Recovery Week, Teen Choir and Prayer Requests

                                                Congregation

 

This was one of those weeks that could best be described as a week of recovery for both Terry and I came down with some type of stomach virus.

The bad part is that these types of very common ailments set you back a few days but the good part is that we know exactly what type of medications to take to get us back on our feet in short order.

With that said we did manage to get some work done in spite of our physical issues.

With Christmas just around the corner we have been making preparations to distribute clothes and food baskets to the thirteen Pastors we are currently working with.

Cleveland Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland, Texas gave a generous love offering to be used to be a blessing to our Pastors and their families.

Because all of our Pastors have between 5-7 children and we know that most of them need clothes so we purchased several bails of compressed clothes for them.   

These bails weigh around 100#’s and contain an amazing amount of clothes.

Terry is in the process of sorting and sizing the clothes and we can’t believe what kind of clothes we throw away or donate in the USA as most of these clothes are like brand new.

We will be delivering them next week with our guests who are traveling from Florida to spend Christmas with us.

We are so excited to have dear friends who are willing to travel around the world to spend time with us as the holidays can be extremely lonely for foreign Missionaries.

This week we also were able to visit the village of Kibuke as well as the Landmark Baptist Church of Mayanja both of which are located at the base of Mt. Elgon.   

The survey of Kibuke is tied together with the LBC of Mayanja as one of their members named Micheal (who has surrendered to the gospel ministry) lives there and walks nearly six kilometers to attend church at Mayanja because there is no scriptural Church there.

As with all of these preliminary surveys, we simply visit the village and begin to bathe the village in prayer asking God’s blessing upon the village and for His will to be known concerning any future work there. This process can take months or even years as we wait patiently for “God’s Timing”.

We enjoyed the day of worship with Pastor Nixon and the LBC of Mayanja.

The Church is going on well and we have developed a strong relationship with Pastor Nixon and this dear congregation.

The youth choir did an awesome job as they sang praises unto the Lord. 

 

WHY DON’T WE HAVE MORE YOUTH CHOIRS IN THE USA?

 It blesses our heart to see these teenagers singing and praising the Lord for we know this is our next generation of God honoring Christians as well as the next generation of Church planters,

Pastors and leaders.

We also took the opportunity to present Pastor Nixon with his Certificate of Ordination. He was ordained in 2010 but somehow we overlooked his certificate at that time.

Never said we had it all together, just all together trying to serve the Lord with all of our hearts.   

Terry was blessed with a chicken, eggs and another new namesake (Teresa) who was born two weeks ago.

Terry's Blessings

We both have nearly twenty little (Carlos’s & Teresa’s) out there from Mt. Elgon, Lake Victoria and the Kerio Valley. We are both humbled and honored that they would name their children after us.

In closing, I have several prayer requests on my heart that I kindly ask you to add to your prayer list this week.

A. Please pray for the village we visited called Kibuke

B. Please pray for one of our Pastors who was involved in a motorcycle accident.

C. Please pray for one of the young Pastors on Mt. Elgon who was hit by a falling tree and has several broken ribs.

D. Please pray for our guests as they fly from Florida to Kenya on Wednesday.

E. Please pray for the salvation of thousands more here in Kenya

F. Please pray that God will allow us to plant dozens more Scriptural Churches.

G. Please pray that God will continue to call dozens more preachers to proclaim His word.

H. Please pray for traveling mercies for us as we travel with our guests.

I. Please pray for our Children, Grandchildren, Family & Parents.

Thank you for taking a few moments to unit with us through the spirit in prayer.

God Bless,

Missionary Carlos (Chuck) & Mama Teresa (Terry) Fernandez
Kenya