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As I write you today, I have the great privilege of being in Ethiopia teaching at the Evangelical Theological College of Addis Ababa. Although I sincerely hope my students learn much from my classes, I know I have much to learn from them as well.
As I attended church services here, I was thoroughly impressed by the intensity of their prayer, their unrestrained joy in worship, their fervent response to the Word, and their passion for sharing the gospel.
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Botswana has left thousands of children orphaned. But because of your generous support, a Christ-centered program called Tumelong--which means where faith is--is now ministering to these vulnerable children.
Every day, your gifts are touching hurting, young lives, like that of 6-year-old Thusa Basikere. Young Thusa never met his father, and his mother died in childbirth. His 13-year-old brother dropped out of school to take care of him, but food was always scarce and Thusa knew nothing in life except poverty and hunger.
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"Both of my parents died . . . My family excluded me and withheld food, clothing, and other necessities. Eventually I went to the streets." Nehemiah, like many children in Nigeria, had to fend for himself.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria has left thousands of children without homes or families. In many cases, AIDS has killed every adult in the family. In other cases, like Nehemiah’s, no one is willing to care for the orphaned child.
But Nehemiah’s story doesn’t end on the streets. Thanks to the generous gifts of friends like you, SIM was able to expand our CARE (Children at Risk Education) Centers in Nigeria--making room for more children like Nehemiah.
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but God is using your gifts to rescue these children from lives of fear and hopelessness.
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We all know that clean water is essential for the health of any people, but unless you’ve experienced life without a source of safe water close by, it’s hard to fully comprehend the difficulties faced by the Fulani people of Burkina Faso.
In 2005, the government relocated the Fulani herdsmen to an area where there was no source of safe, reliable water for the people or their livestock. Consequently, the Fulani people had to travel long distances to get the water they needed.
SIM missionaries Rick and Karen Smith, who had been building relationships with the Fulani people through their veterinary services, told SIM of this people group’s tremendous need for a well.
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It was a time of crisis for the little church in Yagaba. The man who was going to be their pastor had just died, and with no one to lead them, some questioned whether the little flock would continue to gather.
But in God's Kingdom there is never really a crisis. Long ago, God had prepared a young man named Joseph Agana to meet their need.
Joseph, a recently appointed missionary with EMA (the missionary branch of SIM's partnering church in Ghana), had already received two years of training at SIM's Bible Training Center. He had a passion for sharing the gospel, understood local customs, and was a fluent speaker of Mampruli, the local language.
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