The Flu, School, and Church!

Dear Loved Ones:

What a week! Steve woke up Monday, the first day of the new school year here with a terrible flu that kept him down and out until Thursday. Thankfully, he is much better and the Lord blessed today’s message mightily in people’s life. When I asked one of our youth, how the message was, she said “ummmmm” I said, “was it not good?” She said, no I was trying to think of a word much better than GOOD!” We have also heard from others that God really moved in their hearts during the service.

As usual, God has gone before us in our work with the school. People just keep on coming to enroll their children. Friday’s count, we were at 297 students. We had our first chapel on Wednesday. We need you to pray on Tuesday evenings before bed for our chapel service. We really desire to see souls saved and lives changed for HIS glory during this year. We know how important prayer is and we are thankful we can call on you to pray.

Today, people began to come back to church after being away for Christmas. Those of you who have been praying for men, God is answering that prayer. Eric who had attended our church but had a financial reversal and lost his transport, lives closer here and he has been in church again for the last two Sundays. He is SO happy to be back at our church. Another couple has begun attending, they are Batswana and seem excited to have found a church like Desert Streams. Spencer has also visited the last two Sundays. We are excited about these three men joining into fellowship with us.

Please continue to pray that God will burden our people to serve Him and sacrifice their time and efforts to do so. Every Sunday our attendance grows a little more. We have not yet even put up a sign because the building needs refurbishing before we have a “Grand Sunday”, yet God is bringing visitors each week, and they are staying!

So many things to praise Him for. We thank Him for allowing us to serve Him. Thank Him for the strength each day brings. We are thankful for the skills Derek has been bringing to the set up of the school. Plus he can cook and often has a nice dinner prepared for us when we come home late. We are thankful for his loving care of us. Devin is doing okay, he is still tired a lot and we hope to get into a doctor that can really help him. We are so glad he is here with us. Thank you for praying for our children. Amanda is also doing well in Dallas. We praise the Lord for His watchcare over her.

Reaching the Unreached,

Steve, Pam, Derek and Devin