A la Une- News Flash

This is being written from Port Orchard, WA from where we are basing our travels during our stateside stay. The time sped by between this current posting and the last one, around the time fo the war in Chad. We had to push hard to finish the second building on the Bible school campus before leaving Chad but were successful up to finishing the roof. This is for the professors’ housing, and speaking of professors, I just got an email from the Togo AoG missions director asking about the political situation in Chad as he was wanting to know if they could complete their plans to send their missionary to us to teach at the Bible school. Please pray for Walada John and his wife Grace and their two daughters Peace and Victoire as they gather their financial support from the local congregations in Togo, West Africa. They, along with Nikiema Martin, and his wife Elise, a young couple from Burkina Faso, also in West Africa are planning to teach at the school and be involved in other ministry such as the radio station and in planting local churches around the Moundou area. Pray also for Garba Jona, a Nigerian AoG missionary who is coming this year to start a second church in N’Djamena, the capital city.

And if that was not enough, Sonia and I just received note that a new missionary has been assigned to Chad for the AoG USA. This fine family is not new to Chad. They worked wirth SIL as Bible translators for several years but felt they needed to be with a mission that was closer to their vision and ministry so we welcome David and Sharon Faris. Their ministry will be to continue the translation of the Bible into a local language. We cannot share the name of the ethnic group or their language due to the sensitive nature of their work. They add a vital diminsion to the work here. I met David for the first time back in 1994 when we made our first investigative trip to Chad. He hosted our stay and provided much needed information on the conditions. They are from the Northern New England area and plan to be done with their fund raising by the beginning of 2009.

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