Tanzania East Unit Leaders, Tony & Cath Swanson, serving in Morogoro have recently been busy teaching seminars and conferences.  Cath has been training teachers from the diocese how to run youth camps, while Tony recently ran the Langham Partnership conference which has the goal of motivating and equipping people to do expository biblical preaching.  Pray that the Swansons will be able to maintain their focus in the busyness, and give their best effort to every task before them. 

More than 5,000 homeless children and youth are on the streets in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  Pray for Kathleen Quellmalz as she works in the streets, prisons, and psychiatric facilities with these young people, seeking to meet their spiritual and physical needs, and either reconnecting them with their families or finding other families who are willing to take them in.  Pray for Kathleen to establish and maintain strong relationships with the children and community leaders. 

Serving as Program Manager for Bethany Kids at Kijabe hospital in Kenya, Dr. Dick Bransford (with his wife Millie and sons Josh and Philip) is responsible for delivering surgical and medical care to children with burn contractures, hydrocephalus, spina bifida, and similar neurological problems.  Pray for Dr. Bransford to be able to work with others to improve the follow up care of patients, establish community-based rehabilitation work, train more medical workers from Africa, and develop the leadership skills of the staff. 

While a power-sharing agreement reached in recent months in the country of Kenya seems to have quelled the violence, the effects of the ethnic and tribal divisions will be long lasting.  Over 1000 Kenyans were killed and up to 500,000 displaced.  Just below Kijabe is the Mahi Mahiu refugee camp housing 500 Kenyans who have been driven from their homes, most with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.  Pray for the church in Kenya as they respond with God’s love in the aftermath of the political crisis.  Pray for true peace and reconciliation that will reach to the deeper “root issues” of the matter.  Pray for AIM missionaries to have wisdom and strength to help in appropriate ways.

James and Andrea McAdam praise the Lord for the opportunity God has given them to reach African students with the gospel through education as they teach science and math at the Ushindi Secondary School in Arua, Uganda.  Please pray for the McAdams as they assist with the Scripture Union (SU) program at the school and give spiritual encouragement to both staff and students.  They are praising God for students who have been taking their SU reading notes back to their villages to share with family and friends. 

This summer the Lopit Sudan Training in Ministry Outreach (TIMO) team will conclude their two years of ministry.  Pray for perseverance and grace to “finish well” as they bring closure to their time in Sudan.  Team member Jennifer Cortis asks us to, “Pray for the continued working of God to reshape the culture into one that glorifies Him … Please also pray that the small group of Lopit Christians would continue to be a strong witness.” 

Serving the Lord in Adi, D. R. Congo, Glenn & Sandra Wilton praise God for the sixteen books they have been able to print with their copy printer equipment.  Pray with them for wisdom in selling these materials to help cover printing costs and enable them to print additional books.  Pray as well for short term missionaries who can help the Wiltons with equipment repairs.  Continue to pray for lasting peace accords in Congo and that the Congolese people will have the opportunity to rebuild communities, and plant and harvest their crops.