ZAMBIA MESSIANIC FELLOWSHIP NEWSLETTER.
July 2018 Newsletter
Shalom and blessings.
A word from Rabbi Alex Yalenga
O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Psalms 105:1
Here at the Zambia Messianic Fellowship, Jerome Fleischer Day school and Jerome Fleischer Orphanage, we give thanks to The Great God of Israel for so many things. Thank you to all those who came to stand with us as we advance the Kingdom here in Zambia. Thank you to all who support our work, thank you to all who gave and to all those who pray for us and thank you to all our partners. We send our love and blessings in Yeshua’s name.
Zambia
With Rabbi Jay Ledbetter meeting the King of the Kaonde Chief Mumena and his wife. What an honor.
Zambia has 17 million people divided for the most part in 73 tribes. The Kaonde tribe has 368,000 people and we were privileged to meet Chief Mumena one of the kings of the Kaonde speaking Zambians. He is a lover of the God of Israel and of the Jewish people. He has invited us to go and preach the word among his people. Pray for this great leader and servant of the Living God.
Congregations
We have had a very busy and fruitful season here at Zambia Messianic Fellowship. New births, weddings, praise reports, open doors, weddings and immersions. We received wonderful teams from Israel and the USA.
Shimon and Sharon Yalenga were married at Beth Messiah Synagogue in Lusaka.
Was honored to mikveh (immerse) my third born daughter Gabriella who made a public confession of her faith in Yeshua. We had 24 members of our congregation who were recently mikvered (baptized)
Rabbi Jay Ledbetter teaching the two day leadership conference at Beth Messiah Synagogue in Lusaka, Zambia. Most leaders travelled from across Zambia for the conference.
Rabbi Alex and Pastor Bryan Klein immersing a new believer in Chinkuli.
Lemba Jewish outreach
Meeting the Lemba Jews and their leaders. We gave out Bibles and shoes to the children.
For I am not ashamed of the Good News, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who trusts—to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Rom 1:16
There are about 80,000 Lemba Jews in Southern Africa. Most of the African black Jews known as the Lemba are found in Zimbabwe, northern South Africa and western Mozambique. Some Lemba Jews moved to Zambia and the Lord has enabled us to reach out to them. Pray that we will plant a congregation and help these lost sheep of Israel to not only embrace their Jewish Messiah but hold on to their Jewish heritage.
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/lemba-tribe-in-southern-africa-has-jewish-roots-genetic-tests-reveal
Missions
Praise at our Chainda congregation
Children receiving shoes.
Mackenzie and Carmille from Idaho with Chinkuli children.
We hosted a wonderful team from Congregation 268, Idaho led by Pastor Bryan Klein. The team met the Queen of the Goba, prayed with her and spent some wonderful time with her at her official residency. The team also gave free shoes to hundreds of poor orphans and children, shared the gospel, led worship and even participated in the immersion of five new believers.
The Day School
Besides excelling with a 100{f867ed0a5269d3ff73e3962581c489613d212587fec1849d90b46f9dafc0d2f4} pass rate in the annual Zambian government examinations, our school has continued in being leader in academics in our school district and Zone. The school zone consists of 47 government and private schools. In the spelling quiz our school come out second out of 47 schools and is now headed for the quarter finals. Our boys football team is in first position at the moment in the ongoing football zone competition. We have about 166 children at the day school.
Thank you for all the wonderful sponsors who have brought hope, life and the gospel to these sweet little people.
Pastor Bryan Klein meeting Abigail his sponsored child at the Jerome Fleischer day school.
Meal time at the day school.
Rabbi Jay meeting Peter his sponsored child at the day school.
Orphanage
We have 18 children at the orphanage and our newest is 9 year old Michelle who was abandoned and left alone in the cold. She is now in school and she has integrated well with the rest of the children.
Other News
We had children from the international school of Lusaka and their teachers visit our congregation to learn more on what a synagogue is all about.
We received three guitars for our Worship team from Meuchad based in Atlanta Georgia. Thank you Marc Vidito.
