Dear Friends and Supporters of Congo Frontline Missions (CFM),

This is the first update I’ve sent since returning to Congo at the end of the summer. Many of you signed up over the summer to receive this newsletter and I’m happy to be able to finally send you an update on what is happening here in the mission field. If you don’t want to receive this email simply reply to this address and type Unsubscribe in the Subject line.

From June to August I was in the states traveling and speaking. One of the highlights was to meet old and new friends at each of the places I spoke. My family, having come form their mission post in Tanzania at Kibidula Farms Institute, was in the states during the same time. At ASI we had the privilege of sharing about the miracle God had worked for my family when the plane they were on crashed during take off on April 15 this year. You can read the story at: www.outpostcenters.org/ministries/kibidula/congo_plane_crash

I returned to the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) in late August bringing Nathan and Carl Rittenour with me. Nathan is joining CFM full time as development director. Carl, Nathan’s younger brother, has come to produce a promotional video of the project.

One of the first places we visited upon arrival in the country was Mbandaka where ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) has a project including a large medical work on the Congo River. We traveled with the ADRA doctor for many miles up river, stopping at villages and providing medical treatment. In our short 2 day trip, we learned a lot about doing medical work in these remote areas. One of the tribes we treated was the famous pygmy tribe.

Just on that short trip many lives were saved including a boy who was badly burned in the fire. His parents had no plan to take him to the hospital so we offered to pay the $30 that was the estimated cost of treatment. Still, they wavered, not wanting to take the trouble to go all the way to the hospital. We pled with them and finally were able to persuade them to let us take the boy a few miles down river to the hospital. I have just received the report from the doctor a few days ago in which he told me that the young boy fully recovered. You can see a video of our trip called Congo River Medicine Project at: 

It is our desire to open a similar medical project along the river here at Kisangani once we have the funding and personnel to run it. Many die in these remote locations without the most basic health care. We plan to incorporate evangelism with this medical missionary work placing church planters in the villages where we provide medical care.

What a joy it was when in September I returned to my home here in Kisangani. Pastor Mtenzi, our Executive Secretary, has been busy while I was in the states. He was involved in a large evangelistic series right here in Kisangani and has planted a new church as a result. He also moved all 17 of our Church Planters to their new locations where they have begun sharing the Bible with those in darkness.

Another major development is the arrival of my family here in Congo. They moved from Kibidula Farm in Tanzania where they served for 8 years. They will be greatly missed there, but we praise God they are able to join us here. My father, Barry, is the CFM Treasurer as well as Director of Communication. You will see him writing these updates in the future. My mother, Marybeth, is home schooling my sister, April, and caring for Andrew, my little brother. She has also made significant improvements to our diet of burned rice and beans.

We’re happy to be working together to bring the gospel to those in darkness. There have been some problems in the east side of the country which some of you may have seen on the news. The city of Goma - where my family was just two weeks ago on their way here - was almost taken by the rebels last night. They stopped just two miles short of the city and there was confusion everywhere. Almost all the foreigners were evacuated from the city.

We prayed earnestly together that their advance would be stopped. Amazingly, before entering the city, they declared a cease fire and withdrew their army back into the bush. We thank God for this answer to prayer. We are not in any immediate danger here in Kisangani. It does not appear that they really want to take over the country, but instead, want to be left alone to continue their illegal and highly profitable mining activities.

These are reminders that we are living in a dangerous country. We have a window of time in which to share the gospel. We don’t know how big a window it is, but we know that we must work while we have the opportunity, for soon the night will come when no man can work. May God Bless each one of you, and please keep our work here on the front lines lifted up in prayer.

Keith Mosier

President

Congo Frontline Missions

Other Developments, blessings and needs:

Location for the project - We have located an alternative property that would be much less expensive to develop for our lay training school.  We will keep you informed.

Upcoming Seminar - We will soon hold a 10 day intensive training for our church planters to revive and further educate them.

Praise God for His providence - We hope soon to ship a 40 foot container with supplies to help build our new campus. Kind donors gave us many tools: a used cement mixer, a used Bobcat and trailer to help us with our new project!!! Someone else gave half the funds for a used Fuso truck from Japan to help with our construction. Thank you!!

Help from One Day Church project - The one day church project is planning to provide the steel and roofs to construct many buildings for our new campus. They will soon be shipped and we praise God for this big boost to our project!!!

Needs - We need help with cement, windows, doors etc. to supplement the framing and roofs. With donations for these, we will be able to have our campus well along by next summer.

Bicycles - $120 each

Swahili Bibles - $8 each

Sponsorship of church planters - $70 per month