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
Bambara of Senegal
2025 Status Update
Challenges We Found
In
early 2024, two churches came to prayer walk, share the gospel, and develop
relationships with the Bambara of Senegal. However, the Bambara are difficult
to engage with, and, according to other people groups, they are at times closed
to other Senegalese. Approximately 8,000 to 12,000 Bambara live near IMB
personnel, who know of one believer.
How You Can Pray
·
Ask
God to give churches and field workers the desire to come
work among the Bambara of Senegal.
·
Thank
God for a good relationship with one chief who is Bambara. Please pray for him
and his family.
·
Pray
that SD cards that were distributed among the Bambara will bear fruit.
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.
- James and Wafula Joseph travel to Sigulu Island last Monday—Friday
- As the Herrons prepare for several ministry opportunities this week:
- Sonya two Weekly Tuesday Bible studies
- Sonya Saturday Bible Study and On-Line Prayer Ministry
- For Evangelism Training of on Sigulu Island 32 pastors and Church Leaders who will provide evangelism and discipleship follow-up for the early May Mission Team.
- Preparing Church leaders to train congregations how to develop their personal testimonies and utilize them in sharing the Gospel.
- The Medical Clinic in Namagera Village where 158 patients were served and 15 persons accepted Christ and are receiving follow-up. Making preparation for Clinic scheduled for 22 March.
- 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
23rd—30th
March 2025
- Pray for our travel this week:
- As we travel around Jinja this week.
- James and Sonya driving in and around Jinja area during the week.
- Madison’s travel from RVA this Saturday.
- Our travel to Entebbe Internation Airport to pick Madison up Saturday
- Pray that the Herrons would be light and salt to the people they meet this week.
- Pray for Madison as she finishes her second term at RVA this Friday.
- Pray for her as she begins a one month being home with her parents.
- 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) as James’s schedule meetings with leaders of UBIBS next week.
- Pray for our effort to build a new boat to use in reaching the people of the islands.
- 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 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 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
- 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)
