Please pray for the community near RVA

As you may have seen in global news, Kenya has been experiencing well above average rainfall over the past few weeks. The area around RVA received massive amounts of rain last week, leaving the ground saturated and causing damage to roads and houses.
 

We received word this morning of flash floods and a landslide in the outskirts of Mai Mahiu, just down the hill from RVA’s campus. This flooding has caused massive destruction, many injuries, and the loss of lives. Several of our staff at RVA are affected by the damage. 

Here is the news link:

In the News

If anyone would like to give financially, this can be done via RVA's benevolence fund. Online donations can be made to this fund at the following link: RVA Benevolence -- Flood Relief  When making donation, please check the box to "Leave a note for the finance office" and type "Flood Relief" in the notes section.

April Update

Dear praying friends,

We are grateful for the many who pray for the Lord's work and His servants across the globe. We are encouraged by those who participated in the North American week of prayer and we continue to pray that God will raise up more prayer warriors.

Prayer is an essential part of the work and I am writing this email to ask you to pray.

On Monday (Apr. 29) Peter and I, along with 4 young men, will be traveling to the middle of the country (about 11 hours away) to minister among the Wataturu and Wasukuma tribes where Peter has planted 2 small churches in the past 5 or 6 years. We plan to spend 8 days among them teaching the young believers, spreading the good news door to door, and showing evangelistic films. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will prepare hearts, and that Christ's kingdom will advance and Satan's strongholds be defeated in that dark place. We depend on your prayers for us, dear brothers and sisters.

For the month of April we did a good bit of traveling as a family. Emily came home from RVA (boarding school) and Esther went to Mozambique for 2 weeks, to be with her friend Victoria and her family who serve in that country. Meanwhile, we went to Dodoma (14 hours by bus) to attend a joint conference with the German brethren missionaries who are working in the Southern part of Tanzania. We praise God for safety on the trip and for a good conference.

Aaron enjoying some fried chicken on the bus. Look familiar??

Lots of quality time!

One of the many accidents we saw along the way.

A beautiful rainbow welcomed us to Dodoma.

Conference group photo

We then continued on by bus to Dar Es Salaam. While there we had an Embassy appointment for passport renewal and waited for Esther to come from Mozambique. Then we all flew back to Kigoma to spend 1 week at home, before driving to Burundi to visit Luke's 2 brothers and their families so the kids could see the cousins. From there, Esther and Emily flew back to Kenya with 2 of their cousins to go back to school.

Visiting Danny and his family in Gisuru.

Visiting Jesse and his family in Bujumbura.

On Monday we will begin our second term of the discipleship school. Ahadi will be teaching about angels and demons. We still have 10 students. Please pray for them as many of them have challenging home situations.

Students at Disciples of Jesus School.

In the middle of May we will have 5 days of teaching and meetings for the church elders in our 3 western regions. I will be teaching on revival. Please pray for the Spirit's anointing on these messages. We long to see the Tanzanian church wake up to the needs around them and begin to equip, send and support national missionaries.

There is more we could say but this email is already long enough, so we'll just ask you one more time, to PRAY.

May God's grace abound to you,

Luke and Gina Johnson