tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54485956704649654272024-03-13T05:42:35.627-07:00IMFCAfricaInternational Missionaries for ChristSteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-28170238583583385672018-10-26T05:12:00.001-07:002018-10-26T05:13:40.167-07:00One Simple Man<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><img src="blob:file:///af34bd21-0ee2-4f3a-afd5-224823e6f45e" id="id_450a_6158_685e_c5d5" style="width: 540px; height: auto;"></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></em></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is indeed wonderful to see my brother Hamis Juma leading and bringing many to the knowledge of Christ JESUS after being well discipled himself. This takes the hand of GOD because Hamis was disowned by his family for following JESUS. This is extremely difficult to take for many of us, but by God's grace Hamis is now leading so many to the LORD. In the pictures, he has led these youths to knowing Jesus and doing Bible Way Correspondence School.</em></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please pray for Juma as He keeps sharing the story that changed his life even amid so many pressures and hate from the Muslim community led by his own family members that cannot stand him sharing JESUS CHRIST. May all the glory and honor be to our LORD GOD who reigns forever more.</em></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Xavier Mpanga, Nairobi, Kenya</em></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></em></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Xavier Mpanga leads the IMFC work in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi is home to some of the largest slums in the world. Millions of people call these slums home. Hamis Juma is one of these people. Disowned by family, pressured and hated by the Muslim community, Hamis keeps sharing the message of Jesus Christ that changed him! Hamis Juma is a modern day follower of Jesus like the ones of Acts 11:19-24. He is poor. He is not famous. He is not ordained. He has no church building, no religious programing, no stage, no budget. He has little education. But, he has the two most important things: The message of God’s grace in Jesus Christ that changed him and the hand of God on his life. </span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At IMFC we pray for and focus upon raising up an army of people like Hamis that will be able to go and make disciples of Jesus among every tribe and language. Pray for him and pray for the hundreds of disciples just like him across Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan and DR Congo who are moving around sharing the gospel of Christ. Pray that the Lord encourage them, meet their needs and keep them from harm as they run with the message of Christ and make Disciple Makers. </span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for your prayers and support, and if you would like to come alongside these men and women to help work in their communities and bring encouragement to them and their families, there are many opportunities in 2019. I world love to see you there. Have a great day.</span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jimmy</span></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font color="#000000" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://imfc.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4383f7a15683c4df21323d9ac&id=bc78857b2f&e=a80cc71834" id="id_a16_202d_2f47_ee18" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">www.visitimfc.com</a> </font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;"><a href="mailto:jimmy@imfc.us" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: inherit !important;">jimmy@imfc.u</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">s</span></p> SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-86126758449028169902018-09-20T08:12:00.001-07:002018-09-20T08:13:45.962-07:00SofiaVincent sent me the story of Sofia. It lifted my heart. In a world of bad news, good news is welcome. Here is her story. I think it will lift your heart as it did mine. See, God isn’t dead. Satan isn’t winning. Good things are happening.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqe1hhKKnPxL2hzE9tMeq3DAtFO5jrrGU-_63PCMH50mFJmmULNO9B7q0L0HTvEZjp8i29xFgWBxWXkh2tBwoFZXpanOfCBSqzekQgrJJPW3T2Bu188BF_gvmcNee9HHZv-SKd83qsV0A/s1600/daf9d0bb-632f-436f-ba31-efd33071a6c4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqe1hhKKnPxL2hzE9tMeq3DAtFO5jrrGU-_63PCMH50mFJmmULNO9B7q0L0HTvEZjp8i29xFgWBxWXkh2tBwoFZXpanOfCBSqzekQgrJJPW3T2Bu188BF_gvmcNee9HHZv-SKd83qsV0A/s320/daf9d0bb-632f-436f-ba31-efd33071a6c4.jpeg" width="240" /></a>Nanyanzi Sofia is a former Manna recipient from Katanga. She was in the program from February through July 2018. She is a single mother, 30 years old and has 4 children. She was married to a Muslim man who was a taxi driver, but he left her alone with the children. When we found her she had nothing and was hopeless. A neighbor pointed her to us as one who needed help. She didn’t believe we would really help her until she saw us coming with the bags of food.
Sofia heard the Gospel that was shared with her and was born again. She was the only one who gave her life to Jesus Christ on that day. I remember her telling me that this is my day. I thought she was joking about being a Muslim and confessing Christ in public while others were watching her, but she was serious. She told me she was tired of all the lies she received from religions. She was baptized 3 months after being saved and now has a house church that meets at her place on Monday’s. Sofia loves to share the message that changed her with others, and she has led many to Jesus Christ. Her life has changed and she is happy and grateful for the food and the message of Jesus Christ. <br />
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Through the Manna program Sofia listened to our teaching on saving money and starting a small business. She saved 72,000 shillings, and she started a small business selling African pancakes and other eatables. She sells in Makerere University, Mulago Hospital and the local YMCA. Her business is growing and today she has 366,000 shillings which she is using as capital. You see Sofia has a dream. She has bought a piece of land that she wants to build upon. She is working hard and is challenging other women to work hard as well and teaches them to be proactive and to not just sit around waiting for their husbands to act when your children go hungry and there are needs. She has encouraged not just me but also all the IMFC staff.
