During our day of reconnecting and teaching at Rusitu, Inocencio Varine discovered that one of the early missionaries from Rusitu had pioneered work in Mozambique and was revered by his mother. It was an emotional discovery. The mountains of Mozambique…
I struggle with feelings of alienation as I try to reconnect with my Australian heritage. My curate at St Matthew’s in the 80s, Tim Thorburn, has turned 60. He worked with me in 1984-85 and went on to lead the…
In May 2015 I visited Mozambique to look at the work of a GWC graduate, Rev Inocencio Varine. Since returning to Mozambique in 2005, Inocencio has planted 17 churches. I met the pastors of several of them. The story was the…
When I arrived in Estcourt on a Saturday evening after a day of travelling, all I could think about was dinner, some work on my next day’s sermon and sleep. GWC had sent me to visit graduate Sipho Mfusi in…
I left before dawn and we drove all day to reach Chimanimani in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. Driving was Panganayi Sithole, a graduate of George Whitefield College (GWC) who now leads a large Baptist congregation in Harare. His wife,…