March 2021 Newsletter
A Word from Rabbi Alex
Where there is worry and anxiety, there is little room for happiness. And where there is no happiness, there lies a fettered soul.
What is the antidote to worry? Simple faith in our Great God.
Worry is the opposite of faith. It is the worship of the forces of nature, the dynamics of the market, the belief that these and mortal beings have power over your life.
On the other hand faith is the inner knowledge that there is really nothing else but His abundant love, flowing to you in ways most often far beyond your comprehension.
Faith is knowing that nothing touches His children without His permission. It is knowing that whatever is allowed to touch His children(good or bad) was meant to produce a positive spiritual effect.
The Almighty LOVES you with the life of His dear son Yeshua.
This is happiness: Life with Him alone.
Have a great day!
Shalom, Shalom
CONGREGATIONS
Bible Study
We are happy to introduce our newest partner congregation Penuel Messianic Jewish Congregation (PMJC) of Malawi. The Lord has allowed us to help in the formative stages of this wonderful congregation. Please do pray for growth and the move of the Ruach HaKadosh.
We also are mentoring another young Messianic congregation in southern Malawi and encouraging several others throughout the African continent.
Back in Zambia, our Chainda congregation has been driven out of their building and our old water well taken over by a prominent landowner and his family. The issue is been taken to the royal palace pending a date for the hearing.
Purim play at our congregation.
Missions
Our Chinkuli congregation has been subjected to incessant verbal assaults and threats by a local tribal leader and several villagers.
Flooding in some parts of Zambia
Our outreach has been affected in many ways by the floods in our mission field area. We are hoping to have a break and then resume the outreach esp. to the Lemba Jews of the central province.
Day School
One of our students at the Jerome Fleischer school showing his model home.
I am extremely excited to report that we have introduced another grade at our school. We now have first to ninth grades with almost 260 children.
We are welcoming our first graders too. Over 400 orphans from the Lilanda and Matero neighborhoods lined up at our school to enroll for first grade. We only had room for 30 children.
Lunchtime at the school.
This time our seventh graders did not meet the 100% pass mark as we recorded an 82.35% pass rate. This was due to many factors including the prolonged closure of all schools in Zambia due to COVID-19. We are however determined to retain our 100% pass rate.
We have also been able to start construction of more classrooms to accommodate the new grades that we have opened at our day school. Our prayer and hope are to have first to twelfth grades.
Construction of more classrooms.
Orphanage
Children’s wellbeing: Irrespective of the pandemic raging out there, our children at Jerome Fleischer Home have been very safe and healthy. As we celebrate this success we remember the grace of G-d towards His orphaned children; we are also very proud of our staff members for taking the prescribed pandemic measures to ensure the children’s safety.
- We were recently blessed to have Iris, Isaac, and David joining the JFH children in 2020.
Coming to educational issues the children at the orphanage recorded a 100% pass rate in the Zambian final seventh-grade examinations. Thank you to all who stand and support our work.
The Yalenga Family
Tikvah Yalenga
The Yalenga’s are happy to announce the newest member of the Yalenga family Tikvah who was born November 19th2020.
NEEDS
- $80 a month will allow a child to stay at our orphanage giving them a safe place, a warm bed, three meals a day, and school. Children will be taken in after a sponsor is found.
- $30 a month will sponsor feed and educate one orphan for the whole month (Elementary level Grades 1-7) at our day school.
- $45/month will will sponsor feed and educate one orphan for the whole month (Secondary school level Grades 8 and above). We still have many children in need of sponsors.
- $90 will sponsor one radio outreach program to over 2.5 million people.
- $150 will help pay the monthly wage of one teacher at the orphanage day school. We have 9 teachers teaching over 200 children.
- $6 will buy a bible for a new believer.
- $50 will buy a goat to provide protein for children at the day school or orphanage.
- Monthly support for the Yalenga family who are in the full-time ministry taking care of over 10 congregations, an Orphanage, a school, outreach, discipleship, and raising new leaders.
- $100 to help build a playground for our orphanage
Other news
Our internet provider has gone bankrupt and we have lost the zmf@microlink.zm email and yalenga@microlink.zm email addresses. Kindly use the following to get through to us
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Thank you for updating our information on your address list.
Praise reports
The court issue involving our frontage has finally been resolved. The court case has been dragging on for over twelve years now. Your prayers were answered.
The frontage land is now fully ours!!! God is so good!!!
PRAYER POINTS- Please join us in prayer for the following:
- Protection of the orphanage, congregations, and school from criminals and those who have been persecuting our people for their faith.
- Pray for our Chinkuli congregation and leader, the tribal leader has grabbed our water well and unleashed verbal persecution against our leader and congregation.
- Pray for our Chainda congregation who have since been displaced that they will soon be meeting under a congregation.
- Our new outreach to the Lemba Jews of Zambia.
- The salvation of the Zambian traditional Jewish community, the Muslim community, and African tribal communities
- Open doors for the gospel
- Spiritual and numerical growth.
- Pray for continued sponsorship for our Shalom Zambia radio outreach and that it will bear fruit among the 2.5 million listeners.
- Protection from counterfeit believers.
- Finances for ministry needs, including a sponsor for each child under our care, financial support for the Yalenga family, and the needs of the other congregations under the Zambia Messianic Fellowship covering.
Thank you for being a blessing.
Shalom, Shalom.
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Donations are tax-deductible in the USA and are received with thanksgiving.
For tax-deductible contributions in the United States, write checks (please designate Zambia) to:
Congregational Roeh Israel
8556 East Warren Ave
Denver, Colorado 80231
Those in the UK (and Europe) can now support the work here in Zambia in £ or euros (cheque, money order).
Cheques should be made to B’nai Maccabim (http://www.bnaimac.co.uk) with Zambia on the back.
If you have questions or are looking for possibilities of supporting the ministry, sponsoring an orphan, or being involved in our Graciousness Extended program, or supporting the Yalenga family, please contact Maria Schmitt at zmforphanage@gmail.com or 719-487-9061.
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Shalom!
