FACE 2 FAITH MINISTRY

Letter of Appreciation

I want to say thank you to those that read my request for Bible resources, felt the tug on your heart and responded. To date, Face to Faith Ministry has received over $1,400.00 for Bibles.

I assure you that these resources will go to buying Bibles in many different languages and be distributed to the new believer, to the mature Christian who’s Bible is war torn and incomplete, and a select few Bibles with advanced references and Concordance given to pastors that don’t have a Reference Bible. This ministry feels strongly that we should be empowered to leave God’s love letter behind wherever we go.

Before leaving Africa over 70% of the donated monies had been distributed to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for the purchase of these Bibles. We expect that nearly 140 Bibles will be placed the hands of our brothers & sisters in Christ within the next few weeks. The balance will be used in the next few months for Bibles in other places.

Note: over the past few years we have seen the average price of a simple, single, common language Bible climb from less than $5 each to over $8 a piece. Less popular Tribal language Bibles are 2-3 times this price. Reference, Study and Concordance Bibles are again 2-3 times the common language Bibles and are harder to find, but yet they are the most needed by the Church leaders.

Thank you for making it possible in this ongoing effort to distributing/share God’s love letter to those that don’t have.

don honeywell

Director, Face to Faith Ministry

www.face2faith.org

face2faithministry@yahoo.com

Canaan Children’s Transit Center just opened its Primary school 1 Feb. The building is partially complete with the ground floor having 3 of its 4 classrooms ready for use. But that didn’t detour the local village people from enrolling their children. One month after opening their doors the school has over 280 children in P1-4 (1^st-4^th Grade), expected to top out with over 300 by the end of the first term (23 April). With only 4 classroom teachers they have their hands full. I tried to explain what the America teacher to student ratio is and they just smile and shake their head.

By next year they hope to have the second floor finished so they can expand to P7. The school idea is a great one that will reduce the education cost (the highest single budget item) for the orphanage. Since the school is under the control of Canaan, their students get to attend at a reduced rate easing the financial burden to the orphanage, as well as enjoy the financial rewards of the other children paying their school fees to Canaan. Additional benefit is the children don’t have the long distances to travel morning and evening to & from school, I walk it in 10 minutes. These children get home 2 hours before the other children in grades P5 and up.

As with any school just getting started, there is a need for furniture, these children sit 3 & 4 to a single bench and the teacher has no desk, closet or storage cabinet. The students have no school books to carry back and forth, just Exercise paper tablets to record notes in. As you can imagine this makes homework very difficult. If the child doesn’t copy the homework assignment in their Exercise book from the notes written on the painted (black) wall (they have no chalkboard) they have no record of homework to do and nothing for the teachers to check the next day.

All the children are required to have a school uniform. I see several advantages for this; many of the children come from poor families and don’t have school appropriate clothes to wear. The home clothes/rags they wear, we won’t use to wash our car. However, they must keep their school clothes clean; this often requires them to wash the uniform daily. The only problem with this is when it rains or is cloudy and overcast the child will wear these wet school uniform to school the following morning, thus explaining why we see so many rainy noses. For those children the school uniform is the best clothes they have. Nearly 10% of the children don’t have shoes and 20% have no socks. Shoes are not a requirement to attend school here. Many of these children have to walk great distances daily through the rocks, on the road, in the dirt and mud some with shoes and other bear footed to attend and have a chance at a future.

The Primary School is just a 10 minute walk from the orphanage.

This single grade classroom had nearly 90 kids today, with one teacher.

This is the school's kitchen, serves portage at recess and posho at lunch.

Use your imagination, boy's toilet, liquid waste captured and sold as fertilizer to banana growers. hmmmmm...

The second story will have 5 classrooms when finished - increasing the student population to 500 in 7 grades with 7 teachers.

Girl on left, no shoes, no backpack, no exercise books or pencil, very thin school dress and desire to get an education.

Stairs are in place for the second story. One day kids will be rushing to their class on these stairs.

