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We are blessed to add the prayer letter of Joy and Paul Mueller to our site.

Thanks to members Del and Dorleen for sharing this with us.

 

Mueller Email Prayer Letter – April 2007

Volume 3, No. 1

 

“It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:11-13

 

It has been some time since our last communication. God has granted us many opportunities to be with missionaries and national leadership these past few months. It is hard to share all of their stories but I we will start with a few.

Joy was blessed to shadow Deaconess Lorna Olack-Meeker, 4th year Kenya student at Concordia Seminary Fort Wayne, for four days in Western Kenya. She followed and gleaned from Lorna as she ministered to her people alongside other deaconesses in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya. The picture to the left shows Deaconess Ruth (on the right) and Lorna next to her celebrating with HIV positive widows on their first crop of peanuts. Lorna and Ruth visit these women to help support them physically and spiritually. They train the women to do work with small micro-enterprising projects that generate income and food sources to support themselves and their children. Praise God for trained deaconesses as they carry out His work here on earth.

 

Another village Joy visited in western Kenya housed a World Relief/Human Care project called Dragnet Women Group (DAGO). This project has benefited and empowered a total of 61 widows, many living with HIV and AIDS. The Dago Integrated Support Centre has given opportunity to these women through an income generating goat project where the sale of the goats, goat’s milk, and manure helps with the family income. They also tend a vegetable farm. The center offers counseling services and spiritual care guided by Pastor Gordon Alex and the deaconess. A nursery/grade 1 school provides education for 65 children lead by one teacher (see picture to the right). Praise God for these faithful women and men who serve this community to meet the physical, social, and spiritual needs of its people.

 

Paul and Joy recently met up with Tim and Heidi Norton and Andrea Herman, missionaries in Guinea. In order to get to their home in Siguri, Guinea, we flew to Bamako, Mali where Tim Norton picked us up along with Area Facilitator, Rev. Fredrick Reinhardt. We stopped by Siby, Mali which is a small village near the border of Guinea where national leaders from Mali and Guinea met to study God’s word. Missionary Tim Norton (on left of picture) and Rev. Fredrick Reinhardt (second man from the right) stand among these men the day before these Lutheran leaders met with Muslim leaders from the community in Silby to debate “The Man Jesus.” Praise God for these missionaries, evangelists, and teachers as they reach others for Christ across borders!

 

 

 

Again, we send our thanks to all of you for your prayers and support. Here is the prayer list:

1.       For continued protection for all our missionaries in Africa and for the Guinea Field as they resettle back to life after government strikes, protests, violent riots, evacuation, and return to their area.

2.       For the national evangelists, pastors, teachers, and leaders across Africa as they share Christ while serving their communities, the sick, the orphaned, and the poor in spirit.

3.       For wisdom and guidance in projects as LCMS works in partnership with the national leaders.

4.       For safety in our travels.

5.       For funding for the missionaries, their projects, and the projects which support the National Churches.

 

If you wish to financially support our work in Africa, send your gift to LCMS World Mission, 1333 South Kirkwood, St. Louis, MO, 63122-7295 and be certain to add that it is for the work of Paul and Joy Mueller.

 

Please keep in touch with us. Paul’s email: Paul.Mueller(at symbol)LCMS.org*. Joy’s email: Joy.Mueller(at symbol)LCMS.org*. Our snail mail address is P.O. Box 22, Karen, 00502, Kenya, E. AFRICA.

 

We celebrate with you the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. This is the “whole measure of the fullness of Christ!”

 

 

 

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