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We've Had "orientation" earlier this week , which is normally a week long but they want us to work ASAP so we had a crash course in Zimbabwe Bethel. We thought we'd give you a few facts from the tour and some things we found interesting!

The small pins are a few of the halls built

 The truth has been present here in Zimbabwe for over 80 years, In 1948 Brother Knorr visited and decided it was time to establish the first Bethel in Harare there has altogether been 5 Bethel Homes including this one which was built in 1998. There are now over 40,000 witnesses in Zim with a population of 12, 000,000.
  This Bethels main job is translation of English into Shoana which is one of the local languages the second main language is Ndebele which is translated at a smaller office outside of Bethel in Bulawayo and we link with this branch for morning worship.

This is the brother who'd built 35 halls

 The branches all over Africa, as many know, play a large role in providing help in times of need. Also they teach literacy ( I'm thinking of enrolling!) In 2 years 6000 were taught how to read.The organization of the kingdom hall construction takes much hard work to, especially because of the scale of the task. They have assigned teams of locals that travel to build the halls.
 We met one brother today with his wife that is part of one of these teams they were visiting Bethel  for the first time, he had helped to build 35 kingdom halls! Some previous figures, there were around 8,800 halls needed.In Africa its estimated 5 congregations will be built a hall per day. 270 Halls were built in 3 years. Much work still to do!

Lester having room cleaning lesson!!

 

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 So down to where we will be helping. The job has already started of renovating the residence blocks of which there are 3. They've done one and are starting block 2 and hope to be done by the time we leave! SO Lester will be taking over from an Italian brother who is painting. I will be doing allsorts cutting in, corking etc. The aim is to finish two singles and a double ever two weeks as well as rooms such as the small laundrys, bin rooms, kitchens, bathrooms and hallways as we go. We hope to have this all done by the time we leave!

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