Cyclone hits central Mozambique

Flood relief in Mozambique

SIM Mozambique is organizing truckloads of food for central Mozambique, to the south of us,  which was pounded by Cyclone Idai on March 14th.

Pray for relief efforts to get through (the only road connecting the city of Beira to the rest of the country has just been patched) and for the flood water to go down.

Pray for access to clean water and that people would not get the diseases that breed in filthy water.

Ask for help in rebuilding their lives and for initial stages of a trauma healing ministry.

Read more here.

Grateful for your prayers,

Stuart and Sindia Foster
SIM Mozambique

Giving to our SIM account here

or give by mail: SIM Box 7900 Charlotte NC 28241 

to Account #070047 Sindia and Stuart Foster

Working to encourage Bible translation teams

Coming alongside Bible translation teams and considering how to improve the Bible translations each is working on produces a lot of puzzles.

For the Nyaneka people of Angola, there are many demons and many names for them.
In Greek, there is one word.

So what to do?

First up, ask questions and learn more:

It turns out there are generally two groups of spirits that people fear in their daily lives.

One is more likely to make people suffer illness (ondele)  and the other more likely to kill them (ocilulu).

But it seemed like, if one of those words was chosen (ondele=demon, for instance), then people might think Jesus had no authority over the other kinds.

So the suggestion was to vary the names of demons, as Jesus dealt with them, from one story to the next, to make clear that Jesus is Lord over all the evils we can fear.

Keep praying for knowing how to help Bible translators with the huge job of giving people God's Word in the heart language . It is a wonderful privilege and joy!

Thank you for your gifts and prayers backing us in this huge task!

Gifts can be sent to SIM USA by mail or online for our account (#070047):

Stuart and Sindia Foster
SIM Mozambique

SIM USA Box 7900 Charlotte NC 28241