Praise the Lord!

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Many thanks to those of you who intercede for us, give us encouragement and support! Carol, in our last newsletter, laid bare our hearts. Thank you to all who wrote back with encouragement. We are blessed to have so many loving friends! The separation from loved ones and all that accompanies “home” has been somewhat easier for me than Carol. I tend to bury myself (rightly or wrongly) in the work. I, too, need prayer that I will drink from the “fountain of life” and not from murky, leaky cisterns. Frontier gospel work has many challenges and blessings. We do covet your continual intercession.

Here are some of our recent “Praise the Lord’s“. Please join us in thanking the Lord!

  • We have had a total 7 different meetings  with Aringa Muslim leaders,Sheikhs and Imams, where I have had opportunity to preach the gospel. They have received us warmly and were very hospitable. The Sheikhs and Imams have all received Bibles (Aringa NT’s, Arabic, and ESV Global Study Bibles) and Christian-Muslim apologetic reading materials as well as medicines and reading glasses. The Aringa Tribe is classified by the Joshua Project as a unreached people group with less than 2% of them claiming to be Christian. This has been confirmed by our Aringa co-workers and my experience traveling and preaching throughout Yumbe District. Pray! Intercede fervently!
  • We just received our 5-year renewal of Ugandan NGO status. We are now working on extending our work permits. Any time we have success in such things it brings much praise to my heart and lips!
  • A second bore hole is currently being drilled in a remote Metu mountain area where we have been doing gospel preaching and church planting. Access to clean water is a big need in the area. Praise God for the donor and East African Ministries who are doing the drilling work.
  • All of RAU’s 17 acres now have fruit trees and vegetables planted on them. Lord willing, this will help bring income into the ministry and help make it more self-sustaining.  RAU now has around 750 grafted mangoes, over 1500 banana plants, and many vegetables/grains of various sorts. The land is all fenced in well with barbed wire and t-posts  so that the goats and other animals cannot wreck havoc.
  • Our tukalus are being worked on to better facilitate pastor /church leader training here at RAU. After completion, we will have a total of 36 beds for guests attending training. Since our move we have had 19 four-day leadership retreats. Pray for the continuation of this 2 Timothy 2:2 vision
  • Work on expanding our bedroom will be finished soon. Living in our place of ministry gives only our bedroom as a place of privacy. With this expansion into the veranda we will no longer have to use the bed as a desk. We will have a small kitchenette, working areas for both Carol and me, a shower (still no hot water though), place for the bed , a small table and sitting area. It will go a long way in helping us stay healthy here  long term.
  • Our agricultural outreach in the area has really blossomed and given a wide open door for ministry in the local community. We have a weekly 2-hour Agricultural call-in program with , Emma, who is a “man of the soil” and has been trained well. It is fashioned after the garden showed I used to listen to on San Antonio’s WOAI AM 1200 on Saturday mornings. Our 17 acres is also serving as demonstration plot on how one can make money with the fertile, God-given land in area. We also dedicate one whole day to Ag training in our leaders’ retreats to equip them, as most all have to make money off their gardens while being church leaders. The positive feedback from the community has been overwhelmingly positive.
  • I continue to have an open door to preach on the local and powerful, private (non-christian) radio station.

There are many other things but the list would get too long. Without a doubt, both Carol and I believe God has been preparing us all our lives for what we are doing now. While we often face challenges and trials, they are not near the level of joys!

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The Grace of God

Without the grace of God and the prayers and support of God’s people we could do nothing. Any ongoing support for the above things is always appreciated. As many of you know, there are a lot of behind-the-scene  operational expenses. For instance, we just bought a very large pressure cooker (36 liter) to assist cooking for our large groups and had to do more maintenance work on the Land Cruiser which gets us into very difficult places (geographically speaking) to preach and teach. There is the expense of printing materials for the Imams and Sheikhs, and the list could go on. Many thanks to those who support RAU financially.
My burden for establishing a Bible school grows stronger and stronger. With regard to the facilities, with each project being completed, we get closer. The next construction project I would like to move forward on is the building of a large classroom with an attached kitchenette and study area. Once that is completed we could move forward with the Bible school operation and getting accredited.
Well that is all for now.  May God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and grant you His peace!
With love and prayers,
Jacob  (Carol) Lee
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For those who have asked, small packages and letters may safely be sent to:

