Village Bible Church || Aurora | Indian Creek | Sugar Grove | IL

I was first asked to consider visiting ZEMA (the Zion Evangelical Ministries of Africa) several years ago when I was still with the Grace Bible Church of Aurora. It always seemed like the impossible dream to break away from all of the daily needs of the church there, though I always said "someday". Well that someday has come!

Now that I have been serving in my new role at the Village Bible Church of Sugar Grove, I have been enabled to focus much more on missions, and as you already know have been able to lead a couple of short-term mission teams in the past couple of years. I will not be leading a team this time, as I will be traveling by myself to minister alongside Richard Akers in the ZEBS of Mozambique. ZEBS stands for the Zion Evangelical Bible Schools of ZEMA . ZEBS is an extension studies strategy for bringing Bible training to the pastors and leaders of the AmaZioni people group. This group, estimated at up to 15 million people, trace their spiritual roots back to Zion, IL and missionaries who originated from there in the early 1900's. ZEMA has graciously offered to pay for my travels to be a part of this awesome ministry opportunity . . . which is a huge blessing.

Still, I'm going to need a lot of prayer support, so it is vital that the church rallies behind this ministry opportunity on our knees! We are trusting that the Lord will enable our church mission team to cast a passion-capturing vision of what the future of missions could look like at VBC. We're not satisfied with the status quo, or just sending our money to support missionaries on the field. We are preparing to equip a generation of missionaries. Are you ready?

Thanks for your prayers for me as I prepare and then as I embark on this journey. 

For His Harvest,

Scott Capp
Equipping Pastor

We'll be teaching in 4 places along the way. Pastors and leaders will be traveling from all over to come and be with us... Some will come from Zimbabwe and Malawi to attend the ZEBS training. In all we'll probably have been 150 and 200 church pastors and leaders in attendance. Here are the dates... 

Nov 7: MAPUTO

Nov 10-12: TETE

Nov 14, 15: BEIRA

Nov 17-19: MACHAZE

Plug these coordinates in to Google, and look down from the satellites on where we're headed... 20 49’ 48.53” S, 33 22’ 12.48” E: Click Here

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