Timothy Ministries is forming a NACO Mission Team for July in Mexico. Please pray that God will "seal the deal" for several guys. We've gotten 7 definite commitments and need between 5 to 7 more to complete an adequate building team. We have that number of guys pending...to see if they can get off their jobs, raise funds, get passports, etc...but we hope to have the complete team in hand to start training before St Patrick's day. Thanks for praying that God will move dramatically in these guys lives and help them make the right decisions, very soon.
An urgent prayer request for these next few months is that God open the doors for the beginning of new mission outreach as we look ahead to 2006-10. Like many mission groups, we suffered a reduction in contributions in 2005, due to the natural disasters that required charitable giving to meet immediate and critical needs. We, too, made donations for Tsunami, Fire, and Hurricane Relief. If we are to really entertain invitations to minister in the years ahead (especially on new fields), Timothy Ministries must be adequately funded. We are praying for new donors and new partners in mission, right here at home. Will you pray about your role in supporting the quiet work of Timothy Ministries, with prayer and funding for the future? Thank you.
Japheth Makunga, Kum Bible College treasurer and pastor, has been diagnosed with a lung tumour and has been hospitalised some 80 miles from his home, 30 miles from Kum Bible College. Please pray for our friend and co-worker, for his wife Cecelia, and for his family. Three key Christian leaders in the Six Trees area, Nozuko Binjana, Beauty Binjana, and Mama Casino were in a horrific auto accident while on their way to a Christian rally. While all three are home in their village, the Mamas Binjana are both unable to walk and are bed-ridden, being cared for by the congregation. Please pray for their recovery and healing, and that this tragedy will strength their testimony for Jesus in their homeland.
One of our bright, articulate young students, 25 year old Sonwabile Mtoli, has died. We have no information other than that. His parents, Maxwell and Aurelia Mtoli pastor the Christian congregation at Mampondo-meseni, 75 miles from KBC. Sonwabile had spent much of last summer with the Corrells at KBC and was training for evangelism and leadership. Please uphold his family and fellow students in prayer.
Please pray about a potential visit to Dour, Belgium in May 2006 (we are getting either no or mixed signals from the people there about the efficacy of a trip there).
Please pray for Buck & Mary VanZandt as they move forward in partnering Timothy Ministries with Indian Trails Mission in the restoration work in Native American churches along the Mexican border near Naco and Bisbee, AZ. We're inching our way there, being very sensitive to the cross-cultural dynamics involved. Please pray for Timothy Ministries' KBC Treasurer, 59 year old pastor, Japheth Makunga, who has been hospitalised with a lung tumor and is awaiting a risky surgery. Please pray for God's will and glory to be seen in Japheth's life; and for his new wife, Cecelia and their family. Japheth is a Godly man. He is currently either in a hospital in Umtata or out in the bush at St. Barnabas. Would you please pray for Larry & Sue, Rudy & Marty, Buck & Mary, and the Timothy Board as they sort out potential fields for mission outreach in 2006-07 and beyond. There is fact-finding to do in Arizona and Mexico, Tennessee, another area of Belgium, Uganda, and the possibility of an extension of Kum Bible College into another South African municipality.
Would you please pray for John and Sue Longridge, of Exeter, England. John, a longtime friend and mission colleague, is battling cancer. He has served faithfully in the TEE work alongside Michael & Pauline Huggins, Rob and Jacqui Brown, and Anneta and her Russian mission team. Timothy Ministries has been a steady contributor to the efforts to bring Bible Education and Christian Leadership Trainingacross Russia and the CIS Republics.
Would you please pray for a young woman in nurses' traing, Ida Mae Rogers, who is asking the Lord about a life and career on the field in Africa. Pray that she and Timothy Ministries will hear God's wise leading as she explores His future for her.
Praise God for the quiet, behind-the-scenes administrators who volunteer so much time and energy...and prayer... to keep all the "mission balls in the air"...Richard Thompson, USA Treasurer, Lesley Robinson, UK/Europe Treasurer, Japheth Makunga, KBC/Africa Treasurer, Charles Damse, KBC Manager, Ron & JeanDiBenardo, US Newsletter, and Ray & Linda Watts, Website Communications.
Please pray for retired CEF directors Skip & Betty, that God blesses them with healing of His choice and that Christ gets all the glory in this situation.
Please pray for Philip and Helen Clarke, Otniel and Dana Murza, and Vasilica and Emma Negura who are working together to train and release many Christian workers to an evangelical outreach in Transylvanian Romania.
Please pray for Michael and Pauline Huggins as they work to train leaders and contextulise teaching materials for Theological Education by Extension across Russia, the CIS Republics, South Korea, China, and Mongolia. Please pray for Samuel and Denise Liberek and David and Maryline Doyen as they disciple and strengthen the evangelical believers in French-speaking Belgium.
Please pray for Joseph and Mabel Kobo, Ewart Masondo, Charles Damse, and Japheth Makunga as they lead a growing ministry (including Kum Bible College) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Please pray for Michael Finnegan and the Christ-honouring believers in the Republic of Ireland, that they may find culturally sensitive ways of reaching their neighbours in Waterford & Wexford, for Jesus.
Please pray for Richard and Moira Curry and Gill and Gareth Morgan as they minister and do community development work in east central Uganda.
Please pray for Larry and Susan Correll, for spiritual, physical, and social stamina andfor the ability to keep all the fields for mission serviced...and the people loved! In the end...may God get ALL the glory!
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