I want to thank everyone who gives to these people in the Manna Ministry. You are making a difference.<br />
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Vincent<br />
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JimmySteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-77666910762442217902018-09-11T09:41:00.000-07:002018-09-11T09:41:27.353-07:00I Have Changed<h1 0px="" 26px="" 32.5px="" auto="" font-size:="" helvetica="" line-height:="" margin:="" padding:="" text-size-adjust:="">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have changed. I am not the man I was 14 years ago when I went to work with International Missionaries for Christ. Regardless what people may say, old men can learn new things that change them. I am a testimony to that. Here are five simple truths that have changed my thinking, my outlook on life and my behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have learned that the kingdom of God is bigger, much bigger, than me and my church. I am important. My church is important. The community I live in is important and God cares for it very, very much, but I am only one and the community I live in is only one small area in a great big world that God cares for and Jesus died for. If things are going poorly for me or my church in my community, it doesn’t mean the Kingdom of God is failing. His Kingdom is NOT centered on or around me. His Kingdom is growing. His workers are scattered throughout communities everywhere in this great big world and they are sharing His message and extending His Kingdom. I am just one among many in His great Kingdom, but I am one and I am so grateful and humbled to be a small part of what He is doing. </span></div>
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<span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img align="left" data-file-id="1820369" height="160" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4383f7a15683c4df21323d9ac/images/89f1340f-7cb9-4806-8134-d0999b62b205.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 160px; margin: 2px 6px 6px 0px; outline: none; width: 300px;" width="300" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have learned that followers of Jesus Christ in poor, underdeveloped nations are not inferior in any way to me. They have a walk with Christ that is rich and their experiences with the Lord are oftentimes deeper than mine. I am humbled to have prayed, walked and shared the Gospel with men and women of other colors, languages, and ethnicities who live in small mud homes with no electricity or running water. They have few clothes, little money and no health care, but they love the Lord and follow Him completely with great love and faith. I know I am not worthy to be a part of the Lord’s work among them but I am a blessed to be a part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have learned that the Lord can use me in the work of His Kingdom far beyond what I ever thought possible. To think that I am a part of a movement of God reaching into Uganda, Kenya, DR Congo and Southern Sudan involving hundreds of thousands of people coming to Christ and sharing His message with others, is crazy. But it is happening. I’m not that smart. I’m not that talented. I’m not that gifted with money. And, I am NOT so spiritual that Lord had to include me; but the Lord has included me and used me to influence more people than I could have ever imagined. God’s grace is truly amazing and I am what I am and do what I do by His grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have learned that true worship is not solely how loud I sing in a room with other believers on Sunday mornings but how I give myself into the Lord’s hands to help the people He loves and died for who are trapped physically and spiritually in poverty, disease, sickness and sin. Loving the people Jesus loves and giving myself to help them IS actively loving the Lord and worshipping Him. This has become my greatest act of worship. This is the song of worship I sing and I am humbled that the Lord has allowed me to worship Him by walking with the “least of these”, praying with them and helping them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have learned that I am rich, and I have learned how to be grateful for all God blessings. I’m not rich like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, but I am wealthy. I have never lived in a mud hut six months behind on rent waiting to be thrown out on the streets. I have never gone to bed without a meal that I could have eaten sometime during the day. I have never gone to bed night after night to the stinging bites of bed bugs with no way of eliminating the problem. I have never shared six toilets with more than 100,000 people. I have never been placed in the hot equatorial sun to lay in hopes that it will heal my sickness because I don’t have the money to go to the doctor or buy medicine. I have never seen my children suffering from lack of food and tattered clothing with no way to help. Why? Because I am rich and I live in a nation of plenty. I now know just how rich I am and I am grateful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These are lessons learned. Lord, thank you for getting me out of comfort zone in my living room to travel to different places (especially Africa) to learn these simple truths that I should have known. Thank you.</span></div>
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SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-59097610936499009072018-07-22T01:33:00.001-07:002018-07-22T01:33:51.413-07:00Mama Kits and Trainings<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><b>Recently I was asked in an email about two very important and highly successful ministries of the IMFC. Below is the entire email, and my answers are in italicized bold</b>. </i><br></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">First of all thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">I appreciate this opportunity. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">As I said earlier, I have been asked to talk to the ladies at our church about the mama kits and the reusable sanitary pads. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mama Kit Questions:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1.) How much do the kits cost (U.S. and Shillings)?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">$7 US or currently 26,152 Ugandan shillings per kit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2.) What do the kits contain?