February Update -- 2020

Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!  We're pleased to share with you the wonderful things the Lord has been doing in our lives and ministry.

Family: In February we celebrated Joseph's eleventh birthday with cake, cards, gifts, and prayer. On that same day, we also marked the thirty-fourth anniversary of Len's spiritual birth, which occurred on that same day in February 1986. We also had our twenty-third wedding anniversary and thanked the Lord for our marriage to one another.

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Ministry: As we continue to administer our discipleship training school (DTS), we'd like to update you on the good things that God is doing with it. By the grace of God, we currently have disciples in three nations including Uganda, Nigeria, and Kenya.

Sherry in the Emirates

In February we held a graduation ceremony for our most recent graduate, sister Sherry in the UAE. Interestingly, she shared that she was born the same year that Len came to Christ.

On the conference call, besides the two of us, we were joined by all our children and brother Dave Wenrich, pastor of Boston Harbor Community Church and President/Treasurer of Doulos Missions International. We had fellowship, presented her with her diploma, worshiped together, giving God thanks and praise for helping her complete her training, and then we each prayed for her. It was a great time in the Lord's presence. She is a part of us and as with all our graduates, her ministry is an extension of ours. We are so happy for her being able to achieve this important goal. To God be the glory!

Len received the following email in February from brother Stephen in Nigeria, who is one of our DTS students:

Stephen in Nigeria

"Good day sir,

Trust you are doing great. My testimony is not directly related to DTS, but an experience that came with my walk with the Lord.

On December, 2019 I prayed asking the Lord what is his word to me in 2020 and beyond. The Lord directed me to read Mathew 1:21 and in our morning devotion, the Word came out loud and clear that God will be my Saviour this year.

By December 26 when I was traveling to pray on the mountain, I had a bike accident and God saved me true to his Word. I came out unhurt. How I escaped I didn't know. On January 16th, I had another bike accident, and God saved me too. Then on February 2nd, while traveling to another city, our bus tire burst on speed. Give thanks to God that the bus didn't somersault and plunge us into the bush. God saved us unhurt.

It is really amazing how God saved me within a month of facing [these] near death experience(s). God is ever faithful."

Hallelujah! Thank the Lord for sparing brother Stephen's life in those three life-threatening situations that all occurred in a little more than one month's time. What a wonderful Savior He is! When Len received this message from him, he had just finished giving a teaching on Matthew 1 right before he sat down to read the email, and the main point of his message was that Jesus is the only one worthy to be the King of the whole world.

Brother Stephen has temporarily halted his DTS studies until he finds an LTG partner. Please pray that he finds one soon, so he can resume his training with us.

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Grace in Uganda

Len received the following email from brother Grace, one of our students who is a pastor in Uganda:

"Praise the Lord, dear brother Len! There have been several dreams and visions given to me by the Lord, but have chosen this recent one: I was seated and reading one of the books written by a famous gospel preacher whom the Lord has given the grace to reach out to Muslims. Immediately all of my mind changed when I heard a voice say: 'a minister's garment '.Then for some minutes the voice continued teaching me and saying, 'every minister of God has a garment.' Then he reminded me of Joshua when satan accused him of putting on a dirty garment, but the Lord told satan off when Joshua was given a clean garment. When a minister or a Christian is right before God he is seen in good garments and vice versa.

Dear brother Len, I will stop for now and want to say the Lord has blessed my life through these teachings. Blessings."

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In February we received the following testimony from brother Peter in Kenya:

Peter in Kenya

"Hey brother Len,

Hope you are doing fine in the Lord. I thank God for the much wisdom and knowledge acquired this far. I delved myself deeper on the topic of asteroids, tsunamis, nuclear program, and earthquakes, and I came to realize that God in heaven is giving us the last chance before God wraps up everything.

There's something that started recently in Kenya, and that is the infestation of locusts. It has become a huge problem for the government, because they haven't found any solutions for the same. It's until, the United Nations has decide to give a helping hand, because all the insecticides used [thus far] have had no effect. It has left me wondering, as they have been jumping from county to county feasting on anything green. And as we are talking right now, it is has moved on to our neighbouring country Tanzania.

This made me realize that sometimes God releases judgement because he knows the extent of our sins as individuals or as a nation.

I also, had a [look at Dumitru] Duduman's prophecies, and for sure much of them have been fulfilled as far as USA is concerned! Initially, I have been trying to understand the book of Daniel and Revelations, thinking that maybe these are things that are to take place in the distant future, when, in fact, are taking place during our days!

This is knowledge that's very practical and its a warning to us and this generation."

The news reports say this is the worst locust plague Africa has seen in seventy years. These swarms are the size of big cities. In one day, a swarm this size can devour the same amount of food as the entire population of Kenya. According to an expert, it can devour the same amount of food in one day as all the people in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. Obviously this is threatening the crops of the countries in Africa that are being affected by the plague, which include Kenya and Uganda, where we have students located (see here). Reports says the swarms can grow to 500 times their current size by June. Let's pray for the Lord to protect our DTS students, who are all in these countries, and keep them from the devastating effects of this plague that endangers their food supply.

Len sent out his monthly edition of Old News That's Still Fresh in February to pastors, elders, and laborers in the harvest in the US, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia.

Resources:  This month we would like to suggest some articles Len has recently written called The Timeless Beauty of Holiness, Darkened Skies in the Last Days, and Dreams and Visions: Tsunamis, Asteroids, Nuclear, Earthquakes, Chaos. Len's latest articles are all available at Old News That's Still Fresh -- February 2020. His entire collection of his most popular blogs are at Writing for the Master.

In closing, we have much to praise God for, and many opportunities for you to join us in prayer.

Praise the Lord with us for the many answers to prayer:

1. For sparing brother Stephen's life on three occasions recently.
2. For the wonderful graduation ceremony we had for sister Sherry.
3. For the testimonies shared by brothers Grace, Peter, and Stephen.
4. For our twenty three years of marriage together.
5. For enabling us to celebrate Joseph's eleventh birthday.
6. For the opportunity to assist each of our students in becoming disciples of Christ and fulfilling their callings. 
7. For the Lord's leading, guidance, and help administering the Doulos Training School (DTS), and for the progress the students are making.
8. For the lives being touched for Christ around the world through our writing ministry.

Next steps and prayer needs:

1. For the Lord to heal Jennifer from limited range of motion in her right arm, and for the Lord to heal Len of the same thing in his left shoulder, as well as from the pain interfering with sleep.
2. For the Lord to heal Faith and Len from eczema.
3. For the Lord to give brother Stephen in Nigeria the grace to be able to resume the DTS.
4. For protection from famine for all our DTS students in Africa due to the locust plague.
5. For the Lord to assist us with the administration of the Doulos Training School (DTS), as well as develop through it many disciples who multiply disciples. 
6. For the Lord to help all of our DTS students to find LTG partners (another Christian to meet with weekly for discipleship in a Life Transformation Group), and help them finish all their course work for the current quarter by the end of this month. 
7. For the Lord to fulfill His purposes for us and our ministry.
8. For the Lord to raise up new faith partners, and for Him to provide for all our needs -- not only ours personally, but also those of the ministry.

Thank you so much for your partnership in this ministry.

with love from all of us,

The Lacroixs

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