Greetings LTLA friends,
Arthur Nhau, Director of Life to Life Africa in Chinhoyi, just sent the following update:
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Below is a brief summary of what God is doing through our efforts in the various ministries under Life to Life Africa:
Food Distribution/Foundations for Farming
This season we have had good rains and the families we serve are expecting a bumper harvest in the corn plots they were trained to plant in our Foundations for Farming efforts. Most dams, rivers and lakes have been filled to capacity with water (Zechariah 10:1). We are so grateful to God for we once received this kind of good rains decades ago and we pray that this will draw our nation even more closely to God.
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| Families collect corn meal, beans & a cabbage twice per month. |
Critical Care Center
This program cares for the malnourished children in our community. We are always encouraged as some come in critical condition but after a while they begin to regain their health. We pray that these young ones will continue to grow as Christ in "wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men." (Luke 2:52)
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| Critical Care Center children holding clothes and shoes they received from LTLA. |
Ambassadors
Our LTLA team serve as ambassadors for Christ in the community as we wrestle in prayer and teach the families in our program how to walk with God spiritually and how to sustain themselves practically through income generating projects like farming, sewing, selling dried fish and other entrepreneurial endeavors. (Colossians 1:9-13)
Discipleship
This year God provided internships in Chinhoyi for Simba and Zviko, two university students we are discipling. I am really encouraged that these men have caught the vision to reproduce and multiply as each weekend they are going on campus to do evangelism and discipleship on their own. Pray that they will become a thousand and a mighty nation. (Isaiah 60:22) Also pray that students will encounter Christ as they dig into the scriptures together during our weekly Bible study group.
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| Simba, Tatenda, and Zviko. |
Men of Hope
This is a group of men that meet every other Saturday. Many of them are elderly and attend faithfully since they see this gathering as their “church." Most of them cannot read or write so we read out load for them or use the Proclaimer. (A device that plays a recording of the Bible in the Shona language. It was a gift from Pleasant Ridge Church in Glidden, IA.) We are always amazed at how they grasp the Word and reflect on it. Pray for Lunga (who is leading the group) that God will fill him with knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding and that these men like Caleb will take on giants with God's help, even in old age. (Joshua 14:10-12)
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| Men of Hope listening to the Bible in their native tongue via the Proclaimer. (A gift from Pleasant Ridge Church in Glidden, IA.) |
Women of Hope
The women in our ministry gather after the men and are also passionate about meeting together. Most of these elderly women can memorize scripture which really challenges the younger generation. Pray that Gogo Mildred, who leads this group, will continue to renew her strength in the Lord and that out of this group God will raise up “Lydias" and "Samaritan women." (Acts 16:13-15; John 4)
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| Women of Hope meeting at the LTLA Life Dicipleship Center. |
Primary & High School Ministry
For over six years Anna hosted in her home our weekly Bible study group for primary and high school orphans. In February, she got married to Clarence, a pastor in a town 2 hours away. We pray that He who began a good work in her will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6) Pray for our team as we carry on the discipleship efforts Anna pioneered among the next generation.
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| Anna and Clarence. |
We always thank God every time we remember you. In all our prayers for all of you, we pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel. We are thankful that even as we draw closer to presidential elections in our country next year, the political environment has been quiet and we pray that God will give us God fearing leaders.
-Arthur Nhau
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Mike Sulc
Life to Life Africa
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