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Dear FriendsGreetings to you in Jesus name, we hope you are well. We are fine here in Yei and growing stronger and stronger in the Lord.In September the security situation was not so bad, the only problem is that a number of robberies were reported in and around the town, like a motorbike was stolen from the diocese of Yei, a barrel for water storage was stolen from the Moru congregation’s pastor

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Dear FriendsWarm greetings to you from Yei in Southern Sudan. How are you I hope all is going well with you?First of all I want to say many thanks to you for your prayers and your support. After leaving England in May we arrived in Nairobi Kenya. During our time in Nairobi we mainly spent time packing our personal belongs from our flat into small boxes in order to transport to Sudan. However, we

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Dear Friends, I greet you all in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I feel as though this year is the year of Resurrection and new Beginnings. Isaiah 40 v31 ‘But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like the eagles; they will walk and not be faint’. During times in our lives sometimes we feel weary and tired. I remember in Sudan with the

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Manny & Grace visiting a Greyfriars cell groupDear Friends,I greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.Firstly I want to thank God for our safe arrival in England from Southern Sudan after two years. As you are aware currently we are in England catching up with folks, refreshing and looking to raise more support for the work in Southern Sudan.Secondly we want to thank God for our visit

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September 2007Dear friends Warm greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, praising the name of the Lord for he has done great things praise his Holy Name.Psalms 113: From the raising of the sun to the place where its sets the Name of the Lord is to be praised. As you may have gathered, I got married last month in Nairobi Kenya. At times prior to the wedding it looked like it

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March 2007Report of trip to Sudan in December 2006 by Pastor Neville and Jackie HollandsBack in the December of last year Pastor Neville Hollands and his wife Jackie from LifeSpring Church in Reading visited Manny at his base in Yei. Neville has very kindly offered to tell us about his visit there:“We arrived in Uganda late on the 4th and the following day travelled to see Manny at Yei in Sudan

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Manny's Mag: September 2006

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Dear friendsWarm greetings to you from Sudan in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.First, I want to thank you very much for your prayers and support. I want to also to praise God for guiding us safely to the beginning of this New Year.I am now back on the frontline Christian ministry. It started with Diarrhoea and vomiting but I have recovered now. The work is going well. The Fly Sports Yei

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Dear friendsWarm Christmas greetings to you and a Happy New Year. First of all, thank you very much for your prayers and support it’s been truly a blessing to see what God as been doing in my life and ministry.At the end of November it was a blessing to have Pastor Neville Hollands and his wife Jackie come over for a visit to southern Sudan. This showed me their love and support because they

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Dear Friends,Here is an extract of a brief message from Manny received today:"I am now back in Sudan and straight back in to work. I was suppose to be resting in KENYA but I ended up working so I feel as though there are so many demands and things to achieve. I am excited but my body needs a lot of rest. This is just quick note to say all is going well. A representative from the Action Partners

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Dear friends,It is a great joy and blessing to share with you what the Lord God as been doing I my life. It has been just over a year since the CPA peace agreement signed between the Northern Sudan Khartoum Government and the Southern Sudan SPLM. The people of Southern Sudan are still returning to their country from neighbouring countries such as Uganda and Kenya, However it is still early days

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Dear friends,Warm greetings to you all from Southern Sudan. How are you I hope all is going well for the Name of the Lord is to be praised.Two months ago I started a sports ministry called Fly Sports, which is a part of Across Programmes. The ministry’s main emphasis is training Coaches so that it enables them to go into communities and schools to coach sport.Currently we have two coaches working

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Dear friends,Warm greetings to you from Sudan.You may have heard that I was sick last month with Malaria and Typhoid. I was rushed to Nairobi for hospital treatment but I am strong now.I have started a new sports ministry by the name of 'Fly Sports'. This ministry is part of Across however I am still working for Action Partners. It is going well but there is a lot of opposition and complications

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Dear friends, Warm greetings to you from southern Sudan, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.Firstly, I want to thank God for his goodness and mercy towards me, how He has kept my feet from falling and for his hand of grace upon my life. Secondly I want to start by saying thank you very much to you all for your prayers and your support, this truly as been a great blessing to me.These few months

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A number of you have been asking me for an update on Manny.Thank you for expressing your continuing interest, I know that he greatly values your support. He is actually deep inside Sudan where contact with the outside world is very difficult, especially using the methods we take for granted such as telephone and email. Therefore, it will be a while before we hear further news from him and is also

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Dear friends,Warm greetings to you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. First, I want to thank God for my safe arrival on the mission field.Christmas was spent in Nairobi Kenya with my family. It was a great time of love and sharing and remembering the death of the prince of peace. However, most of my time was spent with Across in preparation and orientation with the policy and meeting new

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Dear friends,You are probably wondering how Manny is getting on. He arrived in Sudan in the second week of January and is currently at the city of Yei in the province of Central Equatoria (link on this link to see some maps): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YeiThis region is in a remote part of southern Sudan that has experienced 30 years of civil war (between the Muslim north and Christian south)

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Dear friendsFirst of all I want to give thanks to God for his grace and mercy - indeed he has done awesome things.You may well have gathered from my last news letter I finished Redcliffe College successfully and in November returned to Reading. In Reading the Greyfriars Church and Lifespring commissioning services were a success with many emotional experiences for me. The packing of my belongings

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Dear FriendsI want to start by giving thanks to the Lord for what he has done for me so far in my life, and for his faithfulness and grace. I also want to thank those of you who have been praying for me. It is a great encouragement.I am currently at Redcliffe Bible College in Gloucester in preparation for mission work in southern Sudan. The first few days were very difficult but after having been

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Destination: Redcliffe Bible College, GloucesterStart date: Mid-SeptemberGoal of trip: To study Islamic & Cross-cultural issuesDear friends,I just thought that it would be good to bring you up to date with what I have been doing and what God is calling me to do.As you will probably know I spent five years in Coventry working for Coventry Crusaders, a professional basketball team. Part of my job

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