http://sakeji.com Sakeji.com Webpage and Blog Tue, 29 May 2012 11:44:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://sakeji.com/?page_id=101&cpage=1#comment-712 admin Tue, 29 May 2012 11:44:33 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?page_id=101#comment-712 Thanks for the question. Yes we still have the library here at Sakeji and for the most part it has remained the same as it was back then. I was a student here at Sakeji and arrived not long after Miss Ross left and I can tell you that it looks and feels very much the same as it did when I was here. There have of course been a updating of books over the years. Jill Avery here at the school now looks after the library with help from others. Thanks for the question. Yes we still have the library here at Sakeji and for the most part it has remained the same as it was back then. I was a student here at Sakeji and arrived not long after Miss Ross left and I can tell you that it looks and feels very much the same as it did when I was here. There have of course been a updating of books over the years. Jill Avery here at the school now looks after the library with help from others.

]]> http://sakeji.com/?p=324&cpage=1#comment-639 whitehead Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:36:27 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?p=324#comment-639 Gavin Barnett’s book gives an account of the uphill battle his parents and other Plymouth Brethren faced in trying to get pagan Africans to abandon their worship of ancestral spirits. The evangelists were only allowed into Barotseland (now NW Zambia) on sufferance because the Lozi King Lewanika and his successor Yeta III realized that education would slowly uplift their subjects. The “Faith versus Superstition” chapter tells us that the local heathen people regarded the missionaries “as a little slow to perceive the hand of the supernatural in events.” Superstition in combination with the power of the witchdoctor was a daunting force which held many villagers in a grip of awe and fear. The refugee victims of heathen practices were protected by the missionaries - a fact which made it even more difficult, at first, for the gospel to be accepted by tribesmen. But gradually, through sheer perseverance over many years of hardship and heartache, the congregation grew substantially at the church built at Chavuma on the Zambezi. The magnetism of pageantry, especially hymn singing, eventually drew the people to attend services even though they were being continually exhorted to abandon polygamy. “What would become of abandoned wives?” was a question not easily answered. The power of the diviners was broken in 1932 when Wallace Logan demonstrated to a stunned audience how the trick of naming the “guilty” of an occult event such as a lightning strike was perpetrated. Using the seed pod device he named his daughter Frances “innocent” and then showed her twin Esther to be the “offender”. Communion posed a problem as belief that the wine represented the blood of Christ caused some difficulty, as you can well imagine. Gavin’s beautiful description of the epic journey in 1937 down river by barge to Livingstone and civilization is so evocative that to me, born in Bulozi, the book is worth buying just for this chapter alone. This was undertaken after many years of preaching the gospel by his Australian Mother who had tragically lost her husband in May 1933. He also gives an amusing account of his experiences at remote Sakeji preparatory school run for missionary children located near the border with the Congo and Angola. Just getting to the school overland and on foot was a safari which took a fortnight. Gavin Barnett’s book gives an account of the uphill battle his parents and other Plymouth Brethren faced in trying to get pagan Africans to abandon their worship of ancestral spirits. The evangelists were only allowed into Barotseland (now NW Zambia) on sufferance because the Lozi King Lewanika and his successor Yeta III realized that education would slowly uplift their subjects.
The “Faith versus Superstition” chapter tells us that the local heathen people regarded the missionaries “as a little slow to perceive the hand of the supernatural in events.” Superstition in combination with the power of the witchdoctor was a daunting force which held many villagers in a grip of awe and fear. The refugee victims of heathen practices were protected by the missionaries – a fact which made it even more difficult, at first, for the gospel to be accepted by tribesmen. But gradually, through sheer perseverance over many years of hardship and heartache, the congregation grew substantially at the church built at Chavuma on the Zambezi. The magnetism of pageantry, especially hymn singing, eventually drew the people to attend services even though they were being continually exhorted to abandon polygamy. “What would become of abandoned wives?” was a question not easily answered.
The power of the diviners was broken in 1932 when Wallace Logan demonstrated to a stunned audience how the trick of naming the “guilty” of an occult event such as a lightning strike was perpetrated. Using the seed pod device he named his daughter Frances “innocent” and then showed her twin Esther to be the “offender”.
Communion posed a problem as belief that the wine represented the blood of Christ caused some difficulty, as you can well imagine.
Gavin’s beautiful description of the epic journey in 1937 down river by barge to Livingstone and civilization is so evocative that to me, born in Bulozi, the book is worth buying just for this chapter alone. This was undertaken after many years of preaching the gospel by his Australian Mother who had tragically lost her husband in May 1933.
He also gives an amusing account of his experiences at remote Sakeji preparatory school run for missionary children located near the border with the Congo and Angola. Just getting to the school overland and on foot was a safari which took a fortnight.