Jacob & Carol Lee, PO. 55, Moyo Uganda, East Africa

The greatest evil is having the gospel and not doing everything within our power to get it to those who do not have it. (Jacob Lee)

Tax deductible  charitable donations may  be made via PayPal.  PayPal also has a way to make reoccurring monthly gifts. To do so  please click their link below. PayPal deducts  a small amount from each gift as a processing fee. All gifts given through PayPal are now tax deductible as Reaching Africa’s Unreached has 501 c3 tax exempt status as a charitable organization.  If you wish to write a check you may write it out to R.A.U. and mail it to Lifegate Missions, 395 Lifegate Ln., Seguin Texas 78155.

Refreshed By Living Waters

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Just recently, Jacob and I both downloaded a free e-book onto our Kindles called, Missionaries Are Real People: Surviving transitions, navigating relationships, overcoming burnout and depression and finding joy in God, by Ellen Rosenberger. (Almost a Puritan-length title there!)
The title itself elbowed me. I read a little just to get the flavor of the author’s ideas. This is what I found: “The stereotype that “missionaries are perfect” is debilitating to missionaries who are living in the reality of their own brokenness and imperfection…We have to start talking about the real issues going on in missionaries’ lives…What is hard, needs attention, needs help and needs redemption?” Ouch!
We can’t blame this stereotyping completely on others! We missionaries contribute to it by not talking about our brokenness, our struggles and what needs redemption.  We tend to write grand narratives of the wonderful things which God is doing (and He is!) or the big list of things we have accomplished (which we have!).  However, many times the people who are receiving these narratives have nothing else on which to build any assumption other than “missionaries are ________ (whatever grandiose adjective you might have for missionaries.)”
So, here is the under belly of missionary life [which, by the way, can become the means of strength and grace.]
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Typically, we are out of our comfort zones – Jacob and I miss our family more than words can say. It is just “plum” painful.  We miss conveniences and foods, but, mostly, we miss our family profoundly. We are missing out…there is no doubt about that!  And they are missing out on us, too!
We are isolated from other graces, such as our local church, which is also our family.  We miss opportunities to be fed and nurtured by our under shepherds.  We miss the corporate gathering of the church and worshiping in a language and culture which is meaningful to us and helpful in keeping our eyes fixed on Christ. We miss out on our small group interactions where accountability and encouragement take place.  This has been painful for both Jacob and me.
We are separated from friendships which have been built over a lifetime.  It’s hardly possible to regain that in a few years, especially when a new language and culture must be navigated.  It’s easy to feel like outsiders, especially in large crowds where everyone is laughing and talking in a language you don’t understand. Participating in it is impossible.
As I have struggled through these issues I have had numerous bouts of depression and lots of tears.
I know this struggle is temporary. I counted the cost coming into this experience. I know there is a way through it.  And, as I said above, this vulnerability of isolation can become the means of strength and grace if I do the right thing in the middle of it.  I am not there yet!  However, I am seeing some light.  As I have mulled over the reasons why I could have gone from feeling “at the top of the world”, spiritually speaking, to feeling at “the bottom of the heap” with little hope in sight, I remembered a verse I studied in depth years back.
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I have done exactly the same thing for which the Lord rebuked the Israelites.  Jeremiah 2:13 says that they did two things – forsook the Lord, the fountain of living water  AND they created their own faulty (leaky) means of storing water.  Though what the Lord had to offer was so much purer and more refreshing they preferred what their own efforts could produce. They did not want to be dependent on the Lord.  God is the fountain! God is life! If I am hanging my happiness and fulfillment on anything else – person, food, activity or thing, I am sure to be disappointed and, worse, to die! Nothing and no one but God was meant to carry that weight! All other sources of supply are faulty…leaky…unreliable…liable to stagnation and disappointment.
Which one of us would rather drink from a stagnant pond instead of a fresh, flowing fountain?  Ridiculous question, right?!!  But, oh! We do it all the time! I have been doing it! Instead of “flying to the fountain of Life” when I am thirsty, I have been sipping on murky water (trying to be happy in things and people).  In my times of depression I have forgotten that the only One who can fully satisfy is Jesus.  In my neediness I have looked to earthly sources of fulfillment and found them wanting because no thing and no earthly institution and no person can satisfy the longings of my heart but the Lord. I was created for happiness that is not of this world! I was meant for living water!
I am learning, once again, to cry out and run to the “fountain of living water.”  If, in my darkest times, I run to Jesus instead of wallowing, my dark times will become to me the sweetest times because I will find that Jesus fulfills the desires of my heart in a way that earthly things were never meant to.
This is the real me…weak, unsteady and faltering, yet hopeful, not abandoned and not defeated. Please pray for us “real people!”  We really need the Lord and the grace which He alone can supply, though He uses many means, including other people. We need your prayers to be informed by our real needs. Pray that we will never get so wrapped up in our activities that we forsake the fountain of living water and pray that we don’t rely on things that cannot satisfy. Pray that, in our weakness and vulnerability, we would be pleased to find our strength in Christ alone!
 
