Making Disciples

Mark and Kay Update
September 28, 2009

The 40 Days Drive Update:

Thank you for your prayers and your generous giving during this 40 days of prayer and giving. Over $5,300 USD was raised! Praise God! We will be able to buy Bibles, blankets, bread, and toys for 161 children. We thank you and the children thank you. We look forward to buying everything and distributing it out. We’ll be sure to get pictures when we do. Thank you for being a blessing to those that don’t have much.

Youth Leaders Mission Trip with Ntobeko front center

What is a disciple?

In the great commission found in Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus commands us to go and make disciples. Thayer’s Greek Definitions define the word “disciple” as 1) to be a disciple of one, to follow his precepts and instructions, and 2) to make a disciple, to teach, to instruct. Making disciples is two-fold. We are to become follows and learners of Jesus, and to teach others to do the same. It’s only by God’s authority and His grace that we’re able to follow and put into practice this great commission.

Ntobeko is a 24 year old bachelor who loves the Lord, but was seeking direction and purpose for his life. We often talk about him, because his story is one we would love to reproduce in others.

It was June 2008 when Ntobeko started hanging out with us, mainly to be our translator for our one youth service. That one youth service turned into two. Then Ntobeko learned to not only translate for me, but to also MC our youth meetings. Then in preparation for our visit to the States earlier this year, he was entrusted with teaching the youth. For our six weeks away, he was doing youth groups all on his own. When we returned back to Swaziland, his heart for the Lord and for the youth ministry had grown supernaturally. He wanted more. That spiritual hunger is a work of God’s grace in Ntobeko’s life, praise God!

Just last month, Ntobeko has been helping me train local youth ministries and start up two new youth groups at local churches. This month, his own church had come to him to ask him if he would take on the responsibility of starting a youth ministry at his own church. We had our first meeting with the church leadership and they are very excited at the vision that the Lord has given Ntobeko as far as building Christ-like disciples in these young people of Swaziland.

Releasing Ntobeko from the responsibility of our Saturday CarePoint youth group ministry is going to be a very difficult thing to do, but isn’t that the point of discipling others? Teaching them and instructing them to do likewise? We are so blessed and happy to look back and see where Ntobeko started from and where the Lord is taking him. We will continue to pour into him God’s love and truth, but he is now being entrusted with his own flock of sheep. Praise God!

Please pray for our vision for discipling the local church youth ministries here in Swaziland. We want to make sure that our short time here as missionaries is invested wisely. It is so vital to train and equip the local churches to do youth ministry so that we are making disciples that make disciples that make disciples….

Here’s a blessing for you from Numbers 6:24-26:
“May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you His favor and give you His peace.”

With much love,

Mark and Kay Bojovic
Missionaries to Africa

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