THESE TIMES
Sept 2014
edition News from the Hugo’s South
Africa
Term 3, 2014, feels
like its almost done. Its not, I know,
but our lives have entered ‘go to gym-nationals’ prep mode, with nationals just
4 weeks away for Kara… so this is us being foreword thinkingJ
ZEBS TEACHERS
TRAINING at Sunbury this month was a huge encouragement. It was organized by fellow ZEMA missionary,
Andy Sullivan. Missionaries and national
teachers (already teaching ZEBS) attended from South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland,
Lesotho and Zimbabwe. This was the 3rd
such event which was started as a way to get all the teachers together - to
share, pool ideas, discuss differing cultural perspectives and to encourage one
other. Mark was pleased to meet Pst Mpande
who is teaching the ZEBS in Cape Town. (By way of explanation… ZEBS stands for Zion
Evangelical Bible School. The teachers
travel to a group of students making it easier for the students. This means there are numerous ZEBS around the
country. ) There are now close to 40
ZEBS teachers, over 70 schools and around 2244 students at this present time!
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| Pst Mpande is sitting first on left |
ZEBS UMLAZI
continues on in strength. The students are always bringing up topical issues to
discuss and ponder. Great stuffJ Mark is gearing up for graduation in Nov (the
KZN graduation is a combined celebration when all the KZN schools get together
at Sunbury). It’s looking like 6 Umlazi
students will graduate this year.
NEW ZEBS. Mark
will be supporting Pst Ngcobo (who teaches with him at the Umlazi ZEBS) in
responding to calls for a ZEBS to start in the Veralum area (KZN north
coast).
DURBAN BIBLE COLLEGE
has had Mark teaching A Biblical
Perspective on Missions this term.
Fellow SIM’er, Eugene Chuang (Taiwan) has been assisting him this term. Next term they will co-teach; Unreached Peoples.
PREACHING at
different churches has been another joy for Mark this term. The highlight was being invited to preach at
3 different Zion churches (1 in Umlazi and 2 in KwaMashu). Its been a privilege to assist others
too.
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| The young adults group from church |
Mark took over leading the young adults group, at the church
we attend in April. This awesome group
of young people meet on Sunday evenings.
South Africa. Zimbabwe and Angola are representedJ They’ve been discussing
relationships.
FAMILY
We’ve been praising the Lord for Barbs clear PET-scan in
July. A number of people have asked
about her vision… It has kind of taken a
backseat amidst the turmoil of cancer…J The 2nd course of chemo caused
hazy vision which was expected to resolve.
The right eye unfortunately. did not.
She now sees only blurs on that side.
Her field of vision is less than 20% now. This does make reading a challenge at times. We are having to simplify activities and on
the whole are managing fine (tho life is certainly not without its times of
frustration). Thanx for your prayers and
concern. We do have much to count our
blessings about.
Homeschool and extra activities continue as usual. We have been working on being healthy and
exercising regularly. Kara and Mark, of course,
are extremists in the exercise department.
J and Barb are minimalists. We
head to Cape Town the first 2 weeks of October.
Kara represents our province, KwaZulu-Natal, at the national rhythmic
gymnastics games are there. This year
she’s doing level 7 under 13. After that
we’ll be spending a week resting at the coast thanx to friends generously
allowing us to use their holiday house.
We’re looking forward to seeing friends and family while there.
J was able to visit a Fine Art and Animation college in July
(some may know of his desire to study animation when he finishes school). He’s planning on joining their 2 week course
for school level learners next July.
We are so grateful to be adopted children of the King. We’re so amazed by what God’s doing amongst
the ama-Zioni and we’re challenged to have our lives and ministry be focused on
relationships as the priority. We have
much to learn J
Thank you for your prayers and support that allow us to
remain serving in this way. Please let us
know if your church or a group of friends, might be interested in getting
together to hear more about the ama-Zioni and God’s call to reach out whoever
and wherever we are. We’d love to encourage
and answer any questions next time we’re in your ‘neck of the woods’.
For His glory
Mark, Barb, JJ and Kara Hugo
Contact us at…
49 Hibernia Rd, Bellair, Durban, 4094, South Africa
(031) 459 1229 or cell 078 708 1413
facebook; Barbara
Hugo and Hugo’s Highlights
You
will notice that we fly under the banners of 2 mission organizations… SIM and
ZEMA. SIM handles all our support
etc. ZEMA is who we are seconded under
when
1 comment:
Thanks for the update. Praying for you all, and can't wait to get back to ZA!
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