The Talk Place

A "Man shall not live by bread alone" story.

The minister of a church in northern South Africa was running the gauntlet of the big animals in the Kruger Game Park, determined to get into Mozambique. His church was concerned for the welfare of the displaced people on the border who were in need of clothes, food, and medical supplies. As an afterthought he included some "Messenger" hand wind players and lots of different language gospel cassettes in the container.

When he got to the camp the people were very interested in the messages on the cassettes. On the next trip the minister took the clothes, the food parcels, the medical supplies and even more materials, supplied by the Cape Town office of Gospel Recordings South Africa. There was a church being planted there in the miserable circumstances of the camp!

The leaders of the church said: "The next time you come back pack the gospel messages and the players first. Then fill the container with aid. We are more starved for the spiritual food of the messages of God than for the aid you are bringing. They are the greatest help to us."

This is an excerpt from Royalene's diary of a time in South Africa in 1990