Dear Prayer Partners,

We are taking the opportunity to send you a “Special Edition” of our newsletter. We have chosen to highlight four wonderful project opportunities. First above all else we need your prayers then we are requesting that feet be given to those prayers to get the work done.

God has given us the desire to build and run a Christian high school here on the coast of Kenya. MANNA Worldwide has agreed to build the actual school buildings if we are able to purchase the 2 acres of land needed. We have located the land and made an agreement to buy it. We have had success in raising funds but we still need $14,000 to complete the transaction. We have till the end of June. Please pray that God will provide the monies needed to buy this land.

Injili (Gospel) Baptist Church needs to have a larger church building. This was the church that we helped to start in 2005. The church is now seeing over 400 people come through their doors each week and can not fit any more into their building. We believe that God could grow this church to 1000 people in the next two years. We hope to help Pastor Allan Owano and his wife Eve to reach their goal of reaching the villages of Majaoni, Utange, and Shanzu with the Gospel. The approximate cost to build a larger more modern church will be $60,000. Will you give to help them grow spiritually and numerically?

We have been praying about starting a new church plant. God has identified a man named Alex who is a senior in our Bible institute. He will be graduating in June 2009 and desperately wants to be used by God to do His work here on the coast. We are asking God to allow us to send him to Kilifi town to start a new church. We want to raise $25,000 to purchase land and start a building project for him by November 2009. Please pray that God will allow us to start our fourth church here in Kenya.

The ministry here in Kenya needs to purchase a large van to use to transport children, teens and adults. It will be used for church and school activities. It will help us to enlarge our school program to bring in paying students which will allow us to make our school more self-sufficient. We are trusting God to provide $35,000 to purchase this vehicle.

As you read this letter, we know that you are thinking that these projects will cost a lot of money. But we know that our God owns the cattle on a thousand hills and the wealth in every mine. We know that He wants to see people come to know His Son, Jesus Christ, as their Savior. We know that He will provide. The real question shouldn’t be “Is God going to provide?” but it should be “When will God provide?” We ask you to pray and allow God to use you to reach others with the wonderful message of His salvation through Jesus.

Bobby Lisa Ethan & Conner Bechtel
Missionaries to Kenya, Africa

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