Katie Jackson

True Love Waits . . .

Quem Ama Espera /Who Loves Waits (Literal translation into Portuguese from English)

Katie and a team of Mozambician youth are visiting the churches in Nampula province and teaching a                            Portuguese version of  True Love Waits (Quem Ama Espera). Marriage is not seen as important in the Makhuwa culture. Rather, people living together and having children with no strong commitment to the relationship is the norm. As part of what the team is teaching they are asking questions about the sexual activity in an area. Here are some of the questions and the average answers the team has received:

Q: Out of 100 people you know in your area, how many will wait until marriage to have sex?

A: 2 (many times they answer 0)

Q: Out of the guys and girls that aren’t waiting until marriage, at what age do they become sexually active?

A: guys – 11 girls – 8Q: How many sexual partners might there guys or girls have before they do get married?

A: guys – 100 or more girls - 50 or more             

• Pray for the youth at Cosoro Church as Katie teaches QAE (Quem Ama Espera) there during March and April 2003. Pray the youth would seek to follow Christ in all areas of their lives & make sincere committmentss to purity and faithfulness.
• Please pray for the Christians in Mozambique as they hear about God’s standard of sexual purity before and faithfulness in marriage. Pray that they would be salt and light in this dark place and that their relationships would be in obedience to God.
• Pray that the ones who are already deep in sexual sins would accept God’s forgiveness and accept the new start he wants to give them.
• Pray that the churches would take an active role in teaching God’s plan for relationships and marriage.
• Pray for the hundreds of Mozambican youth who have already made the commitment to turn and follow God’s plan to abstain from sex until marriage.

• Pray for our team of Mozambican youth who have made a stand for TLW and for teaching others about this message. Pray that God would bless them as they teach and that he would strengthen them to keep their commitments.

• Praise God for the hundreds of youth who have made committments to sexual purity. Pray they would remain strong in their commitmemts.  

English Classes . . .

Many people in Mozambique want to learn to speak English in Nampula. There are around 130 students studying English using materials from the gospel of Mark. There are several missionaries  and Mozambiquans teaching these classes.

• Pray for the seekers bible study that started the second week of March of this year.
• Pray for the 150 students studying english.
• Pray for the new english semester that begins in April.
• Please pray for the many non-Christian students who are studying with us. Pray that the their eyes would be opened to the truth as they read the living and active word of God.
• Praise God for Sergy, Nissilio, Gito, Betino who have accepted Christ after hearing the gospel in class and studying the word with their teachers. Please pray for them as they grow in their faith.
• Praise God for the students who are curious about the gospel. Pray for them as they study the word with their teacher or in the seekers Bible Study class. Pray that their hearts would be opened to receive Christ as Lord and King.
• Praise God that he continues to provide Christians to teach the many students who want to learn English. Please pray for his continued provision of teachers and that we would have more students who can become teachers.
• Praise God for the English students who served as translators when we had volunteer teams come to Nampula this summer. They were a big blessing. Pray for the non-Christians who were translating the gospel. Pray that the word they were speaking with their mouth would transform their lives!
• Praise God for Charles whol accepted Christ.
• Praise God for the many who are seeking and interested in the gospel.  Pray the Lord would call them each to himself and that they would respond.

Discipleship Classes . . .

Katie is discipling 2 new believers Fatima and Natalia. 

Natalia is learning everything about the Bible for the first time. Please pray for her as she grows in her faith. She and her husband are the only Christians in both of their Muslim families and are often pressured to compromise their faith. Pray that God would bless them as they stand firm on his promises and follow his ways!

Fatima just moved to Nampula and is so hungry for God’s word. Pray for her as she learns to share her faith with others at her school and pray for her as she adjust to a new town.

Many of the girls ask Katie to meet with them and help them study God’s word but they are unfaithful to attend after things begin. 

• Please pray that God would raise up godly young women in this area. 
• Pray that these girls would be committed. 
• Pray that they would love God’s word and teach other young women the things they have been taught. 
• Please pray for the older women in the churches to teach these young women how to walk daily with Christ.

Also please pray for the many volunteer groups that will be coming during the months of May-November of 2003.