hello everyone everything is going fine here, God is moving mightly, we are just trying to keep up with Him. There is such a need for christian laborers to be raised up here. Especially gambians, but also for more long term foriegn missionaries. Please pray for God to raise up people for His harvest field.

love all you and really want to know what is going on in your lives

tom and andrea

the shipment is here

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that our shipment is here and has arrived safely. I think we got everything. Tom and Yaya spent all day at the port yesterday and finally at like 5:00 came back from Banjul with the shipment. Julianna sent all these really great resources for Bible lessons and studies and everything you can possibly imagine. It's kind of funny. Anyway. Everything is going so great here God is doing amazing things like always. Tom is still working on getting our video club going but I think it will be up and running in no time at all. Very exciting.
THis past weekend we had a leadership retreat for the younger leaders in YFC Tom taught Evangelism with Alieu and I taught Prayer. It went great although it was a really long weekend. But it was really good though. Also this last weekend we saw our first rain, the rainy season is on its way. It poured when we were in church it was so exciting. We were told that the first couple rains come really early to remind the farmers to plant their fields. Isn't that funny.
Life is good in Africa
We miss you all
Love Tom and Andrea

update

Sallam malekum
Everything is good here our shipment came last week and we are in the process of clearing it, in other words paying lots of money to the gambian government, that will never go to the gambian people. O well God is good and in control. We are so blessed and happy to be here and serving God, the work among the muslims is hard though. Their hearts are so calloused to the gospel, that is seems even though they understand the truth in it they are not willing to accept it. However God is still stonger that their (and our own) calloused hearts. The video club is comming close to ready to open, probably in the next week, Brufut fellowship is still going stong but there are some spiritual attacks and not as many people are attending. Andrea and I are trying to learn mandinka. It is going ok but we both know that we have to move to an area where mandinka is only spoken to learn it fully. A cool story... a guy named Modou lives next to us, he is 19. I hang out with him a lot and i have told him the gospel and a lot about christianity, but he is still a muslim. He went away this weekend to work on clearing a plot of land. while he was there these missionaries showed the Jesus film at night in mandinka, his first language. he loved the film and was really excited. I thought that was awesome. God is totally working in his life through different people pray for him, i have to go to the Port now

love all you

Happy Bob Marley Day

Man, so we got an awesome deal on the van, but not so on the customs duty; unfortunately the customs duty was over half the price of the van. Why did we have to pay customs duty on a van that was bought in Gambia? Well, we bought the van from an NGO, so they did not have to pay any duty, but we want to use it for commercial use, so we got shafted. But that’s ok now we know, who to buy vehicles from. Other than that everything is good, we evangelized to some Rasta Muslims the other day, it was really good one said he wanted to become a Christian and how to do it, I told him, and he is meeting us Monday, I don’t know how sincere he was but pray that he gets saved. Bob Marley day was yesterday, there was a program at one of out schools so everyone was blessed to see some awesome dance moves by yours truly. It was embarrassing but I think it will help me build relationships with the students. Andrea and I have been doing ministry in the city area here and we like it but we are praying about moving upcountry to the north bank, or to another place in kombos called Brufut. We really want to live more within a strictly Gambian community that has not been reached. Please pray for us to make decisions that are in the perfect Will of Lord Jesus.

praise the Lord

hello everyone, everything here is rad. YFC just got a van. We bid on it at a silent auction from an NGO called SOS. It was a good price, however since it was from an NGO they did not need to pay the customs duty so YFC will have to pay it, and it is 1/2 the price of the vehicle, o well we learned a lot throught the experience. hopefully soon we can get the van on the road and use it as a taxi to generate some income for YFC. Andrea and i meet the Imam of the mosque next door, he is really nice, and wants to talk more with us, i wasnt able to share a lot with him yet but with time we will. The Gambia is seeing increasing persecution among the christians, last week a priest was beaten up and put in the hospital when a group of muslims attacked him and damaged his church building. Andrea and i are safe though, it is because of our white skin, it seems it is both a blessing and a curse. It keeps us safe and respected, but it is harder to for people to relate to us. But with God all things are possible. there is a fellowship in a place called Brufut that just started a few weeks ago. Man, those people are on fire for Jesus. they sing loud and take Gods word to heart. Brufut is also probably the most hostile muslim area in Gambia so the people who are christians there really need to stand firm in their faith or they will not be able to stand at all. Pray for them please. Even though Brufut is a rough area it is still open to evangelism, that is the beauty of this country, it is predominantly muslim, but it is still open to the Gospel. I hope you all aer well, we enjoy hearing from you guys and pray for you all. Andrea and Brian, man i wish you guys were here, ministry abounds. Pray for God to raise up local laborers for His harverst field.

love to all of you

tom and andrea