THE SHEPHERD BOYS.

THESE ARE THE SHEPHERD BOYS.I ran into these boys on my way to the compound where we live, this was not the first time I saw them at the exact place just under the new yabus bridge taking care of their Goats, these boys are not really new to me some of them do worship at the same church that me and my family worship.
But one thing stand out for sure that I’ve not had contact with them since the times that I have been seeing them there not even in the church. (on a personal bases)
But this day was a special day for me as I took a bold step to interact with them, I found them eating a kind of a grass which they call (Gesh), I too joined them to eat that grass. They sat on the ground I sat with them, it became so funny to them as they laugh at what I do and how I eat the grass with them, I also giggle and smile a little. Some times I laugh out with them.
Little by little as we went on jokingly, but my target was clear in my heart, I talked about some Bible stories like the story of Noah, David the shepherd, and how he (David) rose to becoming a king from an ordinary shepherd, and then we ended with the story of Jesus and the little children, I found joy after doing this and have made it a point of duty to go there and say more stories to them until God give them the grace of repentance, please pray for them



this strategy is good don't you think so?

SMALL STEPHEN.

To so many peaple names is not taking into cosideration but to us in Africa a name is so important that some people believe that names are what you become. i use to ask why my dad gave me the name Stephen,and not our tribal name ar somthing MORE African, and when he talked to me about the meaning of the name i the fell in Love with the name.
through the years as i grow up i discorvered that very few people name their children Stephen,i kept staying in my worries, and concern,and each time i find someone with that name i feel so happy and always want to see him as my brother in an unpopular world of names.
my few stay in yabus i've come across two or three people that share the same name with me, but one good thing also that makes me happy is that people now give this heveanly name to their children, on of those is our cook Phatnah, a loving and a caring young and nwely married lady, i first saw her when i came to yabus as a missionary and since then have had a good relationship with her,not even knowing that she was pregnant,unknown to me that our good jokes with her have grown so deep in her heart and when she gave birth to her first son she named him CROWN(STEPHEN)
This really make me gld and i know that our unpopular name is now having some populairty.i love this boy soooo much and i pray that he will grow to be the crown of his God fearing and friendly mum.INTRODUCING THE NEW FOUND STEPHEN.
VICTORIA MAKING HASIDA OR TU'O AS WE CALL IT IN NIGERIA FOR THE MOTHER OF THE SMALL HUSBAND AS SHE CALL HIM.
PHATNAH AND HER SON.

SUPPORTING THE CHURCHES

MABAAN WOMEN FELLOWSHIP GROUP DANCING WITH THE SEATS TO THE ALTER.
The life of a missionary can be a challenge to the people he or she is working with, I come to realise that, it is not how much you get in a month that matters, but what matters is the conviction that, little is much when God is in it.
I also realise that mission is not all about programmes or project that you initiated but it is all about life style. But that does not mean that having programmes or project going in your mission field is not important, yet it makes you a good missionary but it is not the real purpose in the field. The first and the most important, is the life examples that you live.
This month has been one of the most challenging, that I’ve ever had in the mission field, here in Sudan. One is the power encounter that we have here in yabus the past few months was characterised by so many strange happenings, missionaries and also the Sudanese teachers that work with the secondary school, have been experiencing a movement of an evil spirit. Some of the times this wicked, ghost comes to press them when they are deep asleep. And that keeps them struggling with this thing from the devil. But I remember that the Bible says” we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers of darkness”. So I decided to have a different time from my normal 30 minutes prayer time in the evening to 1hr 30min prayer time, in the mid night.
That has been the case and now God is bringing things to normal. Talking about support.
Me and my family have been trying to see how we can help the churches here, and where the source of this help will come from, seeing that we can’t boast of things coming from our own pockets, and so we decided to take it to the Lord in prayers.
And our God that sees all things and answers the prayers of his servants, heard this prayers and he made a way for us to be able to do something for the churches here,
Our God answered us by sending to us a sister that we hardly know, and that sister sent to our family six plastic chairs and one plastic table, on receiving those gift from the sister, we asked ourselves what to do with them, and we decided to hand that over to the churches here in yabus.
We gave to the Uduk church three of the chairs, and then to the Mabaan church we gave the table and then three chairs also. All the church leaders are so happy to receive these gifts from us. We didn’t give the gifts with the name of our family, but instead we gave these gifts to the women fellowship, and the women in turn gave the gift to the church. This answered prayer reassures us that, God hears and answer prayers. Thank you Lord for everything.GIVING THE SEAT TO THE UDUK CHURCH IN YABUSTHE OLD TIMBER TABLE BEING REPLACED AS THE NEW COMES IN.
VICTORIA AND THE WOMEN DANCING AS THE PRESENTED THE SEATS TO THE CHURCH LEADER,MR JAMES ADAMS

A BLESSING FROM GOD.

this is the begining of the good things that God is doing to us here in yabus, this i mean,the garden we planted is blessed by God and is now giving to us back what we can have to eat and thank God for.my small vegetable garden is so nice and blessed by God, and now we have started eating the friut of our labour, take a tour and see for your self the goodness of the Lord.
THIS IS THE SUKUMA WIKI SIDE OF THE GARDEN
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TAKE LOOK OF THE OKRA,AND WATER MELONVICTORIA COLLECTING SOME OKRA FOR FOOD OUR SON PRAISE TAKING CARE OF THE BEANS SECTION OF THE FARM
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" />AND LASTLY THE ONIONS ARE ALSO GROWING GOOD AND WE ARE SOON GOING TO START USING IT FOR FOOD.
WE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND KINDNESS TO US. WE REALLY KNOW THAT YOUR GRACE IS SO SUFFICIENT FOR US, MAY OUR MAIZE ALSO HAVE A GOOD GROWTH SO THAT WE CAN HAVE MORE AND NOT PUT YOUR NAME TO SHAME

THE CHIKEN KEEPER

I am really thankful to GOD for the type f wife hegave to me, she not oonly take care of me and my ministry, not even just her ministry of women but also the ministy of taking care of the compound chikens for all the missionaries to have more protains added to their diets.and she is doing it faithfully and also wisely,i call this the ministry of service to all which is what God wants from us as his children,
sometimes i tease her with the name.MAI KAZUNA, MEANING THE REARER OF CHIKENS.
Ithank you fir the support you have bee giving to me in my ministry ant your heart of service,i really love you and thank God for making you the mother of my chilren.
THAK YOU
THE CHIKENS ARE THE ONES THAT USE TO WAKE US UP FROM SLEEP THEY ALL GATHER AT OUR DOOR WAITING FOR FOOD.

4TH BIRTHDAY FOR A LOVELY CHILD

our son Praise just turned 4 on the 31 of july ths year, this is such a blessing to all the family, the reason is that since this child was born he has never celebrated birthday. on the eve of his first birthday.he found himself in a bot of a bboiling beens in the kitchen.this was not an easy thing for me and his mum to come to terms wtih. but at the end we gave God the glory for his love and care he showed to us.
so we moved on till his second birthday, as we try to plan for his second birthday the sme little Praise found himself again pouring Hot boiled water on his feet, and so we continued to struggle with treatment of him,so this year we found our selves trying to celebrae his birthday again, in our hearts we were so sceptical of the outcome seeing that he has never gone through his birthday plans without an event.
but we thank God for his protection this year we were able to have his birthday celebrated without any problems thank you lord.
one of the thing s that really mad us (his parents ) happy was the testimonies that we got about him from the missionaries and teachers that we work with here in yabus.but in all we just want to say thank you Jesus for all that you have done to praise and us we give you all glory, P raise is now growing up well and healhty and also well behaved to us and to all around him