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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“As for what was sown on good soil, this is
the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and
yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."
(Matthew 13:23 ESV)
Pray for the Bisa of Cote
d’Ivoire
The Bisa are known for growing peanuts
and making peanut oil, peanut butter and crunchy peanut treats. A Bisa man who
wants to court a Bisa girl must work in her mother’s peanut fields and provide
the girl with her own field if they get married. Less than one third of Bisa
children are educated, as their lives revolve around subsistence farming. The
Bisa of Cote d’Ivoire number less than 150,000 out of over 1 million spread
across western Africa. They were migrants who worked on plantation farms and
eventually purchased property. The Bisa combine ancestral worship with Islam,
and do not know that God desires to plant a seed in their lives that will
produce a harvest of hope and life.
Pray
- That believers will plant seeds of the gospel among the Bisa people, and that those
seeds would fall on
fertile soil that will bear fruit.
Pray that the Bisa will understand the gospel and turn their hearts and minds toward
Christ to accept His
gift of salvation.
Pray that many Bisa will worship the one true God.
Praise God for the Weeks 11th—25th October 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 in the Metro-East Illinois area.
- Traveled to and from Cleveland, Ohio 19th-22nd October
- We continue to thank God for keeping us in good physical, emotional and spiritual health.
- We thank God for the work Austin is doing in Uganda as he coordinates ministry activities on the islands while we are stateside.
- Thank God for the reports I have received from Austin concerning what is happening on the islands.
- The work he is doing to maintain the compound and minister to the workers and church
- The way our islands Pastor have been able to minister to their communities using different methods.
- Contact I had with Metro-East Baptist Association DoM and invite to speak at FBC Mascoutah on 25th October.
Pray for the Herron’s This Coming Week
26th—31st October;
01 November 2020
- Pray for our travel this week
- James and Sonya travels throughout Metro-East and surrounding area this week.
- Plan trip to Dorrisville Baptist Church this Saturday and preaching there Sunday morning.
- Travel to Memphis this Sunday afternoon to visit our oldest son Keith.
- Pray that we have more opportunities to connect with pastors in the Metro-East and Southern Illinois area about international missions.
- For contacting Metro-East Baptist Association DoM for meeting to discuss International Missions
- For contacting Metro St. Louis Baptist Association for discussion of International Mission in their association
- 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 2021
- 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
