April Update

Grace and peace to you.

 

This past month has been quite busy. We have done a lot of things together as a family. We enjoyed the Spring/Easter vacation with our girls Esther and Emily home from boarding school in Kenya (Rift Valley Academy or RVA). Now our girls are back at school and we already miss them. Lord willing Esther will be graduating in July and we will have a short furlough (July-August) primarily on the West Coast.

 

We just got back from a quick trip to Dar Es Salaam (the big city on the East Coast of Tanzania) for passport renewals of 2 of our kids and dental work (for Luke and Gina). 

 

Now we look forward to the Disciples of Jesus school reopening for its second term tomorrow (Apr. 28). Pray for all 7 students to return.

 

Luke is also busy preparing for a trip to the Igunga area, where Peter Yamungu (a Tanzanian missionary) has planted 2 small churches among the Wataturu and Wasukuma tribes. A few years back the Lord provided for a well to be dug in one of the villages to show Christ’s love to the community. A hand pump was installed but the well proved to be too deep for a hand pump and kept breaking, and finally could not be used for some time. Now the Lord has provided a solar pump that needs to be installed. A team of 4 of us are getting ready to drive 11.5 hours to the place and spend a week there, installing the pump, a solar panel tower and panels, a water tank and water collection point for the community. 

 

Please pray for our travels, all the logistics and work that needs to be done, along with finding some of the materials we still need. Pray for unity, love and patience and that we would have a Christ honoring testimony in all that we do. Pray for Gina as she stays home with the 3 boys, for strength, protection and stamina. Pray for success and for many souls to be saved as the love of Christ is shown.

 

Thank you for lifting us up before the Father’s throne.

 

Sincerely,

 

Luke Johnson