African Leadership

My eternal brother, my eternal sister

I hope you are well!  I’m so sorry I have not written for so long!  Time has gone so quickly!  I am so thankful for you and for the abundant life that we have in Christ!

A few updates:
Thank you for your prayers for the patient who had very advanced lung cancer last year. She passed away.  She was very tired of fighting and I believe in the end, she let go.  However, before she died she repented of her sins and asked Christ to be her Lord.  I know we will see her again one day and I am just praying for her daughter to also know Him and His peace.

I recently attended the Northwest Naturopathic Physicians Conference in Seattle, Washington and was greatly inspired by all the amazing doctors that I met from every kind of background.  I pray that every day I may be a better instrument in His hands to bring healing to others – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually…etc.

We have completed the 2nd edition of our training manual.  Please let us know if you would like an electronic copy.  It is useful to train any mission team or for training for the missionary-oriented life, Kingdom lifestyle.

We are in the process of putting up a new website.  Please continue to check http://africanleadership.info for new updates.

We have quite a few teams this year and I’ll be going back to South Africa to help lead some of them.  I’ll be leaving June 10th and I’ll be gone about 2 months.

A few things I’ve been thinking about lately:

From our training manual:  “Rely on Christ.  “Christ is alive in you and in your coworkers, even though they may act differently and behave differently than you.  Dietrich Bonhoffer reminds us in Life Together that we dare not relate directly to one another.  We must allow Christ to be our intermediary – the bridge between us as we relate to one another through him.” – Tim Dearborn

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross!
-Philippians 2:5-8

Life is simple – just trust and obey.  We came into the world with nothing.  Everything we have and do comes from God.  Our life’s purpose is wrapped up in Christ.  All we have to do is trust and obey Him.  Live for Him.  I love this song by Matt Redman, “If you know you’re loved by the King, live for Him, live for Him, live for Him…”

As we look at God, may we rise above our circumstances to remember who we are in His everlasting Kingdom, so that we can live as citizens of the Eternal Kingdom, not only of this earth which will fade and wilt and pass away one day… may we store up treasures in Heaven and not on earth… may what is dear to us be what is dear to Him… may our passions be His passions… may His boundless, infinite love be known by us daily so that we can love beyond our human limitations so that He might be glorified!

May your life be filled with His love, joy and peace my dear brother, my dear sister!

With love and blessings,
For the Kingdom,
Tobi Lin

Preschool – Thanksgiving for the Mfuleni preschool starting next week.  Pray for the 2 teachers that they can love the children and understand the preschool ministry, as a method of delivering God’s message.  New preschool building in Greenpoint.  Pray that we can finish it.  Pray for Glory continually as she does the teachers’ training program and starts Bible study with some of the teachers.

Children’s Church – Pray for the teachers continually for their commitment.  Now it’s the winter season, it’s not easy sometimes.  Rain comes sometimes and prevents the children’s churches from meeting.  Pray for God’s provision of good weather every Saturday at 10am.  Pray for continual development of the cdhilren’s church.  We are still praying for 1000 children’s churches to be raised up.

Primary School Ministry – Many schools  are not organized enough to receive our ministry.  Sometimes, they are not prepared for our coordinators to go in and serve.  Pray that the schools will be organized enough and see the benefit of our ministry on the children.

Netball Ministry – Thanksgiving for the coaches’ camp last weekend.  They had a re-dedication for the ministry.  Pray for the coaches continually.  The ministry is planning a trip to another city.  They are forming a representative team and starting Bible study.  Let them be ready to share the Gospel to other cities.  Pray for their fundraising for their expenses for this trip.

Soccer Ministry – They started league.  Pray for all the young people involved in the league – that more of them will except Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

High School Ministry – Continue to pray for their Saturday gathering.  Pray for all the chosen leaders to grow continually and lead others well into the presence of Jesus.  Now the schools are starting to be more closed to outsiders so please pray for wisdom and God’s leading as we approach schools to share the Character First Ministry.

Kraaifontein Ministry – Pray for Vanessa, Wonga and Lucky who are developing the youth program – to find more teachers.  Thanksgiving for 3 more youth who are starting children’s churches in Kraaifontein.  Pray for the first children’s church camp in the first weekend of June.  Pray for the leaders’ preparation for the camp.  Pray for God’s provision of land for the youth centre in Kraaifontein.

Automechanic Ministry – Thanksgiving that we’ve put some equipment into the building.  Now we are editing the curriculum.  Pray for patience and success in developing the final presentation of the curriculum.

Bible College – Winter is coming.  It’s hard for those students who are working during the day and come to school afterwards in the dark and cold – pray that they will be encouraged and experience God’s Presence.  Praise God that we received 200 sets of pastors’ training books (2000 books) in the Ethiopian language.  Pray for the Ethiopians classes continually that through their hardships, they will really learn to trust and follow the Lord.

Women’s Ministry ­– Thanksgiving for Rose who has joined the women’s ministry. They meet on Fridays.  We are trying to develop the women’s ministry through the mothers in the preschool.

Madagascar – Pray for political stability and God’s ways in the government.  Pray that we will be granted permission to start mobile medical clinics.

Short Term Missionaries – Many teams are coming.  Pray that they will bring much blessings to Africa!

Long Term Coordinators/Missionaries: Continual growth in personal relationship, dependence and faith in God!  Daily renewal in Christ and filling of His Spirit.  Increased grace, love and encouragement to one another.  For greater awareness of the enemy’s strategies and victory over them through Christ.  We can do nothing on our own strength!