“I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ Name.
On Christ, the Solid Rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.”
 
Carol (Jacob) Lee
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For those who have asked, small packages and letters may safely be sent to:

Jacob & Carol Lee, PO. 55, Moyo Uganda, East Africa

The greatest evil is having the gospel and not doing everything within our power to get it to those who do not have it. (Jacob Lee)

Tax deductible  charitable donations may  be made via PayPal.  PayPal also has a way to make reoccurring monthly gifts. To do so  please click their link below. PayPal deducts  a small amount from each gift as a processing fee. All gifts given through PayPal are now tax deductible as Reaching Africa’s Unreached has 501 c3 tax exempt status as a charitable organization.  If you wish to write a check you may write it out to R.A.U. and mail it to Lifegate Missions, 395 Lifegate Ln., Seguin Texas 78155.

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Proclaiming the Gospel !

 

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Lodonga Sheikhs receiving Arabic Bibles (Blue) and Aringa New Testaments (Red) * We were graciously granted permission to take this and the following photographs.

 

Thank you for your prayers! Saturday April 16th I had a blessed time proclaiming the gospel in Word and deed in Lodonga, a town in Yumbe District between Yumbe town and Koboko town. Twenty-five Lodonga Imams/Sheikhs were registered in attendance and a number of other Mosque members were also able to come. We met under a large mango tree just outside the Mosque. Unfortunately, at the last minute, something detained Carol and she was not able to come. It is too bad as there were 25+ women who also gathered to listen. This was the first time we had so many women who had the opportunity to be with us.

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Group photo of many of us under a beautiful Mango tree just outside a Mosque.

Our meeting began with introductions, giving out of medicines, reading glasses, Bibles, and Christian-Muslim apologetic materials. 

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The Sheikhs were kind and hospitable
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The County Khard making his opening statements. A Khard is the elected leader among the Imams and Sheikhs. He is a very gracious and kind man and I count him as a new friend.
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The County Khard trying out his new reading glasses.
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Each Imam/Sheikh received an anti malarial treatment and de-worming medicine. We gave out all that we had to others who were with us.
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Each Imam and Sheikh receive an Arabic Bible, ESV Global Study Bible, and an Aringa New Testament. Aringa is their native tongue. The Aringa NT was first published in June 2014. They do not have the Old Testament in Aringa.
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An Imam with with his new reading glasses and his own Aringa New Testament.
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An Imam with reading glasses , ESV Global Study Bible, Arabic Bible, Aringa New Testament, and Christian-Muslim apologetic materials I have put together. Any financial help in making booklets, buying of these materials and Bibles would be appreciated! https://reachingafricasunreached.org/donations/
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Imams patiently waiting while others are receiving their materials.
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Here Sheikhs looking through gospel booklets in English, Arabic, and Aringa. Many of the Sheikhs had made a haj to Mecca. One had made three haj’s!
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The Khard knows English well.
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The written word is the missionary that never grows tired!

After the  Bibles and literature was handed out I was given time to speak of which I took full advantage for close to 90 minutes.Everyone listened respectfully and intently. I know the Lord was at work in their hearts!

