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	Rwanda
		Antoine Rutayisire Rwanda Team Leader
	Healing & Reconciliation Seminars continue. The team held seminars with Gacaca judges, genocide survivors, released prisoners, & the clergy. Many were deeply touched, interested and motivated to help others who had not had the opportunity to come for the training.

Malawi       Michael Cassidy Stephen Lungu   Lilongwe, Malawi Mission- Sept. 16 through 23. Stephen Lungu and Michael Cassidy are leading the AE Team as they partner local churches and para-church agencies in a campaign to share the love of Jesus to thousands in this capital city. The energetic FoxFires are using the "Jesus Film" to reach young people with the Gospel. Songe Chibambo, the Mission Director has sent out an urgent message to intercessors around the world to pray for this city.   Kenya       Steve Mbogo   Healing & Reconciliation Seminars continue. The team held seminars with Gacaca judges, genocide survivors, released prisoners, & the clergy. Many were deeply touched, interested and motivated to help others who had not had the opportunity to come for the training.   South Africa       John Tooke in 1980   John Tooke returns after a successful pastoring ministry with the Methodist Church, to head up the Program for the Learning Centre which Michael Cassidy has initiated. The campus will be used extensively for training in Urban Mission and Evangelism.   Uganda       Geoffrey Byarugaba   The Lira Town Mission was executed at the invitation of Bishop Charles Odurkami, of the Anglican Church of Lira. The Team also addressed the 3 main concerns in Lira: prostitution, alcoholism and AIDS. Activities of the mission included daily open-air gospel rallies, schools & prison ministry, leadersÕ dinners and ministry in churches. A childrenÕs event was also held on the last Saturday particularly targeting street children and giving used clothes to the needy.

	Zimbabwe
		Orpheus Hove
	The FoxFires participated in Evangelism Programs with the Reformed Church in Harare. This was a week long crusade in partnership with the Dorothea Mission where more than 200 people made first time commitments and quite a number rededications.

by Stephen Lungu, AE International Team Leader

Our beloved and valued partners,

It is exciting in the midst of all our problems in Malawi and the rest of Africa to see the salvation of many souls. Statistics tell us that there are over 20,000 people coming to Christ each day in Africa. Have you ever stopped to ponder that the salvation of each soul is surrounded by many people around the world? Indeed that is where you come in! Let me assure you that you are a part of the salvation of each soul going to heaven.

The "Lilongwe For Jesus" Mission coming September 16 through the 23rd is at its climax in preparations. The African Enterprise National office in Lilongwe has their walls plastered with graphs and charts along with two large satellite maps of Lilongwe. They already had 350 confirmed meetings in various areas of the city of Lilongwe. The target is to have 1,000 meetings in the course of one week. We have 3 Australian volunteers and AE's Malawi FoxFire team contacting every possible place/institution to see if they can organize a meeting there. Hundreds of hours have been spent in preparation for this mission to help make it an overwhelming success and to reach all of Lilongwe for Jesus.

I looked at myself and other staff members in the office, each one of us was there because we were led to Christ by an evangelist. Now they are working diligently in the background so they too can go out into the cities and evangelize. My spirit goes out into the city of Lilongwe knowing many evangelists from all over Africa will be preaching somewhere in Lilongwe, snatching souls from the gates of hell into paradise. As I stood there seeing my colleagues rejoicing in their faith in Christ, I thought about the host of people around the world who prayed for them. What will happen in Lilongwe city in a few weeks will be a result of your past participation through your prayers and financial support.

This mission is also exciting in the sense that we will have all the various departments of AE's ministry hitting the city of Lilongwe together! Plus numerous evangelists, FoxFire youth teams from South Africa, Kenya and Malawi and many local churches will come together to participate in this city wide mission. At the same time, there will be the "deed" part of the mission. Teams will be building latrines for several schools in the city of Lilongwe. Can you imagine that one school has 1,500 students with only one toilet because the rest are either blocked or broken? This is where we want to bring hope to the hopeless.

Thank you dear partners for being a part of this great mission in Lilongwe.

Yours from the extension of His Kingdom,

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