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each mama kit contains plastic sheeting, razor blades, cotton wool, gauze pad, soap, surgical gloves, exam gloves, cord ties, and a child health card. Each kit also includes an instruction sheet in both English and Luganda. All of the supplies are sealed so that they remain sterile until needed. Birthing a baby is way beyond my limited abilities to understand, but I have been assured by those I trust that seem to know what they are doing that everything one needs for a healthy normal birth is included in the kit. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3.) If possible, where could I order one to show the ladies?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">I’m not sure if you can get one in the US, Jimmy may have one - I don’t, but here is an email address you might use to find one <a href="mailto:info@mercyformamas.com"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">info@mercyformamas.com</span></a>.</span><span style="font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4.) How is it determined who will receive the kits?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our guys who are working in the slums see a pregnant lady as they walk and share and inquires if she needs one. All of the ladies need them - very few of them are prepared to give birth. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5.) When will the women receive the kits?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The sterile packages do have an expiration date, I don’t know why. And we have learned from experience that providing them too early is not really a good idea, so we aim at giving them to the ladies beginning in the later part of month 7. As you can imagine when we are distributing them 9 month ladies receive their’s first, then 8, finally we end with month 7. Earlier months are given our phone number in order to call when they are ready. No lady is turned down for one though. That would be morally reprehensible. Quite often the guys will have to take down names and return with one or two later, because always more ladies show up to the distribution point than they counted when they were doing their preparation and planning.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">6.) How much is the boda </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">[motorcycle taxi] </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ride to the hospital (U.S. and Shillings)?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">This is not standard at all. It all depends upon where they are in relation to the clinic, doctor’s office or hospital. I’ve heard it ranges from 3,000 to 10,000 shillings and occasionally even more. ($1 - $5US). We </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">do not</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> provide hospital boda-ride fares, because rarely would the money be used for hospital boda-rides, but we do teach them how to save for the inevitable when we distribute the kits and encourage them strongly to do so.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7.) Approximately, how many women will use the kits at the hospital, and how many will use the kit at home in the slums?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Wow, this is something we have never even considered tracking. It would be interesting to know though</span><span style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8.) How many kits are given out in a month, and what are the costs involved with that? </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We budget for 100, but often the demand exceeds that to around 150. The last few months we’ve seen the need jump to 200, and God has continued to provide over and above the budgeted amount. Our desire is to always do more, and now we see the need to introduce them to Kenya, because poor displaced pregnant women are not limited to just the Ugandan slums. The need is there as well. So to answer the cost part of the question, we currently budget $700 monthly for the kits. In actuality the kits often cost the IMFC around $1,050, and for the last few months it has cost about $1400 US. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">9.) Approximately, how many lives are saved because of these kits (mothers and infants)?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is something else that we have never even considered tracking, and I’m not sure we could do it with any accuracy at all. Though we do hear almost daily how much this $7 investment means to someone. We are always being introduced to “our” babies as we walk the streets. This mama kit program is one of the first tactics we use when entering an area for the first time. This is a simple ministry that paves the way for the Gospel to be shared openly and easily. It ‘softens’ up the targeted area. It is also going to be our third ministry introduced into Kenya as the resources become available. The first is discipleship of course, and it is going strong. The second ministry to be introduced is all about your next set of questions. Kenya is learning right now how to do the following training and making plans to incorporate it into what we already do in the slums in Nairobi.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reusable Sanitary Pad Questions:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1.) How much does it cost to do a workshop?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">I love this ministry because it is the cheapest thing we do with the greatest physical impact. The potential here is for making life better for 1/2 the total population. Yes, I know that you now think I’m a heartless, shallow and callous man, but it is part of my job to consider these sorts of things. Each workshop - we call them ‘trainings’ - cost approximately $33 US or 120,000 Ugandan shillings.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2.) How often are the workshops done?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Currently we do 2 - 3 per month, as the guys on the ground request them. Very soon we hope to be doing the “trainings” in Kenya as resources come available. The Kenyan team is learning this as this email is being answered. We have begun limiting the size of our trainings to 20 attenders, and requesting and encouraging those that attend to train five more. This limit is much easier for us to be prepared and to handle the trainings effectively. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3.) What materials are used to make the pads?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">The materials can all be found locally and are very affordable and include absorbent fabric, comfortable fabric, buttons, and string. The tools used are: paper patterns, scissors, and needles.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Easy peasy and very effective!</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4.) Approximately, what percentage of girls will quit school for lack of sanitary pads?