Note: My wife’s new email that she can check in her phone (cause I set it up as I left) is provigreg@yahoo.com. She will be very happy to get emails from my friends and American brethren in general. Many of you are listed to call her Chicago number that rings to her phone for low cost, too.
I was encouraged by this letter from my Bukavu host/leader. My replies are in it in bold.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:19 PM, (Haggai) KONGOLO MULONDA <knglmulonda@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi brother Greg,
How are you today? I’m encouraged by a brother who gave me service business because my ad mentions Jesus and we had good fellowship. Are you in the US already? Since Sunday.
We’re all doing well. Yet a woman from our congregation miscarried last Sunday. She was hospitalized in a clinic.They charged her 30$. The Lord blessed our people. They contributed to help pay that fee. Now she’s well keeping
The sisters who told you about their marital problems keep telling me that they now feel freer to serve the Lord. Your fully inspired counseling has given them adequate remedy. I’m quite amazed. Now
they love God more and realize that whatever happens to a believer is for their good and a testimony to other believers. Ahh, they heard my testimony! Our brothers and sisters keep telling me that they did remember your teachings and look forward to seeing you back next April. By then we’ll have planted other house churches because most of us are determined to spread this new scriptural idea.
Are you the one who sent me an sms with the USA Nos. on my Zain no? Yes. I sent that through a web-site for $.05 to see if you get them & ask your MTN number to call you.
What did the sister who focuses on women’s ministry (she wrote the “God Empowered Wife” which I left with them.) in Kenya say about working in the DRC? I’ll remind her of your interest in her teaching.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Haggai K.
I hope I can afford to be with you & my wife soon!!!
Good progress before leaving:
1. Provi’s brother took 24 of the great “ The Disciple-Making Minister” book in Swahili to Provi’s home town of Bunagana, DRC.
2. I got over Malaria completely in 27 hrs, because I bought some of the improved medicine on my first recent DRC trip. As a result I couldn’t sleep the night before I left the country, but I’m glad I didn’t have to travel on the bus already ill and I had the energy to do a good job packing & even scanned some documents that may save us some money & help my wife get her visa.
3. Haggai came from Bukavu, last Friday, so I gave him “The God Empowered Wife” 10 more of “The Disciple-Making Minister” in Swahili and “Pagan Christianity” and my good multi-vitamin/mineral supplement for his wife who is pregnant with her 7th child & unfortunately was told by a doctor she couldn’t or shouldn’t have any more children. Sometimes doctors are more trouble than they are worth. But she has enough to take them while the child consumes a lot of minerals. & she’s not feeling afraid, now.
4. We had enough money to buy one computer to send to Rwanda, now that we got two EMSs without them disappearing.
5. We have enough money, from a big donation and the United Airlines check, to pay two more months of rent, to make the landlord happy and enough to last my wife a while. Of course we’ve spent about $400 seeking diagnosis & relief of Provi’s headaches, but she’s doing a little better.
6. Our cousin has a buyer for the computer I used for 3 mos, before I got my repaired one, which was really handy with it’s long-life batteries on my Bukavu trip. So he will put that in our account, so I don’t have the expense of sending more money to support my wife. Even though I used it for 10 weeks, I’ll make a profit of $150.
7. I cooked my 2nd omelette, which Provi actually ate Fri. morning and we ate left-overs for breakfast Sat. before I traveled, because I had no appetite from Malaria (Fri.) morning.
8. I got internet working in the dual-sim card phone I left with my wife, so you can email her at ProviGreg@yahoo.com. She loves my friends and family and will be blessed to hear from any of you. It will help her English, too.
My USA return trip:
Her cousin met me and carried ½ of my luggage on a moto-taxi to the airport and took the dual sim card phone to send to Provi. But I couldn’t get my internet working, and the airline didn’t answer their business phones, so I had to wait 3 hrs for a different flight, but I was listed. That turned into 8 hrs of delays. But I did get free apple juice and water, but only had 3 minutes to get to the next plane in Nairobi, Kenya. I did find free internet in London during my 3 hour wait to check emails.
My thoughts:
I’ve been a bit bummed out, to tell the truth. In flight I felt like I should have prayed some more (for direction) and stayed longer with my wife, but I’ll be glad to be home where I can earn some money and work on my education projects to help me get a university teaching job in the future.
Truthfully, it was a rough trip with the bright spot of my wife’s early health and the good teaching trip to Bukavu and the Skype calls we made together to our friends and family.
I’m really tired of having no working income in Africa and my wife being ill so much. But I think we’ll get the computer sales business revived in Rwanda and with a little more work I’ll get a teaching job near our house that will support our regional travels & ministry.
I typed this last section sitting on the cold floor charging my computer in the London airport and wishing I was with my wife.
I know God is doing something good and the small things that may grow large are too numerous to count.. It’s unusual that I didn’t feel like reading or writing on the 2nd 9+hr flight to Chicago, but I did have some good prayer time and I feel determined to spend more time praying with my wife over the phone when I get back into my routine. I do feel set to work on education and finding ways to earn money, but it all requires phone calls and the wireless.
Since my return:
1. I really need your prayers as I’ve been tired of being away from my wife and working and living mostly alone in the USA. I haven’t even had much appetite!
2. Yesterday I earned $298 rewiring a furnace for a man who chose me because my ad mentioned Jesus & started a $3-4000 bid for another very friendly man. With some good prayer time by phone with my wife, I was very encouraged
3. I’ve been given/awarded the funds needed to start studying African History on line for credit and to help qualify me to teach as a professor in Rwanda when I return.
4. I’d like a donation of $300-400 to publish my book “The Passionate Heart of God”. I already paid for the ISBN numbers so I can sell them at Amazon and through other web-sites like House2House.com. People everywhere enjoy my teaching on the Song of Solomon in that book.
Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…
or
He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ
(Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)
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