SNOWDEN'S MISSIONARIES TO AFRICA OUR MINISTRY IN COUNTRY SHARED. 2021-2023

SNOWDEN'S MISSIONARIES TO AFRICA

OUR MINISTRY IN COUNTRY SHARED.

2021-2023

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Burundi, Africa 2023

October 2023

Brad had the blessing to be able to travel to Burundi in Africa after our daughter Felecia's wedding in September.

Burundi is said to be the poorest country in Africa. 

It is beautiful, with Bujumbura the capital sitting alongside Lake Tanganyika (which likes like an ocean it's so large).

It is where Dr. Livingston met Stanley when walked through this region; planting seeds of the Gospel as he went.

It is where we have many church planters traversing the mountains, to villages where there is no church. 

Brad was able to visit with several church planters, their trainers and some churches. He was welcomed warmly. Oh the loving people of Africa is life changing.

A treat is he was able to visit the spot where Dr. Livingston and Stanley are memorialized. 

He walked up a mountain twice to a training center and church. A year before he had almost died and now he was able to do this.

All the places he went he delivered some of the Bibles our church purchased for the Great Lakes region. For most all of them it was their first Bible and will be the only Bible represented among many churches.

They would hug them and immediately open them up right as they were given to them.

He travelled up the mountains where he viewed rice  and even coffee fields. Thatched huts and people walking all around.

He stayed in a hotel that a pastor owned, fed the largest avocados he had ever seen (larger than his hand). Truthfully, he doesn't like them, but it was his source of protein. 

He preached in a few churches and met many new converts as well as church planters. 

One time, the car broke down in the middle of the road by a village. They were concerned about Brad, being a white man in a foreign country. Children first came by the droves, then young people then the adults. As they waited for an other car to come, the Gospel Message was preached and many came to Jesus.

Isn't that just like Jesus?

Brad again delivered the micro SD cards with the Jesus Film, video and audio Bible studies all in Kurundi to put in their phones to share one on one with others. It has been a great evangelism tool. 

Our church donates the phones and one gentleman at a PA camp we attended donated the the sd cards.

The dust from the travels attacked Brad's lungs. When he came home he was ill for two months. But, it was worth serving in this capacity.

I did not go because we did not have the funds for me to go. It greatly saddened my heart, but felt at peace. I too have the call to serve on the mission field; but this time I stepped back. 

PLEASE PRAY OUR SUPPORT IS INCREASED AND OUR CASH ACCOUNT WHERE WE PAY FOR TRIPS INCREASES TOO! We do need help!

          

     

CATCHING UP! March 2023

Wow! 

I allowed myself to neglect you my dear reader in this blog set aside for our missions updates and insights.

But, I can guarantee you there is a bunch of blessed missions endeavors and experience we have encountered. 

We travelled to Goma, DRC Feb. /March 2022 - it was an adventure, a challenge and a blessing.

What an interesting trip, trample through the airport there was a great victory! Wowza!

We were blessed to celebrate with church planters and their students at a celebration with a few hundred people, all singing and dancing. 

We travelled by by boat to Bukavu, DRC where we met with first our denomination in the DRC leaders: EMEC, as they came together for Training. We are their liaisons with OMS. The Great Lakes Region Coordinators came for training which constitutes of 13 men and one lady. We had a marvelous time of learning together in our training. Beautiful, hard working men who are in charge of hundreds of training centers with at the least 15 students per center. The students are the church planters, who go to a village where there is no church and share about Jesus to a person of peace. 

We loved travelling to a local training center and meeting the students and the trainer (who is also a Pastor) George. He gave his home to be the training center leaving he and his wife a small tiny room for them to live in. They both work hard for the Kingdom.

As the week came to an end and we were training about the how to use the micro sd cards that have the Jesus Film, Bible Stories and more all in their languages. 

We also were able to visit the lava fields from where their volcano erupted the year before killing thousands and destroying many homes. Including those from our churches and even one of our churches itself. 

Then Brad became quite ill one day and in the evening. We thought he had meningitis, or malaria we couldn't figure it out. He threw up so much and in terrible pain.

We had to take a 6 hour boat ride back to Goma and then he went to the hospital. The doctor said he didn't have appendicitis. He said Brad had typhoid. We had to cut our trip short and fly home. After going to the emergency room, we discovered the typhoid caused his appendix to rupture while we were in Bukavu. 

He had a drain tube placed in for several weeks. They kept him in the hospital due to the fact of the typhoid. Later, they operated and were able to remove all his appendix. 

God kept him safe and well! 

Halleluiah! 

  

    

             

   

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