thank you lord

Today the Sunday was very blessful,our friend anter was the one that preached in the church and the sermon was very good,he spoke from the book of Mathew 6:25-34,encouraging us to seek the kingdom of God first.we later took the road to do the bible studies that we always do after the service,then i spoke to the people more on our church re-building,and those that were not in church on Sunday gave their own contributions.and we agreed that we will gather all the materials for the building and then start off the building on Monday the 2-3-2009.this are the pictures of the falling church.you can see what am talking about the two woods are really the ones that are holding the church.the inside of the church is also falling down as you can see in the picture,and also there are no good seat to seat on sometimes women fall from their seat while the service is on.But we know that God will do what will give glory to him,BY PRAYERS THINGS CHANGE.LASTLY I'LL LIKE TO SHOW YOU THE PLACE WE STAY HERE IN YABUS.this is my room that God uses to bring glory to himself. the next one is my bathroom and my wife cooks outside you can see her trying to get some water as we all get ready for church.

please pray that all we have set our minds to do will be done according to God's plan

awesome God

Thank God for his love and mercy,he has been faithful to me and my family.One other big gift that God gave to us this year is the gift of friends from the UNITED STATE OF AMERICA,this i mean the carlenberg team.They visited the field where we serve at Yabus,what a team,they taught Vicky and her sister Bethany a new ministry known as the pampering ministry,A new way to serve people,this ministry will teach you humility, and also instill the servant hood spirit in you,since they left Vicky and Bethany have been painting the toes and fingers of the people in a humble spirit.I introduce to you the new pampering women.The first picture is picture of a woman who hardly can take care of herself,but since the first paint,she promise to take care of her body and her toes and finger nail,that too gave an opportunity to share Christ with her the next day.

LOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305310168855912994" />this Monday is going to be the start first football tournament ever organized in the town of yabus,8 teams will be participating in this great tournament,the aim is to start off this sport ministry on a good footing and to make more converts in this part of south Sudan (yabus)this tournament will be followed by a coaching training,and through this trained coaches we can make more disciples with what i call church on the field.the interesting thing is that it accommodates both Christians and none Christians.But the sad part is we need to like feed the participants,please pray for God's provision.



my prayers is that God will do his will through me LORD TAKE MY WILL AND CONFIRM IT TO YOURS.

special birthday

Today February 20 was a blessed day to me after I finished from the class, at around 5.30pm my wife and our good friends the faders and also all the other missionaries and the sbna staffs took to the river for a birthday play.
At river all the team members played football at the side of the river and also played volleyball,
then later we all jumped into the yabus river to all play what i call water football and also swim volleyball.
The good thing is that all the people that came to wash and bath also joined to play with us.
then at around 6pm we all jumped into the car to come back home,this is the greatest birthday I've ever had where all the people are so happy no one knows who the celebrant is.so we came back to a very sweet birthday dinner specially arranged by this lovely sister called Bethany.We all ate the things provided and god was praised.my wife did a good job of cooking the usual Nigerian stew and rice.she actually had fun to and she gave me a big birthday kiss.the kids after the swim were wrapped in big blanket by no one else but the same Bethany.
Oh i forgot i am an adult today.

Sunday the 15th of February 2009 was a blessed day, we set out for church at around 9.30am and we had to go through the normal yabus river me my wife and our two kids walked through the help of some small Sudanese children who are going to the same church. We reached the church at around 10am and the service started, the church were we worship is the SIC mabaan church which is almost falling down, we use woods to support the falling church, but this Sunday God used me to challenge our members to raise money for the church rebuilding we made all workers make a pledge of how much the will give to rebuild the church and God helped us and we realised some amount and the church will be rebuild sometimes this week thank God for those that pledge and redeemed I pray God replenish your pockets. So we went back to our normal teaching ministry on Monday Praise God. Some Ganza women who came to sell charcoal in the compound today held our baby and we had a chance to start sharing Christ with them and it so interesting to discuss with them with their smoking pipe.



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BUSY WEEK.

What a busy week for me, here in yabus, this week we had friends that visited us from USA and they were six in number oh what a wonderful group to stay with. i learned alot from them, especially this man called Peter a member of the team. this man is such a lovely and humble man, he is free with people and loves to know more about you and how you are doing.Jennifer

is one of the team member who likes to teach new things and ideas. I've learned alot from her calmness and teachable spirit. Cathy is a mother with great compassion for the lost boys, and also ask good and intelligent questions and always wants to correct lovely. i discovered she has an open heart for missionaries, and Sudanese people.Val very hard working and dedicated. i' will always remember him he fixed the class room i now teach in, painted the desk for the staffs and students, thanks for your servant hood heart. that is really the heart of christ.Hanna a young lady with the heart for Christ. you 'll be in our memories, you are the best, you showed love without compromise even with her 2 month pregnancy, she sat on the back of the truck on the hard ions of the bike to help see the people being helped. you are really going to be blessed, and you will see your baby in good health. thanks to Andy who allowed you to follow despite the young pregnancy of a first child. your spirit of giving shall be emulated by so many of us here in yabus. you are like Dorcas in the bible. Rick a father, a leader, a Nigerian American and a mentor, you have inspired me and my family you made us remember home alot thank you for leading this lovely God fearing team to yabus the Adamu's are saying keep on pitching your hall of fame award is around the corner. to all of you on the calenberg;s team i say goodbye though i was not there to say goodbye due to my class in the school. i know that we are connected in the spirit, please don't forget about us because we still love you we wish also to visit you in the state. just after you left Saturday became our usual busy day for my family. me and my wife bought some fish and we smoke them, Zaphaniah help us to split the fish into two to enable them smoke quickly. i also planted some moringa seeds, that was given to us some few years back. i was able to start a small discipleship class's with some two boys in town and also training the church choir in town on how to sing good songs and not just hymes. i met with these women who are not Christians and we started a conversation even though my Arabic is so small but i know that God will make his name to be glorified. our son Praise is really doing well in his home schooling his kid sister is also doing well as she tries to start sitting down on her own. the two kids love each other,they also love people around them not minding who is carrying or playing with them. my wife is now teaching in BELC she teaches social studies and she is faithful to her teaching and the family. i have no complain, dear this makes me love you more.

