Here at Interface we are “tracking” with the missionaries that live & work among the Akolets. This month they have begun to teach the Bible for the first time!!! Here is a short writeup of how the first couple days have gone. Will you be a part by praying for the salvation of the Akolets, and the missionaries who are teaching the lessons each day??
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Rich Foster teaching Bible lessons to Bena Villagers
Five more Bena villagers have accepted Jesus Christ!!! It’s so exciting to hear their testimonies! God has brought them from “darkness into light”. There are so many more villagers who are confused and are following other religions. Just on the road from town to Interface, there are 5 different churches, all proclaiming to preach the truth. They are all mixed up, and only have bits & pieces of the truth. Pray that more will come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ & His finished work on the cross. Continue reading
Thank you for praying with us these past weeks as the Bena have been hearing God’s “talk”. We are very happy to share with you an update from our co-workers, Rich & Dawn Foster.
We are thrilled to make known to you the newest Bena believers – Heva & Junais (young married couple); Jonson (our landowner; Heva’s father); Siyo & Sefe (an older married couple from a different Bena village who have been living in our area). We are so thankful to God that He has drawn these people to Himself, and He has ‘opened their thinking’ (given them understanding – The unfolding of Your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple Ps 119:130) to the Gospel message. He continually amazes me with His awesome grace – none of us deserve salvation and freedom from sin (this group of 5 included), but there He is, extending Himself to sinful man so that we can be brought into a right relationship with a holy God – completely amazing! Continue reading
Interface is very close to the Bena village, where Rich & Dawn Foster, work as missionaries. Rich has been teaching the Chronological Bible lessons and this week they began to hear about Christ’s death, burial & resurrection. Here is a short write up on what’s been happening:
This week is the beginning of the end of the Phase I teaching that has been going on at Heva’s place. In the teaching this morning, Jesus died. Tomorrow will be the teaching on the burial, resurrection and ascension and Friday and Monday they will re-explain from different perspectives the importance of Christ’s death and resurrection, our needed response of belief, and the distinction between those who believe and those who do not. There continues to be the same faithful group of about 10 and some others as well. Please be praying with us for the following people as well as whoever else the Lord brings to the teaching this week: Johnson and his wife Julie; Heva (hey-vuh) and his wife Junais (june-ice); Unepa (oo-nay-puh); Tako (taco) and his wife; and an older couple from neighboring village. Continue reading
To progress in the language that one is studying, one must master the art of storytelling. Any story will do, just tell the story in the most descriptive words that you can muster up. And so, this is how I managed to tell a very interesting story to our language helper one day. I dove in with how important it was to pray and how we all need to pray more for each other. I told him that we missionary ladies gather to pray every Friday morning. I wanted him to know that we were praying for him and his wife and the difficult situation they were in. Unfortunately, half way thru my “story”, I noticed a frown on his face and a bewildered look. I paused and asked, what’s wrong? What did I say? He & Pete started laughing and told me that I had used the word for “fight” instead of ”pray”. Both words sounded similar to me. We all had a good laugh as we realized what big juicy story I had told!!! Continue reading
One Saturday, Pete & the boys were taken on a two hour hike thru the bush to visit a Cassowary. This Cassowary was taken captive when it was young. It’s still not full grown. They put it in a large fenced- in cage. The guys said it was pretty cool to see up close. The Cassowary has a unique head, beautiful colors, and very large feet. We pulled some interesting facts from the internet on the Cassowary: Continue reading
