 “Rogers leads an amazing team that also travel to hard places to bring discipleship training and leadership development among the Acholi and Alur peoples. It is an awesome privilege to walk beside these leaders of leaders who serve with such joy and devotion to our Lord.
Among these leaders are ones who traveled from other countries to be with us. Degole and Joshua are from Congo. Both traveled two days to come to our meeting, and Joshua does not speak any of the languages we used in the training. Degole gave a testimony of how studying GPHD and GPHC with his wife has restored his marriage that was badly damaged by much suffering in their country. And then I had to say “goodbye” to my “Timothys”, my sons in the faith: Rogers, Fred and Steven. I love these men who love Jesus more than life. Please keep them and these others in your prayers. Your intercession is making an impact beyond what any of us can imagine, and I simply say, “Thank you,” for joining this ministry.” (Randy)
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 The following is a heart-warming report by Randy from his visit to Uganda this month. “In our first graduation of “Building Strong Marriages and Families,” 30 couples in Bweyale, Uganda celebrated new light and power from God’s Word. Almost five months ago, we launched this new effort because we kept hearing a passionate plea from the people: “Please help us build strong, biblical marriages!” Faithfully, these key leaders opened their Bibles and asked the Holy Spirit to renew their homes with His truth and grace. And to see couples renewing their devotion to one another and find new hope through God’s Word and Spirit, was a joy I will never forget. Then we gathered key leaders for a time of renewal and equipping who have faithfully taken GPHD & GPHC throughout the country. One group of leaders (pictured below) are those who train Sunday School teachers to use GPYD (God’s Plan for Young Disciples) for children. Many of the women pictured travel alone to far off villages to teach the churches how to effectively disciple children. This team is led by Immachulet, Rogers’ sister. Please keep these children’s workers in your prayers.”  Our team continues to be thankful for all that God is doing through NFI. Here are the last two entries with a perspective from Africa and locally.
Pat: “I am thankful for God’s faithfulness and blessing in so many ways:
Dale: “It’s been a blessing to be a small part of this ministry as I join the team for prayer on Thursday nights to help grow God’s kingdom. It’s one of the highlights of my week. I have travelled with Tim, and it was life changing. My part in this ministry is mostly local, but I strive to look at everything I do as a mission project for His kingdom. NFI is changing the world and preparing the Church for Jesus’ return. It is a blessing to be a small part of this journey. Don’t forget to put on the whole armor of God!” Thoughts from a grateful heart:
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen” (Ephesians 3:20–21). As we head into Thanksgiving Day, I want to share some thoughts from the NFI founder, Tim.
I continue to share notes from our team and what they are thankful for.
Jonathan is thankful for:
Terry M. is thankful that:
Randy on our NFI team started a list of things that we are thankful for regarding this ministry. It prompted most of our members to make their own lists. For the next few days I will share these with you as they give an inside look at what we do.
Randy:
Most of those who take spiritual growth seriously, can remember persons that played a significant role in our lives. They encouraged us, gave us sound advice, and warned us of dangers that we may have ignored. They cared about our progress in ways few people do.
Have you spoken to them, called them, or written them a note to thank them? In this Thanksgiving season, it is a good time to pause our crazy pace and remember persons like this. The writer of Hebrews speaks to this issue with a good reminder. “Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the Word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.” (Hebrews 13:7). Notice the qualifications for those should be remembered:
When we remember such persons and are thankful for them, it strengthens our walk of faith. Many try to avoid subjects such as being ‘self-supporting” for several reasons. First, we have hundreds of years of traditions pointing to the ‘home church’ supporting the missionary they have sent out on the field. Hudson Taylor went to China without any support and for a long time worked to support himself. He also adopted the culture and in the process was very successful in gaining souls for Christ.
Even in Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, he was concerned about his example and others: “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody” (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12). Sadly, there are many examples of missionaries who have lived above the economic level of those they were trying to reach, and this became a barrier in their witness. In pointing to these biblical principles, we are not saying that it is wrong to be supported by a home church or individuals. Our desire is to point to Paul’s method which was very effective. Lastly, take note of Paul’s attitude toward those he wanted to reach. This was a motivating principle for Hudson Taylor. “To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.” (1 Corinthians 9:20, 22). Is that our goal? This is one of those subjects many would rather avoid because of traditional missionary work and ministry. Rather than give my thoughts on the subject, I will let Scripture address this.
“I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel. You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’” (Acts 20:33–35). “For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate” (2 Thessalonians 3:7–9). More Scriptures will be shared on subsequent posts, but I encourage you to think about Paul’s words. His example is certainly worth considering, understanding, and following. |
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