We Are So Very Thankful!!!

We have 121 children at LACFA right now- we couldn’t possibly do what we do without Jesus Christ and all of us working together!

To GOD be the Glory!!!

We are so very grateful to the LORD for all that HE has done and is doing. It truly is always an adventure! It is the abundant life-there are many challenges but the LORD brings us through them all as we lean into Him! Thank you- Jesus Christ!!!

We were Blessed to have a Chazak Team with us for a month!

Praise the Lord!!! We were so blessed to have a team of six young men that are training to be International First Responders! They are all good young men seeking the Lord in all that they do, it was awesome working with them. Justin, Patrick, Sebastian, Carter, Jamie, and Derek. We got to work a bit on our road, dug a lot on the 150,000+ liter cistern to collect rainwater at LACFA and even built a new pit latrine for one of the Jajjas (grandfathers) in the village.

The picture below are of the Chazak Team.

We spent a couple of days going out and sharing the Gospel – we went to some shrines and shared the love of our Lord, this is Justin, Sebastian, and Hawah ministering the word at a bar – these two men asked for prayer.

We spent a day working with the villagers on our road through Kigatto Village to LACFA. We had a good time; the road still needs more work. It is the rainy season now and the roads always washout.

We spent many days digging on the cistern to collect our rainwater. We are blessed that someone sowed into the 90-pound jackhammer (and a set of tires for the children’s van) Big HalleluYAH!!!, most of the digging is breaking up solid rock. We are very thankful for all of the work that they put into it. We are about to the point of the wire mesh and cementing it. Big HalleluYAH!!!

To GOD be the Glory!!!If you are led to please sow into the cement it is about $8 a 50-kg bag- we need about 50 bags. 

We took the Chazak Team to the “Narrow Way Church” in a village that’s just near. In the small churches here, they ask all of the first-time visitors to introduce themselves in front of the church. It can be a Paradigm shifting experience. The Team introduced themselves and spoke about what led them to want to be First Responders. Derek gave the main message. It was a good experience for them. The whole Body of Christ should be able to share our Faith in Jesus Christ, HalleluYAH!!! It is all about relationship…

Please prayerfully consider sowing into everything that is going on over here at Love And Care for All, if there is something specific that the Lord places on your heart please leave a message. Thank you all so very much!

Numbers 6:24-26

24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:

25 The LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee and give thee peace.

That is my prayer for all of us, In Jesus Christ’s mighty name!

Amen and Amen!!!

Lest while ye gather up the tares

In the parable about wheat and tares Jesus teaches about the importance of not showing partiality when we make disciples. God does certainly have a plan for this world and He is working to accomplish it. However, it is unfolding over time and that means we may not know who is wheat and who is weed. One of the important lessons we’ve learned on the field is not to judge the seed by how it looks. If we had done so we would not have achieved our missions’ goals. That leads us to the next subject…

Featured Leader

One time a man came to our service. After the meeting, he openly argued and expressed his disagreement on some unimportant controversial biblical issue. He was so straightforward in proving himself right that I thought we would never see him again in our services. Then, we forgot about this story for a while. What was our surprise when someone told us he had prayed the repentance prayer. One of his friends shared the gospel with him, and he prayed the prayer of repentance at home. Later, he became one of the first few baptized in our church. Now (over 20 years) he is a church planter in Moscow.

Church plant

This leader was called to plant a church in one of Moscow’s suburbs some time ago. They have been meeting as a group for quite awhile and soon will become a church.
Please pray for this church plant. These are mostly young people. Pray that they will grow and mature in Christ. Also pray for the leader of this church to preach the gospel boldly. Continue to pray for our trip to West Asia region in December. We still need $1000 to raise toward the trip.

Friends and Family

These relationships with the parents of our children’s friends do certainly play a role in evangelism. More and more do we see parents who interact with us and learn that we are Christians. Pray for the hearts of those parents so that they may make a next step to come to our Sunday school class.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for standing with us in prayer.

You can make tax deductible contribution to Ufa Bible Ministries which is recognized by the IRS as a 501c3 non-profit entity. Make checks payable to:
Ufa Bible Ministries
PO BOX 1761, Columbia, SC 29202

Praises

Rainy greetings!! As I’m writing this the thunder and lightening are going at it and the power is off. Princess the dog is at my feet. Since the New Year celebrations she is not a fan of the sound. If it is nice enough outside, she will carry on barking at the sky’s, which it isn’t today the rain is too much. It will be great when she outgrows this.
First before moving on to October I wanted to again thank everyone for the blessings we had while there in the USA. It went fast!! One error I noticed on my information was our friend Marney. She years ago had breast cancer and now was diagnosed with liver cancer. Please continue to pray for her.
The second item is we are currently waiting for pricing from two more engineers for the girls dorm so we are delayed in kicking off the fundraiser. Please continue to pray for that and if at all possible give what you can. I’ll send links and information once we receive it. We hope this week is when we get the final numbers and hope to share by next week.
We are also very aware of the season we are all in. We understand that it will take time to fundraise and that you and your families are likely experiencing hardships. We trust that the Lord will provide and just encourage you to pray with us as we seek to provide for the school this way!! The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16b
As we returned it took me some time to acclimate, Bill seemed to do better than I did. BUT we did come back and just had so much to catch up on, with joy! We do consider this home and so as we arrived we immediately started to assess where we had to complete anything outstanding as well as initiate some of the things sitting on the to do list.
One of the first in order were to wrap around the P7 class and encourage them as they prepare for exams’. Reading scripture, talking about how to relieve stress through breathing exercises and how to prepare their minds for the testing period of three days. It’s a lot for these teens.

