Torkild and the team have been away on a children’s crusade, a nine days trip and a total of 1300 km roundtrip. They went to a village called Mlowa, between Dodoma and Iringa and managed to drive this long distance without one single puncture.
The crusade was one of the best we ever had. The inviting church had only 14 members, however we trust that the crusade will make a big difference to them.
We heard the local population express, “How incredible that such a little, poor church was able to arrange all of this; we never experienced such a thing before!”
On the very first day, a young man came forward to be saved. He was in such anguish and could not wait till the next day, so he bowed his knees in the grass and the pastor led him in the sinner’s prayer.
During the film presentation that night an additional five young people wanted to accept Jesus as Saviour. The day after, four secondary students came to accept Jesus. Something wonderful happened each day.
During the Sunday service a young lady from the guesthouse where Torkild and the team were staying, stood up and said, “I want to give my life to Jesus, I want to belong to him!”
Experiences like these are such a great encouragement in our efforts to preach the gospel at remote villages.
At the picture, the young people that accepted Jesus during that week have lined up in front of the little church. We were pleased to see them again at the church service on Sunday morning.
As you can tell, the church was crowded on that Sunday morning. What a joy! To Jesus be all the honour.
The local Christians are in the process of building a somewhat larger church at present and Torkild would be delighted if we can collect some money for the roof plates, as they have the timber, but not the money for roof plates.
If any of you would like to donate an amount for roof plates, please send the money to our IBAN Account: DK 7097 1207 4179 3075, Swift/Bic code: JYSPDK21 and earmark it ”Roof plates.”
One roof plate is DKK 65.- and it takes about 40 plates to cover the whole church.
I must admit that I really admire Torkild for doing all the trips that he does! He is setting out again and again and usually the places where they stay are in real poor condition.
On his return home he is always very tired and needs a lot of rest before starting out again.
Some of our friends in Denmark spend a lot of time making pretty little dresses and blouses for the children in Africa. Torkild usually takes a portion of them on each crusade. Have a look at the children before and after! They are so excited, and the parents not the least.
Thank you so much for your prayers, for us and the ministry. It is a tremendous encouragement to know that you are standing with us!
With Love
Tabitha and Torkild
The father disappeared and they have had no contact with him for several years. Ruth is a bright girl in school. Her school decided to sponsor her schooling because they are really poor. For various reasons the school recently shut down and Ruth had to find another school.
The mother cannot afford to send Ruth to another school. Ruth’s grandfather is a Maasai and he wants to have her back in Maasai land. He does not want a girl to get eductaed, but instead follow the Maasai traditions for girls: to be married. Maasais think that only boys should get educated.
Ruth’s mother told me that Ruth’s grandfather had received an offer from an elderly, wealthy Maasai who wanted to pay a very large dowry in the form of many cows in order to marry Ruth. Ruth had been desperate because she wanted to stay in school, get her education and choose her husband when the time was ripe. For this reason the mother and Ruth came to our office asking for help.
We trusted God and sent Ruth to a good, Christian school where she is thriving.
We received a sponsor who will support her until Form 4 is completed. But Ruth wishes to continue for another two years and graduate from High School. If any of you would like to support Ruth for a few more years please write us or send a gift to our missions account. Please earmark it “Ruth”.