Call To The Ministry

About my family: we are a family of four so lovely, so interesting, and God fearing, my name is Stephen my wife’s name is Victoria. Our first child’s name is called Praise and our second daughter is Hallelujah she turn 3months old on the 2nd of February 2009. My wife and I got married in 2004 2nd of October after 7 years of courtship. My wife was working fulltime as a secretary in a solid mineral company, while I was self employed as a stylist as well as going to school.
After my university education in 1995 I became a freelance journalist with a monthly paper house in Nigeria. God took me through a lot of trainings, without making me a professional in any of them. I became a bread baker, bus conductor, a house boy. I also went through so many sport training like, wrestling, judo (with a yellow belt) takweando (I have a black belt) basketball, handball, volleyball, football and a little of track events. all of this I did to make life out of it but God took me through all of this to prepare me for the mission field,(am now convinced) however God started talking to me in 1997 by sending me to talk to a Muslim boy called Kasimu,I obeyed did my best to talk to him but God did his work of conviction and the boy got converted to Christ, he is now known as Mathew shorenke an elder in one of the apostolic church in jos Nigeria.
God keep talking to me but I tried to be smart, so he kept me unemployed just to show me that he still control the destiny of Men. in 1999
I answered the call and got admitted into JOS ECWA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (JETS) I struggled through school because I have to sell off my shop clippers and other equipments to stay focused in school. my coming to Sudan was not accidental I clearly was convinced that missions will be the best for me and God said I will send you to Kenya to meet with peagiggled and then said let his will be done.
Our wedding in 2004, we found ourselves filling out an application form for a confirmed the call that I received. two weeks later we went for interview, a week later our letter of employment was on our hand, but just when we tried to jubilate, the long awaited job from the government came for me to work as a finance assistant with the federal judiciary, another confusion set in. well to cut long story we decided to give up the government offer for the sake of Christ, and his call.


Our work places and station.
The journey to Sudan was not without obstacles, we came to Nairobi in 2006 just as God showed us but have to return home due to fighting in one of the SIM base in Sudan, also due to the lack of multiple entry visas to Kenya where we would be evacuated to encase of any problem in Sudan.
We stayed home in Nigeria for one year and God in his will brought us back in July 2008.we started our ministry in Atar a small community with small number of
People just in the middle of no where.
Accessibility. The only road is the Nile which has to ride on the boat for 8hours before you can buy a cup of rice. But we were able to do what God really wanted us to do. We had a sports ministry with the youths and I was able to purchase a set of jerseys for them and the Sunday school was moving fine, we were planning to produce a video, women ministry by my wife, and then personal evangelism that also gave God 3 new converts. 2 from my sport ministry 1 from the students I was teaching in the school. Some work like in the compound where we live. I was able to renovate the old toilet that has fallen, and then planted some tree nurseries. When the time came for us to have our second baby we went to Kurmuk a small town at the border of Ethiopia. While every other missionary gives birth to their babies in a big hospital in Nairobi God took us to this village and we are the first Sudan missionary to deliver in Sudan and so we named the cute baby Hallelujah. Kurmuk was not left out I started a little bible discussion with 4 Muslims 3 at the place where we stay and then one called saiid at the market. Though we didn’t conclude but God was able to use me to glorify himself by bringing 4 converts to him {from two of my sermons in the church}. Yabus is a new place for me but I was able to contribute when I am needed. I build one cute toilet that we presently use, and
My sport ministry have also started not forgetting my singing ministry; we were able to start a choir at yabus to the glory of God.
A TRIBUTE TO MY WIFE.
Vicky {mama} as I called her is the most beautiful and loving woman in the world{without exaggeration} she stood by me in times of hardship and trials we cried together and comfort each other. Vicky is spirit filled because she left her well paid job to follow me without complain to Sudan and other mission fields we’ve worked at in Nigeria. Sweetheart I will not forget the delicious food you cook for me and the kids {there is no cook like you}.
My son Praise is the most brilliant boy. At 3 years old he can read, write and memorize scriptural verses. Boy he is going to the best pilot in the world. I pray your dream comes true. {This is his dreams and desire}. We say as a family we are hard working and dedicated, committed and loving, it is not by our strength that we do all these, but by the spirit of God. We can all things through Christ that gives us strength.

greetings from the adamu's

HI,friends how are you hope all is perfect and cool,me and my family are missionaries in Sudan, Yabus to be precise,we live and served in several places in Sudan we worked in a small town called atar in one of the state of the south called jongle state,we also have stayed in kurmuk and lastly now in yabus.

we're from Nigeria and God called us to live and work in sudan we obeyed his call left all our comfort and followed his direction.we come to sudan in the year 2006 but left back to nigeria due to visa issue.God in his own ways brought us back to sudan after one year of home stay.please pray for us as we seek God's leadership.you can also send us your comment and concern or encouragement,