As we finish another year in which God has sustained the ministry efforts of Life to Life Africa through your prayers and financial contributions, we want to share with you words of thankfulness from those to whom we minister. You heard from the young generation in our Thanksgiving greeting so we want to share words of gratitude from the older men and women whom we serve in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe.
Lina Mukuwo
My name is Lina Mukowo. I am a widow who cares for six grandchildren who lost their father. Life to Life Ministry helps me provide food for my grandchildren and has trained me in how to grow a plot of corn to supplement our food needs. My grandchildren and I are also receiving spiritual nourishment through the ministry as we are encouraged to grow in our faith in Jesus. I am grateful for the spiritual and physical support I am receiving through Life to Life Ministry.
Mr. Terekwani
My name is Murambiwa Tarekwani. I am grateful to those who give to Life to Life Ministry, because the support makes it possible for me to receive the medication I need as a stroke survivor. Through the ministry I am also encouraged spiritually through the Men of Hope meetings that I attend. Thank you for your support.
Linda Dutiro
My name is Linda Dutiro. I have been involved with the Life to Life Ministry Women of Hope meetings for some time now. The meetings and fellowship have helped me grow in my relationship with Christ. I am especially thankful for the discipleship follow-up meetings that I have with Life to Life team members which have really helped me in my walk with Christ. I am grateful for Life to Life Ministry and those who support such a noble cause.
Thank you for your prayerful support of this ministry. Year-end gifts provide close to a third of our annual budget. If you have not contributed and would like to do so you can mail a check to:
Life to Life Africa PMB 344 10151 University Blvd Orlando, FL 32817
For an online option, you can use "Bill Pay" from your online bank account. Typically your bank will mail a check as you provide the address for Life to Life Africa listed above but if they require the Life to Life Africa bank account and routing number please contact me for those details. If you have any other questions regarding financial contributions feel free to contact me.
“I was going to divorce my husband,” Barbara Romeo shared with LTLA team members, Diana and Jane. She and her husband were struggling in their marriage, burdened by the stress of poverty. Diana and Jane live in her neighborhood and reached out to her as our ministry follows the model Christ established in sending out his disciples two by two. (Mark 6:7) The LTLA Community Ministry team goes out in pairs every Friday to meet with people.
In January, Barbara made a decision to receive Christ when Diana and Jane shared a Gospel illustration with her on a Friday morning. Now they meet each week for a discipleship Bible study. Barbara attributes the saving of her marriage to giving her life to Christ and the discipleship she is receiving from Diana and Jane. She is so excited about her new life in Christ that she is sharing her testimony with her neighbors. One of her neighbors now attends the weekly Bible study but has not yet given her life to Christ, so Barbara invites us to pray for her. You may recall that LTLA team member, Diana, had surgery for cancer in April this year. Jane carried on meeting with Barbara and the other ladies in Diana’s absence, but Diana has rejoined them now that she has regained strength.
(L to R) Jane, Barbara & Diana
Among the young people in Chinhoyi, the LTLA Training Ministry team has also been faithful in discipling the next generation. Messiah is in his early twenties and he has been involved with LTLA since his first year of high school. LTLA team member, Zviko, has been discipling Messiah and calls him a “faithful, available and teachable” guy. He always has a smile even though life has been hard as he struggled to get the needed scores in order to go to college. LTLA assisted him in receiving tutoring to achieve the required scores. We are now sponsoring him as he pursues a degree in development studies at the Catholic University of Zimbabwe. Last month after attending the LTLA student & alumni conference, he was involved in helping a young lady, Blessing, pray to receive Christ.
Messiah
The other person involved in Blessing coming to Christ is Ivai, an alum of our ministry at Chinhoyi Univ of Technology. Ivai was discipled by Marvelous, a LTLA team member, initially via WhatsApp calls and messages during the pandemic. Once they were able to meet in person, they met weekly to continue encouraging each other in the Lord. She returned for the conference last month as an alumnus and helped with a workshop on our identity in Christ. At the conference she was challenged to share her faith without shame by a student’s devotional from Romans 1:16. That propelled her to share the Gospel with Blessing, a young lady who caught a ride in the van that was carrying Ivai, Messiah and others from the conference. Upon hearing the Gospel, Blessing was ready to pray to receive Christ but Ivai wasn't sure how to do that so Messiah offered to lead her in prayer.
