Mali APR09 - Team arrives safely / Next steps / Trip Prayer Requests

The team arrived safely and are about 2/3rds of the way to the village area.  Lawrence commented that the roads were in better repair than in January, even on the first half of the trip.  They are spending the night in a mission compound hosted by New Tribes Missions.  NTM has been a blessing from early in our travels, and recently God has mingled our interests and efforts in sharing the Gospel in the villages where we’ve been serving.

Tomorrow, they will arrive in K’ba and pick up Pastor Bart around noon.  They will continue to Village X to pick up Phillip or another Christian brother to take out to the new area.  They will spend the night Village X and visit Village K on their way to the large village, Village F.  In Village F, they will greet Chief B who has been our strong ally from the first trip.  After spending Sunday night in Village F, the team will depart early Monday morning for the new area.

Thank you for all you do in sharing the Gospel here and around the world!

Mali Mission Team Prayer Requests

APRIL 15-25, 2009

Team Members:  Bryan Blain, Lawrence Duhon, Tony Richmond

 

• Pray for each team member’s health and safety throughout the trip.
• Pray for the health & safety for their families here:
•      Whitney Blain, Ben & James
•      Eva Duhon, Daniel & Jonathan
•      Kristen Richmond
• Pray for the team’s driver, Oury, to remain alert and careful throughout the trip.  Also pray for his salvation.
• Pray for Pastor Bart.  As the team’s sole interpreter, he will be sharing with them in the dialect of a neighboring people group..  Ask that God would give him the ability to communicate clearly to the Yalunka people whose heart language he does not speak or understand.
• Pray for the believers in the villages of F, X, and K to grow in their faith and in their understanding of the true Gospel of Grace as the team visits these villages once again.
• Pray that Phillip or another Yalunka believer will be able to accompany the team to a neighboring Yalunka region where no FBC-K Teams have been before so that our church can begin a new area of work in other Yalunka villages.
• Pray that the team will be able to find the new villages an believers (whom Pastor Bart knows) without any problems, and that the road into that area will be passable.
• Pray for an open door for the Gospel in this new area where the few believers have been persecuted for their faith in years past.
• Pray for wisdom for each team member as he seeks to share just the right Bible stories and passages in both evangelism and discipleship.
• Pray for effective use of the written doctrinal and literacy materials in the Jalunga dialect that the team now has available for each village.

“All my forefathers have passed away into darkness
without knowing anything of what was to befall them.
How is it that your forefathers, knowing all these things,
did not send word to my forefathers sooner?”
                             - African chief to David Livingstone

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