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by Stuart and Marilyn Cook

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January 2010

FROM STU AND MARILYN COOK, GRACE PLACE, SOUTH AFRICA
February 5, 2010
Dear Ones in Jesus,
 
January has come and gone – we’ve begun the new year with the soup kitchen and all the Bible Studies and are in the full swing of things. I’m sending you a photo of some of the children and you can see that I love teaching them.
 
The new Bible Studies with the children and youth are going well. The first week back we had about 70 excited kids in the three Bible Studies. The youngest and newest one, ages 7 to 10, is being led by two of the youth, Joel and Johannes. The 10 to 14 year olds is led by Adam and me, and the oldest by me with Stu doing the teaching. The older guys really want his teaching and that is great!
 
Our weekly cell meeting with some of the couples from the church is back in full swing and Stu is continuing his study of Acts.
 
Sunday morning early we had a sad phone call – our worker, Jacob Mpete, died during the night. He had not been well for the past year, but persevered in working. He leaves behind a large family who needed him very much. A lot of our week has been spent in helping the family with food and preparations for the funeral. I was helping them with getting meat for the big meal they are obligated by tradition and custom to feed everyone after the funeral. As I was talking of getting a sheep rather than a cow which was much more expensive, Jacob’s sister said, “Yes, cow is for down there. We want sheep.” In the end, they will be having chicken as the sheep have lambs now and cannot be slaughtered. When I arrived at their house the other morning to help with arrangements and to deliver a huge pick-up load of wood, all the little children came out to greet me with smiles and giggles and we stood one side and sang ‘soup kitchen’ songs while the wood was off loaded. Sina, Jacob’s widow is taking it very hard and we pray that she will make it through all this. When I went in to see her she was lying on a mattress on the floor with a candle beside the bed just sobbing and sobbing. She is so thin. I hurt for her.
 
We’re enjoying having Al Corson with us for the month of February. He is here so that he and Stu can work on editing the seminar videos from the Tulsa seminar last year, and discuss other writing which Stu is to edit for publishing by Safari Insights Mission.
 
Thanks for all who pray and give to make this ministry go. We really appreciate you!
 
Love,
 
Stu and Marilyn Cook

 

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Stu’s books and seminars are aimed especially at bridging the gap between belief-systems (worldviews, cosmologies), drawing those from both pre-Christian and post-Christian mind-sets into Biblical ways of believing and reasoning.

The Insights International seminar materials are currently being translated into other languages for use on a broader scale. Efforts will be made to recruit and train seminar presenters for expansion into many parts of the world.

Three of Stu’s books are currently in print: “Universe Lost” (also published in Russian), “The Thought That Counts”, and “The Principle of the Thing”. These are scheduled to also be translated and published in Portuguese and German. Several other books will, the Lord enabling, be published in the months ahead.

Stu’s published books may be purchased by contacting: Safari Insight Mission, 305 West Durham Street, Broken Arrow, OK 74011, or agent@safariinsightmission.com.

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