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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Sihanaka of Madagascar
2025 Status Update
“In
their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so
they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ.” (2 Corinthians
4:4 HCSB)
2025 Status Update
We’ve learned that a Malagasy Baptist
pastor has been working among the Sihanaka for decades. At one of his distant
outposts, a new church started in August of 2023. This pastor’s son and
daughter-in-law serve at a Baptist church that regularly conducts local and
long-distance outreach among the Sihanaka. We’ve also learned that a Sihanaka
man teaches at a seminary in Madagascar and leads trips to the Sihanaka area
for teaching, evangelism, and the encouragement of local churches.
Prayer Requests
- · Ask God to encourage the believers among
the Sihanaka.
- · Ask God to continue to open doors in new
parts of the Sihanaka region.
- · Pray for the completion of a Bible
translation in the Sihanaka language. It is almost finished.
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the Past
Week
We Praise God for:
- Traveling Grace:
- As the Herrons traveled in and around Jinja this past two weeks.
- The Herrons as they traveled from Germany returning home
- James and Madison traveling to Entebbe Internation Airport for her return trip to RVA for her Third term in school.
- We thank 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 accepted Christ during the last mission team.
- John from Sigulu Island and the ministry he is doing among displaced children of Sigulu Island.
- Thanks God as Madison adjustment to her classes at Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe, Kenya.
Pray
for the Herron’s This Coming Week
04th–10th
May 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 as we continue planning for the next mission team from O’Fallon First Baptist Church in late June-early July.
- Pray as we work with the team leader in America as we plan for their coming in June.
- Pray for the work on Sigulu in the construction of the latrine and storage space.
- Pray for the two men, David and Isaac, from Acacia Community Church who attended Cross Cultural Ministry Training in Nairobi Kenya from Acacia Community Church as they plan to implement what they learn to reach the community around ACC with the Gospel of Christ.
- We are thankful for their willingness to utilize what they have learned during the ten-day training in reaching others with the gospel of Christ.
- 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 that the Herron would be salt and light 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 and are returning to the USA for his next orders in Kansas.
- Babra in Heidelberg, Germany as she was wedded 18 April to Dr. Christin Hoffman.
- Madison as she begins term three of this school year.
- 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)
