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Dear Faithful Prayer Partners, We give thanks for a great week in the Lord and a wonderful start to our "Prayer Walk" for the Basotho, please see ( www.prayforthebasotho.org ) and many responses to the daily vignettes asking for specific prayer. To those that worked so hard on this…Scotty ( www.missionteaminc.com ) and Bradley Davis ( www.illuminatemedia.net ) we can only offer our praises to God for your amazing gifts and willingness to share them in the name of Christ. As we say in the upper corner of lower Alabama: " You done good!" People are praying…people will be saved. We are thankful to all those that love the lost, whether the Basotho or Americans or whomever. Another couple who have been so supportive of us here in the mountains and the Basotho Team is C. and A. Their talent is unbelievable and they are responsible for the hard work that went into original Basotho videos that have lead so many of you to pray with us. They do all the work from America on the www.Basotho.org website and we owe them an enormous thanks and hugs all around. C. and A. have been at it so hard for so many years and we just couldn’t do it without them….thanks folks! Isn’t it amazing to see God work through all these partners and see His gifts used in such a wonderful way.
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This week the Basotho Team was joined by Larry and Sally Pepper as they arrived in Maseru to begin their work. Larry and Sally are seasoned missionaries who have served over 12 years in Sub‐Saharan Africa and we are blessed to count them as part of our team. Larry will be working as the Director of Lesotho Flying Doctors and Sally will be in Home and Church ministries. We will have an unprecedented access to the isolated locations in the mountains through Larry’s ministry. Praise God for them both. Prayer Partners…these are really great folks and a major addition to our team. They have three grown children. Adam recently graduated from Hope College and begins working with AmeriCorp in Washington DC with National AIDS fund. Megan has completed two years of university (Hope College) working towards a double major in International Studies and French with an Art minor. Kelly will begin university at Taylor University in Uplands Indiana. Please add them and their children, to your prayer list. |
The Flora’s are a little over half way through Field Personnel Orientation in Virginia and we eagerly await their arrival the end of this month. Jim and Teresa, Gracie, Anna and Rebekah will be such a powerful addition to the team and as are the Pepper’s, the right people in the right place at the right time. Jim and Teresa will join the Basotho team and will serve in the northern range of the Maluti Mountains as church planters. God has blessed Jim and Teresa with 6 amazing children and 3 grandchildren. Their sons are grown and married and living in Missouri. Serving with them in Mokhotlong will be Elizabeth Grace, age 10 ( adopted from India), Anna Mikail, age 9 (adopted from Haiti), and their baby girl Rebekah Joy, age 4 (also adopted from Haiti.) |
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Blessings. Babs. John and his wife |
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We continue to ask for your prayers for: * Babs’ family members: Brother John (cancer concerns), Sister Johnnie (recovering from a previous accident), and youngest brother Chris (also recovering from an accident). * For Alan and continued health issues. * The villages of Phakang and Ha Kanono
where new works have begun. * Pray for the Basotho Prayer Walk that many will join us in praying for the Basotho * For The Bell Shoals Team from Brandon, FL and Bloemfontain Mission Team from South Africa as they prepare to come to Lesotho to work with us in the mountains. * First Baptist Church, Maryville, IL and the family of Pastor Fred Winters, the congregation and the troubled young man who took Rev. Winters life. For those that do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, may their spirits be quickened and may they recognize the need for the Savior. The dam is full to over flowing…like our blessings! * For those with physical needs that hinder them from hearing the Gospel. We want to give thanks for the rain that God has sent this year…the crops are doing well and the rivers and reservoir is full.
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Thank you for loving us, and for allowing us to love you. In His Name, Alan, Babs, Daniel and Mohau The Maluti Mountain Dials Katse Village, Maluti Mountains, Lesotho, Southern Africa Remember to join us www.Prayforthebasotho.org www.basotho.org and www.missionteaminc.com and www.illuminatemedia.net
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Babs’
Personal Note: I just wanted to share with you something
someone said to me this past week. Recently, because of
some health problems, we decided to hire a gardener to help
out with the work around here. God was gracious to bring to
us a man who is a Christian and who was eager to work.
When we traveled to Johannesburg last week, it was John, our
new gardener with whom we left the keys to our home so he
could fix himself lunch every day and let the dogs out and
put tem in again at night. The morning we returned I had
fixed John something to eat and he began to share with me
that he had never sat a white person’ table, eaten with them
on their dishes, or shared their toilet. He was happy that
we trusted him and loved him and he thanked us. This made
me sad because I knew John had worked for some people in
South Africa during apartheid. During those days, he was not
allowed to enter his employer’s home, eat at his table, or
even eat off the same dishes as them and never allowed to
use their toilet. Those times left a shadow in the hearts
of the people. God made all men in His image and each of
us are precious to Him. I am so glad that a great and
powerful God placed value on each of us. We are not worthy
but He does it anyway. That is called love. Jesus said to
love others as we love ourselves. I pray that this week as
we all go about our busy lives, we will take time to show
God’s love to everyone we meet and they may see Christ in
us because of it. Have a great week. 
