Kabiye Team Work Update

The Kabiye team is currently working with 16 churches and 5 teaching points throughout Kabiye land. Over this past Easter weekend, close to 50 Christians from 8 of these churches met in Lassa Tchou for an annual retreat. Other exciting news is that this next week should see the birth of a new church in Tchikpiou.

David, Becky, Hannah, Elijah, & Gabriel Reeves-- kabiye4christ@yahoo.fr

Greetings! We hope you are enjoying pleasant spring weather wherever you are in the states! It is still incredibly hot here in Northern Togo but we're surviving!! Hopefully, some regular rains will come near the end of May.

We enjoyed celebrating both Passover and Easter this year as a family and our children enjoyed hunting for Easter eggs with the other children on the team last week. We were also privileged to host Josh and Kyleen Bontrager from the Tabligbo team for four nights during their "Spring Break" from teaching school down south. Dave took them and the Newlands, also from the southern team, on a one night camping safari to Pendjari Game Park in Northern Benin. They saw elephants, lots of baboons, warthogs, antelope, and even a lion!

This last week has been challenging( yet good and stretching) with the road accidents our teammates have had, the all church retreat with its disappointing topics of discussion, traveling, and twice as many village visits for our family than usual. Becky taught 4 women's lessons in the last two weeks and Dave has kept his regular schedule, as well as spending the weekend at the all church retreat. We have had some encouraging visits and Becky was surprised with Jane and Christy and the Tabligbo teachers when they went to do a women's lesson in Bodowda this last Friday and were able to teach more than 30 women the gospel! There is only one woman in the church in Bodowda and she led them to a women's work group that was busy mudding the floor of a compound. After helping the women and getting mud splashed all over themselves, the women filed outside under a tree and listened to the lesson Becky and Jane taught on outward and inward cleanliness. Some of the women were visibly surprised and hungry for more of what they heard. Please pray for the church in Bodowda to be a light in their village, especially to some of these women whom were taught the good news of Jesus for the first time last week! Thank you so much for all of your prayers. They are so important to the work God is doing here among the Kabiye! Love, The Reeves

Don, Jane, Mary Claire, Peter, Rachel, & Honor Neal-- togoneals@yahoo.com

This has been a trying week in the Neal household. We praise God for His deliverance from situations that could have been much worse.

This past Monday our family went on an outing in the mountains just outside of Kara. On our trip home, we were in an accident with a three year old boy walking with his sisters on the side of the road. Don was able to avoid the child enough to keep the truck from hitting him, but our rear tire ran over his little foot. His foot was badly injured and we immediately took him to the hospital in Kara. The doctors were able to stitch up his foot, although he lost his two smallest toes. Many of the bones in his lower foot were broken, and they will try to set those after the swelling goes down a little more. We thank God that this accident was very minor considering it could have easily been fatal.

Other things in our lives are going well. We are all healthy and surviving the pre-rainy season heat. We took a small trip to Accra as a family after the All-Church Retreat. We spent most of our time running errands, shopping for chicken and cheese. We did manage to spend an afternoon at the pool and Don and Jane enjoyed a dinner date at a Chinese restaurant.

Don has visited the churches at Lassa Tchou and Sanda Te since returning from Accra. Lassa Tchou is wrapping up a study in Colossians and beginning to work through the process of choosing leaders. The Christians in Sanda Te are working hard on getting their new building built before the rains start.

Bryan, Tracey, Isaac, Graham, & Owen Ries-- btries@kabiyemission.org

Brian and Christy Dolinger-- dolingerbc@yahoo.com

Hello from the Dolingers. We have had a hot, but exciting few weeks. We were able to host Rae and Jeremy Newlin (teachers from the team in Tabligbo) as they and the Bontragers came to Kara for their Spring Break. We greatly enjoyed spending time playing games, watching movies, and just hanging out with the Newlins. They took a trip over to Benin for a safari and then back through on their way back south. We were refreshed by their visit.

School is going great with less than two months left in the school year. The first grade reached a milestone in their minds as they have now started into a new section of their math program and get to have new books to work through. They are also preparing for the upcoming egg drop as part of a science project. The pre-k has enjoyed working on their alphabet books and have been showing some creativity when illustrating the pages of each letter. Dirt, hand, Graham, Jane, and Daddy are just a few of the beautiful illustrations finished thus far. We again thank you for your prayers and support.

Brian and Christy www.teamdolinger.org

Brett and April Emerson-- emersonstogo@yahoo.com

After traveling for most of March, it is nice to be in one place again for a while and worship with the congregation we call “home.” We look forward to being even more involved at Sycamore View this summer when we work with the youth. It should be a both a blessing and a challenge! “We thank our God every time we remember you. In all our prayers for all of you, we always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now…”

(Philippians 1:3,4) We love you and thank you for your prayers and encouragement.

The Emersons
www.geocities.com/emersonstogo

Matt, Andrea, Abigail, Aidan, and Asher Miller-- miller@harvestfields.net

Our furlough continues to go well, and we are being blessed by our interactions with family, friends, and supporters. We spent the past couple of weeks visiting with Matt's family and the Circle City Church in Indianapolis, with the Brooklyn Center Church of Christ in Minneapolis, and with the Martin family (Heidi and B. and their 6 kids!) in Anderson, Indiana. Each visit allows us to share what God is doing among the Kabiye and encourage the participation of our friends and family in the work through their prayers. We will be moving on this weekend to Mt. Carmel, IL to visit with Andrea's family, and Matt will begin a short visit to Arkansas to visit with the Bella Vista Church of Christ and Harding University.

We have received some news concerning Aidan's heart condition that we would like to share with you. The experimental device and procedure that has been developed for cases like Aidan's has just recently completed clinical trials with very encouraging results. Since the trials are closed, though, Aidan will not be able to have the procedure during this visit. The device will most likely be approved sometime next year, so we will wait until our next furlough. The doctors have assured us that the wait will not be in anyway harmful to Aidan. Thank you for your continued prayers for him. We thank God that Aidan will most likely avoid having to undergo open heart surgery.

We pray that each of you is blessed with an awareness of God's presence in your lives! Our cell-phone number while in the States is: 205-281-0235 Please give us a call anytime! --The Millers

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