This photo is mainly

Luciano’s brothers and

sisters who come to church

with us. There were 12 in

all that day. Slowly, a

whole family is coming to

Christ. On the way home

that night we had 17

people in the back of my

truck for transport home. I

think we need to start

looking for a bus!

September 2010

Kevin and Katherine Bubna

Theriver4@msn.com

Phone: 258-82-334-9966

Great Harvest International

Precious Cargo We Truck to Church

We are now in the third session of our Bible School and

things are going very well. Most of the students have

been able to continue coming and are growing in Jesus.

They love to learn the Word of God. A handful of the

students are committed to church planting in other

nearby villages and so the Gospel continues to spread!

They are now at a point of being able to effectively go

on their own.

One day, Condeila, a student of Great Harvest went to

evangelize in a village. The chief there was suspicious of

his intentions so he said, “We must go to the police

first.” Once there, the police began to ask Condeila all

sorts of questions and he began to get a little nervous.

All that ended when they asked him his name:

“Condeila Finiasse Kastom”, he said. Immediately the

policeman recognized the name as being the son of

Finiasse Kastom with whom he had fought in the war.

All was well. Apologies were made and Condeila was

encouraged to preach and evangelize. Now they want

him to come and start a church in that village!

Last week one of the mothers in the school brought her

three year old daughter to school for prayer. This

precious little girl had been purposely burning herself in

the fire and would not even cry! She would also burn

her clothes. Obviously this is not normal behavior and

was demonic in origin. So we all gathered around her

and prayed for deliverance. Nothing dramatic

happened as we quietly prayed, but we know and trust

in the power of Jesus’ name to bring freedom to the

captives. I’ll let you know the end of the story in our

next newsletter.

At the school the students affectionately call me

Mjomba Kevin (Uncle Kevin). In an attempt to use the

same terminology for Mjomba Jessie (the other

missionary working at the school), I mispronounced

Mjomba somehow and called him “fish Jessie”.

Everybody got a big laugh at my expense! Yet I will not

be dismayed; I will learn Ciyao, so pray for me! I so

much want to speak in their heart language.

ILSUFO

He came in desperation for help to Debbie Wilcox (wife

of base leader, Peter) one day. He was being tortured

by demons due to witchcraft against him and had

suffered for years. Debbie had prayed that same day:

“Lord, I can’t go anywhere today but if you want me to

minister to someone send them my way.” That same

day Ilsufo shows up, receives Jesus and gets delivered

from demons and witchcraft. What a glorious God we

serve. Jesus is still in the business of setting the

captives free!

Ilsufo now attends the Bible school and walks 13

kilometers one way to come. One can see the light of

Jesus in his face and the joy of the Lord upon him as he

worships (see photo below of Ilsufo).

Last Friday we took a team of students to go meet

Ilsufo’s wife and pray over his home. There was such a

gathering of people, about 100, that we decided to

preach the Gospel and give testimony in this predomi-

nately Muslim village that has shown resistance these

past two years to Jesus. We believe God is doing

something and we will see much fruit to come there.

Please pray with us for Ilsufo and Sambula village.

Ilsufo Worshiping Jesus with joy!

Outreach at Ilsufo’s home

True Confessions of a Missionary

Can I share with you my heart for a moment? Reading 2 Cor. 11 and 12, I was moved by what Paul calls his “weakness”. Three or four times Paul says he will boast only of his weaknesses. These are not sinful traits, but hardships he suffered for Christ as an apostle. He calls them “weaknesses” because only in Christ does he have the strength to endure them. In chapter 1 Paul says “we were far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life… But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” (v8,9).

I am not as desperate as Paul was, thank you Jesus, but there are times when Katherine & I feel weak. As a missionary, dependent solely upon the generosity of others, I sometimes feel weak. Not that I long for what I left behind by any means. The things of this world are only temporary and I long for the true riches. The weakness I feel in a very real way is when my children are in need and I cannot help them. Neither can I be there to hug and to hold them when they are struggling. I can’t go on walks with my girls, nor be there at the right ‘moment’ to comfort them. But through it all God has given an incredible grace and provided for each of my kids in wonderful ways.

When we first got here Kath and I went through one bout of sickness after another, but God brought us through. We have endured cold nights with no heat, but God gave us many blankets for warmth. We brought children into our home to love and teach only to have them steal from us, but God gives more love. We have lived amongst a noisy, demonized village community and sensed its spiritual oppression, but God prays through us. We have shared in the lack and deprivation of this people in a land with various insufficiencies and inconveniences – food & product choices, energy & internet outages…, but somehow God enables us to grin and bear it. All in all we have suffered little, but it has been challenging at times in many ways.

Kath and I feel so very much at home here in Africa. In our lonely moments God has brought great comfort and joy. There is no place on earth we would rather be. May this honesty about my weakness be an encouragement to you. May you become stronger and more thankful for all Jesus has done and given to you. Never take family for granted. For every hardship you go through, look at it as an opportunity not only to grow personally, but to encourage others, and most of all to walk in God’s incredible grace. We love you all so very much.

Powerful Dream

Recently I received a Facebook message

from a young friend Bryan. I don’t

know if Bryan knew we were being

kept up for hours every night by

Muslim loud speakers ranting in their native tongue.

He surely didn’t know we were headed for a

predominately Muslim village for outreach. I don’t

know if he knew that the province we live in is

predominately Muslim. Yet God knows, and gave

Bryan what I believe is a prophetic dream. Here it is:

“We were having a conversation on a flat rooftop, then in the distance there were towering skyscrapers falling as if a flood had hit it and they started moving around us carried by mass water. In the meanwhile there was a voice around us saying: I will take down the high places that are raised against me and my name.”

When I read this dream I immediately knew it was

concerning Islam. In prayer the Lord showed me that

Islam will be brought down by a move of God (the

mass of water) and that this move of God will come

through His love and power expressed by his Church

here in the province of Niassa.

So please pray for Niassa province for the toppling of

the “high places”. It won’t happen by burning Qurans

but through the power of His love and the power of His

Kingdom expressed through His Bride!

A

On the Move Again!

Until now we have rented another missionary’s home in

Lichinga. However, that family is returning September

25th. Because we knew our house would not be finished

in time, we built a roundhouse (you might call it a

“Yurt”) and will be moving into it temporarily until our

home is complete. (Then it will become my office

sometimes to be used for visitors.) It will be tight

quarters, but we are looking forward to being near the

Bible School and in a quiet place (for the past 30 days of

Ramadan Kath and I have not gotten a full night’s sleep

due to the constant chanting over loud speakers directly

behind our house - this would go on for 2 to 4 hours a

night beginning at 2am!)

Please pray with us for the completion of our home. It’s

going well so far. We have a partial wall and are about

to pour the concrete floor but we still have far to go. If

the Lord puts it on your heart to continue to help us

build, please send your tax deductible gift through

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info) or send your gift to Eastpoint Church as noted

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List of Needs for our home:

Windows - $750

Doors - $500

Roof - $2550

Wood - $700

Solar Power System - $2200

Well dug – $300

Well pump $250

Well tank $350

Stove/Oven - $600