March 2023 Newsletter
WORD FROM RABBI ALEX
Faith is the one area in our lives where growing up means we must grow to be more like a little child, trusting simply in the goodness and complete knowledge of a Heavenly Father who has our best interests at heart. Remember that your potential is the sum of all the possibilities the Living God has for your life.
Through your financial and prayer support of the Zambia Messianic Fellowship you have touched tens of thousands of lives, bringing knowledge and faith of the Great God of Israel to those living in the dark, changing their stories from despair to hope, sickness to healing and broken to whole.
Have a wonderful day!
In conjunction with Jewish Voice Ministries international, The Zambia Messianic Fellowship held a very successful medical outreach targeting 15,000 Lemba Jews and their neighbors in Mumbwa district of Zambia.
Doctors from the USA, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe joined the Zambian medical team to administer the love of Yeshua through a heath care outreach.
We plan to have another Medical outreach in May 2023. Thank you for praying.
ZMF NEWS
Purim at ZMF
Rabbi Jay joining the over 200 orphans celebrating their enmass birthday!
The Zambia Messianic Fellowship received historic synagogue benches from The Council For Zambia Jewry.
The benches are over 100 years old and were first used in one of the first Jewish Synagogue in Zambia.
The Benches donated by The Council For Zambia Jewry.
We were able to visit our newly formed congregation in Malawi. Kindly pray for the leadership and growth of this precious congregation.
The Muzuzu Congregation in Malawi.
The Zambia Messianic Fellowship welcomes the assistant rabbi, Rabbi Michael Ayin and his wife Florence to the staff of ZMF.
Rabbi Michael has led worship at ZMF for the last 16 years.
Our radio outreach Shalom Zambia has this year clocked 15 years being on the air. Thousands continue to be blessed and enriched with the rich word of the God of Israel.
The Shalom Zambia radio outreach.
SCHOOL
We are happy to report that the Lord has blessed us with land for building more classrooms for our Jerome Fleischer School. The Jerome Fleischer school has children from first grade to eleventh grade and we have outgrown our current facility.
We also recorded a 90% pass rate among our children at the school. Thank you to all who help sponsor these precious children.
At our school and orphanage, we don’t just teach academics, we teach the children about the Great God of Israel and biblical values.
We still need sponsorships for some of the children who don’t have sponsors.
We provide not only free education for the orphans but we provide free school supplies, meals, medical care and spiritual support.
Story of an orphan
Musonda
Musonda Chanda lost both his parents when he was an infant. He come to our school the Jerome Fleischer orphanage school in 2nd grade. He used to walk two hours one way to come to our school and through hard work he made it all the way to 12th grade scoring the highest academic credits at Zambian secondary school national level.
Musonda is now studying to become a pilot.
Our God is simply amazing.
Leave your orphans—I will keep them alive, and let your widows trust in Me.” Jer 49:11
Our school is among the top five schools in our school district!! Hallelujah
ORPHANAGE
The Jerome Fleischer Orphanage.
The children at our orphanage continue to grow spiritually, physically and academically. Some of the children are now in the worship team, others play musical instruments in the worship team and some have joined the dance team.
ZAMBIA
Zambia recorded flooding again this year and some of the areas where we do outreach were cut off from the rest of the country.
MISSIONS TEAM
Derech Yeshua will be sending a missions team of about 24 precious people who are coming to Zambia in June to help build a classroom for the orphans at the Jerome Fleischer School.
THE YALENGA FAMILY
Thank you for praying for our family. We have all been in good health and happily serving our King, the Great God of Israel. Our oldest daughter Tamar is now studying in the USA and Eliana and Gabriella are in the worship team. Bracha is part of our dance team and little Tikvah is enjoying Shabbat school.
Thank you for your support and prayers.
Tikvah Yalenga in her Purim costume.
PRAYER POINTS- Please join us in prayer for the following:
- Good health of all the children and staff
- Protection from criminals who have tried to break in to steal food for the children.
- Protection of our security staff, we have 24/7 security at our facilities.
- All the congregations that make up ZMF.
- Protection, prosperity and salvation of the Zambian traditional Jewish community.
- Salvation of Zambia’s Muslim community and African tribal communities
- Open doors for the gospel especially among African Kings and queens.
- Pray for continued sponsorship for our Shalom Zambia radio outreach and that it will bear fruit among the 2.5 million listeners.
- 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.
- $35 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.
- $6 will buy a bible for a new believer.
- Monthly support for the Yalenga family who are in full time ministry taking care of several 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.
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 and to the Jewish people, lobbying government for biblical values and helping the poor masses with viable economic activities.
To unsubscribe send email with word “unsubscribe” in the subject.
Shalom
