A dozen people from Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Fountain Inn, recently traveled to Africa for a mission trip.
The Africa mission trip team from Pleasant Grove Church (front row, from left): Kathy Caldwell, Cookie Chapman, Susan Poole, Jan Haney; (back row) Glenn Peters, Rita Owens, Laura Blue, Sam Chapman, Chip Hughes, Peggy Owens, Charlie Owens and Corey Haney.They were part of a group of 17 who spent a week in Tiriki in October, where they conducted Vacation Bible School and helped train pastors from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
“As soon as we arrived, the rains came,” said Glenn Peters, trip coordinator. “We were drenched to the bone – and so were they – but after the rains ended, we held an open-air crusade on a hillside. Many received Christ.”
Peters said he hopes there will soon be a church, a school and an orphanage at the location.
The group helped train a group of 15 pastors how to study the Bible, how to lead worship and have quiet times, and how to witness door-to-door.
The vacation Bible school averaged more than 100 and included discipleship classes for men and women.
The mission team has committed to purchasing a milk cow for each of the 15 pastors to provide both milk and income for the men and their families, Peters said.