Below is a ministry update from Nelspruit Bible Church in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Personal family growing At the end of January, our lives changed completely as Tyrel (11) and Tyler (5) joined our family. They are lively boys and we enjoy their company. Tyrel, in particular, has a tender heart...
Greetings to friends of Grace Missions, Grace Medical Mozambique, Charles and Julie Woodrow, and Hannah Malone. Here is the latest news from Nampula, Mozambique. Grace Missions Challenge Grant Successful: We thank God for the generous response of donors to the financial situation reported in our last update. According to our...
I want to begin this article on the importance of critical thinking in Africa with a syllogism. It goes like this: “All human beings can think critically. All Africans are human beings. Therefore, all Africans can think critically.” But can they? The answer to this question must surely be, yes,...
The more I climb the ecclesiastical ladder the more I am disturbed by the discovery that many Christian leaders tend to abandon the gospel while still claiming to be faithful to it. They tip their hats to the gospel but do not preach it. It is almost as though the...
This week our Bible studies (and some friends from like-minded churches) congregate on Wednesday evening at 7:00pm to hear from the Coordinator for Africa and Middle East of HeartCry Missionary Society about missions and the Church. We look forward to you joining us. What is Our Mission? “The one supreme,...
Dear praying friends, Sorry that we have been silent as a church in sharing what the Lord has been doing among us for the last eight months. We failed to get our October 2017 prayer letter out due to other demands on our time. We were, however, determined that April...
The 2018 Sola 5 Conference will be held from 5–7 September 2018 at Brackenhurst Baptist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. The theme is “Partnered to Plant,” and we will focus on what it looks like for churches in association to partner together in church plants. We anticipate a good time...
The following report was written by Charles Woodrow in November 2017 at the request of Grace Medical. Where does a lone missionary family sent to the field by a local church with no mission board backing them get the money to build a million-dollar hospital, to order $30,000 of books...
Charles Woodrow reports on recently acquired property in this tenth installment of news from Nampula. During the past two years one of the most exciting and formidable challenges associated with opening the hospital has been the need to arrange acceptable living conditions for the many missionaries who will one day...
Charles Woodrow’s ninth report from Nampula explains the impetus for our medical work. In former days I loved to operate. I found it immensely satisfying to do a one-hour procedure that relieved someone of a problem that had left him incapacitated, sometimes for decades, because surgical care simply was not available...
