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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Zande of South Sudan
2025 Status Update
“Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves
full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” (1 Timothy
1:15 NIV)
2025 Status Update
We’ve discovered that the 860,000 Zande in
South Sudan—farmers who practice a mix of African Traditional Religion and
Christianity—are engaged by thriving Episcopal churches and other evangelical
partners. Local partners are evangelizing, making disciples, and training
leaders. The full Bible has been available in their language since 2007. The
Zande can also access God’s Word through audio recordings and the Jesus Film.
Prayer Requests
- · Thank God for the churches that are working
among the Zande.
- · Ask God to reveal the lies of African
Traditional Religion and turn people’s hearts toward him.
- · Pray for solid biblical discipleship
throughout this people group.
Praise God for His Faithfulness and Protection from the Last Week
05th-11th January 2026
We Praise God for:
- Traveling Grace:
- Sonya traveled from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from visiting Jason our middle child and his family she returned to Jinja 09th January.
- James as he traveled around Jinja and to Entebbe this past week.
- James traveled in and around Jinja since returning 26th December.
- We praise God for the church planting effort of Pastor Odongo and his ministry team.
- We thank God for Pastor Odongo and the Hasusuni Baptist Church for their commitment to the reaching and discipleship of the those who recently accepted Christ during the last few weeks.
- Thanks God as Madison begin a new tern at Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe, Kenya.
- We thank God for being with us as we visited with our son, Jason and his family from 07 November 2025 until 06 January 2026 and seeing us back to Africa without many problems.
Pray
for the Herron’s This Coming Week
12th—18th
January 2026
- Pray for the Herrons as they travel this week:
- James and Sonya as they travel in and around the Jinja area this week.
- Pray for the Herrons and the Jinja Mission Station as we are preparing for election days 14th-17th January.
- Pray for Pastor Odongo and his team as we go through election time and prepare for Farming God’s Way Training after the election session.
- Pray for the Herrons as plans for 2026
- Preparing for our first mission team and March 2026.
- Discussion with prospective mission for the future.
- Pray that God will give the Herron’s insight and spiritual wisdom in making wise ministry decisions as they engage in ministering on Buvuma and Sigulu Islands.
- Pray for the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of the Herrons.
- Pray for the Herron’s ministry tasks we have this week.
- Pray that the Herron would be light and salt to the people they meet this week.
- Pray that the Herron’s will be given the words to share to others about Jesus and how they might receive the salvation from God offered through a relationship with Christ.
- Pray for our families in the USA:
- Our three sons and their families
- Our oldest son Keith in Memphis, Tennessee
- Our middle son, Jason, and his wife Marsha and their two sons Jacob and Joshua
- Our youngest son, Jeremy, and his wife Jennifer, and his three children, Kim, Colie, and Cy as he serves in the Army in stationed on Stuttgart, Germany.
- Babra in Heidelberg, Germany.
- Madison as she begins a new term.
- Pray for our siblings, aunts and uncles 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)
