News from Mali!

Hello everyone. We had a good week this last week.
Glenn & Kathy K visited with Jeff D, they are all with Worldventure's home offices in Colorado. Jeff is the VP of International Ministries, It was his first trip to Mali. It was neat to be able to show Jeff the many facets of the ministries here in Kadiolo. (Radio ministry, Drama Team, Village church ministry, Literacy, Womens ministry, Youth, etc.)
We drove out to the church in Fourou. They are building their church building, it is coming along well. It is exciting to see God work. Fourou had no believers 4 years ago. Now they have a thriving church, a pastor in training, and a growing body of believers.

Also this week, we had a baptism service. Three of Pastor Youssouf's literacy students who've accepted Christ in the past were ready
for baptism. (One of these is from the church in Fourou.)
I wrote a week ago about our young kids who've been invited for baptism classes. They are beginning them. We'll see later how many are ready for baptism. It was too soon this time to baptise them.
Here is a couple of pics of this weeks' baptism. Water has to be drawn from a well by hand to fill the baptism tank,so baptism is done in a bathtub-like cistern, and the subject is baptised sitting. The pastor then lays him back for immersion.
(We are baptists, aren't we? :-))





Also, Glenn & Kathy brought us news from Hilary. They came directly to Mali from Dakar, Senegal, and said they'd taken her and her
friend out for ice cream. Hilary had made us a package, that was nice. She wrote each of us a letter.
Here is a pic that Glenn took of her and Jessica at the ice cream place.


Thanks for stopping by,
Tom & Lisa Seward