March 13, 2007

Dear Friends,

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… then many will give thanks on our behalf … (2 Cor. 1:11)
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Hello and happy 2007 to you (well, in case we didn’t say that to you yet)
from hot and rainy Nairobi!  We pray that you and your loved ones have
been kept in our Lord’s safe arms.  Even to us God’s grace is more
abundant this year.

Thanks to your prayers and concerns that our family is doing well.
Timothy has just turned to 7 and gone up to 2nd grade from this year
(Kenyan primary school uses a different school system from that of
American.  The school year starts in January here).  Watching Timothy and
Titus do wrestling match every evening is a fun part of our life these
days.  At least, they’re now becoming worthy opponents (no more boy vs.
baby stuff but it is now officially two BOYS in match)!

We’ve been on-the-road since last November.  After we had an appointment
ceremony for one of our local pastors serving in the coastal city of
Mombasa, several Kenyan pastors and I visited Moshi, Tanzania, where EAPTC
missionaries Cletus and Monicah Tukai serve.  City of Moshi is also known
as the Mt. Kilimanjaro.  We attended as guests of honor of our first Bible
school graduation ceremony there.  It was a glorious moment not only
because it was the very first fruit of our Tanzania ministry but also
because God has already planted two beautiful churches through Missionary
Cletus and his trainees.  Now they even minister the gospel message of
hope through the radio program offered by the local station.

After Tanzania, I paid a visit to my parents in Colorado both of whom were
severely ill due to the spinal injury and meningitis.  Although a short
visit, it was good to see them encouraged and also recovering rapidly
against the doctor’s odd of 50-50 curability.  Truly, our God is gracious
and marvelous!

On the morn of the New Year’s day I was back in Nairobi and soon had to
begin lecturing at our Nairobi Bible school after a few days of rest.
Often the lectures went on for six hours everyday, and it was suggestive
of the spectators of boot camp!

Then there was another graduation ceremony we went to attend in the
eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).  As some of you
probably know, DR Congo is the second largest country in the African
continent yet torn apart due to a series of civil wars.  We were truly
blessed to know some of the real soldiers of Christ among our graduates
who namelessly advanced God’s kingdom in such dire places.  The post-war
situation in DR Congo was actually worse than what we were hearing from
the media.  We could see a huge U.N. camp near Uvira town where we had a
graduation.

After we returned from DR Congo, we were blessed to send out another
Kenyan missionary couple to Namibia of the southern Africa.  Some say that
Namibia holds 50% HIV positive amongst its population.  For years
Missionaries Philip and Margaret Mwaura, both aged over 60, have been
compelled by God to reach the lost Bushmen living in Karahari desert.  Now
that their Bible school training is over, Mwauras are leaving all their
retirement plans behind and going out “onward” to where the needs are, as
David Livingstone once confessed.  Such dedicated people always brighten
our days.  It is truly of the Lord’s blessing to give us many of such
genuine frontline warriors in our spiritual battle out here.

We are currently training approximately 500 Bible school trainees in seven
African nations through a discipleship-based school ministry called School
of Mission.  They are being equipped to evangelize the communities and
countries of their own and others, being assisted by our supports.  Most
of them, after graduation, go to different parts of Africa - often times
where no church has been planted before - , and preach the Gospel without
much hindrances of cultural difference or language barrier.  And the Lord
has used them to plant hundreds of EAPTC and other denominational churches
in Africa for the last 11 years.

Not only does EAPTC run Bible schools, they also operate the popular
King’s Kids Kindergarten.  The school educates Christians and
non-Christians alike.  Since good education is difficult to come by in
Kenya, many parents send their children to this school, knowing that the
Bible will be taught.  In spite of that, Muslims are sending their kids to
this school to get an education.  And the tuition they pay goes to help
support other slum nursery schools to open and run in such desperate
environments.

Continue to help our team with your constant prayers and financial giving.
Your one time gift of $700 USD will help one Kenyan missionary family
settle down on the new mission field by providing their moving cost,
missionary visa fee and other settling costs.  And also your monthly
support of $150 USD will keep them on the field for a full month by
providing their basic living cost as well as ministry funds.

Your contribution does make a different in the lives of many African
brothers and sisters here.  After all, Africa is becoming a better place
just because of friends like you!

Our love and regards to you and your loved ones.  Until the next time …
you remain in our prayers.

Yours and His,

Paul Lee (& Eunice JaeUn)
Nairobi, Kenya
March 12, 2007

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