Action de grâce

Kariuki News July 2007 Serving with YWAM in Chad, Africa

Action de grâce ( French for Thanksgiving)

Last year and this year seems to be quite the harvest years in every sense here. Our evangelism efforts have borne much fruit especially through film projection. Churches have been planted and other strengthened through the YWAM ministry here.

We are thankful to the Almighty God for who he is and for what He has done, is doing and will continue to do.

Our Discipleship Training School students just finished their outreach June 22, they did some work in partnership with local churches here in Sarh, evangelism and planting a new church, and then moving on north to work with an unreached people group (the Baguirmi) that has less than 20 believers. We are still praying for great fruit, there are a lot of strong holds of witchcraft, animism and islam, but our God is GREATer! We are excited about what He is going to do. This year we had three ladies and six men as students. We were especially thrilled to have a Pastor and his wife doing the school together. Their 9 yrs old daughter was a great blessing to the school atmosphere. We also be hosted a Team of 13 fromCanada (Quebec) that joined with our team for outreach. Visit our website for a photo journal;www.ywamconnect.com/sites/kariuki .

For those of you who have followed Chads news of late; there is a bit of a lull in the war with rebels, unfortunately the Janjaweed terror continues seemingly unabated and the same ethnic strife in the Darfur has afflicted eastern Chad and northeastern CAR. The insecurity on our roads has declined but is yet to be totally brought under control…the rough roads are treacherous enough ;-)

As a family we had to do a trip to Kenya to renew Zacky’s Passport and get one for Marianna. We had all struggled healthwise so it was also a good opportunity for medical attention. The heat got to us all (45° C). The double surprise blessing of a little one coming early October and Jo’s brother Tim marriage means we will spend sometime in the US. All this needful travels have stretched us financially.

Floria the little girl we were taking care of while her Mother did the School of Biblical studies has gone to be with the Lord. She was HIV positive and her mother still battles the virus. Please remember this precious lady that we love dearly in prayer. We grieve for she had really become part of our family.

STAFF PROFILES & Needs
	Mama Martine Marabaye: Spoken languages: Sara, Chad Arabic, French and few other local dialects . Role: Support staff, operations, kitchen and evangelism. Support Status: $ 30 monthly. Support need: $ 200 monthly
	Papa Elie Adoumngue: Spoken languages: Sara, French, English and few other local dialects . Role: Asst . Director, Support staff, operations, and training. Support Status: $ 30 monthly. Support need: $ 350 monthly
	Bienvenue Kpanam: Spoken languages: Sara, Sango, French, and few other local dialects . Role: Church Planting, Evangelism, Support staff, and training. Support Status: $ 100 monthly. Support need: $ 250 monthly
	Mama Collette Yoya: Spoken languages: Ngambaye, Sara, , French and few other local dialects . Role: Training, operations, kitchen and evangelism. Support Status: $ 30 monthly. Support need: $ 200 monthly
	Margaret Tanner: Spoken languages: English, French and working on Chad Arabic. Role: Primary Healthcare, Community Development and Support staff. Support Status: Savings from past job. needs Support
Could you pray and ask God to meet their needs. If possible please consider being involved with one or more of these precious missionaries… contact us for further details if God leads you to support them.