“Scholarships – Graciousness Extended:
Upon graduation from the Day School, each child takes a required exam, to determine whether they will be selected to go further in school. They will be able to attend a higher school if their scores are high enough and positions are available. The great news is that our Day School students consistently get the highest scores in the exams, and almost all are selected to move to the higher levels. The sad news is that these schools are not free.
Those schools have fees which must be paid before the child is permitted to enroll. In Zambia, these schools start in January and end in December, and the cost is $360/year for one child. You can help these children break through the cycle of poverty, and continue their education in grades 8- 12. A scholarship for all 5 years of their high school education would be $1,800.00.
We believe that these children are the future leaders of Zambia, and as godly men and women, they will turn this nation around. So, you see why we are so eager to see each child go on into the upper levels.
Please consider sponsoring a child for a year of upper education at $360 per year. Of course, we rejoice to receive all gifts of any amount, so we can make as many scholarships available as possible. ”
The Yalenga Family
PRAYER POINTS- Please join us in prayer for the following:
- Pray for our Chinkuli congregation and leader, the tribal leader has grabbed our water well and unleashed verbal persecution against our leader and congregation.
- Our new outreach to the Lemba Jews of Zambia.
- We have been offered to buy a building for our day school for $30,000, please do pray with us and spread the word.
- Salvation of the Zambian traditional Jewish community, Muslim community and African tribal communities
- Open doors for the gospel
- Spiritual and numerical growth.
- The greatest numerical growth of Bible believers in the world is currently taking place in Africa and African believers are facing an increased level of persecutions from Muslims. Beheadings, shootings, bomb attacks, kidnapping, slavery, forced conversion, acid attacks and many other evil things are being committed against God’s children. Please pray for the Body of Messiah in Africa.
- Please do pray for the court case involving our property to be disposed of once and for all and for finances to pay all the legal fees.
- Pray for continued sponsorship for our Shalom Zambia radio outreach and that it will bear fruit among the 2.5 million listeners.
- Protection from counterfeit believers.
- Finances for ministry needs, including a sponsor for each child under our care, financial support for the Yalenga family and for the needs of the other congregations under the Zambia Messianic Fellowship covering.
NEEDS
- $80 a month will allow a child to stay at our orphanage giving them a safe place, warm bed, three meals a day and school. Children will be taken in after a sponsor is found.
- $25 a month will sponsor feed and educate one orphan for the whole month at our day school. We still have many children in need of sponsors.
- $90 will sponsor one radio outreach program to over 2.5 million people.
- $150 will help pay the monthly wage of one teacher at the orphanage day school. We have 8 teachers teaching over 150 children.
- $6 will buy a bible for a new believer.
- $50 will buy a goat to provide protein for children at the day school.
- Monthly support for the Yalenga family who are in full time ministry taking care of 8 congregations, an Orphanage, a school, outreach, discipleship and raising new leaders.
- $100 to help build a playground for our orphanage
Thank you for being a blessing.
Shalom, Shalom.
For more information contact
zmforphanage@gmail.com
zmf@microlink.zm
To Donate
Donations are tax deductible in the USA and are received with thanksgiving. For tax-deductible contributions in the United States, write checks (please designate Zambia) to:
Congregational Roeh Israel
8556 East Warren Ave
Denver, Colorado 80231
Those in the UK (and Europe) can now support the work here in Zambia in £ or euros (cheque, money order). Cheques should be made to B’Nai Maccabim (http://www.bnaimac.co.uk) with Zambia on the back
If you have questions or are looking for possibilities of supporting the ministry, sponsoring an orphan, being involved in our Graciousness Extended program or supporting the Yalenga family, please contact Maria Schmitt at zmforphanage@gmail.com or 719-487-9061.
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When you donate to the Zambia Messianic Fellowship you can be sure that you are contributing to an organization that is witnessing to the lost, discipling believers, raising new leaders, taking care of orphans, planting congregations around Zambia, fighting anti-Semitism, teaching the church about their Hebrew roots and responsibility to Israel, lobbying government for biblical values and helping the poor masses with viable economic activities.
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