We have asked you before to pray for our helpers, but want to take the time to introduce you better to Salimo.
Salimo is our main helper in translation and Bible lesson development. He has a extraordinary talent for communicating his language and culture and learns super fast. In fact, he types faster on the computer than we can! We lean heavily on his knowledge and skills.
He is a preacher at the local, small Roman Catholic congregation (about 5% Mwinika are R.C). He is the only Mwinika that we know that has been trying to decipher the Portuguese Bible to understand God’s Word even before we came. He understands much already of the Truth and has a heart to evangelize his people…
So, as you can imagine, Salimo will be a target that the devil would not resist in attacking. Not only is he a key person in our work here, but he has also made a public stand (in a meeting with his family chief) against witchcraft and its practises…
Salimo is a good husband and father. He and his wife has two small children and his youngest, his son, is the apple of his eye… This little guy has been sick for a long time; too weak to play with his friends. Several trips to the hospital has had no results. Salimo is under pressure to seek “divine” help from a witch doctor to find the source of his son’s sickness, but up till now he has refused.
PLEASE PRAY WITH US FOR THE COMPLETE HEALING OF SALIMO’S SON. Pray that Salimo will not be tempted to fall back on tradition in seeking help from diviners and witchdoctors. Pray too that his understanding of God and his Word will grow and mature and that he will accept Christ as his personal Saviour. Pray that for his and his family’s protection against satanic attacks. Thank the Lord for him.