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Happy Birthday, Blessing Garba

 Living Proof of God's Grace - Baby Blessing is 21

Exactly 21 years ago, this beautiful princess was born.

Six months after, she was being buried alive with the mother who passed on. That was the evil culture of the people.

We rescued her from the grave and she has a great destiny to fulfill.

Would you join me to celebrate my daughter, Blessing, and pray God's blessings on her?

Blessing, the joy of seeing you and many other visible fruits of our labor assures me that we are not just wasting our time and energy.

Happy Birthday, Betty...

This is our week of celebration galore!

From the Dukawa nation, God blessed us with another precious Princess, Elizabeth Daji. Almost but not twin sister of Blessing. Happy birthday, Betty. Grow and let your light shine brighter and brighter...

Are You Passionate About Orphans, Vulnerable Kids and MKs? Would You Like to Make Input to Their Lives?

Today is International Widows Day. A Nigeria based television station did a documentary to highlight their plight. A case cited by the TV station was that of a 42-year-old woman, and her children brought tears to my eyes. As the camera crew took us through the uncompleted buildings she lived in up to where she now resides, you will naturally think only mad people stay in such places. Watching the interviewing, you know she is not insane. The widow explains that they sold all their possessions when the husband was sick to treat him but unfortunately, he died. While the son was speaking to the journalist, the TV station stopped airing the documentary.

Recently, I encountered one such woman with three children. I came back home, depressed. I wish I could help them, but my hands are full. We see more and more orphans and vulnerable kids roaming the street without help. We are taking in another set of five kids into the Home of Grace(HOG) to help in addition to the 50 of them we already have in:

• Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
• Ahole, Niger Republic
• Samunaka, Niger State, Nigeria 

Hopefully, we will do more. A heartbreaking experience was that of a sister of a small girl that we took this week. She begged that we should please consider her too. She dropped out of school in JSS one. Her grandmother, a widow, had pleaded for several months that we help her and her grandchildren. Her son, the father of these children, had gone to be with the Lord.   We turned down the little girl's appeal because we are already taking more than we can chew.  Turning down, her request was not an experience, and it has been easy since then. I have continued to pray for more support so the ministry and I can do more, knowing the implication of what Proverbs 21:13 noted: “ Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.”  I am, however, also aware that God knows our financial capacity to cope.

We do not just accommodate the kids who are mainly orphans, vulnerable kids, and missionary kids at our Home of Grace (HOG). We feed them. We take them to school and provide all they need to have a great future, including school fees, textbooks, pay all levies, etc. We take care of them like we take care of our children. We assign trained missionary staff to them as foster parents.  To take more kids, we need more missionaries, trained and experienced missionaries to join our team. To take in more of these kids, we will like you to pray about joining our team.

 You can do this via many fronts:

1. Commit yourself to pray for the kids and every one of us in the frontline. We noticed more lately that the spiritual resistance from the power of darkness is not in any way less than the ones our missionaries working among the unreached people encounters. Just recently, a young girl whom we raised attempted suicide but for God’s intervention. One other had struggled with suicidal thoughts until recently. The demonic background where most of these kids come from hunt them. Sometimes the character and demonic traits in the lives of some of the kids make us feel like giving up on them. This dimension of mission is characterized by chains of power encounter like no other. Once, a girl was accused of witchcraft. On another occasion, a child met me and confessed that she drank blood the night before. Some struggle with sin for a long time even after all the messages they kept hearing. Most of these cited cases resulted in their deliverance and testimonies. Few others have to go because the environment is too uncomfortable for them. Pray for our existing partners whose help made it possible to sustain the work to this point.
2. We want those who would join our team as an advocate for the orphans and vulnerable kids. Such advocates will, in addition to prayers, commit themselves to raise partners who would support the work both in prayers and regular financial supports. Just recently, the prices of foodstuff have more than doubled. This inflation cut across every spectrum of their everyday needs like soap, pomade, toothpaste, and other toiletries. Our accommodation is becoming congested and we are building another house that would accommodate 30 more children. We are still trusting God for an additional N10 million to complete the project.
3. You can join our team as a missionary caregiver. This requires that you must be born again, gone through mission training, and possibly gain some experience. You must be willing to relate with the children as your children. You must be willing to do the menial job like cooking, bathing the younger ones, washing their clothes when the need arises. If you are well educated and can drive, that will be awesome! It is residential and may require 24/7 attention.

Celebrating Rosa on her 8th Birthday...

