REACHING THE HARDEST TO REACH PLACES ON EARTH WITH THE MESSAGE OF "WHO IS THE CHRIST?" WHILE SERVING THE NEEDY!
*Warning: THERE IS ONE DISTURBING IMAGE INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT ABOUT MIDWAY
SOMETIMES THINGS ARE EXCEEDINGLY HARD IN THE CONGO
Recently while I was away in Honduras on a mission trip one of our Valiant Warriors, Pastor Shinga, who ministers in Rwanda, Congo and Somalia contacted me with an urgent request for prayer. In the picture above, which I had held back from posting due to the graphic nature of it, you will note that there are hundreds of dead and burnt bodies from an accident that happened at the end of July in the Congo. Pastor Shinga has worked in this area for many years with his own leading at Heritage Ministries. There were many Christian families who died in this tragic accident and many children were left as orphans. The accident occurred deep in the Congo when a delivery truck full of cooking oil was attempting to make a delivery in this region. The very large delivery truck accidentally crashed and turned over. Since it was a very remote region where people cook with cooking oil and wood the people living in the area took note that no one was coming to clean up the crash site so they gathered in large crowds to collect some of the cooking oil and the wooden rails off of the truck to use for cooking in their homes. No one quite knows how it occurred but a fire started and quickly engulfed all of the hundred of people who were in the crowd gathering cooking oil. Pastor Shinga reported the incident to us for prayer and help in the following report:
"Hello. Thank you for took time to send the letter to me. We have not happy because in this accident of lorry in Congo in this village of Sange we preached and we have many members of our mission in Congo.
We inform you that it was a lorry (delivery truck) that came from Tanzania and it carried oil but it had an accident near the village of Sange. People because of poverty came to took oil from this lorry. All people took oil in this time for their cooking fires. People don't know where this fire came from. I inform that this people they making fire wood for their homes. We have lost many Christians in this accident and many local people who live in the area. There are many orphans and widows left without resources. Pray for them because many children be came orphans and many women became widows pray for them. We inform you that they have not any support be blessed."
OF THE 400 PEOPLE WHO DIED... 117 WERE CHRISTIANS ASSOCIATED DIRECTLY WITH PASTOR SHINGA'S MINISTRY WORK IN THIS AREA OF THE CONGO.
After sending some aid to Pastor Shinga he wrote back the following message today:
"We also have great needs but because this people met accident we sent that money from M300 Ministries yesterday directly to them. We know that is a little help for those people because they have great problems. Because this gift is a gift from heaven we sent it directly to them. We believe that with this gift God will open the door for them. Please pray for my wife who is now sick. Thank you very much for understood people they met accident."
Pastor Shinga continued to describe the hardship of living in this region and ministering to the people who ar afflicted on all sides...
Dear friend and founder of M300 Ministries,
Sure God was with me in the Journeys, I have seen God's hand on me even if I have seen the things which affected my Heart and my Mind which is beyond a Human understanding and I walked a long journeys with feet without a Car or any other helper but I was too happy to meet with those people who was in Problems and share with them their Sorrow with me.
Sure it was too hard to them to tell me all what they have passed through, many times I met with them in different prevent place and they tell me what happened to them. Because it's they cultures do not tell any body what happened to them if any body knows they can reject them from they society.
all they have forced to have sex by force by solders These are those who have accepted me to take photos from them but they those who have refused . one women was forced to have sex with three to twelve solders in the same time.
Let me give you a testimony of 6 different people
- One of those women who have 46 years old the took her in last month of February on 2nd it was in evening time while he was from field to work, he was having the wood on her head ,she met with 6 solders they greet her after that they told her to put down the wood she was having after that they told her to have sex with them and she told them that it's impossible they told her that we also having the wives but we have left them at our home and come here to fighting , within that time they took here by force and raped here directly. She remember only the first one but after that she lost the Mind what comes later she did not know because she lost her mind . in Mid night it's when Her husband went to search her and he found where she fall down and she took on Month on bed without going out she was telling other that she was sick from back even now she can not do any thing because of that. She is still very weak.
- Other is a daughter of 14 years old they found here in river, it was on 7th January 2010 they were 3 solders and they raped her all three in the same times and she was affected too much because she was still small ,she was in first year of secondary school but she is not able to go to school but her Parents has refused to me to take a photos from here that her daughter will be known to every body and she will not get the man who will married here because of that they have refused .
- Other one with her children, she is a widow, she has lost her husband in 1998 by war. in 2009 those solders came to her house it was 1h of night and they took here by force and raped here and they have used more than one .even than to walk is problem to her and she can not do anything she was the one who feeding her family.
- Other one is a women of 27 years of old she has three Children , that solders found her at night at 2 while she was sleeping with her Husband they entered in the house and they were 7 soilders , they removed the husband on the bed and told him that if you say anything we will kill you after that they raped her one by one up to the last one ,she is affected also so much even now she is not having the sex with her own husband because of that .
- The other one she is having 32 years old, she has 6 Children, they took here on Sunday while she was from the Church to pray, she met with three solders in the way and raped more than one. After that they reject her in the way while other people was passing they found her in the way in bad condition.
- There is other man who told me that they have raped her wives while she was from market it was evening time , she met with solders they raped her after rapping her they kill her immediately , she left 3 children and that happened within this year .
Now all of them they have the same testimony, I met with 22 people, these are those are those who have accepted me to talk with them but the things which affected me in my heart all that Women they do not know if they have Affected by HIV AIDS because that in that whole area there is no hospital which can help them and even with they culture which does not allow them to be revealed. Now I have tried to organize haw they can meet and pray together and I took a teach who can teach them how to read and write , they need Bibles and the book of songs, they need hospital in that area which can helps them to check if they have affected by those sickness. they need the things which can help them in they daily life, they need prayers also . According to them they have requested me to visit them many times.
Now those people needs your prayer, please continue to remember them and ask God to protect them and provides to them. let us join our prayers together and see what God will do for them ,God can make the way where it seems no way.
Pastor
Shinga Jeremie
Valiant Warrior M300 Ministries Rwanda
Heritage Ministries