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">I am not sure we would know how to track this statistic, but there are many, many.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5.) What items will women use if they don't have access to the reusable pads?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rags, tee-shirts, nothing - many will simply hide behind closed doors. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6.) After the workshop, what supplies do the women get to keep?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">They get to keep their craft of course; they go home with a pattern and the needles. We collect the scissors, but each time 3- 5 disappear. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> Children generally use the leftover fabric scraps for toys, headbands, etc.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7.) How accessible/affordable are the materials that are used to make the pads?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Very! This is why we teach how to make them instead of relying upon mission teams, individuals, or churches to provide them. Though, we are considering collecting them from groups for women who are in prisons and do not have access to materials or tools in order to make them. We are only considering this at this time because before distribution can begin there are challenges to overcome, such as: collection, storage and distribution. Every solution always comes at a greater cost and has to be carefully considered or it may affect negatively other ministries. An unintended blessing from this ministry that was never considered before it began is that often women who have participated begin making them and selling them as a steady source of personal income. It’s a win-win.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8.) Approximately, how much does it take each month to put on workshops?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Currently in Uganda we have budgeted $75 monthly, and as of today there is no funding available in Kenya. (We are looking forward to making this huge impact for little cost!)</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think that covers all the questions I had. I hope I haven't asked too many questions. I'm just super excited that God has given me the privilege to do something like this with our ladies. On a personal note, I have another question. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How did you know God was calling you to some kind of service to Him? </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love this question! I get asked this frequently - actually almost every time I stand and speak in a crowd someone gets me to the side out of earshot of everyone in order to ask it. I completely understand their need for secrecy, because until you announce your call there is no one holding you accountable and it might be easier to let the call slide, and you will have not lost “face.” You see, I went through this very thing myself. My answer to your question is always the same, and it is a question itself: I ask, “How can someone who reads their Bible, listens to Christian music, attends Sunday School, listens to sermons, and prays regularly NOT KNOW THEY ARE CALLED TO SERVE?” You see sometimes God shouts to get our attention but not very often. Usually it is a still small voice that stirs deep inside our souls calling us to go, give and serve more. We as humans are pretty good at ignoring His voice, or even thinking it’s something else entirely. Often we are glued to inaction because we are uncertain or unsure of His “call”. I think most often it’s not necessarily a disobedient kind of thing that causes inaction, but rather a complete misunderstanding of the definition of the word - “called”. I think people have thought a call is a scary, mystical kind of something that is accompanied by a choir of angels or maybe Gabriel blowing his trumpet. A call though is really nothing more than a incessant tug upon your heart and soul guiding you somewhere to do something. This I can assure you, if you have a sense of a call inside you it is most definitely not of of the evil one. Satan would prefer you to sit quietly and diligently in your pew doing nothing or at least a very minimum to impact the world for Christ and for the good of others just like so many others who have ignored that still small voice. I have met you, and we have walked together, and I know this for a fact - you will never feel complete sitting on the sidelines. You were meant to be in the game. You my dear friend are a soldier. People often believe they have to see, hear and participate in signs and wonders to know exactly if beginning this mission or serving in that place or church is the will of God. In my experience the will of God is whatever door is open at that time. Just walk through it with boldness. Go where He leads. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I can't explain it, but ever since I have gotten back from Africa I have had this restless feeling. I would love to be able to explain it, but I can't. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">You just did! </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hopefully, you understand, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">and yes I most certainly do</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. I'm not sure what God might be calling me to do, but I really believe after months of prayer and searching that He is calling. Africa will forever be in my heart, and I am looking forward to returning with Mt. Zion in January 2019. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Very soon, in fact this week I’m rolling out a new partnership plan for the vision of the IMFC. I believe it’s time that individuals, groups and churches become full partners in the Acts 11 vision of making disciples who produce disciples - worldwide. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Thank you SO much for your time! It means a lot to me. I look forward to hearing from you. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">No, thank you! I look forward to seeing, hearing and reading what God does through you.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks, </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14.9px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LeAnne Jenkins </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></p></div></div> SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-36201128476776504032018-07-09T14:45:00.001-07:002018-07-09T14:45:23.492-07:00Coastal Report<div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sharing God's word continues in Mombasa as well. Thanks Brother Samson Manoah for being an example of Jesus Christ's disciple who is touching the poor and displaced people of Africa for Jesus Christ. