Shalom Newsletter

A newsletter of the Zambia Messianic Fellowship

June 2009

Shalom

Greetings from Lusaka Zambia.

My USA Missions Trip.

I would like to thank all the leaders and groups that invited me to speak at their congregations. Thank you for the love, support, friendship and prayers. I would also welcome those who are new to our monthly newsletter. I pray that you will be blessed as you are a blessing.

Local outreach

"Then Saith he unto his disciples, the harvest indeed is plenteous but the laborers are few. pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send forth laborers into his harvest"

Matthew 9:37-38

There are 16,309 people groups living on earth. Of the 16,309 people groups 6,653 have never been reached by the gospel. These groups make up about 40.8% of the unreached people groups around the world. Here in Zambia the picture is not different. We still have people groups that have never been reached with the gospel.

Zambia has 12 million people consisting of 73 African indigenousgroupings. Among the 12 million people Zambia boosts of 24,000 Chinese, 21,000 Indians from the Indian sub continent, 48,000 Afrikaans, about 6000 British, 4900 Greeks, 6000 Italians and about 3600 Frenchmen. There are also 1900 Arabs and 1600 Jews. The largest Zambian tribal,  the Bemba tribal grouping is 2.5 million strong and the smallest is the Xun numbering 100. So in short there are more Jews in Zambia than some smaller Zambian tribes combined.

Only 3% of the 24,000 Zambian Chinese have been reached and only 0.3% of the 1600 Zambian Jews have been reached. 0.7% of Indians who are predominantly Muslim and Hindu have been reached. 0.02% of the 22,000 Swahili speaking Muslims have been reached and 8% of the Xun have been reached. Millions are still in darkness and this is why we are thankful to you our partners for your prayers and support  in our quest to lighten the darkness with the gospel of life.

Already about 2.5 million are exposed to our radio outreach and many of them are non believers. Over the years over 4000 people have come to faith through our ministry even though most don't even attend our congregations. Our calling is to win one soul at a time for the Lord. Thank you for being an important player.

 Orphanage

According to the Zambia's National Aids Council figures, there are now about 1,291,000 orphans in Zambia and over 80% don't recieve any form of help . The numbers at our Jerome Fleischer school for orphans keeps rising. We now have 138 orphans attending our school.

Progress with the orphanage building has progressed very  well. We are about to begin roofing!!!

Outreach

The Lord has opened a great door to one of our ministry partners. The leader of the Gova tribe, a 36,000 strong  member tribe gave her life to the Lord and for some years now Newman our partner in ministry has been discipling her. She has now asked hundreds of the village leaders or  headmen under her to undergo discipleship too. They are also trying to remove any traditions and rituals that contradict the bible from the entire tribe. hallelujah!! Congregations under Newman are being born and the Lord is doing great things!!!

Congregations

One of our congregations in northen Zambia has continued suffering attacks from the enemy. This time the attack is from within the congregation. After being labeled satanists and having land grabbed from the congregation by the animists the members have unfortunately started to fight each other. Pray that unity will prevail.

We lost to death our head of security Joseph Chisenga. My associate lost his father and sister-in-law a few days apart. kindly pray for the affected families.

 Family

I would like to introduce our newest daughter Gabriella Lilato Yalenga born June 10th. A big  Thank you to all who prayed for a successful cesarean section. We thank the Almight for this blessing. She has been born at a time when there is a work stoppage by doctors and nurses. Women have given birth outside the hospital doors. Kindly pray that things will normalise.

• Prayer Needs

• Pray for the Messiah conference first week of July in the USA.
• Pray for the Yeshua conference in late August  in the UK 
• Some in the congregations are sick and your prayers are welcome.
• completion of the orphanage building.
• protection for Alex & Fay.
• Open doors for the gospel.
• a team from Rolling hills in California will be visiting next month. pray for their safety and open doors.

 

In His service

Alex Yalenga

 

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