Praise Reports & Prayer Requests

Praise Reports:

We have completed the Swahili and English recordings of the 12 Lesson Biblical Foundation Course and Praise God for the great responses of encouragement and ordering of booklets and the testimonies of those phoning in weekly, many with questions.  We thank God for helping Ben & Christine Tanguli do an excellent job in completing the recordings in Swahili.

Praise the Lord for helping our teachers and students complete the 3rd semester of classes in the Mt. Elgon BTC total of 32 men and 20 women) and the Kitale Tent BTC (12 men and 7 women).  Pray for the students to raise the finances to purchase their next 3 books at KES1,500 which is $20.

One of the Discipleship teachers of the Foundation Course, Ruth, has 17 teen students who are wanting to be baptized.  God is rewarding her faithful labor and these children's lives (all of whom are teenage orphans living in a compound in a local slum) have been changed and are continuing to change.  They are happy to have one pair of shoes and one uniform to wear everyday to school.


Prayer Requests:
 

Many have been praying and fasting here in Kitale for South Sudan.  Yesterday began the 1st National elections ever in southern Sudan.  After 21 years of war, the last 5 years of which have been more or less stable, the people are waiting to see if they will be able to establish a democratic independent South Sudan. North Sudan, primarily Moslem, has been responsible for the death of 2 million Sudanese in the south.  The south is primarily Christian and Animist (tribal). Yesterday the elections began and will continue through tomorrow.  Please stand in the gap for our brothers and sisters in Christ who have already suffered extreme persecution for being Christian and most have lost everything including family members.

Please pray for our 4th Teachers Training here in Kitale this weekend.  Greg and I have much preparation to do before the students arrive.  We expect 12 to 15 pastors and church leaders to attend.

Pray for the Tonj Bible Training Center in South Sudan.  They have recently experienced outbreaks of violence which resulted in serious injuries, two of which were small children with gunshot wounds to the  face and head.  The children are being treated in Nairobi, Kenya.