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Indeed, we are very proud of you and your teams involved in this noble cause of extending salvation to thousands of people at the Coastal region of Kenya and hundreds of House Churches planted there as a place of learning, sharing and worship God. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">May the Lord continue using and bless you more abundantly for his glory. We believe that through this mission our poor and displaced people of Kenya and other parts of the world will be saved both spiritually and physically for Jesus Christ through International Missionaries For Christ.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Geofrey Masika </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><img src="blob:file:///f731a6bd-58d7-4c2c-bc9c-3a08ac591d6d"></div><div dir="auto"><img src="blob:file:///12e03686-6baa-4d68-be1a-e0efcc16865d"></div> SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-36042165098672789082018-07-05T21:43:00.001-07:002018-07-05T21:43:11.364-07:00Isaac Will Answer<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">His name was Peter, or at least he didn’t object when I called him that. He came up to me while I was standing watch in the street the other day. He had a BibleWay book in his hand. He was carrying the one entitled </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline;">Who Is Jesus, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">which is what we give out to each new believer. He asked me if he could tell me his story, since he had just listened to one of ours. I said, “I would love to hear it.” </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">It was at this point that I thought he was going to ask me for a loan just to get by, but I was wrong. You see he continued his story by telling me that as he was walking home he saw one of our team with that little book with the word Jesus on it, and he just knew that today was the day he needed to become a believer, so he stopped to hear one of them share. He prayed to believe, and he received that same little book. He then saw me, and wanted to tell me his story, so I listened. At the end of this story, he did ask me one thing. He turned to the page with Isaac’s name and cell phone number written on it. Then he pointed to that name and asked, “If I call this number will Isaac answer?” I said, “Yes, Isaac will answer.”</span></div>
SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-77169143110643800682018-06-20T10:05:00.002-07:002018-06-20T10:05:29.136-07:00It Ain’t True<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He didn’t believe me. I mean he didn’t think I was lying, but rather he thought, “Steve must be mistaken.” You see what I had described to him was a movement of God - of Biblical proportions. “Yes,’ he thought, ‘Steve sees something, but it can’t be what he’s talking about.” Today, Chris Meaders, the mission’s pastor of Mt. Airy Baptist Church now believes, because he and his team from Mt. Airy participated in this movement. They saw it, they felt it, (<i>honestly, no one quite understands it, but that’s ok</i>), and now people will not believe them either when they try to articulate it. So don’t believe us, just come and see it. Come feel it and participate in this movement of God before it passes you by. Contact me or Jimmy for more information. Our 2019 schedule is already filling up with people who return year after year after year. You see they believe it also, because they have participated in it as well. </span><br />
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SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-40571317964125507002018-05-16T13:17:00.000-07:002018-05-16T13:17:44.887-07:00Back In Kampala<div class="" style="color: #666666; font-family: "SF Optimized", system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.12px; margin-top: 1em;">
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Good morning from Uganda. Yes, we're back at what feels like home here in Kampala. Both Jimmy Barry and I are getting ready to see our families. It's been a long time. Jimmy has been here for three months; I have been here two and 1/2. We have traveled with two amazing men of God from Uganda, Kasimbura Benon and Kintu Deo. Along the way we met and journeyed with other giants for Jesus - Masika Geofrey Bisagati, Xavier Mpanga and Sam Owino. We met and think some sort of partnership might be in the future with Doug and Jennifer Lawson, who live and serve in Kitale, but they work throughout Central Africa. We saw many others who have been so influential, and I cannot mention them all here, but I will continue sharing many of their stories. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">We have traveled throughout much of Kenya. We have sweated in Mombasa, closed our eyes in fear of the traffic in Nairobi, froze nearly completely in Eldoret, left a jacket in Kisumu - which was sadly really needed in Eldoret, but everywhere we have traveled we have met a lot of passionate people whose lives were changed by the Gospel. We met drunks, thieves, murderers, taxi drivers, school teachers, mothers, people dying of AIDS, shop keepers, and many more who Jesus found and offered a gift which they accepted, and it changed their lives. Then they ran with this message to others also, so they too can share in His blessings. In Uganda we call these people serious. They are serious men and women who heard a serious message and now they treat their lives as a serious example of what Jesus does when He changes everything. They seriously run fast with the Gospel.</span></div>
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We finally have our NGO status, so we can legally move with the word and baptize. Now Timothy in Kakemega won’t have to spend time in prison for doing what Jesus commanded him to do. As we traveled and observed the work we saw areas that needed a little tweeking. We made a few changes here and there. We opened an office in Mombasa. We bought a computer, priced motorcycles, and prayed a lot. We did some things to hopefully to help the message move even faster. We were very pleased at what we saw.</div>
