January 2019
Dear Friends and Family,
I am preparing to leave for Rwanda and Uganda next Tuesday and will be gone for two weeks. I feel impressed to write a prayer and praise letter to share two messages I received this past week.
Pastor of Berea Baptist Church in Butare wrote:
Our Christmas was a blessing we baptized 13 people. The first one was 60 years old. Thank you for praying for us. Br. IGNACE Bro Sadock in Kigali,...
January 2019
Dear Friends and Family,
I am preparing to leave for Rwanda and Uganda next Tuesday and will be gone for two weeks. I feel impressed to write a prayer and praise letter to share two messages I received this past week.
Pastor of Berea Baptist Church in Butare wrote:
Our Christmas was a blessing we baptized 13 people. The first one was 60 years old. Thank you for praying for us. Br. IGNACE Bro Sadock in Kigali, Rwanda wrote this Christmas greeting: Yesterday I went to preach on the radio and the Lord was with me. I made so many contacts. Brother Jean Claude and I went and visited a family with their neighbor who had been listening to the radio and they both received Christ as their Savior. It was joy unspeakable!
The Lord has done so much this year. So much that I can't tell it all. I do remember when I first saw your email in my box. I was so surprised. As we continued to talk, I had to repent of my unbelief. Pastor, when you first wrote to me, I was very discouraged by our government shutting down churches, not allowing people to meet in house, not having money to build churches, even to eat. I was getting ready to come back to Kigali, look for a job and just fight for life. But God is a wonderful Master. He sent you at the right time and you brought the answer. Pastor thank you very much for letting God use you in my life and many others. Because of you, this year has been the best in my life. This year I feared the most in my life, but I also grew in faith. I received more joy than ever. I now have strong hope that churches are starting here in Rwanda. and today is the best Christmas I have ever had in my life. I am a different person! Thank you very much again pastor. It is impossible for me to find proper words to express my appreciation, but I just want you to know that I will never forget what you have done and will never let down. Yours faithfully, Sadock and family
When I read this my heart was filled with joy and my eyes with tears. What a wonderful God we serve. He is doing so much and yet lets us be a part of it. Thank you for helping us reach and minister to the world of East Africa. You are having a part in changed lives that will last forever and produce eternal dividends.
I will be taking in new radio equipment to expand the outreach of NLR in Buhimba. Pray the equipment will arrive undamaged and will pass customs with little or no duty.
Sadock and I will travel to eight of the ten cities we have targeted for Acts 1:8 churches. I am especially excited about visiting, for the first time, Kibungo in the southeast corner of Rwanda. Sadock holds Bible study there with 20 that have been saved through the radio ministry. Frank and Jackson are ready to lead and even pastor a new church there. They have a plot of land that would be right for a church. We can buy the land and a block making machine for $5000. The block making machine would provide an income for these two men.
Pray for safety, physical ability, wisdom and decisiveness.
Your missionaries to East Africa – Tony and Kathy
Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen Ephesians 3:20-21
