Pray for Matius and Kona

July 20, 2011

“Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.” E.M. Bounds Please pray for your sister Kona! Her husband Matius is not a believer in our Savior Jesus. Matius goes along to the Catholic church also; as our believers say “he is standing on a dry branch”. […]

Pray for Kymotu and family

July 12, 2011

This week please be praying for my language helper Kymotu. He is becoming a dear friend and the Lord has laid a burden on my heart for this guy. He has other alternatives for coming to help me with language; recently he has been pressing me for elastic rubber for his catapult. He thinks by […]

Pray for Komiti and Berta

July 4, 2011

Hi all, Well another week is upon us and we need you to call out to God once more because lives are at stake. Komiti is a believer, his wife’s name is Berta, they have a son named Damien and another baby boy called Blaze. Please pray particularly for Berta to come to a clear […]

Pray for Alfonse and Trinde

June 26, 2011

“God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.” — John Wesley Well a what rascal we have to pray for here! Meet Alphonse and his wife Trinde. Alphonse is one of the biggest trouble makers in our village and is at the heart of most problems. He just recently stole one of our gas […]

Pray for Masta and family

June 22, 2011

Hi, This second week we would like to ask you to pray for Masta and Lilpage. They are both very involved in the Kevung cult that is strong in our area. However recently Masta has been coming to literacy class and doing very well, even though he got much family pressure not to come; he […]

Arnolda update

June 21, 2011

Hi, Just a short update to let you know that Arnolda is back home from the hospital this week and is doing much better. She recovered from the cerebral malaria that she had; this is a huge answer to prayer as cerebral malaria is very dangerous and can kill quickly. It has also given no […]

Video of first baptisim in the Mengen tribe

June 13, 2011

mengen2011 from S Flanagan on Vimeo. Enjoy this video of our first 16 believers being baptized. Thanks for the part you played in seeing new life amongst the Mengen people. There is still so much more work to be done – thanks for standing with us. To our God be all the glory! Simon, Annika, […]

New believer in Mengen tribe!

June 13, 2011

Hi Friends Last night some guys woke Lourens up at about 3 o clock the morning. Usually people wake us up because someone is very sick, or someone has died. But last night was different. The guys who came and woke me up are, Kamalus and Brus, two of our key believers and they came […]

1st phase of building complete!!

May 27, 2010

Hi friends, would you eat a caterpillar? We went into the bush the 17th of May as you know and returned on the 20th. It was another great opportunity to build relationships as we had a team of believers from the church in the village help us with leveling ground and digging post holes etc. We had a […]

leaving on a jet plane

December 16, 2009

Hi friends, thanks so much for praying for us! It’s getting late now on Wednesday night, the packing is done, kids and the wife are all in bed. Please forgive any garbled language or spelling mistakes as I’m pretty tired. Tired but very content; content in the Lord which feels great. Content even though we are fearful, […]