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JESUS Takes Away Fear
--JFHP Prayer & Praise, 17 February 2010
“If you give your life to another religion they will kill you,” said the farmer in Benin/Togo. “In our village, the people believe in the mountain and fear other religious beliefs. After seeing the JESUS Film, I gave my whole life to Christ. I have confidence that I no longer need to fear the mountain.”
JESUS, Our Bread
--JFHP Prayer & Praise, 03 February 2010
“He is our bread,” said the viewer in Sudan. “We have not been able to harvest food for two years,” said the team member. “God is good and we continue to see His power as He is moving in a mighty way. Following one JESUS Film showing, an old man prayed saying, ‘God gives us hope for the future. Even if we have no food, He is our bread.’ Such a hope is only through Jesus.”
Prayer Requests - Please pray for:
Phil Anderson, who is suffering from pneumonia. Phil is on home assignment with a busy travelling and speaking schedule. Please pray for God’s healing touch. Phil is the Africa Regional Communications. He and his wife Denise are missionaries serving is South Africa.
Family of Mrs Empie Dimakatso Chiloane: Empie Dimakatso Chiloane passed away on 17 February 2010 after battling with cancer since January 2009. She was the mother of Richard Chiloane, who works in the Literature department of the Africa Regional Office. Richard’s father, Elios Chiloane, passed away on 23 March 2008. Please pray for Richard and his two young brothers and other members of the family during this very difficult time. Pray that God will comfort them in their sorrow and give them strength as they face the days ahead.
Family of Pastor Mulomba Mbuyamba: Mulomba Mbuyamba, pastor of the Esperance Church of the Nazarene in Kinshasa, DRC, passed away on 12 February. He is survived by his wife and seven children. Please pray for the family, for God’s comfort in the sorrow, and presence and strength to face the days ahead.
Family of Mrs Tshikwej: Mrs Tshikwej, wife of Pastor Jeannot Tshikwej of the Kolwezi Church of the Nazarene in Katanga, DRC, passed away the week of 8 February. She is survived by her husband and three children. Please pray for the family during this very difficult time.
Families of Felix Sueia and Benjamin Langa: Dr Paulo Sueia, Field Strategy Coordinator for the Africa Lusophone Field, wishes to thank everyone for the prayer support for the Sueia family following the death of his uncle, Felix Sueia, on 26 January. Felix was also the brother-in-law of Rev Margarida Langa, Principal of Seminario Nazareno em Mozambique in Maputo, and son-in-law of her late father, Rev Benjamin Langa. Margarida said, “ On behalf of the family I just want to express my thanks for the prayers, words of encouragement, letters and articles that we received from you when we were in sorrow. This was a hard time for [our family] but your prayers and words of comfort have lifted us up. Once again thank you! Continue to pray for us as it is still a hard time for us. We actually lost father, brother-in-law, and lastly a nephew, and we still have a child in hospital with head injuries.”
Ellen Penn, who fell recently at the nursing home where she lives and was hospitalized in Arcadia, California. She did not break any bones but is in a great deal of pain. Pray for healing. Ellen is a retired missionary who served in South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland.
Dr Filimao Chambo, as he leads the Africa Region, his wife Rev Samantha, and their children Tsakani and Emanuel.
Dr David Graves, General Superintendent in jurisdiction for Africa, as he travels to Sudan, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and South Africa from 2 – 20 March 2010 for district assemblies and other meetings.
Field Strategy Coordinators Meeting, which will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 16 – 21 March 2010.
Nazarene World Week of Prayer: The annual Nazarene World Week of Prayer will begin on Sunday, February 28, and go through Saturday, March 6. During this week Nazarenes are asked to dedicate themselves to interceding for our church and our world. Requests from each Global Mission Region are now available on the NMI web site - http://www.nazarenemissions.org/10057/story.aspx - some of which will be included in next week’s issues of the Prayer Mobilization Line. The prayer requests for Africa Region are:
1. Pray for Africa Regional Director Filimao Chambo as he leads the Africa Region, his wife, Samantha, and their children, Tsakani and Emanuel.
2. Pray for the church to remain faithful and effective in making Christlike disciples across the continent of Africa.
3. Pray for the persecuted church.
4. Pray for the ministerial workforce to be effective ministers of the Word of God.
5. Pray for the development and implementation of an intentional evangelism and discipleship strategy for children and youth on the region.
6. Pray for the ministerial education institutions as they intensify the multiplication of educational programmes to train pastors and leaders for the fast-growing church in Africa.
7. Pray for the development and implementation of a strategy to develop missional churches with each local church becoming mission-focused.
8. Pray for all JESUS Film Ministry teams.
9. Pray for missionaries serving in Africa.
10. Pray for a mighty holiness revival across the Africa Region.
Radio Partnership of World Mission Broadcast South America and World Mission Broadcast Africa to produce a new radio programme, Dje da zu? (What’s Next?), in the Fang (pronounced “fawn”) language to air in Equatorial Guinea. Pray for Daniel Esono, the programme’s host, and the WMB teams as they produce the new programme and that listeners will hear and receive God’s saving grace.
From the Word
“The Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded. He went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law. But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them. In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil. One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress. But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded’” (2 Chronicles 15: 1-7).
Publication Dates, News Submissions, & Deadlines
Out of Africa is published twice monthly, on the first and third Monday of each month. For news to be included in the next publication, it must be received one week prior to publication. Please submit news, reports and pictures from the work and ministries of the fields, departments, districts, and institutions of the Church of the Nazarene on the Africa Region. News should be interesting to the readers and show the movement of God in the Church in Africa. Please send news submissions and photos to <news@africa-region.org.za> or to the postal address and/or fax number listed below.
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