Shalom Newsletter.

December 2010 Newsletter.

Pray For Africa.

When light pushes darkness, eventually another darkness comes. but when the darkness itself is transformed into light, it is a light no darkness can oppose.

In 1900 there were only 9 million bible believers in Africa, but by the year 2000 there was an estimated 380 million Bible believers in Africa. There has been a tremendous growth of new bible believers in Africa coupled by a relative decline in adherence to traditional African religions.

Most of the 552,000 bible believing congregations in 11,500 denominations throughout Africa are completely unknown to the western world. Much of the growth among new believers has been fueled by local African evangelism rather than western missionaries.

Facts about Africa.

• 900 million people live in Africa, 14% of the world's total.
• Over 2000 languages are spoken in Africa.
• According to the September issue of National Geographic (2005) there were;
• 410 million Christians in Africa.
• 358 million Muslims in Africa.
• 15% of Africans follow one of the traditional african religions.
• Fewer than 2% of world Jewry live in Africa.
• Here are some of the African tribes which claim Jewish ancestry;

1. Beta Israel of Ethiopia.
2. Abayudaya of Uganda.
3. The House of Israel in Ghana.
4. The Igbo Jews of Nigeria.
5. The Lemba Jews of Southern Africa.

• There are 53 countries in Africa.
• Only 19 of the 53 countries are democracies.
• HIV/Aids is the most common cause of death in Africa.
• 26 million of the 40 million people suffering from HIV/Aids world wide are in Africa.
• 8,500 people contract Aids every day in Africa.
• 6,300 people die of Aids every day in Africa.
• Of the 15 million children orphaned by Aids world wide, 12.3 million are in Sub Sahara Africa.
• Only 10 out of the 53 countries in Africa have a GDP of $3,500 and above.
• Burkina Faso is the least literate country in Africa with only 12.8% of the population who can read and write.
• Seychelles is the most literate African country with a literacy rate of 92%
• Most people who teach themselves how to read and write use the Bible to learn to read.

Be a Candle.

When you use one candle to light another, the original candle remains bright. It's light is not diminished by being shared, on the contrary the two candles together enhance each others' brightness and increase light. When you give a spiritual gift, the recipient gains and you lose nothing.

Help the Zambia Messianic Fellowship to take the Good News of the Gospel to the lost in Africa.

Radio Outreach.

Our radio outreach goes to over 2 million listeners and we have been told by the representative of the national broadcaster that our Shalom Zambia radio program is the best on national radio.

 We were approached by a privately owned radio station Sky FM inviting us at a very minimal fee ($40 per program) to broadcast our Shalom Zambia radio program on their station. Their station covers parts of Zimbabwe and Botswana. They even offered to help translate the contents into the dominate local languages spoken in the area of their broadcast.

Court Case.

 Our court case has been adjourned to February 1st 2011. Continue praying for a favorable outcome. Our frontage to the Jerome Fleischer orphanage was blocked by a new lot created by the local city council. At first the owners of the lot encroached into parts of our property but have now withdrawn.

The Jerome Fleischer orphanage.

The issue at hand is now the frontage so that we can have access to the property. The courts gave us an injunction restraining the owners of the new lot from taking possession of their lot and from blocking our frontage.

 Congregations.

We have once gain reentered the Muslim dominated eastern Zambia and reopened another congregation Hosanna Assembly led by Simon Zulu. We lost our first congregation after Muslims bought off all the congregants by promising them food and money. Muslims in this area are known for buying bibles in bulk and then destroying the bibles.

Our Chinkuli congregation has continued to meet and worship without a roof. The rains have arrived and sometimes they get soaked as they worship. Please do pray for a roof over their heads. They have already built the building but lack $1000 to roof it.

Leadership Training.

Over 15 people are being trained in our leadership class. Pray for more workers to be sent out into the ripe harvest.

NEEDS

• $15 will feed one orphan for the whole month.
• $6 will buy a bible for a new believer.
• $10 will buy a mosquito net for one of our 151 orphans.
• $60 will help Alex do outreach in the countryside where most of the congregations are based.
• House of prayer- we have decided to build a building for prayer at the land housing the orphanage. There are no  houses of prayer in this growing neighborhood.
•   $2000 to roof the Luwingu and Chinkuli Congregations.
• $400 will buy a first aid kit for the orphanage school.
• $500 will buy a science kit for the orphanage school.

 PRAYER POINTS.

• Open doors for the gospel.
• Salvation of the Jewish community.
• Leadership training.
• protection for Fay and Alex
• Spiritual and numerical growth.
• Finances for ministry needs.
• Completion of the orphanage.

Shalom, Shalom.

To Donate;

Donations are Tax deductable in the USA and are received with Thanksgiving. For Tax deductable Contributions in the United States, write cheques to;

Congregational Roeh Israel

8556 East Warren Ave

Denver,Colorado 80231

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When you donate to the Zambia Messianic Fellowship you can be sure that you are contributing to an organization that is witnessing to the lost, discipling believers, raising new leaders, taking care of orphans, planting congregations around Zambia, fighting anti-Semitism. Teaching the church about their Hebrew roots and responsibility to Israel, lobbying government for biblical values and helping the poor masses with viable economic activities.

 

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