From: Chris Lee <c2hleeguinea@gmail.com>

Guinea Update November 17, 2009

Dear All,

Greetings from Guinea.
 
The political situation remains calms.
Let us pray for peace and stability.

 

Definitely the dry season has set in. We went from humid, rain almost every day to no rain, dry and hot in the day time (100 F) and cold  in the evening (60 F) by Guinean standards. My lips are chapped already.

 

Dry season also marks harvest time.

Most able bodied villagers are busy harvesting the rice all by hand.

 

I cannot help but think on the words of Christ, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:37-38.

 

Please continue to pray for the school to open next year and for more teachers and missionaries to join the work in Guinea.

 

Christmas is about 6 weeks away and we are preparing for a special evangelistic outreach to the local villagers as well as preparing our staff.

Please pray for the leading and working of the Holy Spirit in our outreach and ministry here.

 

Dry season is also allergy time and a time when many people catch colds, myself included.

Mr. Benjamin is also feeling under the weather. He fears it might be typhoid fever.

Please continue to pray for our health, both physical and spiritual.

 

Some sad news has struck our small Sambouya Christian community.

Mr. Ba, one of the Sambouya Church members, lost his first and only child who was less than a year old to malaria yesterday.
Her name was Kankou.

Some malcontents have made issue of the fact that Mr. Ba was Christian and that his God did not save the child, while completely disregarding the 3 children who perished this year who were from Muslim families. May the Lord have mercy on them.

 

Please pray for God’s comfort to be upon the grieving family and that even this tragic event can strengthen and not weaken their faith and the name of Christ will be glorified in the village.

 

And finally, after three incidences of vandalism at the Kabaya house over a period of abot two months, we finally were able to find the boy who did it, Adama, Mr. Gera the village chief’s second son, and to have a genuine reconciliation. The boy was sorry and it was a chance to demonstrate God’s mercy. Sadly, Adama did not believe that God would forgive. That is his Muslim god.

 

Let us pray for Adama and others in Kabaya to understand God’s love and receive His forgiveness.

 

We may experience some difficulties at times, but we have great joy and power and life in our Lord Jesus Christ.

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.”
2 Corinthians 4:8-10

 

As always, thank you for your prayers and support without which our work here would not be possible.

 

In the Lord, brother Chris