Receive our warm greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. We are eternally grateful for Kitwe Church’s support of our church-planting endeavours in South Sudan, and we continually cherish your invaluable prayers as we toil. As we are in the trenches of South Sudan serving our Master, we would like to bring the following updates to your attention.

BLESSINGS

We thank God for His care and provision to the two Missionary families of Juma and Yokoju. We are doing relatively well spiritually and physically. We are glad that our church is fully registered with the Bureau of Religious Affairs of the Republic of South Sudan and that we officially have a Post office box number. We can be reached at COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH, PO BOX 378 JUBA.

We are pleased that our regular church activities continue, including personal and corporate evangelism, to reach our community. We appreciate God for some evangelistic offers in some schools around our community. Our attendance is numerically growing to a tune of 80, which is made up mostly of women and children and a few men.

A growing number of the deaf community are also joining our prayer services. We can at least receive seven regular attendees to all our church activities. We have scheduled Tuesday from 3:00 to 5:00 P.m. as time for the deaf Bible studies. This program is intended to reach them with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and it is going well. We also do our general Bible studies every Friday from 5:00 to 6:00 P.m.

CHALLENGES

  • Firstly, we fervently need church land on which to direct those we reach to our permanently pitched tent.
  • Secondly, some denominations have continued to discourage others from coming to our fellowship because they think we are a cult- an accusation we know is false.
  • Thirdly, we face the continued struggle of religious syncretism, which we think is because of the influence of Catholicism.
  • Fourthly, we struggle with the transport challenge. Though there is a means of transport, it has many breakdowns, and besides, it is not enough to accommodate the two families.
  • Fifthly, much money is spent to clear medical bills due to frequent attacks of the families from Malaria and typhoid.
  • Sixthly, there is an abnormal increase in house rent by the landlords, making our families unstable.
  • Finally, the approach by some churches to meeting the physical needs of the people has made some of them think we are inhumane because we don’t help the disabled and the unemployed majority of our attendees.

PRAYER REQUESTS

  • Pray for our spiritual and physical health
  • Pray for faithfulness in ministry.
  • Pray for clarity in our exposition of Scripture.
  • Pray for the salvation of souls through our evangelistic endeavours.
  • Pray for the acquisition of church land.
  • Pray for volunteers to be trained to serve the deaf community in our church.
  • Pray for volunteers to serve in our Junior Church.
  • Pray for another means of transport(car).

Soli Deo Gloria (1 Cor. 10:31)
South Sudan Missionary Team