Heather's Mum says: This is the email Heather referred to yesterday.

Hi everyone. Arrived safely in Kigali - just waiting at the airport now to go to Congo. We just received this latest report from Pastor Joseph in the Congo. It’s a horrible story, and I just ask you please to pray for this country. For the women who are being raped, killed, abused. For the starving children, for the dying. Please pray for them. Please pray for us.


“Every time I leave to Mozambique , I get a new anointment and my life changes. I come back new, with new vision and more faith for doing things which seemingly were madness. When I left Beline from the Staff Conference of IRIS-held on 2-5 June 2007 and which awakened me much, I went to Pemba then left on 24th of the same month. That whole month I was touched by the Lord. My wife was pregnant and expecting to deliver. July 2, 2007 was for us a challenge. We left Maputo on 26 June 2007 and reached Bukavu on 28 June 2007 and Josephine delivered on 2 July 2007 as we expected, even though with difficulty, but God helped us. Assisting Josephine, my wife, and doing the work of God made me too busy.
We had already planned the Conference of our churches for women, five women from each church. Especially those women who were victims of rape and inhuman or wild deeds. We comforted them with the word of
God. From 12 to 15 July 2007, 203 women attended the Women’s
conference and it was a blessing. The following is some women’s
witness.
THEREZI related how she was kidnapped and taken to the jungle by rebels. They were nine women. She said they were daily raped by more than seven men and other terrible things. Some women were shot.
These women are very weak, hungry, without clothes. They are
also suffering from sexually transmitted diseases and have no medicine. While we were listening to their witness, tears ran out of
our eyes. Our wish is that we can think together in order to assist these women to comfort and enable them to go on living and care for their children who are in hardship.
We have therefore thought of starting, without any delay a
various training programme for these women. This will include tailoring, sweater making, handicraft, illiterate adult education, carpentry. Machines, cloth, sewing, threads and teachers are needed for this purpose. One woman who attended the conference was touched and then offered to us her sewing machine. We have started already with that but still more are needed.
On the other hand, there is the orphans problem. Many children are dying because of hunger. Even adults are dying. Please do not abandon us! You are brethren, as the world is, please do not forget
R.D.Congo.
By faith, we are now caring for twenty orphans who are really
suffering from malnutrition. But the end of August, if we have care
takers, these children will be accommodated at the church and cared for. We therefore need your prayers.
NOTE: Whenever the mother has a problem, the children’s life is
affected.
On August 6, 2007 we opened our Bible School for pastors who
despite of hunger or loss of their wives or children because of war and starvation, are willing to listen to the word of God and get comforted. Our request! 72 pastors have already arrived, others have transport fare problem. But 100 are expected.
They are worried buy their families left at home without food.
Others have no Bibles
Still others have neither notebooks nor pens.
They are sleeping on the cold floor without mattresses. Our request is to get mattresses. The cost is 30 $ US each.
Water and electricity are very useful.
These planning are finally making our request. As we could meet a total person; a heart, body and mind. We need you so much to come to assist by any means as you can. There is a lot of work but there are a few workers.”

Pastor Joseph and Josephine