May 6, 2007
We have some exciting news. A young man, Pidritu, lived in our area for awhile, listened to the teaching, was saved, and attended our last Bible teacher seminar. He plans now to return to his home village (we'll call it Lan) and teach the evangelistic phase of the teaching to some families there who have expressed interest in listening. As he hasn't yet taught anything, some of the Manubu' Bible teachers here in our village plan to help him. Piduy, the head Bible teacher in our village and our best translation helper, has bought a used motorcycle. His primary purpose in buying the motorcycle is so Manubu' Bible teachers can travel to do new outreaches and also to travel to train new teachers like Pidritu as he starts to teach in his home village.
The real exciting part about this news is that Lan is on a river system where there are many Manubu' villages. It is an area that we have been praying about for years - that the teaching would get started there. Gene and some others did a survey of that river system nearly 20 years ago looking to see where and how many Manubu' villages there are. There are many. And Lan is by far the biggest. When Gene visited Lan there were about 100 houses - the largest Manubu' village he has ever seen. The Manubu' here say that now that village is much larger than it was then.
There are a number of religious groups located at Lan, but they all teach eternal salvation by faith plus good works, not by grace through faith alone.
So, please PRAY fervently that this new outreach will get going, many will listen and believe, and then go on to spread the gospel throughout that river system. We know that our enemy will do everything he can to prevent this outreach from starting and being successful. But, God has given us the means to stop him, and that is PRAYER. So let us PRAY.
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