August 5, 2008
Dear Ones,
Our ministry, HIMAfrica, is your ministry too. We are partners together in this task and calling to help our brothers in Africa to win souls, plant churches, train pastors and make disciples (real Christians) in their culture where they live.
We work together with Hope Builders International to bring this help to them. On the 21st of this month I have the privilege of again joining my brother Denson Mushitala in ministering to churches and pastors in Zambia. We will be traveling many hundreds of miles as we visit churches planted since the year 2000. In these visits we will access the progress of the churches, their pastors and the disciple-making model put in place. Denson and I will also conduct two Hub Pastor’s Conferences in the northeast region.
Much of the traveling and lodging will be in remote areas of Zambia, places that I have not been to until now.
We need and appreciate your partnership in this ministry. Without you it will not get done. God has called some to GO and others to SEND. Will you help us to continue to GO? Your prayers and financial support make this possible.
As you pray, please consider partnering with us tangibly. There are several areas of partnership.
Ø 365/20 Partners: This is the base of our support. 365 shares at $20 per month not only support us personally, but also our ministry expenses (traveling, office) and the basic support of TEN District Leaders in Zambia. We have 25% of this support. Would you consider one share ($20) or more? You can be an intimate vital part of this ministry.
Ø Hub Partners: At present we have over 30 Hub Churches and pastors. Our cost to keep them in training and supply some basic needs is $300 per month. At present we have 5 Hub Partners. Has God put you as a church or individual in a place where you could personally support the training of 40 churches and up to 10,000 fellow Christians?
Ø BIBLES FOR BELIEVERS: There is an immediate need for thousands of Bibles for pastors and individual believers in Zambia. It costs $10 for Hope Builders International and HIMAfrica to purchase and deliver a Bible in the language of the believer. You, your Sunday School Class and church can be a vital partner in providing Bibles to your brethren in Africa. Your church could have an annual Bibles for Believers Day taking up a special love offering. What a blessing this could be to a pastor without a good Bible or a Christian family who has never owned one. What a blessing it will be for you to give.
Ø Special Gift: Our trip to Zambia and the subsequent ministry that Denson and I will do will have a cost of about $10,000. This includes the two conferences (feeding, housing, study materials and travel for the brothers) and the traveling Denson and I will do over 6 weeks in Zambia. God is our provider and He always provides using His children.
God bless you for prayerfully considering your part in God’s Call to “make disciples” of the whole world. Your involvement may not be with us personally, but you can and must be involved. It is not an option, it is a command. Let’s all GO and make disciples.
In HIM and For Him,
Jeff and Lou Ann Hawkins
1860 J.M. Goodman Rd.
Adams, TN 37010
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