An update from Wendy Bernhard in the Democratic Republic of Congo!

Greetings from Matadi, the second port city I'm visiting this week with a Responsible Living Skills team.  We've shown films in four churches (two Baptist and two Assemblies of God), and are presenting the True Love Waits seminar in all four, including one today and one tomorrow.  Two of us spoke in Boma at meetings of a "60 minutes for Jesus" club, that meets in a bar/restaurant near the port from 12-1 PM, during the lunch hour!  There were about 50 people present each day!  I was on local Matadi TV last night, forty minutes with a pastor and two lay people, encouraging viewers to come watch the films and follow the TLW program.  Two women pastors that I was meeting with this morning told me  that they saw me on TV, and they want to invite us back to Matadi to do the program in their churches (related to the British Baptist mission).
 
Our team this week, besides me, includes an Assemblies of God pastor who arranged the meetings in his churches; Baptist pastor Celestine Kiaku, lay communications specialist Michel Kuzy Mwinda ("Light") (Celestine and Michel from Kinshasa), and our driver, Kivudi Désiré, who just finished his first year at the Bible Institute in Kimpese.  I'm thankful to have him along, because the roads in Matadi and Boma, once off the main highway, are treacherous!  In Boma, our ancient boom-box sound system let us down, so we bought a new and more complete system.  Part of that is already broken down, but fortunately some churches have their own sound systems that we can use.  Michel Mwinda and I will be preaching in the two Matadi churches on Sunday, and then we'll drive the two hours back to Kimpese. 
 
Thanks for your love and prayers and support!

Shalom,
Wendy