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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Ngiri of DRC
2025 Status Update
“I
urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving
be made for everyone – This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all
men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God
and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus …”
(1
Timothy 2:1,3-4)
The Ngiri live in a heavily forested area
on the edge of the largest freshwater wetland in all of Africa. They were once
renowned warriors but today they are looked down upon and discriminated as
“those forest people.” The Ngiri face the challenges of poverty, poor hygiene,
alcoholism, domestic violence, fear of sorcery, and a shortage of opportunities
to grow intellectually, spiritually and economically.
The Ngiri are primarily farmers; women tend the crops while men fish, hunt and clear the farmland. While the Ngiri reject non-Christian religions such as Buddhism and Islam, they don’t worship the one true God, and few understand the gospel. Instead, they practice a form of religion that involves ancestor and spirit worship.
Prayer Requests
- · Pray that God would place a longing in the
hearts of these “people of the forest” to know Him.
- · Pray for current work being done by Seed
Company to translate the New Testament into the heart language of the Ngiri.
- · Ask God to make a way to reach isolated
villages in this vast and heavily forested area.
Praise God for His Faithfulness and Protection from the Last Two-Weeks
18th-24th May 2026
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the Past Week
We Praise God for:
- Traveling Grace:
- As the Herron’s traveled in and around Jinja this past two weeks.
- James and Joseph traveled to Sigulu Island 21st—23rd May
- We thank God for the effort of Pastor Odongo and his ministry team in assisting the planting and spiritual growth of the churches of Sigulu Baptist Association.
- Bro. John a d Bro. Denis from Sigulu Island completing term at Uganda Baptist Seminary and the ministry they are doing on Sigulu Island.
- We are thankful for the planning meeting and discussion conduced on 21st—23rd May.
- Plans for providing petrol and boda travel and meals for those providing ministry to developing churches
- Plans to provide support to Sigulu Baptist Association
- We thank God for the plans to prepare for the upcoming mission teams.
- Thanks God as Madison adjustment to her classes at Rift Valley Academy in Kenya.
- We thank God for Jeremy and his family returning to America where he has taken command of an 1st Battalion 63rd Armor, Fourt Raily, Kansas.
Pray
for the Herron’s This Coming Week
- Pray for the Herrons as they travel this week:
- James and Sonya as they travel in and around the Jinja area this week.
- James travels to Kampala Thursday 28th May
- Pray as we continue planning for the next mission team from O’Fallon First Baptist Church in late 27th June- 10th July.
- Contacting team leader for FBCO for planning for next month’s mission team
- Completing Team’s Budget and Itinerary
- Assuring the team members complete Go Method application in a timely manner
- Pray as we work with the team leaders in America as we plan for their coming in June, July and August.
- Pray for the work on Sigulu in the construction of the latrine and storage space.
- Pray for plans to repair boat before mission team arrival.
- Pray for David and Isaac, from Acacia Community Church who attended Cross Cultural Ministry Training in Nairobi Kenya from Acacia Community Church as they plan to implement what they learn to reach the community around ACC with the Gospel of Christ.
- We are thankful for their willingness to utilize what they have learned during the ten-day training in reaching others with the gospel of Christ.
- 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 the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of the Herrons.
- Pray that the Herron would be salt and light to the people they meet this week.
- Pray that the Herron’s 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 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 at Ft. Raily, Kansas.
- Babra and her husband Dr. Christin Hoffman.
- Madison as she continues term three of this school year.
- 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)
