Pastors and Leaders Conference

The last weekend in July, we were able to train around 70 pastors and elders at a retreat in Notwane, Botswana. This retreat was made possible by the money raised and given to the IMB in honor of Sarah Harmening. 17 year old Sarah was on her way to Botswana 2 years ago when the bus she was traveling in on the way to the Atlanta airport crashed and she lost her life. Her family wanted to raise money to support a missionary for a year in honor of Sarah and present it to the IMB (International Mission Board), our sending agency. They raised well above the amount they had targeted and that money went towards the ministry here in Botswana. Here is how we proposed to use the money:
1. 1/3 of the money to buy books and commentaries to outfit our new seminary library.
2. 1/3 of the money to supply school supplies to the children we work with at Gaborone Baptist Church for 3 years.
3.1/3 of the money to hold a conference to train our pastors and leaders here in Botswana on our new church planting material that helps strengthen existing churches and look for areas where we can plant churches where there is no evangelical presence.

This weekend we were finally able to hold this conference and it was amazing! We trained them on very reproducible methods of evangelism/discipleship and pinned a map with areas where we currently have churches and where we need to go plant churches. Please join with us in prayer for the existing churches (red pins) and areas where we hope to plant churches (white pins).

Pastors and leaders of the Baptist Convention of Botswana

Brent sharing about Sarah 

Map of Botswana
Red pins-existing churches
White pins-where we want to plant churches

Close up region of a Map of Botswana
Red pins-existing churches
White pins-where we want to plant churches

T-shirts we had made for the participants of the conference.
Sarah's artwork "to the ends of the earth..." was included
on the shirts-she had drawn this on her training materials
 she was using tocome to Botswana to share about Jesus.