Official Autonomy of the Church in Kassai

Kariuki News November 2008

Moses and JoAnna Kariuki - Serving in Youth With A Mission CHAD

A special event for us recently has been the official autonomy of the church in Kassai, one of the ‘quartiers’ of Sarh. This church is close to our hearts as it was planted in a joint effort between a local church, our DTS outreach team, and an international DTS team from Dunham, Quebec last year. The church had been functioning as a cell group of the mother church until the ceremony held recently giving it full recognition as a sister church in their local organization. Elie, the pastor, was on staff with us for several years. Some of the elders are men who came to know the Lord through the outreach last year! We are excited to be involved in what God is doing in growing his Kingdom in Kassai.

The Bible Core Course began in October with 5 students, who've been kept very busy digging into the Word ever since! Already we are seeing God's transforming power at work in their lives. Please pray with us that they would continue to grow not only in the knowledge of the Bible but in their character and walk with the Lord.

Yes, we are still in Chad, and plan to go to Kenya for Christmas. Although we had hoped to go earlier, it's always nice to have the holidays with family and we are all looking forward to that, and especially the joy of introducing Katelyn to the Kariuki side of the family. We are thankful that our dental and medical problems have not worsened, we're hanging in there! :-) Presently we have about half the finances we need for our tickets to Kenya and back, so we're still praying that we will be able to travel in December. To all those who have given towards our travel expenses thank you so much!

Family news: The children are all doing well, and growing so fast...we recently celebrated Katelyn's first birthday, she's almost walking and doing her best to keep up with the rest of the tribe. :-) Rainy season is at its end, and with less mud and mosquitoes, the kids are enjoying playing outside every day, the Joshua and Zachary climbing trees, and Marianna usually making sand “soup,” or playing with her big brothers' tractors. Apart from home schooling Josh in first grade, Jo's recently began another long-awaited project: learning Chadian Arabic. She's enjoying weekly lessons with a friend hoping to talk with the many Muslim women who speak no French at all soon.

Until all have heard,

Moses & Jo, Josh, Zack, Marianna and Katelyn

thekariukis@yahoo.com -- JEM BP 166, Sarh, CHAD -- Phone +235-6390371 (Moses) or +235-6991866(Jo)