Tom & Lisa, Malaria, Womens ministry

Lisa & I in front of our tree. (we have one lime tree in our yard.)
Last week was a bit tough for me. I had malaria. The treatment went well. (5 day treatment of quinine... quinamax it is called.) The medicine is as hard on your body as the malaria is.
I'm doing 99% better today, I'm thankful for good health again.
When you're healthy, you act like you'll never be sick a day in your life again, and when you're sick, you're thinking the whole time... "If only I could get back on my feet again, ....."
The good news is that I lost a bunch of lbs in the process. :-)

Yes, we do take pictures together once in a while. :-)

We are doing well. Womens ministry is going strong right now. The women are meeting 3 times a week for literacy with Pastor Youssouf. They are making good progress.
There are about 10 women regurlarly involved now...

One woman, has been very interested in the literacy. She has been coming to that, and now has come to church for the past 6 weeks or so. Two weeks ago, she shared how her husband is a m-lim, and would be very mad if he caught her going to church, so she explained how she has to sneak out of her courtyard each Sunday to come. She asked for prayer that he would finally allow her to come to church openly. Meanwhile, this week, He announced he was going to send her back to her parents. (African equivelent of divorce.) Pastor Youssouf met with him, and shared how as a m-lim he should be a man of God, and that he should want his wife to attend literacy classes, to read Gods Word for herself, and that a woman of God like that is worth keeping. He agreed to send her to her parents so that her father could straighten her out. (In other words, he didn't agree with Pastor that church was a good thing...)Now we've heard that Tuesday, he packed her up and sent her off.
Please pray for this woman. She is being persecuted by her own family because she wants to learn to read, and because she is interested in the gospel!

When's the last time you were seriously threatened because of your faith? Thank God for freedom of religion in America. Thank God for the many ways we have available to us to learn and grow in

Gods Word.

Thanks for stopping by,
Tom & Lisa Seward