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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55 in 5 Status Update
Kotafon of Benin
How God Is Working
Voodoo,
the prosperity gospel, and syncretism create challenges among the Kotafon.
However, since 2015, IMB partners have planted seven Kotafon churches. (Sadly,
two of these churches were lost during the COVID pandemic.) Ten pastors from
the Baptist Bible School of Benin and additional church planters have been
trained to serve the Kotafon. Thirty Kotafon have been baptized.
How You Can Pray
· Pray for evangelism through door-to-door
prayers and a program for teenagers and students from local technical schools.
· Ask God for resources, unity, and spiritual
growth in Baptist churches.
· Pray for an African partner who serves as a
missionary among the Kotafon.
· Pray for Kotafon who are persecuted.
Praise God for His
Faithfulness from 03rd—09th Mach 2025
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the Past
Week
We Praise God for:
- Traveling Grace:
- As James and Sonya traveled around the Jinja area during the last week.
- As the Herrons prepare for several ministry opportunities this week.
- As the Herrons ministered in and around Jinja this past week
- Sonya two Weekly Tuesday Bible studies
- Sonya Saturday Bible Study and On-Line Prayer Ministry
- James Saturday Discipleship Training which starts this Saturday.
- Jame Bible teaching and preaching at Acacia Community Church this Sunday.
- Plans for Evangelism and Discipleship training for the upcoming mission team scheduled for next Monday—Friday,
- Madison progress in school and the contact we have had with her this week.
- 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
10th—
16th 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 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 residing in America.
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)
