Doors are beginning to swing open for Aimable and I to teach and train up elementary and secondary students in the Bible. Back in January, one of the schools gave us an hour of time once a week to teach biblical concepts to about 90 secondary level (Jr. High/High School) students. Aimable mentioned to me that it would be nice if the students had their own Bibles to use during this time of teaching, but at that time, we were strapped for cash.
Well… it just so happened that a week later a team, completely unrelated to us, came to Minembwe for a few days to observe the situation here and to encourage the locals; Aimable acted as the translator for the English-speaking Canadian that was traveling with them. As the team was leaving Minembwe, the Canadian told me that he wanted to send some money here to help, and he asked if I knew of a pressing need. I mentioned the need of 90 Bibles for these students and this man’s eyes lit up. By the time April rolled around, the funds were in place, and in May we returned to Minembwe with the Bibles.
<Click image for video> Joseph (who is here working with us for four months) and Aimable distributing the Bibles.
The room was full of grateful smiles.
We asked the students to immediately write their names in their Bibles.
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<Click image for video> This young lady asked if she could express her gratitude. Roughly translated: “Our parents didn’t think to do this for us, but you have thought to do this for us. That’s amazing that you teach us. May God bless you. I wish you blessings of God. We have no money to give you. What I can ask is that you pray for us so that we have the courage for reading. It can be discouraging for us to try to read the Bible, but please pray for us that we can keep reading this Bible. May God bless you.”
Aimable and I are looking forward to adding another school to our schedule this coming school year.
Sawyer Water Filter Distribution
A group of women in the States raise funds so that they can buy Sawyer Water Filters to give to people like us to distribute to people around the world in need of clean water.
We’ve been able to weekly distribute 15 Sawyer water filtration systems to homes in need of clean water. We’ll keep this up until we exhaust our supply.
These twins were pretty excited to receive such a gift for their home.
