Linda and I are doing well, with Thomas becoming a real little character and an absolute joy in our lives. We have just finished a two-week sports ministry programme with High Pointe Church, Washington, that took place at a number of schools in rural, township and inner-city settings. The mission incorporated soccer training with teaching the Word of God to the children. 

I had a routine brain scan this morning and together with a team of volunteers, am leaving for Zimbabwe at 12 o’clock tonight. This will be our third trip into Zimbabwe this year.

Those who have not seen the video report of the first trip where we delivered medical aid and food, please follow the link below to view a ten-minute excerpt of the trip on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcmJPQ_ysI4

The second project we were involved in was a water purification mission. I accompanied two ‘Texas Baptist Men’ in delivering water purifiers to Harare and assessing other projects that are in place in other areas of Zimbabwe. We delivered five hundred water filters to the church in Harare. To date, over three thousand people have died of the Cholera epidemic. The capital’s (Harare) water infrastructure has broken down. During the three days we spent in the city, there was no water in the taps. People walk the streets with buckets, looking for open pools of water, often close to overflowing sewage, resulting in obvious contamination.   

This evening we leave on our third trip this year, where we will deliver Bibles to a variety of areas in the country. Our ministry strives to be God led, and during the first two Zimbabwe projects of the year, our Lord revealed to us how desperate the people are for His Word. One of these revelations presented itself with team member Ryan Hood having every stall owner in a large market leave their stall, and come sit around him as he read from the Word. On this our third trip, together with preaching and distributing the Word in market places, the streets and the villages, we will also be:

• Working with a ‘Truckers Ministry’ at the Beitbridge border post (the gateway into Africa)
• Delivering clothes, toys and other resources to two orphanages
• Assisting in a ‘Street Children’ programme with blankets
• Delivering a further 400 drip filters in Bulawayo and Harare. The filters present a wonderful way of explaining the Gospel, in that as sinners we need to be cleansed and that just as the filter takes out impurities and Cholera, so Christ is able to cleanse us of our sin.

Friends, thank you for your invaluable prayer and support of our family and our ministry. We continue to serve the needs in Africa, revealing the Truth to the lost.

In His service
Leo