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Proclaiming the glorious gospel...Romans 1:16!
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Only the Holy Spirit knows what they are thinking as they hear the gospel message

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“How will they know unless someone preaches to them?”
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The Word of God is living and active!
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“All that the Father has given me will come to me” John 6:37
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May the eyes of their hearts be open!

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Preach the gospel to everyone!

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The call to believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ!

After I spoke  three elder Sheikhs spoke. They had each made haj’s to Mecca (one made three pilgrimages to Mecca). They each stated that they were very happy that I had come to them and one called me a fellow Sheikh because of my manner of teaching. It was his way to honor me. They promised to read the things which were given to me and invited me back for further dialog and discussion. The saddest thing I heard was when they said no one had ever taken the time to come and speak to them as I did….I told them I was very sad about that.

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Two of the three elderly Sheikhs who spoke

The Joshua Project categorizes the Aringa as unreached people group with less than 2% of them claiming to be Christian.

The leaders promised to read what was given them and have me back again for more dialogs, something I am eager to do. They all were very kind and hospitable!

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The Aringa are categorized as an unreached tribe…that is changing by the grace of God!
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Pray for the Aringa
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Reaching Africa’s Unreached

Please pray for the Aringa tribe whom God loves. May the Lord continue to open the door to share the love of Jesus with the Aringa. We all at Reaching Africa’s Unreached earnestly desire your prayers and support!

Jacob (Carol) Lee

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReachingAfricasUnreached

For those who have asked, small packages and letters may safely be sent to:

Jacob & Carol Lee, PO. 55, Moyo Uganda, East Africa

The greatest evil is having the gospel and not doing everything within our power to get it to those who do not have it. (Jacob Lee)

Tax deductible  charitable donations may  be made via PayPal.  PayPal also has a way to make reoccurring monthly gifts. To do so  please click their link below. PayPal deducts  a small amount from each gift as a processing fee. All gifts given through PayPal are now tax deductible as Reaching Africa’s Unreached has 501 c3 tax exempt status as a charitable organization.  If you wish to write a check you may write it out to R.A.U. and mail it to Lifegate Missions, 395 Lifegate Ln., Seguin Texas 78155.

“Times and Seasons” from Carol

 

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​With our visitors on Saturday, April 2nd: four Yumbe Sheikhs and friends, along with our co-worker, Charles, and his little one
On my! Time is passing quickly!  We blink and realize that it’s time to write again!
This has been a season of building, planting and sowing spiritual seed (“to everything there is a season…”)
Renovations on the tukalus are coming along nicely and nearing completion.  Once they are done, we hope to start putting retreats back on the calendar.  There are many church leaders who are eager to bring groups of fellow leaders in for teaching, encouragement and capacity building.  As you see in the photos, metal roofs on the tukalus have been added and raised higher, and larger, sturdier windows and doors have been added for safety and ventilation.  We are blessed to have an expert builder, Saalongo, who does a wonderful job of converting Jacob’s ideas into reality!  I think you will notice that Jacob has developed the trademark  “RAU style” in terms of the uniformity of decor.
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Setting “homemade” poles to string wire so that there is solar power in each tukalu.
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Looking from the tukalus to Guesthouse/Hall of Tyrannus
As we mentioned in previous letters, we have planted our crops (Soybean, Upland Rice, and Beans, as well as Watermelon) and are now working on vegetables.  Seeds (onions, cabbage, carrots, peppers and tomatoes) have been planted in nursery beds and, when ready, will be transplanted in spaces which have been made ready for the seedlings.  The soybeans and rice have started germinating, but we are badly in need of more rain.  We have gotten a little, but if we want all of the seeds to germinate well we need it to rain more!! Yet more banana suckers and mango seedlings are being planted.  In a few years we will be able to disseminate the fruit into the marketplace.  Planting crops will be a thing of the past and we will have ourselves a large fruit orchard. The crops and fruits are means to garner funds which can,in turn, be put into the ministry.
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Here the guys are digging holes for the banana suckers. In between each grafted mango there will be two matoke banana plants
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Soaking the suckers to clear away parasites and insects which have made their home in the nodes. We do not want to be planting these “nasties” in our field.