Tuesday afternoon, our first day of visitation we had an obvious divine appointment. Nearing the end of our visitation time the clouds darkened and started raining very hard. We were close by our host church so we ran each man (woman) for themselves. Once inside we found four people also seeking shelter from the weather. I started preaching to them but only one knew English (Prossy) and I couldn’t speak Swahili for the other ones. After hearing the gospel presented Prossy asked Jesus into her heart and accepted Christ as her personal Savior. You could Jesus all over her face as she smiled ear to ear.
By Pastor Balisanyuka Vincent, from Kibaali Western Uganda.

A special delight for this two week training period is seeing these men experiencing the joy and gaining confidence that they teach Evangelism someplace other than in their own church/town. I wonder who rejoiced more, the students at realizing how easy it is as they lead their families and neighbors to the Lord making an eternal difference in people lives or the training pastors as they see the fruit of their labor as their students are doing what they themselves just a short time ago, all the while I’m sitting in back taking it all in smiling ear to ear. Don

Ten teams, two churches, one week, 7 hrs worth of visitations, yielded 156 salvations, numerous re-commitments, 79 nearly trained Evangelical minded brothers & sisters in Christ. Thank you Lord that’s why we came. don

The soccer game is the last event of a week long youth sports (Evangelism) week in Pallisa, Uganda. It is the brain child of Frank Pierce. Team shirts, sports trophies & ribbons and a goat will be awarded the game victor as well as the winner of the Volleyball competetion and a few other events. Other events of the week included , Scrabble, table tennis, darts, cards, a couple different board games. As expected Soccer or football as it is called here is the biggest attended event of the week with over 500 spectators. What an opportunity to share the word of God.

Having the time of my life

don honeywell
Director, Face to Faith Ministry
www.face2faith.org
face2faithministry@yahoo.com
910-578-7889

Been home just 2 months before my bags are packed to return to Africa and my, how those two months have flown by. Becky and I enjoyed Thanksgiving with some very special friends. Then for Christmas Becky and I gave ourselves a well desevered Christmas present by vacationing on the beach, Aaah, the two of us, on the beach, quiet, calm, peaceful, for a week just what we needed.

Face to Faith Ministry has taken a long overdue turn, check out my blog at www.face2faith.org . Oh yeah I also have a new improved web site where I can blog and receive blogs from you. The first blog I ever wrote is on the ministry web site, check it out, wow, who ever thought I’d have a web site and blogging too…. The web site still isn’t finished yet. It still needs past newsletters, pictures, links and a few other things but my web master is working on it.

One thing we still need is software for our new computer (explained in the blog). So, if you know the best place where we can get (maybe someone donate a copy) Microsoft Office Pro 2010 with the new Excel program and a current Adobe read/write, we’d surely appreciate it.

The Christmas Day “bloomer bomber” may have caused a changed in security for many airports around the world however I didn’t see any changes in procedures Thursday or Friday as I traveled back to Uganda.

Saturday morning

T.I.A. (This Is Africa) showed itself again this morning. My African Director was to pick us up in Entebbe this morning. However, a mechanical problem has our van in the repair shop. Now the repair shop is 2 ½ hrs from here and we have an “I think I can fix it” mechanic working on it, so I may spend more time cooling my jets and getting some sleep then planned. I have attached a copy of the Ministry’s schedule to this Newsletter so you’ll know what, where & when we’ll be in God’s service for the 1st trip in 2010.

I want to thank everyone for making 2009 the most productive, evangelically successful year we’ve ever had. You truly are making a difference. Pastors, Evangelist and other church leaders were trained and equipped to share their faith, resulting in over 7000 people praying for Jesus to come into their heart. You also blessed us to be able to distribute over 900 Bibles in 24 different languages. Truly God has His hand on F2F, each and every time His will sent us somewhere His grace has over shadowed us with provisions and protection.

Thank you and keep praying.

Available for His purpose

don