Dear Harvest Mission Brethren,
Greetings in the matchless name of Jesus Christ, our blessed King and Redeemer! I trust in the Lord that you are all still doing well with your families and church families. I’m so grateful to God for this opportunity to write and share with you about what God is doing in our lives and ministry as well as expressing our gratitude for the continued support that harvest mission is giving to us. It’s my joy to do so. I trust that this will serve to stir you to praise God with us for the work He is doing in us and through us here at Xigalo. It will also serve to inform you how you may pray for us.
Family
We ended the year 2024 well as a family. Our two girls passed their school classes last year. Dzuneka our first born daughter passed grade 5 last year and she is in grade six this year. Our second born daughter, Abigail was in grade 2 last year and she is now in grace 3. Ntwariso our third daughter is turning three years this year and she is not attending school yet. We thank God for providing for us to take care of our children.
My wife is doing well. We thank God for good health. She still leads the women’s ministry at our church.
Ministry
Our church family is also still doing well. During the festive season the attendance had gone up since the students and others who work from at other places had come back for the Christmas holidays. The attendance is still good the average church attendance including children is +-100.
We had an outreach at another village next to our village called Roadhuis. We had a door-to- door visitation for four days in December. It was really a great opportunity for ministry. We discovered that there is a great need for the gospel to be preached. People are distressed with various life challenges, lost and misguided in the matters of faith. We are planning to reach this place again this year in July during the winter school holidays. Our plan is to plant a church there if the Lord permits. It was encouraging to see some church members willing to go out to evangelize. It was very hot but they endured the heat and went out to share the gospel.
We encountered a man who is in Judaism religion. I reasoned with him from the Scriptures. He twists the clear Old Testament Scriptures that speaks about Christ like Isaiah 53. It was really a challenge since he doesn’t believe in the New Testament Scriptures. I have seen the importance of Apologetics. I’m planning to make time and visit him and reason with him to show him that Jesus Christ is the Messiah from the Old Testament.
On 26 December 2024 there was a wedding. One of our young men in the church got married. His wife comes from Amazing Grace Baptist Church Mchipisi where Pastor Kenneth is pastoring. We thank God that we had two weddings last year. The other one was in April where one of our young ladies got married. She also married a brother from AGBC Mchipisi. The youth at our church have been encouraged and inspired by these weddings. We praise God for these marriages.
My family was owning an Isuzu KB 300 bakkie that we had purchased from the Raleys who were missionaries from the US serving with Samaria Mission. In the beginning we wanted to sell our Polo Vivo and secure the double cab bakkie. Later we decided to keep both. We haad seen the need for both. We also used to our bakkie to use for mission work in Mozambique. We ended up selling it to the mission to continue using for mission work. The mission bought it from us. There is a need for constructing our house. We currently have a two bed room house and we have three children. We need more room. So we are intending to build and that is the major reason why we sold it. The other thing is that we could not afford two vehicles because of the drying of the other support we had. We are keeping the Polo for its fuel consumption is much better.
In our year planner we are planning to have a marriage seminar this year in April. We had one in 2023 and was so enriching so we are planning to have another one this year. Evangelism will be one aspect of ministry that we would want to strengthen. We ministry that we will focus on as well encouraging unity among believers through fellowships and home cells.
From time to time we have men’s fellowship at our church. We were able to have one on in January. There is a number of young men and we seek to groom them and disciple them. It’s great time of sharing and eating together. Some of these young men are in tertiary institutions and some are still in high school and few of them are working.
We thank God our church plant is 1 year 6 months now. In July last year we joined them as they celebrated 1 year anniversary. We had a tent evangelism during the week which ended with the celebration. The church is coming along very well. Pastor Stanford Chauke and his wife are the pastoral family there. The Lord is using them to impact the church and the community.
The church wants to start making bricks to make a structure because now they are still gathering at Kairos Abounding Love Academy hall. This is a school owned by Sanford and his wife. The church there already has a church site but they need to develop it so that they can move into it. And they still need to pay the balance they owe for purchasing the church site.
Since the church started we used to assemble together with the Nyavani church once a month when we have Lord’s Supper. This year and going forward they will be on their own and we will only meet with them three times a year to continue the fellowship and working together. The church must be able to stand on her own so that she may grow. We will be assisting in any way that we will see fit and are able to assist.
We look forward to a fruitful year. We also have a plan to drilling borehole at our church. We will be raising funds through contributions from church members and asking for donations to drill a borehole. There is a need for water in our church property for various uses. We pray that this project may be a success.
We appreciate the support that we receive from Harvest Missions. Words of encouragement, checking on us, thinking about us, partnering with us for the gospel work and assisting us financially both monthly and through once off gifts. The support we are receiving is helping us a lot. We are able to meet some of our needs. We are so thankful to God for Harvest Missions for the wonderful work they are doing in our lives, church and God’s kingdom at large. Without their support we would not be where we are today.
May God continue to bless you all brethren with your families and churches and all donors.
Praise and Prayer Items
- Praise God for building His church.
- Thank God for the weddings we had last year and pray that they will glorify God.
- Pray for the marriage seminar we plan to host in April
- Please pray that the Word of God will increase and bear fruit.
- Please pray that the borehole drilling project may be successful.
- Pray for spiritual growth and perseverance
Yours in Christ’s Service,
Aaron Ndove
Amazing Grace Baptist Church Xigalo