 

Just yesterday, Jacob, Emma and a couple of our men went to Lefori and picked up a FREE rice threshing machine which operates by man-power (pedaling). [We now have another aspect of our miracle weight-loss program in place for anyone who wants an exotic weight-loss getaway package!]  Jacob has the gears of his brain whirling to come up with a way to attach it to the tractor PTO in order to mechanize the process. [So hurry, while opportunities last, for your exotic exercise and diet getaway deal!]
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Manual threshing machine
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I think there is a better way and it is called “PTO”
Through experience we have seen the need and upcoming demand for grafted mango seedlings, not only for ourselves, but the community at large. They are hard to find in this area.  Emma  has envisioned this as a great opportunity for RAU to become a supplier of grafted mango seedlings as he has the know-how to graft the seedlings himself. In order to facilitate this process we would need to build a screen house which could house the seedlings.  We would like to put the idea out there and request your financial help to make this project happen.  Not long ago, Emma put on a short, one day in-service on grafting mango seedling for some friends from South Sudan.  He has had many requests for seedlings from folks in the community who have heard him on the radio.
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Emma teaching how to graft mangoes
Our partnership with TBS (Transnile Broadcasting Service), a powerful, privately-owned local radio station, has been a blessing. Not only does Jacob have the opportunity to preach  every other Wednesday evening for an hour, but the weekly Friday night call-in Agricultural radio program has taken off like gangbusters!  It is a widely and wildly popular show.  Through Emma, people in the community and even the radio managers themselves we have found out how much the program is loved and appreciated.  Calls are coming in from as far away as Gulu, Yumbe and Arua!  TBS has been gracious in doing cost-sharing with us for the two-hour radio program. It has been gratifying to see the fruit of encouragement and capacity building so quickly.
Spiritually speaking, Jacob is continuing to sow seed, especially into the hearts and lives of Muslims in our area of Moyo and Obongi, but especially, in Yumbe District (Aringa Tribe), Koboko District (Kakwa Tribe) and, now, Arua. He has now met five times with groups of Imams/Sheikhs from Yumbe town (four times in Yumbe and once at RAU), once with a group from Kuru, and this coming Saturday (the 16th) with a new group from Lodonga. Both Kuru and Lodonga are within Yumbe District. The  topic in each meeting has been and will continue to be “Who Is Jesus?”.
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With Yumbe Imams and Sheikhs. A growing friendship has developed.
The materials Jacob has compiled and written or printed off the internet (specifically targeted to sharing the Good News among Muslim Sheikhs and Imams) have been reproduced in large numbers and are being given out freely in many places. They are warmly being received and read and, in some cases, kept in Mosque libraries.  Just a few days ago, a young man from Arua, who had heard about what Jacob has been doing among the Muslim leaders of Yumbe District and about the materials which he has made available, stopped by to obtain some of these materials to aid him in the work he is doing among Muslims in Arua.
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A sample of what some Imams and Sheikhs have been receiving from RAU. On the bottom left are “Trailblazers” in Arabic and Swahili in partnership with “Cattle For Christ” ministries  and a generous donor.

 

