Discipleship Impact - 2024 Newsletter

 

“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.

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