Thomas, Diana, Drought & ZiG - LTLA Prayer Bulletin - April 2024

 

Dear Praying Friends, Fellow Life to Life Ministry staff, Thomas Gilbert, is currently in Zimbabwe for a three week trip to visit our team. Would you join in praying for him as he seeks to encourage Arthur Nhau, Life to Life Africa director in ZImbabwe, along with the other 21 LTLA team members? This week he and Arthur are visiting Simba & Pamela who recently moved to Mutare, the third largest city in Zimbabwe. They are encouraging and guiding this young couple as they seek to launch a ministry effort to college students since there are 3 universities and 1 polytechnic in Mutare.

Arthur, Thomas & Simba in front of Mutare Polytechnic.

We also ask for your prayers for Diana, a long time and faithful LTLA team member, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. You may remember that she accompanied our other team member, Tsungai, for her cancer radiation treatments in Harare, the capital, last year. Like Tsungai, Diana is needing radiation treatments for her cancer which will cost $4,000. We would like to assist Diana with these treatments. If you are able to help toward this need you can send a check payable to Life to Life Africa, writing Diana on the memo line. See below for the address where to send a check. Thank you for considering how you can help with this need.

Diana has led our efforts in training families in sustainable farming and helped us launch our weekly Children of Hope Bible study for children living at the landfill.

Zimbabweans have been dealt more bad news in recent weeks with the official declaration of a drought, which is considered one of the worst in 40 years. We typically stop food distribution for four months after the families we serve harvest their corn, but this year they have harvested very little if anything. We may need to continue providing food for these families if the government is not able to assist them. To do so it would cost an additional $7,000 beyond what we have budgeted. Your gifts to help us feed these families will be greatly appreciated. Click here for an article about the drought:  The Zimbabwean government has also introduced a new currency (ZiG- for Zimbabwe Gold) which unsurprisingly is predicted to fail due to the lack of confidence that Zimbabweans have in their leaders. The sad reality is that people lose their savings when the government introduces new currencies. This will be the fourth failed currency in Zimbabwe since 2008. Click here to read how this currency change is affecting Zimbabweans.  Thank you for standing with us as we show the love of Christ in real tangible ways to the people of Zimbabwe who are experiencing difficult hardships in this troubled world. Gifts toward Diana and/or for Food Distribution can be sent via check to: Life to Life Africa PMB 344 10151 University Blvd Orlando, FL 32817 Loving others because Jesus loved us, Mike Sulc Life to Life Africa