January 2008 Prayer

January 10, 2008

Dear Prayer Partners,

Please keep the Melvins in your prayers as we travel the roads in Lesotho. As we travel from village to village we must stay alert for all types of hazards. Our travel distances can be as long as two hours one way. Pray that I stay focused, alert, and cautiously defensive. Please also pray for our Basotho Team members the Dials (stateside until the end of March) as they travel the mountain roads.

Blessings,

Tom

Greetings Prayer Partners,

Happy New Year to our dear prayer warriors! The Melvins will celebrate one year in Maseru, Lesotho on the 14^th of January. Last year, we arrived in Johannesburg South Africa on the 5^th and then on to the Maluti Mountains “The Mountain Kingdom in the Sky” for our Basotho Team orientation. Wow… how time flies.

You all have been obedient and faithful for the past year and your support has not gone unnoticed or appreciated. We hope and pray we can count on you for another year (Isaiah 40:31 - for those who truly believe they will not become weary, see the challenge below).

Stand In the Gap Challenge

We would like to challenge you to take your obedience of praying for the Basotho and the Melvins a step further. There are a little over 200 hundred of you and if each one of you could get one more to pray we can easily double the support. We value every prayer. We need more prayer and you can help. How? Seek out friends, family, co-workers, Bible study groups, Awana Clubs, knitting circles and even entire church bodies. Give them our information (see below). Advocate for the Basotho and the Melvins. Take the lead, stand the gap so that many Basotho can be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:3-4).

The Basotho

From our one year perspective the Basotho people are in general a difficult people to reach for Christ. There is a huge spiritual blindness over these people. Many Basotho have heard and accepted a form of the gospel that mixes African traditional religion & medicine and a works and prosperity doctrine with Christianity. They call themselves Christians and have been considered “hard soil” because of their “religiosity.” Few Basotho have an authentic relationship with Christ.

Melvins Serving In The Lowlands of Lesotho

P.O. Box 462

Ladybrand 9745

Republic of South Africa