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We were also surprised. In fact, Kenya showed us that the organization needs to make some deep changes. You see, a movement of Jesus in Uganda, jumped a border into Kenya, and in less than 18 months the Jesus influence that traveled through the guys and gals of the IMFC has doubled the entire ministry. In Kenya, it stands now at the border in Mombasa almost ready to cross the Indian Ocean, and its down toward Tanzania, it’s perched on the edge looking longingly into Ethiopia, and it’s moving into Somalia. I met the man running with the Gospel there, and he begins his marathon next week. You see we entered Kenya thinking we were building an organizational plan and structure for Kenya. We already knew the IMFC influence was in the Congo, South Sudan and Johanesburg, South Africa. Well Kenya showed us that we better make plans for the world. By the way I speak Spanish, I wonder how God might use that?</div>
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SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-79766897095158973872018-04-28T21:27:00.001-07:002018-04-28T21:27:45.117-07:00A Club Called Hell<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Justus posted this to facebook today and it made me smile. You see, I love to read the stories about people who pray to receive Jesus as their Lord and the result is a changed life that last. Charles is that kind of man. He was a boxer in Uganda. He won over 50 bouts and didn’t lose. All but two fights ended in knockouts. He was the national champion. He was a very tough guy and a bouncer for the club called Hell. I will never forget the day Deo, Robyn, Micheal (Robyn and Michael were two volunteers from Immanuel Baptist crazy enough to enter the bar with me) and I entered the bar and shared the gospel. We didn’t enter because we sought them out or stumbled onto them. No. Their drunken leader, I think his name was Peter, sought us out. Later I ask him why he kept bothering us until we came to speak to them. I will never forget his answer. He told me that he heard a voice in his head telling him to get us to speak to them. That day Peter, Charles and others prayed to receive Christ as their Lord. Over a year after that experience, Charles showed me a small Gideon bible that Micheal gave him. He still had it. I am so grateful that Charles is continuing in the faith.<br /><br />Here is what Justus wrote about Charles today, three years after that experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: grey;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning as I woke up, God put it on my heart to share this wonderful story. <img align="left" alt="Justus with Charles" data-file-id="3733725" height="250" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4383f7a15683c4df21323d9ac/images/306935ac-ff8a-483c-b164-aeb469a952b8.jpeg" style="border: 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 250px; margin: 6px 6px 6px 0px; outline: none; width: 250px;" width="250" />The guy seated on a boda boda besides me is called Charles. If you can still recall the story of HELL that papa Jimmy Barry wrote sometime in 2015, this is the guy who was in charge of security in the HELL and this was the name of their bar. Hell was full of thieves, drug addicts, drunkards and sex workers. This man was so influential in that bar. One day back in early 2015, muzee Jimmy Barry came across him and shared with him the story of Jesus and Nicodemus. This guy is one of the guys who prayed that day. I discipled him. I baptized him. He has led many to Jesus. He has baptized many. I am glad to let the world know that he is now a changed man. Not a thief, not a drunkard, not using drugs anymore like he used to be. On the right is his Dad who welcomed me with a big hug and mentioned one word THANK YOU. I told him not me but Jesus changed your son’s life.</span></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: grey;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Robyn Wilson Wenani Justus, I was at HELL that day. I will never forget it. The devil and God were both in that room and everyone there could feel and see it that knew God. Oh The Power of Our Lord and Savior reigned! Love your heart! I hope that God will bring me back one day to serve Him in this place once more!</span></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul wrote that the Gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation, but I think we sometimes forget that or disbelieve it based on what we see around us. Charles’ story renews my faith. If I share the simple message, people will be changed. And that is true here in America as well as Africa.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great day. Have a great weekent and don’t be ashamed of the Gospel or Christ. He is Lord.</span></span></div>
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SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-86646744752551687012018-04-18T07:19:00.001-07:002018-04-18T07:19:47.382-07:00One Man Can Make a Difference<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: auto; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter">
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Valeria is the young man on the left; Justus is on the right. Valeria is 27 years old, not married and living with his father. He lives surrounded by family in the mountains and hills of Ibanda just north of Queen Elizabeth Game Park in the Southwest part of Uganda. They grow matoke, coffee, avocado, sugar cane and other things. His life story today is much different from what it was just a few years back. Why? God's has changed his life.<br /><br />Valeria moved to Kampala a few years back to find a job. He became a security guard and was making little money. He failed to show up for work one night and a car was stolen from the place that he was to be guarding. He was arrested, charged with negligence and sent to Kasangati Prison for three years. He was hopeless.<br /><br />A volunteer team from the US visited the prison with me and the IMFC team to share the gospel while Valeria was there. Valeria heard the Gospel message, prayed to receive Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior and God changed him. While in prison he completed the Bible Way books and helped Francis, the IMFC team member that works the prisons around Kampala. After leaving prison, Valeria joined the team in Kampala and learned how to do the work of producing followers of Jesus Christ who know how to produce other followers of Jesus.<br /><br />Valeria returned to his home in Ibanda in September 2017. He has shared the gospel in the villages around his home and in Ibanda town. Over 1,000 books had been distributed to people who have heard the message and prayed to receive Christ. 38 people have been baptised. He travels hours by foot to do the work. 66 people that he calls his leaders came to meet me in January. Each of these have many people they are meeting with in house churches and doing the Bible Way books. These are people that he has trained to produce followers of Jesus. They came from as for away as 25 kilometers to meet me.