Stav’s Benin News June 2014 Please pray that we put Jesus first, and work at good communication with those around us. That a suitable vehicle can be found. Adjusting to a very different setting and infrastructure- . PRAISE:- For a safe journey of eight hours from Jhb to The supermarket is like your corner Café’- sorry no Cotonou the largest city in Benin and situated at the malls or P&P. Learning French, driving on the right hand coast. The following morning we were driven 7 hours side of the road, a different currency called CFA Francs, north to Parakou where we are living. The transmitter making new friends, the climate (minimum temperature site is a further 30 minutes North of Parakou near a in the house is 24 C on a cool morning!) village called Sirarou. For health and strength. Soon after we arrived we had our meningitis shots as this is a seasonal disease here and we are approaching the rainy season. For a nice house that has buffer water tanks to help when the city water is off and a generator to tide over the frequent power outages. We are finding our way around the sprawling city of Parakou. For Esther’s engagement to Neil on the 10 th May. The wedding is planned for the 6th December 2014 in Pretoria View from Stephen’s office at the Benin site Thanking you for your partnership with us in the Prayer points : We are asking that the Word would Gospel. reach a very needy W. Africa. People here are in such bondage. The more we find out what they believe, the Stephen & Lorraine greater we see the need here. [email protected] [email protected] Listener feedback. my church. There are many people who have been following this program for many years. Please send one We recently received this message from a listener of the radio preachers to visit us." C.A.D.-Kamakupa-Bie in a strife torn area of Nigeria: “I am married with three kids. I was laid off in August “i want to give God the glory for delivering me and my and since then I have not been able to find a job. I have family from the hands of the ( word removed ) exhausted my savings and I don't know how I am going insurgence. I'm where the core point of the insurgents to meet my family's needs. Is God punishing me? I have is, they killed three of my brothers and kidnapped my already asked Him to forgive my sins. I like your colleague a missionary, they burn my house and all my program very much because the Word of God you property, but God saved me and m… (text missing)” preach encourages me a lot during my trying We have made contact with the man and he assured us times. Please pray for me and my family. Only God can he would get in touch with us again. We have not heard help us." G.U.S.-Cubal-Benguela. anything. It’s been over a week. Please pray for peace "TWR brethren, just a few lines to thank you for in (northern) Nigeria. preaching the Gospel! My husband was a very bad man but since he started listening to your program, about 4 TWR broadcasts into Nigeria from our MW months ago, his character and temper changed a transmitter in Benin Republic. lot. He stopped drinking, comes back home straight Up from the Mud and Mire from work and treats me well. I know that it is God who is changing his life because I have been praying for him Language: Amharic Country: Ethiopia for 10 years. Please pray for him to remain firm and distance himself from false friends. I won't mention his Convicts are notorious for claiming they were framed, name for security reasons but God knows him." C .M.- but here's an Ethiopian inmate who made no bones Londuimbali-Kuanza Sul about his own guilt. "I was 12 years old when I started listening to your program with my Mom. Since then we never stopped "I was an immoral person doing unlawful things: tuning to TWR Swaziland. I am now 35 years old, robbing, stealing, burglarizing, abusing people sexually married and I still listen to your program. Since my and verbally, fighting, and so on," the prisoner said. mother died last year Yeva Ondaka has been God's channel of comfort and hope for me. Last month I His freedom gone, he lost hope and was declining heard that pastor Isac Silvano was in Huambo in rapidly physically and mentally. His condition drew the October. If I had known, I would have gone there to concern of another inmate, who truly had been falsely meet him personally. May God continue to bless your accused but chose despite that to emphasize all the wonderful work. I don't cease to pray for you." M.D.K. good that God had done in his life. The believer -Luvemba-Huambo introduced the prisoner to Gospel broadcasts on TWR and arranged for the troubled man to get a radio so he "I don't have a radio strong enough to tune to TWR could tune in to Bible lessons Swaziland station. Nevertheless, every night I go to my neighbor and together we listen to your program. We From Angola started as a group of five but now we are 16. The "I am a pastor, ordained last year in the Congregational beautiful songs and the preaching of the Word have Church here in Kamakupa- Bie. I listen to the Yeva encouraged us to look to God. Neighbors who never Ondaka program every night. The Bible teaching in my accept our invitation to go to church now go and four of language has helped me a lot to understand better the them accepted the Lord and will be baptized in April, on Word of God, in order for me to preach and teach it in Easter 2014. May the Lord bless all who support this ministry." N.A. Chitembo-Bie. .