Meet Fatmata

This is Fatmata Kamara.

She was a Muslim woman, living in a home owned by the Imam (local Muslim leader). Recently, she attended a Christian prayer service in the hopes of receiving healing. Fatmata had suffered a stroke and had paralysis on her left side. The prayers worked and she was healed!

Additionally, the businesswoman who sells fish in Waterloo had suffered an eye injury from a fire, and she's had high blood pressure. 

In every case, Fatmata sought the Lord through prayer and became well. That grew her faith in Christ. She began attending church in Brigitte and has accepted Christ. 

Please pray that Fatmata's faith will grow and her health will continue to remain strong. 

Jane

Jane is a trusted friend of the Millers. She helps around the house, watches the girls when needed (when Rick and Paula have to go to the airport to pick up certain visitors whose delayed flights keep them out until 2 a.m.) and cooks. Also, she sings. And I just had to post the video and photos because we teased her that she would be "famous" in America. Suddenly, she got real shy about letting me come near her with my camera! I think Grace and Faith were reminding her that I would be making her famous with the photos below. I love her genuine smile...it is truly infectious!

I do believe I forced her outside her comfort zone with my cameras every time I was around her. Yet it didn't keep her from singing in church. I wonder...what could we do this week to ease outside our comfort zone for God? 

Enjoy Jane's beautiful voice in the video and next time you pray, include Jane and her husband, Paul, that God would meet their needs and grow their faith!

The orphan13 project

Our God is so good and works in so many amazing ways. For instance, Frank Williams met Rick Miller completely by chance. Two men doing God's work, following his call on their lives. For Frank's orphanage to remain open, he needed help. He needed partners. Rick vowed to help. And then chance worked in their favor again. Chance Newingham, a pastor at Athens Christian Church and member of the In His Hands Orphans Outreach board was there, in Sierra Leone, on a mission trip. When Rick became aware of Chance's heart for orphans, he took him to Children's Redemption Orphanage Home. 


Chance was compelled to do more, so he began to organize a sponsorship program back in Illinois. But it wasn't enough, and he couldn't stop thinking about what more he could do. Until...something very simple took hold. He started collecting aluminum, recycling it and donating the money toward rice -- a staple food for the orphans. 


He did very little to promote it, but God's hand has been at work in the effort. To date, 71,624 cans have been cashed in for $1,480. That's the equivalent of 4,284 pounds of rice. 


Here's an aluminum-rice visual from Chance's new web site: http://www.orphan13.org/. 





Check out the web site, and also the CROH section on lifegateinafrica.org. See the faces, read the stories and pray about how you can help be a part of the effort to improve life for these beautiful children who lost their parents and were oftentimes found living in extreme poverty on the streets. Every can recycled makes a difference, and it's pretty effortless!