December 22, 2005
Joanna Martin Howard, an elementary school teacher and WEI Internet teacher tells an interesting story about Moses Kamwendo.
In August 2015, Moses Kamwendo’s name app
Steve and Suzie Winham have been using WEI materials in La Paz, Mexico for several years. In one of their e-mails, they said, “This Spanish WEI ministry is taking off so fast our heads are spinning. What a wonderful ‘invention’ and way to spread the good news. We received RAVE REVIEWS from the students about the Beginner’s English Course!”
In another letter, the Winhams wrote, “There is a tremendous interest, desire, and need for people to learn English. We had real estate agents, nurses, hospital clerks, a police woman, a postal worker, two lawyers, a seamstress, a restaurant head waiter, various store clerks, and several teens and children enrolled.
“We also conducted classes for students more proficient in English by using the WEI Basic English and Bible Course. The first two days, there were 90 people that attended the classes. Attendance dropped on the third day to 50. Of those 50, about 25 were in attendance nearly every day.
“The week after we left La Paz to return home, the local preacher, Alejandro Somoza, reported to us that 15 students are continuing the classes with him twice a week.
“The WEI course is very effective with Spanish speaking students.”
eared on the list of prospective students on the WEI website, and Joanna claimed him as a student. Joanna says, “Moses continued with his lessons, though there were times when he was not able to work on them. He worked through the Intermediate lessons throughout 2016 and 2017.
“In March of this year, he started the Advanced Course. He worked on the lessons about baptism throughout this spring. In May, after completing the lesson on ‘The Purpose of Baptism,’ he came to the question, ‘What have you learned in this lesson?’ His answer was that he had learned he needed to be baptized to have his sins forgiven.
“That comment set in motion an amazing chain of events. I emailed Jan Towell to see if we could find a Christian contact in his area. In her nightly email message to the WEI teachers, she asked if anyone had contacts in Malawi. Sallie Rose Hollis, from Louisiana, knew of a preacher in Malawi named Gift Makwinja. Sallie sent Gift’s email address to Jan, and Jan notified Gift about Moses. The two men got in touch with each other and arranged to meet. Gift’s home is about five hours away from Moses’ home, but Gift made the long journey and studied with Moses. At the end of their study, Moses was baptized in the Mombeze River, almost three years after he started the WEI lessons.
