Trust
you had quality time with your family and friends over the holiday
season. We had our kids and grand kids all here for two weeks this
past summer- the first time in three years that we have all been
together since our youngest and her family live in Holland and our son
and family live in Nova Scotia (only 2600 km from here!). We did see
our eldest daughter and her family between Christmas and New Years as we
travelled down to visit them in the Toronto area .
As Marilyn says, we celebrated three years worth of Christmas, New Years, birthdays and anniversaries in July!
A
very grateful "Thank you!" for your support of Harvest Now over this
past year. It has been a good year with "The Luke 10 Manual" doing a
lot of travel! We were able to print another 1,000 copies of the
Swahili version which are being shared in Rwanda, Burundi, the eastern
part of DR Congo, Uganda and the Central African Republic.
The
consistent testimony is that many are being set free to simply make
disciples wherever life happens rather than striving after building,
sound system and platform! They have the only tool necessary to make
disciples and that is time invested in another.
We
were also able to publish another 1,000 copies of the Urdu version to
help fuel the fire of Jesus growing across Pakistan as many question
traditional belief systems and have supernatural encounters with Him.
The
brother in south west India who translated the Luke 10 into Telugu has
reported some 450 baptisms and 45 house churches established in this
past year. They are working in a rural Hindu stronghold and have faced
some intense persecution up to homes burned down and lives lost. A
printing in Telugu is one of our next priorities!
Our
friends in Central Asia keep moving forward. While the home for women
at risk in Tajikistan continues to struggle with vocational training and
income creation, they have added bee breeding to their honey business
and are now making semi precious stone jewelry and continue with their
bakery. Tajikistan has some of the most unreached corners of the globe
in the mountains bordered by China and Afghanistan and Sergey is
helping followers of Jesus to go to those villages.
We
also encourage friends in Armenia, Turkey, Tanzania and the Philippines
who are seeking to serve the poor and make disciples. Many, many
stories could be told!
The Luke 10
Manual is now available in Arabic on our website and soon the Luganda
version will be up. That will make 15 versions up and with another 4
underway- Kirundi and Kinyarwanda for Central Africa, a Tigrinya
version for Eritrea to encourage one of the most persecuted churches in
the world and the Cebuano version for the Philippines.
Your
partnership in prayer and support will enable us to continue to help
these friends. 100% of your giving is invested in these projects and
these friends.
Thank you again and
Every blessing in 2017
Steve & Marilyn
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