A number of our blog readers have asked us to communicate some updated prayer requests every couple of months, so I have been trying to put something up every two months or so. Here is a list of update praises and prayer requests:
1. Thank God that Jana safely delivered our daughter, Moriah Hope, on 7 July!
2. Thank God for sustaining the spiritual growth of his children, us and our Tanzanian brethren.
3. Thank God that we have been able to complete the construction of the parsonage in Sengerema.
4. Thank God that I have had a number of discipleship opportunities and edifying conversations with the pastors and students since our family returned from Nairobi in July. Pray that there would be many more fruitful opportunities like these in the coming months.
5. Ask God to make the three 40-hour weeks of Bible Institute, 5-23 September, a very productive time for learning and spiritual development for the students. I will be teaching "Acts and Pauline Epistles," "General Epistles," and "The Life of a Pastor and His Ministry." This will be my first time teaching for this length of time in Swahili, so I would appreciate your prayers as well.
6. Ask God to help us as we assist in the construction of a church building in Sengerema. We expect to start sometime in the next two months.
7. Pray for Jana and me, that we would grow stronger in our love and faithfulness to our Lord during the next two months.
Interesting. We start our new teaching assignments on the same day, except mine is a night class. I start at 7pm local time and we're 5 hours ahead of you. So, when you come back after lunch, we'll just be getting started.
Posted by: joseph | 24 August 2011 at 02:00 PM