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So here we are more than halfway through 2012 and I realize that we haven't updated our blog since the end of last year. This year has really flown by it seems. Just a few highlights have been the birth of our son Moses David in January(hard to believe he is already 7 months!), the completion of the addition for Agnes' house in Phokeng, we moved again in June to a house owned by our head pastor(a much better living space for our family especially since it is all one level), studies have continued for both Ang and I, I am now starting to get more and more opportunities to teach(YWAM Mauritius in November as well as in our home church here in Rustenburg).

Over the next 7 weeks I will actually be teaching on two different courses in our home church, one called Foundation Stones which covers the foundations of the Christian faith as laid out in Eph. 2:20 and Heb. 6:1-2, the other is The Big Picture which looks at the story of redemption woven throughout the whole of scripture.

I have also begun recording again this week on the Audio Bible Project(Project 10:17). So far we have completed 25 chapters over the last day and a half. Levy and I will be recording every day till Friday. Hopefully we can knock out a few more books of the Bible by then. We will be taking one week a month over the next few months to try and get the Tswana Bible completed in audio format. I am excited that this project is closing in on being done after so long! 

Well that is a brief recap, more to come soon!

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