Thursday, May 3, 2018

Mission Africa May 3, 2018 Update


We are experiencing problems with our website hosting and the website is not viewable or editable in Uganda because of security issues; it seems the host sees it best to block access to their sites in Uganda and that this will be a permanent situation. We are safe and there is no threat towards us. For now you can see our communications online at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/. Thanks for your patience and as always we need and appreciate your prayers!

Friends: Our Updates are sent to instruct, encourage, edify and act as a help in prayer. We appreciate your receiving them, your replies, comments and prayer requests. 
We will share this Update format once a month as God allows.
Teaching and Prayer for Africa:
May our Lord, who has blessed us with salvation in Christ help us to better understand “Of The Church” from the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689: “The catholic or universal church, which (with respect to the internal work of the Spirit and truth of grace) may be called invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ, the head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all.”
Edited from Operation World, Seventh Edition: “Ministry that cares for orphans and widows, uplifts the poor, brings liberty to the oppressed and sets captives free reflects the heart of God, the values of the Scriptures, and the role of the Church. Caring for the downtrodden and vulnerable and demonstrating practically Christ’s love are increasingly-and rightly-the focused activities of evangelical ministry. Give thanks for the Church’s increasing understanding That Christ’s Kingdom can and must transform every aspect of life and community.”
Teaching Links:
See “Way To God” by Christian Communicator’s Worldwide at: http://waytogod.org/ and Christian Communicators Worldwide’s excellent website at: http://www.ccwtoday.org/.
See Spurgeon Gems, “What The Church Should Be” at: http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols22-24/chs1436.pdf and Spurgeon Gems’ excellent materials at: http://www.spurgeongems.org/. Please continue in prayer for good health for our dear brother Emmett O’Donnell and his wife Ann.
See Chapel Library’s excellent resource “Worship And Order In The Church” by John Owen at: http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/9514/9686/7345/waoi.pdf and all materials at: http://www.chapellibrary.org/.
See “Loving The Church” by Grace To You at: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/80-5/loving-the-church.
See “Every Good Church Is Messy” by Keith Welton at: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/every-good-church-is-messy.
Hear Peter Jeffery’s excellent sermons at: http://www.peterjefferysermons.org/.
Hear outstanding preaching by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones at: http://www.mljtrust.org/.
Our News and Prayer Requests:
Please continue in prayer for Willie, Phil, Kate, and Vern-Pray for their healing and for their strength and encouragement and for their spouse’s strength and encouragement. Willie has tested cancer free-we are rejoicing in God’s mercy to him and Trudy! Pray that his bladder will heal completely and soon.
Please pray for God’s grace and blessing for Justine and Robert, Sharon, Mark, and Cissy who have recently professed faith in Christ. Pray for Faridah, Rachel and Peter for salvation. Pray for God’s grace and salvation for students in Bible Clubs in Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC who are studying our Evangelism Study and for Street Kids who regularly hear the Gospel.
Pray again for peace and an end of the violence and killing in South Sudan, DRC (Kivu), Syrian, Iraq and Somalia.
Pray for the salvation and reaching of the N______, an unreached people in Uganda.
We thank the Lord that the Life Application Study Bible’s have arrived and we are beginning distributions and teaching times.
Jim travels to Sierra Leon in West Africa in June for ministry as God wills. Please pray for His grace for all in this.
Our Materials:
See our website (in most countries) at: www.missionafricajk.net and if it isn’t visible and for latest updated materials see our blog at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/.

See our new page at Sermon.com (Jim’s sermons): http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=jrobinettesermons.
Attached are recent photos.
In the Savior’s love, grace and peace, your friends, Jim and Kappy Robinette                     
Mission Africa with CTEN
“Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow laborer, to the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Philemon 1-3



“Too late I loved You.
O You Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!
Too late I loved You.
Look, You were within, and I was out wandering, searching.
I was a monster, plunging through Your fair artistry.
You were with me, but I was not with You.
A world of things hindered me from finding You.
Yet such things have no existence unless they are in You.
You called, shouted, and burst my deafness.
You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness.
You breathed out wondrous odors.
Finally I drew in my breath and craved Your aroma.
I tasted until I knew hunger and thirst.
You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.
One day with all of my self I shall be able to cling to Your being. Then I shall put aside sorrow and labor; and my life will wholly live, for I will be wholly full of You. But even now You fill the one You lift up. I am aware that I am not full of You, so I am a burden to myself. Lamentable joys contend with joyous sorrows. Which will win the contest?
How can I know?
Woe is me!
Lord, have pity on me.
My evil sorrows battle my good joys, until it is hard to know
what will win.
Woe is me! Lord, have pity on me.
Woe is me, for I am sick.
I will not hide my wounds from You the Physician.
You are merciful, but I am miserable.
Is not the life of man upon earth all trial? Who wishes for troubles and difficulties? You command them to be endured, not to be loved. No man loves what endures, though he may indeed love to endure. For though he rejoices that he endures, he had rather there were nothing for him to endure. In adversity I long for prosperity, in prosperity I fear adversity. What middle place is there betwixt these two, where life is not all trial?
O Love who ever burns and never consumes.
Kindle me with new affections, O my God.
You call me to purity, so give what You command, and command what You will.”
-St. Augustine


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