Congo May 2015

In Christ,
Pastor Delphin,

EDEN Church, Goma

Six widows in the "Women At Risk" group

Pastor Delphin hears the stories of these two "Women At Risk"

Women At Risk" meeting at EDEN church

These 3 women, Helena, Martine and Suzana, train the other widows on how to make baskets and bags. This helps support them.

Chanceline, 15 year old orphan

Debora, raped woman

Mama Leontina

ACTIVITIES

In all sessions, our Trauma Team gave all homeopathic and trauma treatment as PC Trauma of War; PC Trauma of Death; PC Trauma of Sexual Abuse; and PC Trauma of Orphans.

IN APRIL we continued the activities that we planned for Beni and Oicha:

                                 1. Organize a Seminar with street children and raped women at Goma and Nyiragongo;
                                 2. Activities at Rutshuru, counseling center. Security isn’t good. May God open doors.
                                 3. I will begin planting a new church in Goma.
                                 4. First, I will rent a compound to build the church. Please pray for this good project.
                                 5. More than 120 persons come to worship with me.
                                 6. At Beni and Oicha we just began a small prayer group with 70 persons.
                                 7. The name God gave us for the new church is “JESUS THE ONLY WAY”, or “JOW”

for short. Thank you for the advice about church planting. I have a committee of 12

people. May God help us with this new vision. The L2R CONGO Team thanks you for all
your assistance.

Bush Telegraph Missions

SPECIAL INSERT PAGE – TWO CONGO REPORTS!

MARCH TRAUMA HEALING REPORT [NOTE: we received March Report in late April]

In March we organized Trauma Healing Ministry at Beni and Oicha. We organized seminars and training with church leaders and communities. The strategy was about PTSD, group therapy and counseling. Here is what we did at Oicha and Beni:

COUNSELING:

1. People kidnapped people by rebels (ADK/NALU): 382 including 152 children.

2. These victims need urgent trauma counseling and prayer.

3. Abandoned and/or orphaned children whose parents were massacred: 237, many under 16 years.

They need Trauma Ministry, small jobs to support themselves and help with school fees.

4. Raped women: 104 between the ages of 14 and 33 years.

TOTAL at Beni and Oicha: we care for more than 723 vulnerable peoples who need your help and prayers.

Serving the Persecuted Church in Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa

5. DENISE, 24, is unwed. Orphaned when she was 10, she lived with a relative and became pregnant when she was 18. She has 2
children, a boy 6 and a girl 4. She hasn’t been to school, nor has her son. She washes dishes and clothes for rich families.

6. MA-FARAJA, 90, widowed for 30 years. She lives with her daughter who is not married and recently lost two sons in the war.

7. MUSHENGEZI, 28, was married at 14. She now has 6 children: 2 with her first husband; 3 with her second; and one with her third.
The last one deserted her 7 months ago. She gave 1 son to his father; 2 children to her mother; and 1 son to his grandfather. This

son, age 2, is ill and must return to Goma for health care.

8. DEBORA, 23, is a raped woman. She was born into a prostitute family. She dosn’t know her father and

wasn raped when she was 16. She glorifies God that she succeeded in the State Exam last year. She now

has a bachelor degree in trade and computer, but no job. She is being trained as a tailor.

9. SAFI, 31, is unwed. She was married to soldier who deserted her. She has 3 children; no schooling for the first child due to begin
    primary school. It’s difficult to feed them.

10. CHEUSI (85) Widow/ many years ago. She said she doesn’t know when her husband died, she doesn’t remember but it is many
     many years ago she added. She is living with 2 grand-sons and one grand-daughter who are not studying. They parents don’t assist
     them; so they went to Refugee camps in Uganda.

11. CHANCELINE, 15, is an orphan. She lives with her Aunt Marlene. She stopped studying in Form Two.

Please pray for wisdom as we continue to meet with and minister to these vulnerable sisters.

Little Kababa

Odette and her son Kababa

Odette, a beaten and raped woman

Have a nice day in Jesus-Christ our Lord,
Pastor John

Dear Mama & Prayer Partners,

“The Women At Risk group met at EDEN Church, Goma, in April. I told them about the Congo Container Project so they could pray. We heard testimonies from vulnerable widows, raped women, unwed mothers, divorced women, orphans, and beaten (abused) women…. Here are a few stories:

1. MAMA LEONTINA, 85, a widow for 47 years. She had 12 children, 9 dead and 3 living. She was

married to her first husband, a farmer, at age 14. He died after 20 years. Her second husband died

4 years later. Now she lives with her son in Goma. She’s very sick and can’t go anywhere, not

even to church or visit family. She can’t take a bath alone; has no healthcare; and shivers. Her spine

is bent and her eyes are filled with tears. She gets dizzy with weak joints.

2. FELICIT, 65, has 6 children with 3 orphans at home. Her husband doesn’t have a job. Some children

are not at school ; and the 3 orphans are also not at school. To help herself she makes baskets.

3. JULIENNE, 66, has been a widow for 30 years. She lives with her son but is often in conflict with her son’s wife. She looks unhappy

and wears old dirty, torn clothes.

4. ODETTE, 21, is an abused and unwed mother. She was raped 5 years ago and married two years later when she was 17 after being

raped. She is beaten every day. She left her husband for a short time (he’s the man who raped her) with pregnancy. Often in Congo

village men marry their raped victims because they fear prison. Now she is at home with her mother and son, Kababa, result of the

rape. Her father died when she born. She is trained to sew. Mama Charlotte gave a sewing machine to help her and her baby.