I’m trying to shorten my emails, but this has several short items.
I received a prophecy in 05 from a team at MorningStar Ministries in Charlotte that said, “God is going to give you things to do that men will say are impossible, but you will do them.” That was fulfilled when God enabled me to fund our early ministry even though my US business was basically stolen from me right when we started our first 2 house churches & I had to borrow money to get back to start working without even my business #.
Fulfilled again! I bought an internet modem that cost me about $180, but could see after a few days that the ISP was too slow to be much more than frustration. We went back to one of the ISP offices & were told to take it to the central office, but it was impossible, because African businesses don’t give refunds. My wife said, “Why bother, it’s impossible.” Even the man who surprisingly said, we could get a refund, later said he had no guarantees. But today we found out that the refund check has been cut & should be signed by tomorrow evening. Just in time, too! To run errands today (Tues) I changed what I had in my passport case of old Tanzania, Kenya, & Uganda shillings & we have about $3 left, I think. But we have food, phone credit & enough money to pick up the check, I hope soon.
Other Great Progress
We are starving for good literature in every country, but I met again with Ananie whom I learned about from a House2House contact at a conference. He told me that he is getting a shipping container in May of great World Missionary Press (wmpress.org) tracts & Bible Studies in several languages we can use, & near July Burundi will get it’s first shipping container with more of the Burundi languages to a director known by Bievnvenu. He also has a good quantity of literature that I can take with me to Burundi, some to give to Justus, who is coming from Uganda Thurs. & later we can get more for DRCongo. He also agreed to work with me to avoid high customs by shipping our electronics to his partially exempt ministry. HALLELUJAH!
Email From Bienvenu in Burundi
Dear Servants,
During this month we had a wonderful time doing trainings for all categories of people such as kids, youth, ladies and gentlemen in the ministry. The purpose of all these trainings is to awaken them for evangelism and discipleship.
From this month now, all the teams stated above will reach people of their gender, age and more-over people who share something in common (same background). This is wonderful since, from experience in evangelism ministry, it was sometimes difficult for young people to bring mature people to salvation, women to bring men to salvation, and vice versa because they don’t have the same priorities. It was slowing the evangelism and disciple making work.
Challenges:
- Three of our new converts, who were converted from Islam, were chased away by their families and 1 of them had her marriage cut off. It is common here in our ministry to see Muslims coming to Christ. Many of them were independent people but this month those 3 new converts were depending on their families or husbands.
Some leaders took each 1 and share the same house and all the basics. We’ll be praying for them until the Lord helps them get established.
- 2 of our active leaders were chased out of their doors, with their families, due to rent overdue. Their children were welcomed among our church families, husbands and wives will live separately in different families who welcomed until the Lord opens a door for them to have new houses where they can live again with their spouses and children.
Do seek the Lord for those families.
Prayerfully,
Bienvenu Bizimana
Bujumbura,
Burundi
His Personal letter to me
Hope you are fine,
I am passing through tough times financially. My daughter put a pearl in the ear which pained her so much and consumed money we don’t have to take her to the hospital. After checking with different hospitals without any success, we finally had it removed yesterday.
About your coming (with my wife), the expenses are as follows:
- Hotel $10 per day ($210) for 3 weeks.
- Meals $10 per day $210 for 3 weeks
- Transport $5 per day: $105 for 3 weeks
- Seminar $100 per wk: $300 for 3 weeks
Total $835
Due to rent overdue, I am looking for a house for living in poor but insecure quarters. Your coming will depend on it, that’s why I will be moving ASAP.
When do you send money for printing job, missionary work and me (for assistance)?
I replied telling him I’m broke, but will bring at least the $300 for missionary work to Burundi, hopefully next week after we get paid for a computer & some other electronics. If any one wants to specify a donation to help him personally or the $100 we planned for literature production assistance or whatever, or Bibles for DRCongo or Uganda, I’ll use it that way.
5 April, 2008 News from our Uganda trip
Yesterday was amazing. I’ve never seen so many children in one small space, & so excited to see me. At this point I can’t do much to meet their needs, as they are young enough to need basic provisions & love, as many of them are Aids orphans. But I’m thankful for the young men who brought me to them, & who have a written vision to bring assistance to the poor, orphans, & hungry. The school-master asked me about my vision, hoping for financial assistance, which I said was to make disciples who love Jesus with all their hearts & how we are doing that. He looked me in the eyes & said, “You have a good vision. May God bless you.” My new friend, Samson, who brought me to them with his friend Justus, said they have mostly been bringing the word of God to these children & they have many adults, too, but he was too late in coming to tell the adults of my arrival. Samson is a self-employed tour-guide taking many white tourists through the gorilla national parks & up the tallest mountain in much of Africa (about 14,500 ft.) hiking to the volcanic Crater Lake at the top.
The great need in Kisoro, Uganda, is English & Kinyarwanda Bibles, as not even all the leaders have one. We are praying for the funds to provide some Kinyarwanda & English Bibles & hoping someone can find low-cost French Bibles in Canada for Uganda & Congo.
So today we return (to save the little $ we have left) to Kigali.
Today (Wed) I’m finishing charging our computers, PDA, camera, & my phone in the coffee shop (because the Beer-drinking Landlord didn’t pay for Electricity), I managed to withdraw $30 of the $50 without closing my account & for the first time traveled in Rwanda on my own with written instructions from my wife, because the lock trapped us in the room & I had to take it apart with my tools to get out, but she doesn’t trust the others to not steal her clothes. But it’s good for me to get around without paying fares for 2, so all things work for the good…
Tommorrow she’s taking a 5 hr. journey to pick up $ from selling Flash Memory & I hope to take a trip to get my $180 modem refund. I’ll be alone with no English speakers while she is gone, except the resident Landlord.
God’s work is going forward in many ways!
Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…
or
He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ
(Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)
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