 

Home of Grace (HOG)’s Kids Continue to Excel as More Needs Stare at Us - Report By Mary Baiyewu

Daniel & Jonathan Umoru

Our joy knew no bounds when the Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results of Salisu Chiroma and Jonathan Umaru were released. They both came out with flying colours, having made all their papers. We are wholeheartedly grateful to God for His faithfulness and love towards the HOG kids. 

The kids have been a tangible proof of His work with us and amongst us.

Most of them resumed for the new session on September 11, 2017, equipped with necessary academic materials. For this, we say thank you for allowing God to use you as a source of blessing. We are praying that your cruise of oil will never run dry.

We have been able to pay the school fees of eight of them and are still trusting God for the others. The missionary kids at the home, in particular, need some help.   Also, one of our missionary’s daughter has to pay Eighty thousand naira (N80,000) for the three terms at once because she is in her final session. That is the rule in her school. Some of them still lack some of the textbooks they need. Please, pray for us that Jehovah-Jireh will provide so that all these needs will be met.

August 2017 Missions' Update

Calvary love and greetings in Jesus name. Thank you so much for remaining part of this work and for the active role you have played in helping us to take the gospel to the least reached tribes in Nigeria and abroad despite the increased challenges, stress, and treats. We are indeed advancing against all the odds, and we remain committed to providing you update with what God has used your partnership to accomplish as well as highlight our needs and prayer points.

Conversion and Discipleship across the Fields

We here continue to enjoy God’s presence in our efforts to present Christ. Our missionaries across many of the fields reported several cases of persons who surrendered their lives to Christ. Efforts are on to help them become like Christ. Persecution has remained a norm, and we solicit your prayer that God will sustain all our converts. In addition to occasional physical assaults and deprivation, there have been several spiritual attacks targeted at them. Our consistent prayer request is that no weapon fashioned against them should prosper.

Major Progress at Home of Grace (HOG)

Some of the HOG kids

The HOG has remained a powerful tool that God is using to put eternal smiles on the faces of vulnerable and orphan kids. Three of the children, Dauda, Blessing, and Jacinta just completed their Junior Secondary School (JSS). Jonathan also completed both his WAEC and NECO examination. His WAEC result is out, and he had six credits. One of his subjects is still outstanding. Comfort passed her common entrance and will resume in a secondary school in September 2017. All the kids were promoted to their next class.  They are currently going through holiday school that is being handled by four corps members. By next month, the school will resume, and we will be faced with the challenges of new school uniforms, textbooks, school fees, etc. with foodstuff and other incidentals, we will require a hefty sum of about N550, 000:00 to conveniently cope. Would you kindly pray along with us for financial supply?

Beyond Praying for Labourers

The greatest need in our mission agencies, as well as many others that I know, is that of a credible workforce. More nations are opening up for the gospel, but the shortage of laborers is such that even the few missionaries available are gradually going into extinction.  To the glory of God, at some of the conferences I was privileged to speak last month, no fewer than 70 persons responded to missionary call. At the Igala Missions Summit where we presented the latest research work containing the list and locations of 217 villages without any known church, we had scores of persons who expressed their willingness to take the gospel to these villages.  At the Interdenominational missions summit that concluded at Oro, Kwara State, Nigeria many others responded. We encourage them to report for our one-year cross-cultural mission training, but the complaint has remained lack of fund. Please, pray for God’s intervention in this area as we desperately need more workers if we must cover more ground.

Current state of Ahole Mission house, Niger Republic

Progress in field project

The outer wall of the mission house project in the Niger Republic has moved on to lintel level, and our funds are completely exhausted. We need N200,000.00 to tidy up the inner wall that has not gotten to the lintel level as well as tidy up the entire post lintel work. We also need N480, 000.00 for the roofing and finishing accessories like doors and windows. The tricycle donated by Samaritan purse was very useful for the project. The Home of Grace kids also helped to cut down cost as they assisted in packing the gravels used for the pillars. Our desire is to get this project completed in the next two months.

A New Grinding Machine for Kwalan-Gobirawa

New grinding machine for Gobirawa field

God blessed our missionary couple at Kwalan-Gobirawa, Rahila and Isa Maliki with a new grinding machine. Please join us to pray for DaySpring Ministry for being used by God to provide that powerful tool. In addition to generating additional income for the missionaries, it will also bridge the gap between the missionaries and the Gobirawas.

Conclusion

Thank you for taking the time to read this update. As usual, there are many more reports we cannot share through this medium because of the security risk involved. We covet your prayers for more of his grace. We are going through severe financial pressure and want to appeal to you to kindly pray along with us for a miracle. May God bless you for all your sacrifices.