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  September, 2005

q    Ghana: Give thanks with director Daniel Sappor that 1) a new rural school has been opened with 2 teachers; 50 students are now learning to read and write!2) very good response among Muslims to the “Bible Study on Radio” broadcast; many are enrolling in the Bible courses, and questions answered via phone lines. Please pray for 1) National Discipleship Conference Oct 26 – 29, and Discipleship Training Seminar by SLM-HQ personnel Oct 31 – Nov 4. 2) $2,000 needed to complete National Office Renovations. Testimonies:

q       Ivory Coast: Praise God with Bello Johnson that 130 lessons were distributed in August with 34 professions of faith; there are 3 new students in the Distance Bible Institute; we received safely the boxes of lessons sent from SLM-Madison. Please pray for: 1) $13,000 to buy parcels of land for a DTC building 2) to open a prison ministry 3) for SLM worker, Mr. N’dah who needs $1500 for surgery on his broken leg suffered in a recent motor vehicle accident 4) for Bello as he moves close to the capital, Abidjan, due to the tense political situation; $900 is needed for the move.

q       Kenya: BLESS GOD for the work of Jack Stiles and Glenn Dix as they are now visiting Ethiopia with an Ethiopian man, Haile Selasie Tefera, (living here in Madison, Georgia) who wants to reach his people in his home country. Jack and Glenn report that the Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa is well equipped and that Genet Kassahun will be the office manager. She will receive training in Jack’s office in Nairobi, Kenya. Please continue to pray for SLM – Ethiopia for God to: 1) provide a printer for the lessons 2) good translation work 3) government paperwork will be completed. Praise God also for the 173 high schools in Kenya where SLM is working, as well as the 55 other missionaries and mission groups in Kenya who use SLM lessons.

TESTIMONY: “I found Christ as my Saviour as a youth rally, the place where I discovered my spiritual blindness…Jesus is sweet – heaven is now open to me because Jesus is at the gate. SLM Bible studies should go to all the public schools in Kenya, because they prepared me to receive Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour.”

q       Liberia: Director Sampson Hinneh writes: “I want to thank our many sponsors and supporters for getting funds to us to continue the good work of spreading Christianity throughout Liberia. We are really in need of Bible lessons and Bibles to reach into every corner of Liberia. SLM is in collaboration with other Christian groups who are having a nationwide prayer for the country for God to give us good and God-fearing leaders…It is in this light I am kindly asking members of SLM to please remember Liberia in their daily prayer for a good leader.”

q       Nigeria: Please continue to pray for Sanya and Bosun Dosunmu as they need funds to move the DTC office from Lagos to Abeokuta. Thank God for a report recently received from Pastor David Ajayi who participated in the Discipleship Training in February. He is continuing to conduct 6 discipleship groups through his church.

q       Togo/Benin: Benin Director Sika Yao reports that the LDM courses continue to bring people to Jesus Christ. Recently, an unmarried couple, who were living together, were convicted by the courses to separate; please pray for their salvation. Prayer is also requested for: 1) seminary to be conducted in BENIN in October, and perhaps at the end of October in TOGO 2) for land and finances for a church building  3) for God to provide a car  4) for the tense political situation in Togo.

q       South Africa: Praise God with Fanie Buys for God’s continued expansion of the SLM work: 50 new students are added each week from all over southern Africa: S. Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. More prisons are asking for courses as well. Fanie asks prayer for his plan to close up an area of their home to house both the volunteer workers and the stock in one area. Funds are needed.

      Testimonies:

“You people are really doing a good job. May God help you as you continue spreading the Good News. You have changed my life, and are helping me grow spiritually.”

“I thank you for the wonderful lessons that have made me to be a changed person. I have learned how a person can have a successful, peaceful and joyful marriage. I am even counseling my friends over love.”

q       Uganda: Thanks be to God for Aloni Mwisaka and the SLM work, especially among the Muslims. Ask God to continue to supply every need for Aloni and his family.