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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Suba of Tanzania
2025 Status Update
“It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees.” (Deuteronomy 17:19 NIV)
The Suba are spread across Kenya and Tanzania. Their exposure to the gospel in these two countries has been vastly different. The Suba of Kenya, who gather in healthy, growing churches, went to research the Suba of Tanzania. They found some churches and believers in Tanzania, but most Suba practice a mixture of the prosperity gospel and African Traditional Religion. The need for more gospel proclamation and church planting among the Suba in Tanzania is great.
- Ask God to send Suba believers from Kenya to the Suba in Tanzania.
- Pray for the few Suba believers to grow in their faith and witness.
- Ask God to plant more churches among the Suba in Tanzania.
Praise God for His Faithfulness and Protection from
30th
June—06th July 2025
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the Past two Weeks
We Praise God for:
- Traveling Grace:
- James and Sonya traveled around the Jinja area during the last weeks without problems or difficulties.
- As the Herrons prepare for several ministry opportunities this week:
- Sonya’s Tuesday Bible Study and her On-Line Prayer Ministry
- James is preparing for a mission team from Nevada in August.
- We are thankful for the continued outreach on Sigulu Island and our ability to assist with helping with transportation to area where there are new churches which need spiritual assistance.
- We thank God for Madison’s readjustment to being in boarding school for the third term as she completes her first year at RVA.
- Her complete recovery from a concussion
- Her involvement in her School Banquet
- 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.
- We thank God for Bro. John, Robert and Hamal who have made requests to attend cross cultural ministry in Nairobi in August.
Pray
for the Herron’s This Coming Week
- Pray for our travel this week:
- James and Sonya drive in and around the Jinja area during this week.
- As we travel to Entebbe for Sonya travel Nairobi to pick up Madison from RVA.
- As Madison and Sonya travel from Kenya to Entebbe, Uganda
- As we go to Entebbe to pick-up Sonya and Madison.
- Pray for God guidance as Pastor Odongo has access to a boat and motor to minister to the villages of Sigulu Island.
- Pray for Pastor Odongo and his team as they assist with the training and outreach efforts to develop new believers.
- Pray for God’s provision for the coming months as the Herron’s has many opportunities to expand their work to different islands on Lake Victoria.
- Pray for the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of the Herron’s.
- Pray for Bro, John and Hamal as they continue to do research of the different tribes and languages on Sigulu Island.
- Pray for Bro. John and Hamal as they start their second term at UBS:
- Pray for their spending time away from their family and ministry during their study.
- Pray that they are prepared to assist and teach local pastors and church leaders upon them returning from their studies.
- 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 Herron’s ministry tasks we have this week.
- Pray for preparations for the mission team scheduled for early August.
- Making plans for securing the food that is to be distributed.
- Training on Sigulu Island for the teams that will be discipling the new believers.
- 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 Madison as she completes her studies at RVA and returns to Jinja for her break until late August.
- 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 as she prepares for critical examinations in June.
- Madison as she returns home for her end of school break.
- 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)