Just recently, Jacob verified with the Joshua Project (experts on identifying unreached people groups around the world) that the Aringa tribe,which is  primarily within Yumbe District, is listed as having less than a 2% “Christian” population, which includes both Catholics and Protestants. This places the Aringa in the category of “unreached.” Please pray for the seed that has been sown among the Aringa; pray for the “rain” of the Spirit on the hearts of Muslims who are reading the word of God and the other materials which they have received.  “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12)  Please also consider giving towards the cost of printing more of the materials to give away and the purchasing of more Arabic Bibles as well apologetic books/booklets.  Printing is an especially expensive endeavor here.
A week ago, we entertained some very special guests at RAU…4 Sheikhs (a respected leader, well trained in Arabic and the Qur’an/ Hadiths) from Yumbe district! Two are County Khards. Khards are elected leaders among their fellow Imams and Sheikhs. Jacob’s friendship with Yumbe Imams and Sheikhs has grown over our last four dialogs in Yumbe town. In the various meetings there have been 20-30 Imams.  These four Sheikhs came for lunch, but also had a tour of the premises, receiving some agricultural information along the way.  After lunch, Jacob spent time getting to know each one more personally, learning about their families and history.  When Jacob asked me to play the keyboard for them, they each, in turn, requested an opportunity to play it as well. That was a lot of fun!  We sent them off with some of our local mangoes as well as some watermelon and hot pepper seeds for their gardens.  We enjoyed an up close and personal time with them and they also expressed gratitude for the invitation and opportunity.
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Sheikhs at RAU
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Lessons on grafted mangoes
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RAU walkabout.
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Food and Fellowship
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Each Sheikh enjoyed a turn at the keyboard. One even sang us a song in Arabic.
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Each Sheikh has received a parallel English/Arabic Bible along with other reading material, reading glasses, and medicines. Discussions involved continual dialogs on “Who Is Jesus?” as well as agricultural trainings in Yumbe and/or at RAU.
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Thankfully, the Sheikhs felt comfortable enough to come and visit. We had a good time of fellowship. Each time we are together we know the Holy Spirit is continuing to work in their hearts.The Lord has opened a wonderful door to share the love of Jesus in both word and deed. Please continue in your prayers!
Jacob and I are very grateful for you who partner with us through your prayers, words of encouragement, and financial gifts. We pray that you never grow weary this gift of well doing.
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Here are continuing prayer requests and opportunities for giving. If you have any questions feel free to write and ask. Thank you!
*Establishment of Bible School for the strengthening of pastors in the area and the raising up of new ones.
Study Bibles given to all who attendant leadership training
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*God’s work in the hearts of the Imams and Sheikhs who have heard the gospel, are reading the Bible and the Christian literature given to them. Pray also that the gifts of love, reading glasses, medicines, and other physical items, are used of the Lord to help bring them to salvation in Jesus. Continuing funds are needed for the printing and buying of literature and Arabic Bibles. [We have friends visiting us in the first part June and could bring some literature along with them. If you are interested in sending some with them, write and I will get back to you with information.  We also have some suitcases of literature we had to leave behind on our last US visit as we had exceeded the limit of baggage if you want to be instrumental in shipping those to our friends who are coming at the beginning of June].
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*Finishing of tukalu renovation and resumption of leadership retreats here at RAU
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*Good growing seasons for the RAU crops and fruit trees.
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*God’s blessing in our agricultural training on the ground and through the radio air waves .
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*Continual protection and health for all the RAU team ( (Jacob and I were last sick when we came to states with malaria). Health-wise, especially pray for Pastor Godfrey who leads our church plant in Obongi. Conditions there make it easy to be sick. He is coming to RAU today for some rest and recovery from something which has made him very sick this last week.
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Pastor Godfrey with water from Obongi
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*Growth and strengthening of all the new churches in Metu Mountains and for Pastor Tobious who leads the charge there.
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Pastor Tobious with Jesus loving Metu Mountain men
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With Love and Prayers,
Carol (Jacob) Lee
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Facebook: www.facebook.com/ReachingAfricasUnreached

For those who have asked, small packages and letters may safely be sent to:

Jacob & Carol Lee, PO. 55, Moyo Uganda, East Africa

The greatest evil is having the gospel and not doing everything within our power to get it to those who do not have it. (Jacob Lee)

Tax deductible  charitable donations may  be made via PayPal.  PayPal also has a way to make reoccurring monthly gifts. To do so  please click their link below. PayPal deducts  a small amount from each gift as a processing fee. All gifts given through PayPal are now tax deductible as Reaching Africa’s Unreached has 501 c3 tax exempt status as a charitable organization.  If you wish to write a check you may write it out to R.A.U. and mail it to Lifegate Missions, 395 Lifegate Ln., Seguin Texas 78155.

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Fourth “Jesus” Dialog with Yumbe Imams and Sheihks

 

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Our fourth gathering with Yumbe Muslim leaders.

Many thanks to all prayed for our dialog meeting with Imams and Sheikhs in Yumbe town. It was my fourth meeting with them (just one week earlier I had met with Kuru Imams and Sheikhs. Kuru is a sub-district of Yumbe) and, again, they were very hospitable and open to listen to me preach. They listened respectfully and I, in turn, listened respectfully to them. I was then allowed time to follow up with a few last comments. They heard a very clear presentation of the gospel and now I pray they will respond in faith. Please join in my prayer!

