush in Botswana, we had 27kg of meat for the two weeks, the meat was vacuum packed and we had a permit to transport it. However, when we got to a foot and mouth disease control point we were refused entry with the meat. We camped right there and roasted and cooked it all, the next morning we could proceed further with the cooked meat.

Before crossing into Namibia we went to see the Victoria Falls
in Zimbabwe, the Zim Dollar flucuates from 3 Dollars for a Rand at the Border post to approx 35 dollars to the Rand at the falls.

We arrived at our destination, Katima Mulilo which means ' Cool the fire' on Wed 16th. Our host lives under a Rosewood tree in a caravan and a tent with his wife and two children. The temperatures during October are extreme, we drank liters of water and cooldrink just to survive the heat and the very dry climate. Fortunately our camp was next to the Zambezi River where we could swim, bath and do our washing.

The first meeting was in a Reformed Church attended by Farmers and business people.

On Friday we had an all day ministers conference in Katima Mulilo and showed a film at night in an open air stadium, the services were well attended.

On Saturday we crossed the river to Shesheki, a small town in Zambia, there we also had an all day ministers conference and showed the film at night.

T he ministers asked us to take 5 services on Sunday in different congregations, we slept under the stars on the ground and were not very clean but that did not matter to them, we had to preach as we were.

There is a great hunger for the truth amongst these ministers and many want to come to next years ministers conference in March.

We left Katima Mulilo on the 22nd to Windhoek where we had appointments at two radio stations.

One interview was on the NBC German program and the other on Chanel 7, a Christian radio station.

Then we proceeded to a farm south of Gobabis where we had services for Nama farm workers and the farmers family.

We visited another farm south of Gobabis to minister to a mainly Bushmen audience.

Our last stop was with Dr Franscios Louw where we had a number of services at his home.

Namibia is a vast country with a very small population, approx 1.7 million people, the farms are huge and the people live very far apart and the Christians are much encouraged when other brethren visit them.

We returned home safely by God's grace on the 29th October.