Gospel News — Mar-May 2012

NEWS FROM BROTHERS & SISTERS

encouragement, that it expresses grace to those that hear you. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed until the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and railing be put away from you, along with all malice. And be kind to each other, sensitive, forgiving each other, even as God in Christ also forgave you.' (N.E.V.)

Thanks again for these very handy, easy and light New Testaments to carry around, and we do hope that the full Bible will soon be out to our benefit, God willing. May the Lord, Yahweh of the heavenly realms grace the hands of all those who are undertaking the task. Regarding the Kiswahili Bible Basics, yes, I would like to get some copies to hand out to some of our contacts from the Tanzania and the Congo I.R. In fact, I possess a New Testament, `Good News for Modern Man,' Diaglot Edition which has a Kiswahili translation alongside English language. This was a legacy from my late son Evangelist Clarence Muntemba.

Life has not been quite easy sailing for me and my wife. The first problem that befell us was our mud bricked house built in 2,000 AD, which had been burrowed badly by the ants. It was very necessary that we build a much better and semi-permanent

Part of the Mafuta Ecclesia. Left to right: bro. Shardrick Zimba, Sis. Freda Mbewe, Sis. Polina Mwale, Sis. Stella Daka, Sis. Esther Mbewe.

Standing, left to right: Bro. Joshua Mbewe, Bro. Donald Mwale, Bro. John Phiri, Bro. Steven Mwale and Bro. Duncan Mbewe.

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house. So we started moulding bricks and burning them and worked extra hard to find money for cement to mould concrete blocks for the foundations. We now have a 14x8 meters house standing at roof level with a few materials left, like cement for plastering walls and ten roofing sheets. We were then upset by illness in the family.

The signs of the times are very exciting indeed as we see labourers in the field of Yahweh getting fewer and fewer. Many have fallen asleep, some have back-slided. In God's mercy, let us pray for labourers in the Lord's vineyard. We read in Matt:9:36-38: "But when he (Jesus) saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd. Then said he to his disciples, `The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.'" We are in this situation today and we have just to do what Jesus said.

I have been also assigned to translate some booklets from English into Tonga local language and I am also a local Tutor.