Gospel News — Mar-May 2012

Exactly how far and in what direction this initiative can be taken further is unclear and anyone with any knowledge about plastic bag recycling is welcome to contact us. Whilst it costs almost nothing, it's very labour intensive and the products can be used but not so easily sold in the poverty-stricken Malian environment.

Please pray for this new ecclesia in their poverty, and especially for Astrid, Damien and Gerald as they continue the work here and now head overland into Burkina Fasso hopefully for more baptisms. There are serious travel warnings everywhere due to the prevalence of kidnapping by various extremist Moslem groups, especially is it dangerous for Christian missionaries.

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The hotels in Bamako wouldn't let us use their pools for baptisms, hence our trip to the very polluted and disease-ridden Niger River. One good thing is that through this new ecclesia, the Gospel is spreading yet further to the ends of the earth- "and then shall the end come". We conducted our meetings in French and the local language, Bambara, and made MP3 recordings of them. There is very little Christian literature of any description in Bambara. At the baptism service, we recorded Damien reading Romans 6 verse by verse in French, and Gerald translating it verse by verse into Bambara. We will in due course put the MP3 on the carelinks.net website. This is really taking the Gospel to "the regions