Stensaas Family

As I write this letter and look at the date, it is difficult to believe that we are already planning Thanksgiving and that ten months of this year have already past.  Giving our lives in service to our Lord brings such joy. 

 

Village Churches:  Each week we are blessed to hear reports of how God is working in the village churches.  We took our Masaka orphans to the church in Mbira and held a soccer match with the village children.  Afterwards, we preached to the large crowd that had gathered and distributed John booklets.  Brother JJ Kalanzi is very resourceful at using different methods to draw crowds and preach to them.  He is doing a wonderful job with about forty-five faithful members.  Last week one person came to know Christ.  At our newest church in Mbirizi God is blessing in a wonderful way with Brother Ssebanja leading this ministry.  They have outgrown their house church and have found a building to rent to accommodate the growing congregation.  Probably our toughest ministry is our church in Lukaya. This is a “trucker” town with drivers stopping in from Rwanda, Tanzania, and Congo.  This town is full of prostitution, drugs and alcohol, but God is working in spite of the hardness.  One of the members is allowing us to use their un-finished house for church, and under the leadership of Brother Sebyoto, there are about twelve faithful members.  Please pray for these men as they work with their people to establish churches and to bring people to Christ.

 

Our Thanks to You:  The radio station is a ministry that is expensive to maintain, and one that you hear me ask prayer for often.  But in a country with limited electricity that would give them access to television, radios can be found everywhere.  For this reason, radio is an important tool of getting the Gospel “to every creature.”  The generator that we use for backup has needed to be replaced for some time, and we praise the Lord for using Galilee Baptist Church in Stevensville, Montana to supply the funds for a new one.  What an answer to prayer!  In our desire to teach the orphans useful skills, we were also praying for sewing machines.  Several families of Faith Baptist Church in Tacoma, Washington contributed enough money to purchase three machines.  Thank you for your sacrificial gifts!  We also thank Charity Baptist Church of Trinidad-Tobago for adding us to their missionary family.  Our God truly does provide.

 

Visitors:  What a joy it was to have Brother Rick Williamson and his wife, Susan, of Operation Renewed Hope visit us for a week.  Their purpose was to survey Masaka and Kanungu for medical clinics in 2010.  While in Kanungu, they desire to devote one whole day to treating the pygmy tribes of the Rwenzori Mountains.  Brother Rick & Susan were a great blessing to us, and we are looking forward to the souls that will be saved as a result of these upcoming clinics.

 

Translation:  Praise the Lord – we have just completed translating the book of Romans into Luganda!  We are excited to reach our goal of completing John and Romans before 2010.  Our work will be checked through back translating, and we will attempt to have it to the printers by February of 2010.

 

Prayer Requests:  Please join us in prayer concerning the following requests: 1) Monthly support for Word of Life Radio; 2) Upcoming Missions Conference the second week of December; 3) Finishing the home schooling year; 4) A national pastor for our town church here in Masaka; 5) Upcoming surgery for Elysse Applegate and 6) Wisdom and discernment from the Lord in the leadership of the many ministries here in Masaka.

 

If you would like to keep up with us on a regular basis, we are now on Twitter.  My address is @musumba_makumbi .  You may also reach us on Skype at kstensaas .  May God richly bless you as we continue in His work together!

 

Because of Christ,

Keith L. Stensaas