<br /><br />I asked Valeria why he did this work. Why would he walk so many hours never receiving anything to do it? He said the message he heard in prison changed his life and he wanted his family and neighbors to hear the same message so it could change their lives. They are hearing it, and they are being changed.<br /><br />Valeria is one of my heroes like those unnamed people of Acts 11:19-24 who fled Jerusalem after the stoning of Stephen. He is the reason I travel. He motivates me. I keep asking myself the question, "How many more people could be like Valeria? People simply needing someone to come share the Gospel with them and train them." So I go. I don't have to meet people like Valeria. I just need to train producers who will meet them. They will do the rest with the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ with them.<br /><br />Pray for Valeria and the people he is training. This is the first work we have in Southwest Uganda. From here the message could reach Tanzania, Rwanda, DR Congo and beyond. Thanks.<br /><br />Jimmy<br />IMFC<br /><a href="mailto:Jimmy@imfc.us" style="color: #00add8;">Jimmy@imfc.us</a></div>
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SteveDuVall.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01301733408414397980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448595670464965427.post-15484945711536692852018-03-18T23:35:00.000-07:002018-03-18T23:35:38.521-07:00Joseph’s Story<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This message reached Joseph in his normal drunken state, but something about it kept gnawing at the reaches of his conscience that was not yet dulled by the massive intake of the local street brew. Eventually he called Jeff, and told him that he wanted to know more about this life changing Jesus, so Jeff left Nairobi and traveled back to Nakuru not really remembering who he might find. You see Jeff shares this same message daily and with hundreds of people, and quite often connecting the names with all those faces is a hard thing to do - especially when that face is just another drink encountered while on the streets. What Jeff found was a changed man. He found a sober man needing a Savior, and Joseph knew that Jesus was the only one who could save/change him. Jeff continued to disciple Joseph, and Joseph now runs with the Gospel. He laughs now because at first no one believed him, and they wanted nothing to do with him. “Who is this drunken fool here ranting about Jesus. Go and find your drink elsewhere”, they chimed. But Joseph was nothing if not passionate about a Saviour who changed him and he was consistent in his method. Over time one young man named Vincent was convinced that Jesus had in fact changed Joseph, and he too believed. Then they began walking together, and then another named James — believed. Those three began reaching and producing more and more disciples.. Now there is a movement of producers in Nakuru. There are over 1000 of them running and sharing the Gospel, baptizing and planting house churches. The faithful are gathering together to praise and worship wherever they are: the side of the trash dump, on a hill, in one home after another. Lives are changing, and it’s an amazing thing to watch. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">2. A man named Jeff heard a message from a man named Julius who heard a message from a man named Peter who heard a message from a man named Michael in the streets of Mbale, Uganda. Michael was a drunk in the streets of Kampala who heard a message from a man named Jimmy Barry, and then he ran to his hometown in Mbale to share it there.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">When will this simple message stop? Only when no one shares it, but as long as there are men like Jeff, Julius, Peter, Winono, Joseph, a lady named Regina, another named Pamela. . . . . It will never stop until </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11pt;"> we ALL gather together in a scene that is described in Revelation 19:1.</span></div>
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Today is a bit of a rest for me. You see, last night we traveled to the airport in Entebbe with a team from Mt. Zion Baptist Church returning to their homes and lives in Northern Alabama. They were and are a great team - they did a great job even when it wasn’t easy. They worked hard and we pray that God was glorified. I would love to share some of their experiences with you:</div>
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<li class="">They enrolled over 900 people into our BibleWay Discipleship program; before they left this great country over 85 believers had already completed their first Bible study book and were ready to begin their second book. </li>
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<li class="">The team worked in the slums where they taught women how to make reusable menstrual pads from materials that are readily available. It is our prayer and desire that this will allow these women the opportunity to provide for the needs of their families. </li>
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<li class="">They also ministered to more that 75 mothers-to-be, by distributing “mamma kits”. A “mamma kit” contains all the sterile materials needed to give birth; the mother will use this kit in the hospital, with a midwife, or in a clinic when she delivers her baby. Without these materials, the mother-to-be would be turned away and receive no help as she gives birth. It is possible that the gift of these kits may save the lives of mothers and babies.k</li>
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<li class="">They traveled many kilometers on dusty, bumpy roads to reach a refugee camp along the Northern border of Uganda. They cried and held people’s hands as they listened to horror story after horror <span style="font-size: 19px;">story, and then they shared the hope that only comes from the salvation found in Jesus. They played with the "war children” of the Sudan, and wondered what would become of their newest little friends. </span></li>
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<li class="">They traveled by boat to Murchison’s Falls, where ALL of the water of the massive Nile River flows through a gap of just 23 feet. At the top of the falls they held hands a lifted up prayers for the people of this great nation.</li>
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<li class="">After returning to Kampala, they had the blessing of worshipping with 65-75 new believers in a three-week old house-church located in the slums. As they left, their hearts remained in that alleyway with those precious brothers and sisters-in-Christ. One wonderful lady was crying as we left; it affected her greatly because she could leave, while these believers had to stay. I reminder her that because her team had come, they had offered them hope and a relationship with the Lord. For this reason, their lives would be better than they had been before.</li>
