Survival & Flourishing - LTLA Update - October 2024

 

Dear LTLA Friends, When you receive this email, I will be en route to Zimbabwe. I covet your prayers as I meet with Arthur Nhau, LTLA Director in Zimbabwe, and the team leaders. We are asking the Lord to guide us as we evaluate this past year and plan for the future. As we make plans, may we delight in the Lord and see the Lord establish our steps to accomplish his purposes through Life to Life Africa. (Psalm 37:23; Proverbs 16:9 & 19:21) God created us to depend on him. Our survival and flourishing spiritually as well as physically require us to depend upon God for his redeeming work in our lives. My report from Zimbabwe this month speaks of how the LTLA team is influencing the next generation to trust in the Lord for their spiritual and physical flourishing. Each October, the LTLA Training Ministry team invites students and alumni for a weekend conference where they are encouraged as followers and laborers for the Lord. Typically they invite a friend of the ministry who has a vibrant walk with the Lord to provide messages. This year due to a late change in conference dates the invited speaker was not able to attend, so the LTLA team took turns as speakers along with the help of Pastor Clarence, who married former LTLA team member, Anna.  Arthur reports that it was a good developmental experience for the team members he has been training. They also utilized alumni from our student ministry to help lead workshops along with students sharing testimonies and devotionals. You will hear a story from the conference in our year-end letter later this month. It is encouraging to see the fruit of our discipleship efforts among those to whom we are ministering.

LTLA Student and Alumni Conference group photo.

Simba and Pamela brought eight students from Mutare for the conference. God is at work through their pioneering efforts!

I also want to share about the individual efforts that the LTLA team members are making to model trusting the Lord to survive and flourish in the midst of the economic challenges in Zimbabwe. The video below shows Brian with his wife, Privilege, working in their vegetable garden where Brian is applying the Biblically practical principles we teach in growing food. He has established a large garden so he can provide income from vegetable sales and food for his family.  On this trip I am taking a tuft gun to Prestege who has been inspired by the sewing training she received in recent months. She is excited about her efforts in rug making and sees this as an opportunity to provide extra income for her family. These are just two efforts that I have heard about in the last month from LTLA team members. Would you pray for Brian and Prestege in their efforts to model trusting the Lord in their efforts to provide for their families? Pray with us as we continue to help people survive and flourish as they, "trust in the Lord with all their heart." (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Brian and Privilege working in their garden. Link:  https://youtube.com/shorts/pEIaBZYUwMQ?feature=shared

Prestege made this rug for her daughter while she was pregnant.

Trusting in the Lord to survive and flourish, Mike Sulc  Life to Life Africa