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Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Take care of my sheep."  John 21:16 

Used For His Glory- April

Dear friends and family,

    As I write this my room has a nice cold breeze coming through the window. The major heat of the “summer” has gone and now enters rainy seasons! God has provided lots of rain and has filled our tanks and then some to share to our neighbor which is a huge praise. The cold wind is nice and I am enjoying the weather change. I am actually using my blanket at night!!

    Last month was pretty hectic but this month is just as busy. This month my team members and I are learning about cross cultural communication. We attended full days of learning language and story seminars which enables us to study the bible more and be able to narrate the stories to unbelievers. Fellow missionaries Steve and Carol Lyons are good friends to the team and I and they showed us how to better effect our evangelizing to those who want to hear the gospel. My team members and I are into our third unit out of six which we are about half way into our TIMO experience here in our villages. We are into our critical point of doing evangelism but in kizaramo. Ministry is culture and culture is ministry. The more we are learning the language and ways of the Z people, the more we are diving into ministry. Its sounds simple and easy and probably to the average Westerner pretty insignificant but it’s a huge deal. The team is learning key cultural history that defines the Zaramo’s belief. If we can understand where their “thinking” goes then we can better tell them about Jesus and tell them in the way “they” would understand. That takes research and time. And that is what our team is dedicating to do. Hard it may be for us but a goal we are setting none the less. Please keep us in prayer as we research the Z people more deeply and concentrate on language. I need this accountability to stay focus and optimistic in what the Lord has me to do. And frustrations can so easily get me to think negative about myself or think I can’t do this because it’s too hard. So pray I don’t give up and that my team members don’t lose heart as well as we have seen those types of days.

   Further prayer request includes my Z friends. One of my closest friends, Mama Halima (one of my seven) is going to narrations and she LOVES the stories. She got excited the other day when it was raining and a bright and vivid rainbow shown in the sky. She heard the story of Noah and got so excited that she saw the rainbow. She said to me, “Look! The rainbow! The story of Noah from the teachings Mr. Tim taught.” You should have seen her smile and her enthusiasm. She loves going to the narrations and she shows up to my house 30 min before its actually time to walk to hear the stories at Mr. D’s house. I love it! Praise the Lord with me but also pray that she comes to know Jesus and does that from her own decision making. Pray we just simply tell the stories from the bible and let the Holy Spirit work in her life. And pray for other opportunities for my other lady friends! I am getting really excited for Mama Halima. Can you tell?!

Have a great week, and know I love you and appreciate you all.

In Him,

	This is the team and I. There is a total of 15 of us so you can imagine the chaos, the love and the never ending hurl of excitement and busyness that goes with living together. And in Africa! We love each other, annoy each other, look after one another and adopt each other as family.. Literally.
	This is the team in the team vehicle and us praying which is something we come to really need to survive out here. Prayer is so key. We talk to God about our struggles, our ministries and our personal walk with him.
	We still need prayers in a lot of areas but going into our 9th month as a team, we are finding out what life is really about, and how to work together in unison! And seeing what the Lord has for us.

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