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Wednesday, May 8

Prayer Bulletin

Chyrl Basa, FFM

Pray for the next FFM Day of Prayer (May 11), in-person at the Peoples Church and led by a trainer who has served among South Asian Muslims for over 20 years. He will be addressing misconceptions that Muslims have about Christianity, and there may be an opportunity afterwards to engage in gospel conversations in a local park. Pray also that God will bring faithful servants (esp. from Muslim backgrounds), passionate about FFM's ministry, to serve on the Board.

Mahona

Enjoy a few minutes to review this YouTube video-testimony of Mahona completed five years ago. The message remains strong. Mahona now is a teacher and spends his evenings working at a children's orphanage.

Mahona's Story

Mary Jane Fandrich

April 26

Bless you! It's prayers like yours that keep me going.
Hamas hit my neighborhood hard. Some doors closed. One gentleman of long acquaintance dropped in as he always used to do (between trips back to Yemen or wherever) and suddenly in our conversation jumped up furious, eyes blazing,
and stormed for the door, then caught himself, turned and stuck out his hand to shake good bye.

I haven't heard from him since, but think I may. It was early on in the retaliatory Israeli response, and I mentioned "Better not to attack someone bigger than yourself ", which didn't process well for him. I had mentioned that that was what we learned in kindergarten. (Do I sound like a dumb American?) My frequence using UBER is about twice a day, and every third driver is Muslim, which has offered opportunities for rich conversations, and scripture if they speak Arabic. By the day after the Hamas attack, no Muslim UBER drivers have turned up. Did they all quit out of fear or did the company call them off driving? Don't know.

February, March I had some poor health that made life challenging, but seem to have gotten over it. By March, my family decided that they didn't want me living alone in the neighborhood, and we booked a Senior Independent Living place. It's working out well, takes some time to adjust. The new place: Reserve at Dallas, has a mixed crowd, a number of committed Christian women and a good contingent of Jews, not messianic. Most are still fully capable, some not. We have at least three that are 100 years old, and still coming and going. Currently ladies 60 odd to 85+ are running a very successful large garage sale. The proceeds are given to the unsalaried staff at Christmas.

Meanwhile, there are still visits to Afghani neighbors, and others back in the old place. Pray that these continued connections will bear fruit. I have about bi-weekly contact with the secretary of HOH and the former staff member who pastors a church in Sidon. I also keep close touch with a group in the American Women's Club ' Bookies'. We read and discuss some interesting stuff. Also here in Dallas, I'm currently reading David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Keep praying that the Holy Spirit will move mightily amongst the people in the two very large mosques here. Their fear and darkness are appalling. 

Carluci dos Santos

April 26

Meeting at Celebration Presbyterian Church, Toronto, with the leaders of escuelitas (small biblical expository circles associated). On my left is Alex Chang from Peru. The ministry of expository preaching in Canada is being supported by Langham preaching Latin America as a ministry to the Spanish diaspora. Today and tomorrow we will have a workshop on the book of Philemon, focusing on preaching epistles. On Monday and Tuesday we will be in Montreal to do the same workshop.

Canada Institute of Linguistics  

C I L

Mfaume

There is cheetah 🐆 around our college campus. He has caught some animals, so we need to be careful especially at night.
Now the Serengeti is our college 😄😄!
I'm trying to be careful, but there some bushes from school to my home.
Especially at night--like now! 

Hanneke Cost Budde

April 17--Update

Pastor Thomas came by and gave me his list of expenses for Justin. I reimbursed him from those who contributed. There are some expenses that his sister-in-law advanced, like another C.T Scan. I still have about 300.000/- which I will give to him. He is so thankful to everyone who prayed and contributed. Justin is doing fine and is studying. Pastor Thomas has 4 kids that are either in High school or in college/university.

Mahona [photo] is enjoying his teaching position. He has a total of 78 students and is swamped. He lives at the orphanage and helps out there in the evenings and when he is free.

April 8

Tabora, April 7, 2024 Psalm 30:2 “ Lord my God, I called to you for help,
And you healed me.”

A quick update on Pastor Thomas and his son Justin.
Yesterday, a very relieved pastor Thomas came to my home to give me an update.
He had travelled with Justin and another son to Musoma to get to a better hospital. This is a 12-hour trip by bus. They stayed with the sister of his deceased wife, who lives there with her family. Unfortunately, the internet was not available there, so I didn’t get any news until yesterday.
There was a specialist in that hospital and they did a C.T. scan. Nothing unusual was found. The specialist thought that the fall Justin had when he had passed out, might have caused this confusion for Justin who still couldn’t understand Swahili and spoke only English.
He was given some medicine and the doctor advised them to have him take it for 2 more days and see if there would be an improvement.
Pastor Locas had to come back to Tabora and leave their sons in Musoma as he didn’t get permission from the bishop to stay longer. While he was on the bus on his way back, his other son called him to say that Justin had woken up and had greeted him in Swahili! He seemed to be back to his normal self but had no idea how he got to Musoma. The rest of his memory was fine again.
Pastor Thomas also let me know that something like this had happened before while Justin was at school in Form 6. Justin was walking to his class when he became confused and also spoke only in English. This was about 2 years ago. They never found out the cause of this.
As there was no diagnosis, I advised Pastor Thomas to write this history down in case this happens again.
We prayed and thanked God for His wonderful love and the healing of Justin.
I gave the Pastor the bus fare and he will bring me the list of hospital costs , C.T. scan, etc.
Pastor Thomas and I want to thank each one who prayed for him and Justin and his family.
Also, a big thanks for the donations. There will be enough to refund all the costs! 

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