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from Dongabesh and Hydom!
I am with Gidori, Paul and Pendaeli and our guests Edna,
Margie and Ros from Perth. It has been a
privilege to share with the leaders from the Barabaigic
[lady left] and Irak tribes… Though they have some
problems. Long hair on women is a hassle in one church! Its
causing division…. It just reinforces to us the peoples need to be
strengthened from Gods word. It reminds
me again of Jesus' last words to us just before He left HIS disciples…
for us to make MORE disciples!
He wants people who will be strong in knowing Father God for
what He  REALLY
needs from us. He needs a people that will NOT be blown around by the stuff
that is sent to distract us from our real job …… of reflecting Gods
love and incredible grace to folks around us in our everyday lives.
Pray that we will help the leaders to lead their people to know God in reality.
AIDS
work:
Lyndall was with us two weeks ago in Pangani and Muheza. She was sick with
a lousy flu  we both
got, but the people REALLY appreciated her AIDS teaching there  and asked
her to come back. They said their churches had never had AIDS teaching
before. So I guess we will be returning to Pangani!
Our
HIV/AIDS volunteer health workers are doing a great job in their villages
with the limited resources they have.
Stanley and Evangelism work:
You have heard little of our evangelism work lately. [Stanley does not know
English and finds it hard to report] But its still going on! Stanley,
Pendaeli and Elirehema and others show film and share the gospel in open
air meetings every month. Here is Stanleys report
of one of their latest adventures:
Evangelism department is working hard to win soul for Christ
Jesus. An open air meeting was done at a village named Kikwe
headed by evangelism team from Imara
Stanley leading praise and worship at Kikwe
village. People pay attention to the word of God 
Film show is part of open air meeting, when it comes to film
show the number of people add up especially youth as well as children are
first most to be excited, many people do receive Jesus as their personal saviour
after cinema.
Learning by experience........
 Godfrey,
pictured left, is the headmaster at Karanse School. He is a very dedicated
man who, along with his teachers, is serving the
children of Karanse They are so dedicated they were the top school in their
district last year. We asked Godfrey, and Pastor Warrieli, to share their
experience with the leaders of a new school starting next year at Mairowa.
As new schools, widows and orphans work come to us, we are able to draw on
experience we have gained in our current work.
World Travellers!
Talking of Gidori and making strong Christians, we were really happy that
he,
Jones and the Very Reverend Bishop [!] Daffa :)
[pictured here with Pastor Randy Pope] were blessed to learn more of what
Perimeter at Atlanta are doing towards this end and then to be able to
travel across to Arizona to be learn what is happening around the world
with Disciple Nations Alliance work. These guys love the Lord and His
people here and are pouring out their lives to strengthen Gods people in
this land. Pray for them!
Stop
Press - Discipleship "3" really encouraging!
Well
its now 2 weeks since I started this news
update.... we have just finished the 3rd discipleship mentoring session
together with with Dennis and his team. They
mentored around 100 key leaders discipleship. It
was a wonderful time ! The enthusiasm and
testimonies from the pastors and women's leaders was SO encouraging:
 Pastor Samuel said: "I did not know how to
teach people and did not know what to do. I started working with 6 and they
are humble now! I am really happy. They thought it was some new religion
and were resistant at first. Now they want more!" [These are his
leaders]
Daudi said: "I have seen working with my people
like this breaks pride and builds unity. Foot washing was hard! But it
worked well in the church. I am ashamed of the shallow teaching we have
brought in the past."
I
know we are going to see great fruit for the church and the
nation come from this work. As you will have heard me say before, there are
many wonderful evangelists here, but few that disciple
their people well to build strong character. I believe we are going to see
that change to affect the nation!! Thanks again Perimeter for standing with
us and Tanzania.
[These two pictures are some of the pastors going to serve chai [tea] to
some of the ladies. One lady leader said 'this is a miracle-!!' She
could not believe men could serve women]
 Personal:
Our house is going up as you can see. Its
so exciting knowing Gods grace on us for this after 13 years of being here.
We are really looking forward to getting into it as you can imagine! No
more rent after that.
Australia:
We
will be back in Australia in September through November and we would love
to see you! If you contact either Margie in
WA 0417963827 kdma@westnet.com.au,
or Chris in NSW crgentle@ozemail.com.au,
they can tell you our movements and line up dates for when we are in your
neck of the woods.
.......... PRAYER!................
To all of you who stand with us in this way... we need you!
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We just had news we
failed to win an HIV/AIDS grant. But I know we are meant to strengthen our
work in this area so pray for doors to open for us.
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Jenny from Newcastle,
to be able to sell her land so she can fill the badly needed role of PA for
Mike
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We still need a key
person to work under Godsave as his right hand man to release him to more
of the overall of Imara work. Also Schola needs help in the accounting
department.
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Julia coming to help
Lyndall in July and Meagan in June to take over from Miriam in the
education area.
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Provision for our
land/house.
Gods blessings on you and
thanks for standing with us!
Mike and Lyndall
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