Jambo from Kenya, Africa,
Our missionary journey has come to an end in Malindi, Kenya. God has given us great favor through spiritual warfare. Our team has seen 21,236 professions of faith and 11,824 bibles have been distributed in schools, villages, churches, and to individuals. Praise God for the harvest! Please continue to pray for these new believers in Christ. The churches here have a lot of work to do in follow up, but they are comitted to doing the work necessary to build their churches.
Everyone on the team is in good health and high spirits as we prepare to come back home. Please pray for us as we begin our journey back. We leave here at 1:00 PM Kenya time (5:00 AM Altus time) for Mambosa. Our plane leaves at 5:00 PM Kenya time (9:00 AM Altus time). We will be in airplanes and airports for 2 days and arriving at DFW, God willing, by 1:00 PM on Friday. Pray for Charles as he is coming to pick us up.
Finally, please remember to pray for Charles and Ramona Jeffries and their Peru mission trip. I know they will have wonderful testimonies to share when they get back.
Kwa Heri….. Goodbye
We will see you all in a few days.
To God be the Glory
Tony and Debbie Pearce
Well, it is 4:00 PM in the afternoon in Melindi and we have completed the Sunday morning worship in our new churches for the week. Everything has gone fine with salvations this morning. Marjorie, Ann, Sydney, Ann, and Jeannie made it back from their safari. They had an awesome time.
Adolph, Ed, Tony and I (Debbie) went to Kewondonie Baptist Church on Saturday. This is the church Tony served out of 3 years ago and goes back each year to visit. It was like a homecoming. Many of the pastors and friends came there to see Tony and meet his wife. I was treated like royalty. It was very moving…. They missed Charles Ortega and sent him a gift. They had hoped he was coming. They have committed to praying for him daily that he will be elected to public office. In that way, he can serve according to God’s will and not man’s. They were so excited. We planted trees (4 of them) in honor of our visit. Charles’ and Tony’s trees from last year are really growing. The church gave a good report of their building project that many of our members have helped support. They are spending the money as agreed and the church is coming along.
Today, Claire, Maurine, and Ed have gone to see the progress on the churches they have supported. The reports should be exciting and encouraging.
Well, gotta go. I will try to email again close to the middle of the week. We will be leaving Thursday morning and arriving Friday afternoon. We all look forward to seeing our friends and family again.
Till then,
Love Debbie and Tony