]]> http://sakeji.com/?page_id=101&cpage=1#comment-616 Dan Adams Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:07:46 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?page_id=101#comment-616 I was wanting to know how to get hold of David Foster- the writer of the article on Mary. I was at Sakeji with him back in '66 I was wanting to know how to get hold of David Foster- the writer of the article on Mary. I was at Sakeji with him back in ’66

]]> http://sakeji.com/?p=324&cpage=1#comment-613 Gavin Barnett Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:58:54 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?p=324#comment-613 Readers may be interested to know that the Brethren Historical Society has reviewed the book "Like a River Glorious" in its volume 7 the whole of which is available on the Society's web site and on my own www.thevisiblehand.co.za. Key wording of the review: "A witty and insightful account...aptly tied together into one compelling narrative". Also the book is lodged in the John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester. Gavin Barnett Sakeji Old Boy Readers may be interested to know that the Brethren Historical Society has reviewed the book “Like a River Glorious” in its volume 7 the whole of which is available on the Society’s web site and on my own http://www.thevisiblehand.co.za. Key wording of the review: “A witty and insightful account…aptly tied together into one compelling narrative”. Also the book is lodged in the John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester. Gavin Barnett Sakeji Old Boy

]]> http://sakeji.com/?page_id=101&cpage=1#comment-552 Bernice & Fred Layton Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:34:48 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?page_id=101#comment-552 We were wondering if Sakejii School still has their library that Marjorie Ross used to look after. She at one time purchased books to put in this library in memory of our son Timothy Layton. If you have any information to pass on we would appreciae it. Bernice We were wondering if Sakejii School still has their library that Marjorie Ross used to look after. She at one time purchased books to put in this library in memory of our son Timothy Layton. If you have any information to pass on we would appreciae it. Bernice

]]> http://sakeji.com/?page_id=38&cpage=1#comment-72 2011 Calendar Has Been Posted « Sakeji School Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:03:03 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?page_id=38#comment-72 [...] Publications [...] [...] Publications [...]

]]> http://sakeji.com/?p=354&cpage=1#comment-39 Chamu Mandizha Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:39:17 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?p=354#comment-39 Dowa Thanks for a truly outstanding tribute to Miss Eastbury!I thoroughly enjoyed it and am sure that if her brother Bill ever read this he would have been greatly comforted. Dowa
Thanks for a truly outstanding tribute to Miss Eastbury!I thoroughly enjoyed it and am sure that if her brother Bill ever read this he would have been greatly comforted.

]]> http://sakeji.com/?p=198&cpage=1#comment-7 Welcome To Sakeji School Website | Sakeji School Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:57:12 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?p=198#comment-7 [...] A tribute and history of Miss Eastbury has been added from Mr Foster -Link [...] [...] A tribute and history of Miss Eastbury has been added from Mr Foster -Link [...]

]]> http://sakeji.com/?p=88&cpage=1#comment-6 Mwenya Puta Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:25:09 +0000 http://blog.sakeji.com/2007/03/28/piano-recital/#comment-6 Hi Sakeji it's good to know piano lessons are still going on. That's one thing of the many I've taken with me from there. Hi Sakeji it’s good to know piano lessons are still going on.
That’s one thing of the many I’ve taken with me from there.

]]> http://sakeji.com/?p=176&cpage=1#comment-5 Margaret Hess Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:09:14 +0000 http://sakeji.com/?p=176#comment-5 Hi my name is Margaret Hess and I was impressed by how many people Ruth recognized. I know that #48 is not my brother Paul. I think the blonde boy, with the tie, next to Charlie Perrin, is my brother Paul. I think that number is 53. The little boy in the sailor shirt in he front is Billie Bell. Thanks for the memories. Hi my name is Margaret Hess and I was impressed by how many people Ruth recognized. I know that #48 is not my brother Paul. I think the blonde boy, with the tie, next to Charlie Perrin, is my brother Paul. I think that number is 53. The little boy in the sailor shirt in he front is Billie Bell. Thanks for the memories.

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