Missions Teams in Zim

May 17, 2017


Dear Friends, Your prayers are needed as one missions team is finishing their time in Chinhoyi this week and another arrives today in Zimbabwe. The LTLA team is staying busy hosting "murungus" (white people) who are visiting from Florida, Iowa and Michigan.

University of Central Florida Team

Tara & Thomas Gilbert with Shane Thomas arrived in Zimbabwe May 4.

Thomas & Tara Gilbert, who direct the Life to Life Ministry at University of Central Florida (UCF), have enjoyed serving with the LTLA team for a couple of weeks alongside Shane Thomas, a student leader from their ministry in Orlando. Thomas is a favorite of the team as he has ministered in Chinhoyi many times. He is introducing Tara & Shane on their first visit with their African teammates in disciple-making ministry. I am looking forward to being with them for the last few days of their trip: I arrive in Zim today!

The LTLA & UCF Teams outfitted with Life to Life Ministry shirts on the Chinhoyi University of Technology campus.

Iowa State University Team

The ISU team (Abby Rubsam, Rebecca Lyons, Ezra Iliff, Monica Thornton, Cameron Naglak, Emily Robison, Emily Jonas, Parker Robison & Abbey Lingenfelter) launched from Chicago on May 15 and arrive in Zimbabwe on May 17.

The Navigators ministry at Iowa State has sent another team to serve God's kingdom work in Zimbabwe. Parker & Emily Robison are leading this team. The team will spend their first two weeks in Chinhoyi with the LTLA ministry, experiencing the different aspects of the work. The first weekend of June they will participate in a discipleship retreat, hosted by the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Navigators. Some LTLA laborers will join with them in that retreat, continuing their relational time together. At the beginning of June, the ISU team will join a Week in the Word program with UZ students for mutual spiritual encouragement, as well as serving together at the Hands of Hope farm. I am excited for this continued partnership with the ISU & Zimbabwe Navigators! God is at work in the midst of our ministries and it is a joy to co-labor together.

Hopevale Team Member & Internships

Kait prepared and served this millet porridge meal for our Critical Care Center orphans last year. 

Kait Rethman is returning to Chinhoyi for her third time as a representative of Hopevale Church for a two and a half month internship. We are very excited to have her with us, for her heart for ministry, and for her experience and expertise. She will be conducting a nutrition study with a professor at Chinhoyi University of Technology, which also will fulfill requirements for her dietetics program. Two of the ISU students, Abby & Monica, will stay for a month after their Nav trip to help her in this study; they are also dietetics students. Another ISU student, Emily, will also remain an additional month to serve at a partnering organization, Foundations for Farming. It encourages me that we can help these students in gaining internship experiences that stimulate their educational and spiritual development. I am eager to hear what they learn through the experience, and to share it with you. 


Would you pray that these teams allow God to work in and through them for His pleasure and glory? (Philippians 2;13; 1 Peter 4;11)


Gratefully in Him,

Mike Sulc
Life to Life Africa