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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“In their case the god of this world has
blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the
gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” (2 Corinthians 4:4
ESV)
Pray for the Makhuwa Marrevone of
Mozambique
The Makhuwa
Marrevone are one of the majority Muslim people groups along the coast of
Mozambique. Introduced to Islam over 1,000 years ago by Arab traders from the Gulf
of Oman, their ethnographic center near the town of Angoche remained an
obstinate Muslim sultanate centuries after the Portuguese colonized Mozambique.
Since the
late 1990s, missionaries from various groups, including the IMB, have been
sharing the gospel and planting churches in the Angoche area. IMB leadership
praises God that there are now over 2,000 baptized believers among the Makhuwa
Marravone! We need to keep praying for the gospel to spread and for healthy,
multiplying churches to be planted among them.
Pray
- Most Makhuwa Marrevone still follow Islam. Pray their minds and hearts will be opened to the truth of the gospel.
- Pray that believers among the Makhuwa Marrevone will remain committed to Christ. Pray for strong, faithful leaders to rise up and lead the churches.
- Pray that, just as the Makhuwa Marravone heard the gospel from a neighboring people group, they also will share their faith with other groups.
Praise God for 01st–07
January 2021
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the
Past Week
We Praise God for:
- We thank God for traveling grace for the Herrons during the past two weeks as we:
- Traveled in and around Jinja
- Two trips to Kiyindi Landing Site for meeting with Pastoral Leadership.
- Travel to Kampala and back
- We thank God for the adjustment we have made since being home.
- We also praise God for keeping us in good physical, emotional and spiritual health.
- We thank God for the work Austin, Joseph Wafula and the Upper Buvuma Island Baptist Ministry (UBIBM) Leadership Team and their continual work on the islands while we were in America.
- We thank God for how the islands Pastor have been able to minister to their communities and continue the work of reaching people for Christ.
- Praise God for receiving Uganda Work Permit to be pick-up later this week.
Pray for the Herron’s This Coming Week
08th—14th February
2021
- Pray for our travel this week
- The Herron’s travels in and around Jinja
- James, Austin and Joseph travel to the island for food distribution Wednesday, 10th February.
- James travel to Kampala Friday.
- Pray that God will give us insight and spiritual wisdom in making wise ministry decisions as we begin engaging in ministering on the island in our return from America.
- Continue to pray for the people of the islands who have been affected by the rising waters of Lake Victoria.
- Pray for our pastors to learn and implement the government mandate on church meetings to protect from spreading COVID-19.
- Pray for our families in the USA
- Sonya mother, Mary Sutton, passed yesterday Saturday 19th December.
- 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/Sutton Family
- Our siblings and their families
- Our co-worker George and Geraldine Smith as he is hospitalized in Nairobi, Kenya since 17th January.
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)
