James and Sonya Herron, IMB Missionaries
Uganda East Africa
Island Ministry team (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
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“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.” (James 4:10 NLT)
Pray
for the Herero of Namibia
The
Herero, who number over 250,000, mostly reside within Namibia’s borders. Angola
and Botswana are also home to some members of this people group. A history of
European colonial oppression, including genocide, still impacts the Herero
people and has kept them resistant to Christianity. They have retained a strong
cultural base that keeps them proudly united as a people group. The “Holy Fire”
still spiritually captures most of the Herero in that it connects the living to
the dead through the ancestors. The Herero are a strong, proud people who have
yet to understand how desperate they are for salvation and all that it offers
today and throughout eternity.
- Ask God to humble the hearts and minds of the Herero so that they will be open to hear the good news of Jesus.
- Pray that God will create in the Herero people a desire to leave the past behind and run towards the future God has prepared for them through Jesus Christ.
- Ask God to quickly mature the new young adult Herero believers and burden their hearts for their own people to know Jesus.
Praise God for the Week 23rd—29th November 2020
Thank the Lord with the
Herrons for the Past Two Weeks
We Praise God for:
- Traveling grace for the Herrons during the past week as we:
- Traveled to and around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- We also praise God for keeping us in good physical, emotional and spiritual health.
- We thank God for the work Austin doing with the island pastors, in the Jinja community and around the compound.
- We thank God for how the islands Pastor have been able to minister to their communities.
Pray for the Herron’s This Coming Week
30th November—06th
December 2020
- Pray for our travel this week
- James and Sonya travels in and about Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as they visit with his middle son, Jason, and his family.
- Pray that the Herrons will be able to contact local churches to share our experience as missionaries in Uganda.
- Pray that God give us insight and wisdom to make wise decisions to the Island Ministry Team as they engage in ministering on the island again even though I will be stateside until January 2021.
- Pray for the Island Ministry Team as our leadership team as they continue to minister of the island this week.
- That all our priorities are directed by God
- They have insight from the Holy Spirit and our plans to resume ministry
- Continue to pray for Austin as he plans and work with the Island Ministry Team leaders this week and maintain the compound.
- Continue to pray for the people who have been affected by the rising waters of Lake Victoria.
- Pray for the people of Buvuma Island District because of the rising level of Lake Victoria and the restrictions placed on travel from the islands to the mainland.
- Pray for our families in the USA
- Sonya mother, Mary Sutton, in a nursing home in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Our three sons and their families
- Our youngest son, Jeremy and his family as he serves in the Army in Ft. Stewart Georgia as he has been deployed to South Korea until July 2020
- Our five grandchildren
- The Sutton Family
- The Dempsey Family
- Stribling/Herron Family (The passing of Johnnie Herron Jr. last week)
- Our siblings and their families
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 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
