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Outside the wind is coming in gusts and spurts. Sometimes the sun peeks through, but mostly the sky is overcast. Stillness and turmoil. Sun or gray skies… The weather today reflects the restlessness of our community. Today will decide much for 5 year old Nelda. She has been sick since Sunday afternoon and all the […]

Thank you for your prayers for Nelda, Salim’s 5 year old daughter. She did much better last night. She even talked and asked for food! However late morning today (the same time as the previous day) she suddenly became sick again. She has a fewer and her hands are curled up and shaking. She seems […]

We have asked for your prayers for Amer and his family who are the most prominent and influential in our community. It seems that nearly everyone in our village is somehow connected to them by blood relation or marriage. If the key leaders in this clan accept the Gospel message it will have a huge […]

Please pray urgently for Salim’s 5 year old daughter (Nelda) who is very sick. It appears that she may have polio and is in much pain. There is no real help for polio once the symptoms start and she may die as it can affect the muscles necessary for breathing. This may also be a […]

I want to share with you about some very significant things happening in the last week. I especially want to ask you to pray. Francois is still in the village while our children and I are in the city for a homeschoolers week at the international school. We are thankful that our friend and colleague […]

When we arrived here in 2005 and the community heard that we need language helpers to “walk” with us, it was decided that Ziria should be my helper. One of the reasons, I believe, was because none of her children lived with her and she was then divorced (once again), thus her responsibilities were fewer […]

“If I at least knew that God wants me to rest on the Sabbath, I could have done that! I would have rested on the Sabbath! But I didn’t know! Now I have broken every single one of God’s commandments… It would not even help if I now rest on God’s special day. What am […]

Geri is a young man who loves to joke and laugh! He is the guy who resurrected our garden after no Mwinika seemed to know how to make our plants grow. 🙂 He learned to read and write eMwinika last year and is one of the readers at the present Bible teaching in our village. […]

The 30 day fast of the religion of about 96% of the Mwinika started yesterday. Please pray for those that have learned about God through the Bible lessons and translated Scripture. Although some are just too happy to stop this practice, most continue to do it. Some believers say they fast now, not to get […]

Today was the first day of the teaching of the Law of Moses. This point in the teaching is always important. It is here where people should realize that no matter how hard they try, they will not be able to keep the law. They need God to redeem them from their sin! As the […]