Wednesday, August 17, 2016

August 15-21 Herron's Prayer Blog



James and Sonya Herron, IMB Missionaries

Uganda East Africa

Fishers of Men (Upper Buvuma Islands)



The vision of the International Mission Board is to see a multitude from every language, people, tribe and nation knowing and worshiping our Lord Jesus Christ




Praise and Prayer Request for the Week 15th—21st August     
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the Past Week 08st—14th August

(We Praise God For)

  • Praise God for traveling grace for the Herrons as they travel to Kyinda and around Jinja Town during the past week 
  • We praise God for the planning of evangelism efforts to assist island congregations to reach the lost on their islands/villages 
  • How the Lord is caring for our family in America 
  • We thank God for the completed work done on our boat which was launched this past Saturday   
  • The desires and arrangements for our church leaders developed to assist church evangelize their village/island 
  • The continual spiritual growth we have seen among our island ministry team 
  • Our continual improvement in learning Luganda  

Pray for the Herrons This Week
15th—21st August
  • Our continual efforts to secure US VISA for Madison 
  • Pray for our family in the USA 
    • Our three sons and their family (Keith, Jason and Marsha, Jeremy and Jennifer) 
    • Our five grandchildren 
    • Our parents 
    • Our siblings and their families
  • Our planned visit to the islands Wednesday—Saturday
    • Evangelism crusade Wednesday—Saturday  
    • Traveling to the landing site and traveling on the waters about eight hours 
    • The new interim pastor at Kiko Baptist Church 
    • Our pastors and Church leaders efforts to reaching our churches villages/islands with the Gospel through evangelism, Gospel crusades and new Bible classes to start next week
  • Pray for the follow-up work in assisting our pastors/church leaders start new Bible Study Groups in their churches and also in their homes of members  
    • The Ugandan Children/Youth Ministry members who were trained to begin to applying what they learn in their respective village/islands 
    • Pray that the training results in new Bible Study Groups in the near future
  • Our commitment to language learning 
    • Our commitment to sharing Christ in Luganda this week 
    • Our witness to our Language teacher

Thanks for your prayerful support.

In HIS service
James and Sonya Herron

 "...before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language...." Revelation 7:9 (NIV)
The Herrons, Madison, Sonya and James
Mission Team From O'Fallon Illinois (July 2016)
Sonya and some of Her Friends




O'Fallon Mission Team on Ministering on Bugsya Island


Repairing our Boat also most ready

completed Work (One Week Later)

The Repaired Boat in the Water

Happy Birthday Party for one of our Worker (Daniel)