Proverbs 3: 5 & 6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding!"
Kathy and I are Praising the Lord for His Guidance and Deliverance in 2019 and Beyond! We send you New Years Greetings, trusting our Lord for His best blessings and joy throughout this new season to serve Him!
We Thank You for your Faithfulness to the Lord and His Work here in the African Great Lakes Region, as we have experienced His Spirit's Intervention in so many lives and situations, for which we appreciate your sharing in the ministries through Prayer and Giving!
HINDERANCES ON ALL SIDES
Recent news headlines cause us to seek your prayers in a new way as our team also lives with uncertainties resulting from the past forty years of world conflict and those who would hinder us in the region.
CHRISTMAS BECAME A TIME OF GRIEVING
Our Christmas Season became a time of added stress and grieving for our Radio Staff and Radio Club families.
Two other team members were briefly hospitalized curtailing some planned Christmas Ceremonies with seven Kahuzi Radio Clubs. These vital team members operate the Panzi / Kazaroho Health Clinic and Nutrition Center providing health care to the destitute. Their Christmas ceremonies became a combined memorial and funeral service as the mother of our Coordinator and Radio Club President died on Christmas Eve.
As Believer's in Christ we know that all of these painful, earthly experiences are only temporary.
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; II Corinthians 4: 17.
HINDRANCES TO CAR REPAIRS
Our transmission repairs were successful and the 2000 Range Rover now has all gears working and the replaced exhaust pipes no longer block the exhaust flow! But our master mechanic did not come from Kigali (seven hour drive) with the computer monitor to reset the electronics and remove the computer's "Over Heat" warning on the gear box and exhaust system, possibly because of the confrontations at the border.
HINDERANCES AT THE BORDER
Each day brings new details of the complications at the border
crossing!
crossing!
Recently, Kathy heard a report that Kenyan and Rwandan forces eliminated a group of Islamic terrorists on the Kenya / Somalia border. I have not been able to confirm it.
But for Kathy and me, those kinds of warnings began in 1983 when the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda warned us to never let our baggage out of our sight, as we were in danger because we were being Medevaced to Washington, DC for eye surgery.
But for Kathy and me, those kinds of warnings began in 1983 when the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda warned us to never let our baggage out of our sight, as we were in danger because we were being Medevaced to Washington, DC for eye surgery.
As it turned out our Air France flight was the first plane to carry a bomb that exploded in the Paris airport terminal immediately after we deplaned and transferred to our TWA flight. Thankfully, nothing was slipped into our baggage but as we later learned, we were the target for planting the bomb. The man seated beside us, on the Air France flight, told us he was Gaddafi's Finance Minister coming from Bujumbura, Burundi where he was financing the building of Libya's Islamic mosques and other projects in the region. Two years later, they succeeded with a similar TWA flight!
So we appreciate prayer for our team, our region, and our travels,
as this new period of uncertainty begins with the Iran situation and the regions!
as this new period of uncertainty begins with the Iran situation and the regions!
HINDERANCES TO OUR SW SIGNAL...
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Recently we were asked to consider broadcasting the "The Story of Jesus" from
the "Jesus Film" in Arabic and other languages of and to the 10 - 40 Window, but our frequency has already experienced jamming from Iran and Russia, so we will need to pray before adding to our notoriety in those countries just North of us! We currently reach this area in English, French, Swahili and others, but not Arabic, yet.
BROADCASTING "THE JESUS STORY"
During the Christmas and New Year season Radio Kahuzi has enjoyed continuing our tradition of broadcasting the sound tract from the film and now we have the new audio radio version in MP3 format that we have added links to our www.radiokahuzi.blogspot.com !
Also, we are adding Bible messages in French, Swahili and English on a daily basis as D and M and the Smiths collaborate with our translation effort. You can click our link below to follow our "BESI Publications" progress.
We are thankful the Lord is giving us this means of leaving an on-going testimony for future generations after the Rapture has taken us Home to Glory!
We praise the Lord for our ever improving set of tools for ministry outreach!
Thank You for
"ComingAlongSide."
Serving in His Grace,
Richard and Kathy McDonald
Keep Looking Up...
...for His Soon Appearing in the Heavenlies!
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