Lesotho Update

Dear praying friends,
Please join us in praising God for these answers to prayer and pray for the needs:
Praise:

• Uncle Piet and Aunt Hester Marais were able to cross the border into Zimbabwe without any problems.  They had a thousand Shona Bibles, food aid, camping gear, etc.  Please continue to pray for them as they begin this year's Bible distribution ministry.  From Zimbabwe they will be traveling to the Caprivi Strip of Namibia, and then on to Zambia.
• Kaitlyn had a really nasty tonsillitis, but God really touched her.  Praise the Lord.

Prayer:

• Please continue to pray for Mrs. Mats'oanelo Majola.  She is still in the hospital and very sick.  When Glenn visited her on Wednesday, it seemed that she really is not improving. 
• Philip and Amrie Geise will be returning to the US next week for much needed rest and for Philip to continue his education.  Without some kind of an education degree, he cannot legally continue as the principle of the academy in Ladybrand.  Please pray for safe travel for them and that God will help them reorient to life in America.
• Please do pray again for staff for the academy!
• Pray for the Chinese Radio broadcast in Lesotho. 
• As you pray for the Marais', please pray for the "Bibles 4 the Nations" project as a whole.  This project which HIM spearheads will be distributing around 10,000 Bibles again this year.  Please pray for the availability of Bibles and finance and personnel to distribute them.  In many countries the Bible Societies are not able to effectively supply Bibles at a price people can afford.  Ask God to provide a solution to this difficult problem!  

Jesus promised "I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
Thank you,

Glenn, Stephanie, Kaitlyn, & Kristell Gault
Hope International Missions

Bibles For Africa

I few years ago I (Glenn) met this pastor in the Central Province of Zambia.  Though we hardly knew each others names, he invited me to preach at the church he was planting on Sunday morning.  Before the service, he shared his testimony with me.

He had gotten saved at an evangelistic crusade when he was just a youth.  Back home in his village, there was only one man who owned a Bible.   This new convert would borrow that Bible Friday nights and read all night or until his candle burned out.  By dawn Saturday morning he would return the Bible in time for its owner to have his morning devotions.  He followed the Lord faithfully until years later he was able to buy a Bible of his own in the Tonga language. 

Now do you understand why
these men are smiling?

This, sadly, is a common problem for Christians in Africa.  Bibles are expensive and often completely unavailable in the heart language of many.  Cults and heresy are common because people can't "search the Scriptures daily" as the Bereans did in Acts 17.





For many years now, Hope International Missions has been distributing Bibles in the rural parts of Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Angola, and Zimbabwe.  Just this week, Pieter and Hester Marais left for Zimbabwe with one thousand Shona Bibles.  After distributing these Bibles, they plan to travel on to work in northern Namibia and the Wester Province of Zambia.  Teams from South Africa will be joining them to help.  I am also planning to take a team to join them around the middle of July to assist with distributing Tonga Bibles in the Central Province of Zambia.

There are many challenges to this ministry.  Please get involved through prayer.  Also keep an eye on our blog.  Over the next few days we will share some specific prayer requests and a way that you can get involved.

"The night is coming when no one can work."  --Jesus

Recent Ministry Pictures

At the Easter Conference Stephanie taught one of the children's services.

Rev. Teboho Sephekhang received gifts from Samaritan's Purse/Operation Christmas Child for all the children at Ha Thafeng, the village where he pastors.  Here he is preaching a simple Gospel message before we handed out the gifts.

The gifts sorted according age and sex.  I think there were nearly 200 children and presents.

Every Friday afternoon, the ladies at Matukeng hold a ladies' service.  Here are the six ladies that attend the most faithfully.

Recently Rev. Neo invited both Stephanie and I to speak at his church.  They meet in a tiny house.  The roof was so low on the low side that I had to stand between the rafters to stand up straight.  It wasn't so bad on the high side where I was preaching.

Make-A-Plan Motors

One of the challenges of the mission field is keeping older vehicles in good running condition.  Uncle Piet and I often joke that we work for "Make-A-Plan Motors."  Our most recent project has been a welder for me that runs off the massive Lister diesel engine that also runs our generator.

The diesel engine (green) is a single cylinder, water cooled engine that only produces 9 hp in spite of it's massive size and weight.  It runs very slow--550 rpm--so it is very efficient.  Five gallons of diesel will produce many hours of electricity--much longer than a comparably sized gasoline generator.

The welder (in the middle) is made from a slightly modified car alternator.  (I rewired it from star to delta phase and made a heavy duty external rectifier.)  It's not that powerful but does most of what I need to do.  It will weld 3/16" steel with good penetration if I am careful.

Uncle Piet made the intermediate shaft for me.  The engine runs so slow that I needed an extra shaft to get the rpm high enough for the alternator to weld.

I finally got the whole set up working this last Saturday.  Since then I've been trying to catch up on the backlog of maintenance projects that I couldn't do without a welder. 

Thanks Uncle Piet!!!

Lesotho Update

Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you so much for your consistent, earnest prayers.  God is answering!

Praise:

• Mrs. Majola has been released from the hospital though she is still not very well.  We praise the Lord for some improvement in her condition!  Please continue to pray for complete healing.  Also pray for Rev. Majola.

Prayer:

• Please continue praying for revival in Lesotho especially among the youth. 
• Philip and Amrie Geise (HIM missionaries in Ladybrand, South Africa) will be returning to America for Philip to further his education so that he can legally serve as principal at the academy.  They will be leaving in May.  Please pray for them as they prepare to leave here and settle for a while in America.
• Continue to intercede for staff for the academy.  We are trusting the Lord for His intervention in this urgent need.  At a recent board meeting we identified some leads to pursue.  Please pray for God's will to be done.

May the Lord bless you as you take these needs to His throne!



Sincerely,

Glenn, Stephanie, Kaitlyn and Kristell Gault
Hope International Missions