More Praises & Challenges!

We did have a new teacher start working at FMLK. William is new working with Bill for guidance and have started doing Sunday services at the school. The kids named their little church, Feed My Lamb Chapel. We did loose some of the staff that were upset that the children were not being shipped out to different churches in the village but this over all is a much better choice for so many reasons including knowing that they are hearing the “truth” with so many false teaching churches here.

Coming Soon!

We will be sending out fundraising material for the school starting in mid-November for the Girls dorm. We will run the fundraiser from November thru January is the current plan. Please be in prayer for the success and if able consider giving to this worthy cause! I mentioned earlier we are waiting for 2 more bids to come in before starting. Everything here is a bit slooowwwer!! 😉 All our fundraising efforts will now go through the 501c3 at TMCI. Watch for the link on the information that will be distributed. We are excited to have the final touches on GOONZA and fully operational now!

Other activities

In October included Bill speaking twice every Sunday. Most Sunday’s at Calvary and then helping kickstart the FMLK chapel which was already started but very new. And a lot of encouragement for our P7 was desired to happen and we think we did that well! More on that next month as we send out the celebration and photos that were in early November.
I tried to get there at least 2X a week to share scriptures and check in on the class as they prepared. It seems that they are ready! Thanking God for good teachers and the blessing of feeding into these children in this way.
I’m back at Nazina with the kiddo’s there and working with them on John 3:16 which will go for sometime including into the Christmas program. At first I didn’t think that and thought of crossing over to a “Christmas” verse but you know, God so loved the world, He GAVE! Christmas! So I think it will wrap in nicely!! We will keep you posted. Also teaching the children about maps, and how the ultimate map is the Bible and Gods Word. How to find scripture and how the bible is laid out. One of my favorite things to do!!

Prayers

 Please pray for our P7 as they take their exams and as they leave FMLK. They are on to a new season and it isn’t easy here for the youth. Not that it is anywhere today.
 Please continue to pray as Bill teaches and shares and has these new opportunities to speak to not only leaders but the youth as well.
 Pray for another couple of streams of funding for FMLK. This is an ongoing prayer. We certainly see God providing from these young Spanish volunteers. Pray for the fundraiser for the Dorm & Fencing needed as the requirement from the government.
 Please continue to pray for the Muslim community that we (several of us believers) have communication and surface relationships with. Pray for the Lord to invite these friends into a deeper relationship with the Christian community, dreams/visions, and the Lord Himself.
 Pray for the Muslim woman I love and having great Spiritual conversations with and that it is all worthy of her considering Christ. We stay in contact and she is such a delight!!
 Pray as we serve to see with Spiritual eyes and for boldness in these days.

Troubled on every side yet not distressed

Of all the letters Apostle Paul wrote to his churches, 2 Corinthians is probably one of the most personal. There the Apostle described what he had to come through to nurture the new believers and establish new churches. In chapter 4 he stresses that he was pressed on every corner yet not stranded. Scripture says that God does that so that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. That is how we often feel in our ministry. Being a simple man and woman of God, jars of clay, through whom the exceeding greatness of God’s blessing flows.

“For All Club”

We have had two clubs already since the beginning of fall. Both times the hall was full. Many said that they missed our meetings during the summer months. Both times we have come very close to direct gospel preaching. Most of the time, though, we have had to build relationships with the people to be able to share the gospel with them.
Continue to pray for the hearts of those attenders to feel their spiritual hunger through these meetings. These are mostly young people. Pray for us as we are trying to preach the gospel creatively. In those meetings we build a bridge to Christ.

Winter Plans

We are going to travel to the region of West Asia in December. There we are going to hold meetings with local believers. We plan to hold workshops in Tbilisi, Georgia and in Yerevan, Armenia.
Please pray for us to be able to cast the vision of the disciple making efforts and house churches. Pray for all the necessary funds to come. We need $1500 to raise in a short time for the trip.

Friends and Family

Tim is going to participate in a regional tournament in November. He is going to play basketball with his team. Christina loves to sing Christian songs from Sunday school to her friends. It is her way of sharing about Jesus with them. Pray for the hearts of those youngsters and their parents. That they may make a next step to come to our Sunday school class or to our for-all club. Thank you for your prayer and your love!

You can make tax deductible contribution to Ufa Bible Ministries which is recognized by the IRS as a 501c3 non-profit entity. Make checks payable to:
Ufa Bible Ministries
PO BOX 1761, Columbia, SC 29202