We are becoming closer friends.The men at my sides,  in the above picture and two in the first picture below, are two of the top leaders among the Sheikhs and Imams.

The leaders also happily received Bibles, Christian apologetic materials, reading glasses, and medicines. They promised to read their Bibles (Aringa,Arabic and English) and Christian reading materials.

Below are a number of pictures with comments highlighting our time together. Please pray for these Muslim leaders, others I have and have not met with yet, and all the Muslims in and around Yumbe District. Please also pray for us and our Christian brethren that we would be faithful and loving witnesses.

March 25
These are two leading Khards in Yumbe. A Khard is a chosen leader among the Imams and Sheikhs.
March 56
A warm welcome from the County Khard
March 23
Traditional greeting from the Imams and Sheikhs

 

 

March 1
Co-worker Samuel
March 66
Co-Worker Zorah
March 15
Co-Worker Charles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 7
What joy to be an ambassador of the Lord!

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Giving out of resources

March 46

March 44
Each man received an Arabic New Testament (Blue color), Aringa New Testament (Red color),which is their native tongue,  a ESV Global Study Bible, and Christian-Muslim apologetics materials. Most of the men also were given a pair of reading glasses. They  promised to read and study their Bibles and booklets….Isaiah 55:10-11!

March 40

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March 49
This young man was the main spokesman for the Imams and Sheikhs. He knows English and the Qur’an well. He is intelligent, kind and friendly. Here he is happily receiving his True Tone ESV Global Study Bible.
March 37
Qur’an, Bible, and apologetic materials all open!

 

March 54
Each leader also received gospel tracts in English, Aringa, Arabic and Swahili.
March 64
May the Holy Spirit use the Word and the reading materials to draw these Imams and Sheikhs to Isa of the Bible!
March 63
Each leader received one treatment for malaria (Cuartem) and a de-worming treatment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 62
Those who needed reading glasses were tested and fitted with a pair. Instructions were also given on how to use them.

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I was given an hour (which I use fully and then some) to give my lesson, Allah’s Korbani Plan of Salvation. Each Imam and Sheikh listened respectfully and intently. Charles did most of the interpreting. I sought to proclaim the gospel of grace biblically ,winsomely, and in love.

March 57

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March 45
Allah’s Korbani Plan of Salvation
March 18
I used Surah 3:42-58 as a bridge to the Bible and the gospel. It was read in Arabic at the beginning of my message.
March 9
I studied much, prayed much, and preached my heart out, pleading in my heart and mind “Holy Spirit, come…reveal the full beauty of Jesus!”

March 12

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March 10
I gave an invitation  to each Imam and Sheikh to trust alone in Isa’s sacrificial blood and his resurrection from from the dead for their salvation. What an honor to have this opportunity on the Saturday before Easter.

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Next, I and the RAU team sat and listened respectfully to their chosen representatives’ responses and exhortations.

March 22
First, the County Khard spoke, drawing attention to Surah 3:55, where, in my message, I highlighted that it was Allah’s plan “to cause Isa to die“. He sought to explain why this was referring to a “future time”.
March 14
The leaders’ main spokesman had much to say on Islam’s understanding of Isa and his mission.
March 13
We listened carefully and took notes.  Each time I meet with these Imams and Sheikhs I come to understand them and Islam better. Lord wiling this can help me be a better witness.
March 11
I was then graciously given some time to respond. I closed by reading Luke 24:44-47, calling upon the Sheikhs and Imams to trust in Jesus alone for salvation. Then I prayed  aloud with uplifted hands and eyes open asking God’s blessing on them.
March 24
The other leading Khard (on the left) then gave some gracious and kind closing statements. Both of these Khards are coming soon to RAU for a visit. Everyone of us are committed to continuing these dialogs. Please intercede for us all!
March 8
After closing, we all had some more good fellowship. I count these men as friends and look forward to spending more time with them as well as other Imams and Sheikhs in neighboring communities. God, in His providence and grace, has opened a beautiful door (Revelation 3:8).

God Bless You!

Jacob Lee

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