Comments on: Into the Congo http://www.commissionstories.com/stories/30 Explore, Experience, Engage Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:12:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ruth bower http://www.commissionstories.com/stories/30/comment-page-1#comment-9267 Ruth bower Sat, 23 May 2009 22:26:50 +0000 http://www.commissionstories.com/?p=30#comment-9267 Is this story available on DVD or VHS? Let me know. thanks Is this story available on DVD or VHS? Let me know. thanks

]]> By: markrunyans http://www.commissionstories.com/stories/30/comment-page-1#comment-28 markrunyans Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:30:35 +0000 http://www.commissionstories.com/?p=30#comment-28 Last year our church, Northside Baptist in Newnan, GA began to pray for an unreached people group in the DRC, the Salampasu. This video and information about the people of the DRC has encouraged me to keep praying and will be used at our church to continue to pray for God to thrust out laborers into this harvest field. Last year our church, Northside Baptist in Newnan, GA began to pray for an unreached people group in the DRC, the Salampasu. This video and information about the people of the DRC has encouraged me to keep praying and will be used at our church to continue to pray for God to thrust out laborers into this harvest field.

]]> By: Ann Elizabeth Brandes http://www.commissionstories.com/stories/30/comment-page-1#comment-26 Ann Elizabeth Brandes Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:29:13 +0000 http://www.commissionstories.com/?p=30#comment-26 Dear J.D., Thanks so much for sharing your journal thoughts, video, and concerns for the Taabwa people in DRC. The article immediately caught my attention because, like you, I have a deep love for Zaire...Africa in total! I was on mission in Kinshasa in 1988 and those memories are still so precious to me as I recall the people, the mission ministry, how the Holy Spirit moved continually in everything that we did. I am still in touch with the pastors and career missionaries there. I want to encourage you to pursue your ministry work there as the Lord has obviously established His compassion in your heart for these peoples. How marvelous that you already speak Swahili...how God saw to prepare you through locating your parents in Tansania! I had taken French in college, so that skill really helped in the area around Kinshasa...they use Lingala secondarily. I finally accomplished John 3:16 in Lingala...they loved it that I tried so hard. It was fun! (Sorry this is all running together without benefit of paragraphs, etc.; but if I hit "enter" it goes to submit comment...and Im not finished trying to encourage you to continue the work you have started into among these people. You have the compassion and the youthful physical energy that it takes, and the ability to get around linguistically, and the commitment to seek God's will for your life-service...great legacy to start with, amen? I'm going to be praying for you, J.D., that your greatest passion will be to love God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. That you will be filled with Jesus' compassion for the multitudes...Jesus' extreme love. That HE will be on the throne of your life so that all of your efforts in life will magnify HIM...that the fruit of the Spirit will flow through you continually. I pray that you will be filled with God's wisdom, knowledge, understanding, discernment, insight, and discretion in making the decision of service..HE will surely place you where HE needs you to be. I pray that you have the courage to speak God's word with great boldness to the ears that will hear the Gospel message...preferably receptive ears, but nontheless...the Holy Spirit will speak to any "unreceptive" hearts in the only way they can be made attentive. (The H.S. is REALLY GOOD at this!) I pray for you to have protection under the blood of Jesus and to be delivered from evil. I can imagine you in the full armor, even though the heat and humidity is difficult. (I remember having shiny skin all of the time.) And lastly, I pray for a strong Christian family that you are already blessed to having been born into...that your family will continue to minister in the preciou name of Jesus wherever HE sends you. I pray all of these thoughts in the holy, mighty powerful, and precious name of Jesus! There was a statement at the end of your video where the African man said he had had a dream and they would meet with someone who will come from afar. I know that unless God is the one who gives you that message, it is for naught; also that the "one coming from afar" might just be Jesus...but I liked the thought that J.D. might possibly be the one that is coming from afar to bring "a hope and a future" in Jesus Christ. Now we can say that there is at least one response to "Into the Congo" Dear J.D., Thanks so much for sharing your journal thoughts, video, and concerns for the Taabwa people in DRC. The article immediately caught my attention because, like you, I have a deep love for Zaire…Africa in total! I was on mission in Kinshasa in 1988 and those memories are still so precious to me as I recall the people, the mission ministry, how the Holy Spirit moved continually in everything that we did. I am still in touch with the pastors and career missionaries there. I want to encourage you to pursue your ministry work there as the Lord has obviously established His compassion in your heart for these peoples. How marvelous that you already speak Swahili…how God saw to prepare you through locating your parents in Tansania! I had taken French in college, so that skill really helped in the area around Kinshasa…they use Lingala secondarily. I finally accomplished John 3:16 in Lingala…they loved it that I tried so hard. It was fun! (Sorry this is all running together without benefit of paragraphs, etc.; but if I hit “enter” it goes to submit comment…and Im not finished trying to encourage you to continue the work you have started into among these people. You have the compassion and the youthful physical energy that it takes, and the ability to get around linguistically, and the commitment to seek God’s will for your life-service…great legacy to start with, amen? I’m going to be praying for you, J.D., that your greatest passion will be to love God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. That you will be filled with Jesus’ compassion for the multitudes…Jesus’ extreme love. That HE will be on the throne of your life so that all of your efforts in life will magnify HIM…that the fruit of the Spirit will flow through you continually. I pray that you will be filled with God’s wisdom, knowledge, understanding, discernment, insight, and discretion in making the decision of service..HE will surely place you where HE needs you to be. I pray that you have the courage to speak God’s word with great boldness to the ears that will hear the Gospel message…preferably receptive ears, but nontheless…the Holy Spirit will speak to any “unreceptive” hearts in the only way they can be made attentive. (The H.S. is REALLY GOOD at this!) I pray for you to have protection under the blood of Jesus and to be delivered from evil. I can imagine you in the full armor, even though the heat and humidity is difficult. (I remember having shiny skin all of the time.) And lastly, I pray for a strong Christian family that you are already blessed to having been born into…that your family will continue to minister in the preciou name of Jesus wherever HE sends you. I pray all of these thoughts in the holy, mighty powerful, and precious name of Jesus! There was a statement at the end of your video where the African man said he had had a dream and they would meet with someone who will come from afar. I know that unless God is the one who gives you that message, it is for naught; also that the “one coming from afar” might just be Jesus…but I liked the thought that J.D. might possibly be the one that is coming from afar to bring “a hope and a future” in Jesus Christ. Now we can say that there is at least one response to “Into the Congo”

]]> By: tuckerfam http://www.commissionstories.com/stories/30/comment-page-1#comment-25 tuckerfam Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:43:32 +0000 http://www.commissionstories.com/?p=30#comment-25 Hey JD and readers! We were in TZ in 1998 as ISCers and my wife worked with the Tidenburgs a bit as a summer missionary in 1994 & 1995. This story is well-told and important for Americans to encounter. I hope to see God raise up workers for His harvest from this wonderful tool. Together in the Task, Shane & Heather Tucker Hey JD and readers!
We were in TZ in 1998 as ISCers and my wife worked with the Tidenburgs a bit as a summer missionary in 1994 & 1995. This story is well-told and important for Americans to encounter. I hope to see God raise up workers for His harvest from this wonderful tool.

Together in the Task,

Shane & Heather Tucker

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