| Dear All, Sunday’s Bottom Line: The East Africa Disciple-Makers Retreat is currently underway, we will end today’s update with a wonderful testimony, and My Hero will be home Friday night. = ) Sunday’s Prayer Requests: 1. This DM Leaders Retreat to be helpful, informative, relationship-building, spiritually meaningful, and FUN! 2. Scott and Pastor Mark to be energized and healthy throughout this week as they meet with many other disciple-makers. 3. The Holy Spirit to orchestrate divine connections among the current East African DM leaders, so that at the right time, God’s plans that we don’t yet know about will be able to happen. |
| Sunday’s Details: I’m not sure how to adequately explain the potential impact of the retreat currently in progress. Close to 50 DM leaders have gathered in one place in one accord for a special time of fellowship, instruction, and mutual encouragement. They began at 6:00 PM Sunday (local time) and will continue all day Monday and until after lunch on Tuesday. All these men and women are leading DM groups; some lead more than one group. These people are related generationally. Scott discipled Hillary, James, and Hellen. Hillary, James, and Hellen each discipled 7-12 folks. Those 7-12 have discipled more, etc. Now numerous “generations” of leaders are gathered together to… – Learn from those “ahead” of them, – Hear fresh ideas for improving processes in the groups, – Share what has worked well for them and what has not, – Be taught by Scott and others, learning both current best practices and future goals, – Be challenged to make any necessary “course corrections,” – Be reminded that even when things are difficult and stressful, they are not alone, and – Realize that they have friends who can truly empathize with what they’re going through and will pray for them and encourage them. In short, this retreat is a really big, hairy, IMPORTANT deal! |
| Meanwhile, on Saturday, while Pastor Mark was presenting his Tentmaking and Ministry seminar in one city… |
 Pastor Mark Phillips teaching in Kitengala |
| … Scott was leading his final Better Together marriage seminar in another city. Here the Hero husband is thanking his wife for her life-giving words. |
 What a sweet couple! |
| Scott also sent the following testimony from Jane and Eliphath, a couple at one of his Better Together seminars a week or two ago. “The Kagio BT [seminar] was the turning point for our marriage. We have been struggling with things in our marriage so much, but after the seminar, we went home and repented and forgave one another for a long time. If the seminar did not benefit anyone else, it was surely given for us. The work God did in our marriage cannot be measured.” That’s what it’s all about for ministry marriages! Thank you for making this kind of change possible in the lives and marriages of pastors in Kenya and many other places. Scott and I (and our team and many couples you and I will never meet) really appreciate you! Blessings, Patty |
Better together seminar held in busia also help me realise the purpose of being together in ministry. It really healed my marriege,by the time missionary Scott said that it was time for each couple to air their issues to each other……it was really a relief because we had gone for someday without talking to each other…….what a wonderful moment it was.