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<li class="">They were able to minister to the Uganda Women’s Maximum Security Prison. It was the first time that we had been able to share with them. Many of the 465 women who call that prison their home will be there for life. Some will eventually transition out. Some are condemned to die, and are awaiting a presidential signature to carry out their sentence. One of the ranking prison officers asked us to pray that the president never signs those papers. There were babies throughout the prison - some were born there and others came with their mothers. Each one of those women needs the freedom that <span style="font-size: 19px;">only Jesus can bring. We praise the Lord that 35 of them prayed to receive Jesus’ free gift of eternal life, and over 100 committed to enroll in our discipleship program. Jesus changes and transforms lives.</span></li>
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As I reflect on the experiences I have shared with you, I am reminded of what I Tweeted yesterday, “<i class="">Oh God, the world’s needs are too much, and we are so few. Please Lord, send the workers; that’s all I ask you to do.”</i></div>
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Pray and consider joining God in the amazing work that He is doing here in Uganda. You don’t want to miss out on this blessing - let’s watch God change the world!</div>
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<span class="s1">Welcome to our newest home here on the web. We are the International Missionaries for Christ and we welcome you to join with us as we reach the poor, oppressed and displaced peoples of Africa. Currently our offices are located in Uganda and Kenya, with another office in Hiram, Georgia, but the Gospel is constantly spreading so we are constantly growing and finding new places to be. God is blessing His ministry in East Central Africa, and we will use this site to keep you informed of the exciting, interesting, unusual, sometimes sad, but awe-inspiring stories from out of Africa. </span></div>
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At the IMFC we do two things:</span></div>
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1) <b>Provide opportunities for people to better themselves, their family, and their community.</b> We do this through something called the Manna Program. You can find more information on this at this <a href="http://visitimfc.com/?subpages/CURRENT%20WEBPAGES/Manna%20Ministry.shtml"><span class="s2">web location</span></a>. </span></div>
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2) <b>Create disciples of Christ who make disciples. </b> Our website will also give you plenty of information on how this is done also. <a href="http://www.visitimfc.com/"><span class="s2">www.visitimfc.com</span></a> </span></div>
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Many pastors in the USA use our ministry as a disciple making bootcamp for their church members and for new Christians. Another pastor uses us as his new staff member training. A denominational leader, David Suddath told me that, "The IMFC is the biggest mission that no one knows about." Well it's my job to change all that, so to begin with please enjoy and celebrate with us this year end report from 2017.</span></div>
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At the end of December, 2017, the main office for IMFC Uganda reported 9,120 leaders in our network of workers across Northern and Central Uganda. These leaders reported that </span></div>
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<span class="s1">These numbers are for Uganda only. Kenya has seen many thousands of people pray to receive Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior in 2017, and over 90,000 Bible Way books have been printed in Kenya and distributed. I am grateful, humbled and challenged.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But, these numbers above only tell a part of the story. They do not reflect the thousands of people blessed through the humanitarian efforts of IMFC. Here is a snapshot of some of the needs based projects we were able to do beyond sharing the Gospel, training leaders, giving Bible Way books and Bibles, and starting house churches.</span></div>
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<li>Approximately 340,000 pounds of food and 790 gallons of cooking oil were given to the poor in the slums and to refugees in Uganda through Manna Ministry.</li>
<li>1,200 Maama kits given to expectant moms in the slums of Kampala.</li>
<li>12 re-usable sanitation pad workshops were conducted around Kampala with over 300 women trained and given a fabric, buttons, thread, pens, scissors and paper for patterns to make their pads and teach someone else.</li>
<li>The Maroons Netball Team from Luzira Prison was sponsored for play in their league.</li>
<li>40 wooden sitting benches were built in the Prison Training School for the common area where instructors and students can sit.</li>
<li>40 wall clocks were provided for the Prison Training School classrooms.</li>
<li>30 Mattresses with plywood support were given to Kasangati Prison for the Women’s Prison.</li>
<li>More than 3,000 bars of soap, over 2,000 female sanitation pads and numerous ink pens, chalk and other supplies given to the inmates in addition to the Bible Way books.</li>
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<li><span class="s1">6,389 families across Kenya representing </span>almost 45,000 people after the riots following the Presidential elections in August. These people were identified by the house church leaders in Kenya as their people suffered in the violence.</li>
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<span class="s1">2017 was a good year for IMFC in Uganda and Kenya, but the work is only beginning. Pray for us as we move into 2018.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Continue to watch this page for stories straight out of Africa. Pray for the peoples of Africa, and consider going with us to share with others that need to hear what Christ has done for you. You can find out information about the IMFC at www.visitimfc.com. We are on currently on instagram at @jwbarry. You can find us on Facebook <complete id="goog_1706762736">@imfcafrica. </complete>For more information about journeying with us to Africa please contact, <a href="mailto:jimmy.imfc@gmail.com">Jimmy Barry</a> or me <a href="mailto:steve_duvall@ymail.com">Steve DuVall</a>.</span></div>
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