Ivai and Marvelous
From what we read on Messiah’s shirt, the LTLA team has learned that, “We are stronger together.” Thank you for your partnership with us that makes us stronger together. We ask for your support as we seek to see the impact of Christ focused discipleship continue into next year.
To give you can send a check payable to:
Life to Life Africa PMB 344 10151 University Blvd Orlando, FL 32817
For an online option, you can use "Bill Pay" from your online bank account. Here are the details you may need for sending money to the Life to Life Ministry bank account:
For an online option, you can use "Bill Pay" from your online bank account. Typically your bank will mail a check as you provide the address for Life to Life Africa listed above but if they require the Life to Life Africa bank account and routing number please contact me for those details. If you have any other questions regarding financial contributions feel free to contact me.
We at Life to Life Africa wish to extend our warm Thanksgiving greetings. Thank you for your support in prayer and finances of our efforts to share the love of God and disciple young and old among orphans, widows, the poor as well as college students in Zimbabwe! It is not only our team that are grateful but also those to whom we minister. Over the remaining weeks of this year, we will share how grateful young and old in Zimbabwe are for the ministry of Life to Life Africa.
Today, we will share words of thankfulness from elementary and high school students who participate in the weekly Saturday youth LTLA meetings:
"My name is Ethan. I am 11 years old and I am in Grade 5. I would like to thank Life to Life for providing a place on Saturdays where I can spend time with friends playing games, memorizing verses like Philippians 4:4, 'Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice,' along with eating cookies and juice."
"My name is Kupakwashe. I am 12 years old and I am in Grade 6. I want to thank Life to Life for the opportunity to attend Bible study on Saturdays. It helps me alot and the teachers are lovely."
"My name is Mthulisi. I am 13 years old and I am in Grade 6. I would like to thank Life to Life for teaching us the Bible and for a place to play games and eat cookies and drink juice. I want to say thank you for helping us with school fees. Thank you for everything you do for us. THANK YOU LIFE TO LIFE!"
I would like to share with you through photos the encouraging news from my recent trip to Zimbabwe. God is at work through the efforts of the Life to Life Africa team in Chinhoyi and in Mutare. Your prayers and financial support are instrumental in the progress we are seeing as the LTLA team presses forward in advancing God's Kingdom. Thank you!!
Tatenda leading a lesson with the LTLA Youth Bible Study.
Shelton and Lunga, LTLA Community Ministry team members on the left, distribute corn plot inputs to people whose plots were inspected for readiness to plant. We thank the Lord as rains have been watering the land. Please pray for continued timely rains for the corn to grow this season. Last year Zimbabwe experienced a very bad drought which prevented people from harvesting what they needed to feed their families.
LTLA Sewing Group meets every Monday afternoon to fill the orders they are receiving from people in the community. The orders are helping build the group's sewing skills and the income is helping provide some ministry funds.
Brandon (left), a young man we have been discipling, is helping install a fence in preparation for having the dogs at the LTLA Community Center patrol the area around the broiler chicken coop which can be seen back to the right. The fence will keep the dogs out of the vegetable gardens where we are growing food for the ministry and for sale in the community.
Our first batch of broiler chicks. They will be ready for sale for all the Christmas celebrations in the community. This will be a year-round income project for the ministry as chicken is the primary source of protein in Zimbabwe.
I traveled to Mutare, the third largest city in Zimbabwe, where I visited Simba and Pamela. They have launched our ministry efforts among the college students at the five colleges and universities in that city. God has opened wide the doors for ministry at these schools, especially Manicaland State University where the administrators want to see the students impacted spiritually.
Pamela (far left) and Marvelous (far right) hosted these young ladies from Manicaland State University for a sleepover during our visit. They are some of the 30 students who are in Bible study. Marvelous accompanied me from Chinhoyi. She had spent a week in Mutare in June with a team from the US and she had met these girls last month at the LTLA Student & Alumni Conference.
Tinotenda, fruit from the LTLA Youth Ministry in Chinhoyi, also accompanied me to Mutare. He plans to enroll at Mutare Polytechnic, where he will continue his mechanical engineering studies and will help Simba launch a ministry to students on that campus.
Mike with Simba and Rev Paul Neshangwe. I had the privilege to meet Rev Paul Neshangwe who was instrumental in helping Ron Shimkus launch Life to Life Africa in Chinhoyi. He is now the pastor at the Presbyterian Church in Mutare where Simba and Pamela are becoming members. As we start ministering in Mutare we are very encouraged to have the support of Rev Paul, who is excited to reconnect with Life to Life Africa.
