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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Syenara Senufo of Mali
2025 Status Update
“For to this day, at the reading of the old
covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only
in Christ. Yet still today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their
hearts, but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the
Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2
Corinthians 3:14–17 CSB)
The Syenara Senufo live in an area of West
Africa that has experienced instability for many years. However, a few
denominations in the region organized themselves into a group to develop a
strategy for church planting. There are now several churches and missionary
pastors among the Syenara Senufo people. Even the young people are responding
to the good news.
Prayer Requests
- · Pray for the pastors to remain faithful and
preach only the pure gospel.
- · Ask God to protect the believers and help
them stand strong in persecution.
Praise God for His Faithfulness and Protection from the Last Week
11th-17th May 2026
Thank the Lord with the Herrons for the Past
Week
We Praise God for:
Traveling Grace:
- As the Herrons traveled in and around Jinja this past week.
- We thank God for the church planting effort of Pastor Odongo and his ministry team.
- We thank God for Pastor Odongo and the Hasusuni Baptist Church for their commitment to the reaching and discipleship of the those who accepted Christ during the last mission team.
- Bro. John from Sigulu Island and the ministry he is doing among displaced children of Sigulu Island.
- Thank God for the progress Sonya and James has made in completing several reports this past week.
- Thanks God as Madison adjustment to her classes at Rift Valley Academy in Kenya.
Pray
for the Herron’s This Coming Week
11th–17th
May 2026
- Pray for the Herrons as they travel this week:
- James and Sonya as they travel in and around the Jinja area this week.
- Pray as we continue planning for the next mission team from O’Fallon First Baptist Church in late June-early July.
- Planning Organizational Meetings with Pastor Odongo and the associational leaders next for the coming mission teams.
- 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 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 on Stuttgart, Germany and are returning to the USA for his next orders in Kansas.
- Babra and her 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)
