“After you spoke…everything has changed in my life,” wrote one South Sudanese man, a believer who had lived in a family feud with his sister for 8 years. Their angst toward one another had grown so bitter and strong that…
Dear Team: 125 Women Overjoyed With God’s Word
Your “inside” look at recent ministry in South Sudan and what’s ahead for ITMI next month, straight from Steve.
A String of Blessings that Began with You – A Christmas Greeting from the Buli Family
Jahim shares how a truth from God’s Word transformed his life and what happened when he began to pass along the wisdom he received.
“No One Has Ever Told Me My Money Belongs to God.”
“No one has ever told me that the money I have belong to God and I am just a manager managing God’s money and have the privilege to enjoy His money. I have never tithed in my life and I spend what I have in foolishly. I am going to starts a new life from what I have learned today.”
Why He Turned Down Financial Support (and why it rocks us)
His response was so unexpected that ITMI’s Director, Steve Evers, re-stated the question. “Would you like to be an ITMI partner?”Most people jump at such an offer. But not Lazarus.
Dear Team: What I Wouldn’t Have Seen if I Didn’t Go to South Sudan
“Catch a flight out of South Sudan as soon as possible.” I was looking at a few-day-old communique from the US Government containing that warning for any Americans who might find themselves in South Sudan. There was even an offer to US citizens who “are unable to get a flight out, contact us and we will assist.” I was scheduled to be on a flight to South Sudan that very week.
A Letter from Steve in Uganda: How I Shocked My Fellow Taxi Riders
It seems like someone who had “seen absolutely everything” as a daily taxi conductor, absolutely didn’t know what to do. He had probably never seen this done before – especially from a “white” stranger. The other passengers watched the “white guy” anyway, but now they turned their eyes to my exchange with the conductor with intensity and interest.
3 Good Stories from the Field
As 2016 begins, a theme in the stories I’m getting from the field of late is that God knows and sees everything…He is important, He is listening and He is ahead of us. As John Piper says, “God is always doing 10,000 things and usually we are aware of only 3-4 of them.”
What is the Seven Areas of Life Training (SALT) material, why is it so great, and why translate it into Arabic?
What is the Seven Areas of Life Training (SALT) material, why is it so great, and why translate it into Arabic? Find the answers here.
How A South Sudanese Restaurant Owner was Empowered to Give
ITMI’s Jahim Buli shares the following with us as he continues to see God’s hand of leading and provision as the new church ministers in the stressed and overwhelmed country.