Merry Christmas from LTLA!

Dear LTLA Friends,

The Life to Life Africa team along with the Nhau and Sulc families would like to wish you a joyous Christmas celebrating the greatest gift of all, God's love shown to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. May you experience Him richly this season and in the New Year. (Ephesians 2:4-5)


Grateful for you!
Mike Sulc, Arthur Nhau
and the Life to Life Africa Team

Life to Life Africa Team
Standing: Patricia, Faith, Mildred, Ottilia, Shelton, Marvelous, Arthur, Brian, & Bigger
Seated: Stella, Jane, Gogo Mildred, Diana, Itai, Kate, & Tatenda

Arthur, Mildred, Donnell, & Daisy Nhau

Mike, Julie, Johanna, & Micaela Sulc

Lolos, Scones, Purses, & Vegetables

Greetings LTLA Friends,   

We are extremely grateful for the financial support we are receiving to help launch us into 2019. Thank you!! If you have not contributed and would like to do so, you can write a check to Life to Life Africa and mail it to:

Life to Life Africa
PMB 344
10151 University Blvd
Orlando, FL 32817


One of the Life to Life Africa goals is to develop entrepreneurial capacity among our team and those we serve, as well as to develop financial support in Zimbabwe that will help the ministry become self-sustaining. I would like to share with you some examples of how members of the LTLA team are engaging in small business enterprises to provide additional income for their families and to provide financial support for the ministry.


"Lolos" & Scones

LTLA assisted Mildred Nhau, wife of Arthur who directs the ministry in Zimbabwe, with taking a short course in establishing a baking business at Chinhoyi Univ of Technology. She has always loved to bake and is now joyfully filling orders for birthday and wedding cakes as well as treats for special occasions. Her baking business is now employing, Privilege, whose husband, Brian, serves on the LTLA team. Mildred bakes scones and Privilege packs them into containers and takes them into town to sell. She is finding a good market along the long fuel lines as people wait to purchase cooking gas and petrol for their vehicles. This small business is providing additional income in a challenging economy for two families.

Mildred (r) bakes the scones and pays a commission to Privilege (l) for selling them.

Scone dough and baked scones coming out of Mildred's stove.

Mildred is tapping into another market, selling "lolos" (popsicles) to the multitude of students that walk by her house on their way to the nearby high school. She adds baobab fruit powder into the mixture to provide more nutritional value. The photos and video below show her business in action. She is certainly setting a good example in entrepreneurship and as a Proverbs 31 woman to the other team members and those we serve.

Thomas Gilbert helped Mildred make "lolos" (popsicles) on our last trip to Chinhoyi.

Mildred (holding "lolos") while Tsungai sells them to the waiting students at their gate.

Purses & Vegetables

The LTLA Sewing Club meets every Friday afternoon to make purses and other items. They are gaining skills in sewing and in developing their own businesses. The resulting income will benefit their families and will serve as a small funding source for the ministry. I am returning with these purses to sell here, so let me know if you would like to purchase one. We are considering other items they can make that will be marketable here in the US.

Patricia, Tsungai & Itai cutting material to make purses.

Diana (l) and Gari sewing purses.

The latest enterprise by the team to support the ministry is growing vegetables at the LTLA Community Center and selling them. This enterprise is showing strong potential and we are considering ways to improve its output. Below is a photo of some who are involved in this enterprise and a short video tour of the vegetable garden:

Patricia, Kate, Tsungai, Diana, Itai, Faith & Gari
comprise some of the LTLA Vegetable Gardening Team.

Prestege, an orphan to whom LTLA has ministered for years,
and who is now in college, has reengaged with the LTLA team
during her college semester break. She will serve with the team
until she returns for her final semester in late February.

Thank you for your support as we seek to create a Christ-centered discipling movement that impacts every aspect of life in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe!   

Mike Sulc 

Life to Life Africa

“Life to Life Africa Has Influenced Me in Every Aspect of My Life.”

“I was born and raised in Chinhoyi. My father died when I was 8 and my mother died when I was 12,” shares Prestege, an orphan whom Life to Life Africa has ministered to since before she lost her mother. “Life was hard considering the fact that I became an orphan at an early age and the Zimbabwe economy collapsed the year after my mother died. Life was terrible after both of my parents died. It was better when I had ‘mum’ around, we could have our small lump of ‘sadza’ (cornmeal mash) and greens two times a day everyday but when she passed I could go for days without food.”

Prestege when she was in high school.

Prestege’s family was being assisted with food distribution and clinic care by LTLA before her mother passed away. Her older sister, Anna, became the head of household at 17. To assist her efforts in supporting she and her sisters, LTLA provided Anna the opportunity to work in the Critical Care Center for pre-school orphans.

Prestege speaks of the influence that LTLA has had on her life. “Jesus Christ became meaningful in my life when I was 16. Life was starting to get better since my older sister Anna was working at LTLA. Before that I believed that God did not love me the same way He loved my siblings, Anna & younger twin sisters. But through the LTLA youth Bible studies, I learned that God loved me so much and all the suffering was a training ground for me. I received Jesus Christ through Gogo Mildred, an LTLA leader.”

A family in Ames, IA specifically contributed to help Prestege progress through school. She received a scholarship to attend university after high school and is currently in her final year at university majoring in Development Studies, a social science program that emphasizes approaches to reducing poverty. To complete her degree, she was required to undertake a 1-year internship and was able to do that with LTLA starting July 2017. “I am taking this degree program because I feel like it can help me transform many lives.”

Prestege (front) helping at the LTLA Foundations for Farming training session.

Her internship experience with LTLA impacted her significantly. “I am learning to be patient with other people like how God was with the people of Israel. To be where I am there have been patient people with me. The LTLA team has helped me to get back to my feet spiritually and taught me how to love others. They have taught me what God is all about. LTLA supports me in every aspect of my life and has contributed greatly for me to be where I am right now.”

Would you help us continue impacting and investing in the next generation in Zimbabwe for God’s kingdom and glory? 

Our reserves are low and our operational budget in Zimbabwe is currently $10,000 monthly. Expenditures are increasing as Zimbabwe is facing another economic collapse like in 2008. 

 Your special gift or monthly commitment will enable us to continue in 2019. Thank you for considering how you can help. (Checks can be mailed to Life to Life Ministries, PMB 344, 10151 University Blvd, Orlando, FL 32817.) Your prayers and financial support make this possible.

Thank you!
Mike Sulc
Life to Life Africa