February/March 2012

Dear Ministry Partners,

Thank you for praying for us over the last three months.  The new year has been a mixture of victories and challenges.

Mike's ninety-year-old mother, Mary Jean Mestler, went to be with the Lord on January 16th after several months of illness.  She had accepted Christ as her Savior as a young child, and we are thankful she is with the Lord.  We're grateful that we were able to visit with her twice last fall.  We thank everyone who prayed for our family.

On January 8th a young couple named Edmund and Silvia visited the Sunday morning services at Zion Road Independent Baptist Church.  They came because they said they "needed God in their family in the new year."  After the preaching they both responded to the invitation and accepted Christ as Savior.  Since then they have been baptized and have become active members of the church.  We have a home discipleship Bible study with them every Saturday, and they have been growing spiritually.  Edmund has become Mike's Netcasters personal evangelism partner, and the first week out together another young couple, Dennis and Salome, received Christ, and they also have been attending services faithfully.   Praise the Lord!

In March Gail began a children's Bible Club to accompany our weekly adult Bible study.  Each week about 20 neighborhood children attend eager to hear the Bible stories and color pictures of Bible characers and themes.

On April 14th and 15th we will be on safari to our newest church in westrn Kenya to conduct a Sunday school teachers' seminar and to celebrate the Lord's Table for the first time at Raganga Independent Baptist Church.

We are also very busy preparing for the Nairobi-wide Independent Baptist Gospel Crusade with Evangelist David Kistler June 4th-9th.  The Lord has given us an excellent location on the property of a school for special needs children about one mile from Zion Road Independent Baptist Church.  The crusade will be held under a large tent which will seat about 1,500 people.  Please pray for many to come to Christ.

We praise God for His faithfulness and appreciate your sacrificial support of our ministry.

                                       PRAISE  for ...

• Several adults won to Christ,
• New neighborhood children's Bible club,
• Faithful Kenyan pastors and church members.

PLEASE PRAY FOR ...

• The approval of our building permit by Nairobi City Council,
• Evangelistic crusade June 4-9,
• Resolution of Kenyan tax issue,
• Effective discipling of new believers.                                               

Yours for Christ in Kenya, 

Mike and Gail Mestler