Missional Notes

I’ve just had a busy week with a team of clergy and students leading a teaching week at Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria. There are a number of
people there preparing for baptism, and some of those already baptised wanted a refersher course, so we’ve been teaching from Monday to Friday.

The course was held in an orphanage run by Fr Frumentius Taubata and Matushka Evgenia, and about half the children were from the orphanage, and about half from nearby shanty towns Brazzaville and Siyahlala. We had about 25 children and 25 adults attending for the week. At the end Deacon Nektarius said that if they rememberd a third of what they had been taught in the week, they would know as much as, if not more than, most cradle Orthodox in this country.

Deacon Nektarius teaching at Atteridgeville

If anyone is intereted in knowing more, there are fuller reports on my Khanya blog, with pictures.