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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Antefasy of Madagascar
2025
Status Update
Challenges
We’ve Faced
Though the Antefasy call themselves Christians, many believe
their ancestors are the intermediaries between them and God, and they seek help
from witch doctors. In their works-based belief system, Christianity is a
backup plan to get to heaven. They believe the requirement to be a Christian is
to attend church on Sundays. Very few churches faithfully teach the gospel.
How You Can Pray
- Pray for the few Antefasy believers who are making disciples and working to start healthy churches.
- Ask God to reveal his true Word to the Antefasy.
- Pray for new believers to boldly turn away from ancestor worship.
Praise God for His
Faithfulness from 16th
February—02nd
March
2025
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the Past
Two Weeks
We Praise God for:
- Traveling Grace:
- As James and Sonya traveled around the Jinja area during the last two weeks.
- James and Joseph Wafula traveled to and from Sigulu Island – Nampongwe for Evangelism and Discipleship training for the team who will be evangelizing the people who will receive the Tools and Seeds to be distributed during the coming mission team next week.
- As the Herrons as they traveled in and around the Jinja area during the past week.
- We thank God for the 250 persons who attended Farming God’s Way Training and were exposed to the Gospel of Christ
- We praise God for the fifty-seven persons who accepted Christ as Lord and Savior.
- We thank God for the people who are requesting that a new church be planted in their village to accommodate the twelve new believers from their village.
- Pastor Odongo and the Hasusuni Baptist Church for their commitment to the discipleship of the 57 people who accepted Christ during the Farming God’s Way Training.
Pray
for the Herron’s This Coming Week
03rd—10th
March 2025
- Pray for our travel this week:
- As we travel around jinja this week.
- Sonya driving in and around Jinja area during the week.
- Pray that the Herrons would be light and salt to the people they meet this week.
- Pray that the Herrons 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 meeting scheduled concerning the Upper Buvuma Island Baptist Ministry (UBIBM).
- Pray for God’s provision for the coming months as the Herrons 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 that God will give the Herrons insight and spiritual wisdom in making wise ministry decisions as they engage in ministering on the island.
- 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, Ki, Colie, and Cy as he serves in the Army in stationed on Stuttgart, Germany.
- Babra in Heidelberg, Germany
- Madison as she attends boarding school in Kenya.
- 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)
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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
