Sabet had a good turn out at church and we sung some of the songs we translated into Dinka.  Sister Mary from Aguka attended, she’s been in Juba translating the New Testament into Bongo for Wycliffe.  I did the Sunday School again, last week it was just my 2 kids + 1 young dinka girl of 8 years.  This week though we had 9 children and praise the Lord, one of them spoke small English and was able to translate.  I see this was the LORD’s divine plan as I shared a lesson on sin separating us from God.  I used material given to us by Child Evangelism Fellowship.  At the end of the lesson I gave an invitation to the children and all nine prayed for forgiveness of their sins and asked Jesus to be their Savior.  It was really a special time.

It’s quite hard to get on the internet everyday.  We really hope we can get a good satelite setup so we can have email access.  Sabet went to Wau again this week and the old vehicle is almost ready to bring back.  This will make life easier especially with construction.  We had a fruitful week with the women’s ministry and clinic.  We’re planning to put a chaplain over the medical clinic starting this week.  We’re looking forward to having Mike Yordt and Wayne Gordon visit next week.  We have many things lined up for them to do from construction, to our solar power needs, to men’s bible study and computer fixing!!  We’re excited to have the fellowship and encouragement.  We knew coming back in would have lots of difficulties and warfare but there was many things that happened that we didn’t foresee.  It’s been a hard first month back but we are blessed and certainly can’t complain.   

Today we had about 25 people for our first church service in our compound since returning to Tonj.  Sabet did an excellent job teaching from the book of Ephesians.  A group from World Vision joined us and led us in worship with their keyboard.  We will attempt to translate a couple of songs into Dinka this week and learn them ready for next Sunday.  Beth should have arrived home by now…thanks for praying for her safe travel, we miss her!

Today was really nice.  We started a women’s bible study in the church and I taught on “The Call to Prayer”.  After the teaching we had a time of praying for the women and it was very special.  A few tears were flowing and I really felt I connected with them.