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.
In October, Charity was sick for a few days, but the Lord healed her. However, our other ones here ended up getting sick with it, and are still getting over it.
Christopher has finished memorizing the entire book of Revelation, and is in the process of practicing the last couple chapters to make sure he's got everything correct on those. It's been a blessing listening to him recite those chapters each week. Praise the Lord! To God be all the glory for helping him to memorize Scripture.
Since Faith is only getting one day a week at her job, she will begin looking for a second job. Please pray that she will be hired at the place she has in mind to apply with.
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 seven nations including Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, South Sudan, India, and the United Kingdom.
In October, Len sent out to all the DTS students a Covenant Prayer, as well as another prayer to break ties with the enemy called Divorcing the Devil. Here are the responses he received from students who found these helpful:
Brother Max in Uganda celebrated his 36th birthday in October and posted on Facebook. He was surprised when a stranger from the Rhino camp for Sudanese refugees came looking for him, having been directed by some lady. The man confessed that he had been involved in witchcraft for many years. After sharing about that, he gave his life to the Lord; glory be to the Lord for what He has done! In addition to that, Brother Max with his team in Uganda have won George to Christ after their LTG meeting prayers. He wrote:
Brother Richard in Uganda wrote to Len in October with a wonderful testimony. Here is an excerpt from it:
Brother Tom in Uganda has seen the numbers of people in the Church he pastors tripling as a result of the training he has received through the DTS. He has experienced great changes in his life and ministry as there are miracles of healing and deliverance everywhere they go.
Moreover, brother Isaac Odeke had a conference in Karamoja, Uganda and 1,000 people came to the Lord .There were numerous healings in the conference and also healings in Ngora hospital. He also reported last month that one of his two LTG partners is a former Muslim whom he led to the Lord, whose Christian name now is Joseph. In October he wrote: "The Muslim man who got born again is greatly doing well and learning a lot in the gospel. I am as well organizing a mission for the purpose of soul winning. And he is one of the good people that I have in the team."
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:
with love from all of us,
The Lacroixs
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 seven nations including Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, South Sudan, India, and the United Kingdom.
Brother Grace, a pastor and DTS Facilitator in Uganda, wrote:
"Hi dear brother Len,
Both the Covenant Prayer and Divorcing the Devil prayer have impacted my life. I'm repeating these prayers and enjoying them. My family is joining me in saying these prayers; it's really powerful!! This one about Divorcing the Devil is real and changed my life! Even before I finished praying I found my life completely freed from the devil's forces and I want to say that I'm rejoicing; completely free, very confident, the Lord won the battle against the devil. Much blessings to you brother Len in Jesus' Name!
Your brother Grace Okurut."
Len received many other positive comments from the students after they prayed these prayers. Here were just a few of them:
"This prayer helps me to live for God and His will alone. It has really blessed my life, encouraged me and gave me direction how to dedicate my life and serve God in the truth and spirit. Jesus you are worthy!"
"I say this covenant prayer almost everyday. Each time I do that I feel refreshed in my spirit."
"Shalom... thanks for the covenant prayer it made me to be more strong in Jesus."
"The covenant prayer...really moved me to total dependence on God especially the concluding part which says 'Send many workers [into the harvest field]...'"
"The Covenant Prayer...really moves one deeper in the Lord, and I feel a new level of commitment to the one true God in the words of this prayer."
"Brother Len,
I am forever grateful for what the Lord is doing with our second team of LTG group which is the generational LTG group (formed out of the first one). After our weekly meeting, (in which we ask each other) the five accountability questions and prayer, we also arrange for going out to share the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, so as to engage the non believer friends whose names appear in our weekly prayer requests. (One of those people was) Brother George, (who) prayed to receive Jesus. We ask our entire LTG team everywhere to pray for the spiritual growth of all those who are praying to receive salvation. Thanks with much love from Uganda west Nile Arua City!"
Brother Martin in Uganda finds the DTS training very helpful as the teachings are changing their lives; this has resulted in sharing with their Church members about it and inviting them to join LTGs.
Brother Jimmy's ministry is now recognized in his region, and ministers from other Churches are wondering where he received his training!
Brother Grace had told Len recently that there is truly an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that has begun to occur in Uganda where he serves as a pastor. Afterward in October, as Len was discussing this outpouring with Jennifer, which we've been reporting about in this monthly newsletter, Jennifer shared what the Lord had shown her while she was there in Uganda during her internship in 1996. She states:
"While there in January/February of 1996, I strongly sensed that God's favor was on Uganda to bring healing and restoration. In my spirit, I saw a map of Uganda with rays of God's glory shooting forth into nations of East Africa, West Africa, North Africa, and even the Middle East. It seemed that these rays not only represented laborers being sent forth, but also the testimony of God's goodness that will arise from this nation that has experienced much destruction."
We both feel that this vision is now being fulfilled, and we are getting to participate with God in its fulfillment. One of the ways that Uganda is already impacting East, West, and South Africa is through this monthly newsletter, in which we report what the Lord is doing in Uganda, by which our students in the other parts of Africa are being encouraged as they read of it. Praise the Lord!
"I am so grateful to the Lord and the power of the Holy Spirit, who has prompted three Moslems and one young man, who was a video editor in a [well-known] musical group, to salvation in this month through witnessing Christ.
And [this has also happened] through discipleship and acts of love, showing Christ to our community, and the church members giving out food support to the needy people in the love of Christ.
Many are revived and strong again in Christ.
I am grateful as a student in DTS for the knowledge in scriptures and discipleship courses. We live by caring for others as a ministry.
Thank you bro. Len and DTS
Pray for us.
Richard in Ugandan- Iganga"
"Greetings to everyone in the name of Jesus Christ.
I am here to testify what the Lord is doing through our outreach ministry in Lira, Uganda.
It has now been two weeks since we began experiencing the great and mighty hand of God in our midst. For a couple of weeks, we preached to many through radio and YouTube, and the following well-known secular artists got saved: "General eyes" (one of the best artists in Uganda), "Orchard Raymond" (a Sudanese music artist), "Brazen Rule" (one who prophesied about the birth of Lira city some ten years ago), and many others.
Concerning healing and deliverance, many were healed and delivered from the power of darkness. We burnt many charms and evil altars.
One great mystery occurred when we met a man in the crowd who testified to us that he married a certain lady for nearly four years, who was a demon. He surprised us by saying that every evening and night, he finds eighteen goats or three demon ladies in his room, which would appear without his request. The man got saved on that very day. The demon lady has left his family, but her four children are there. We shall reach his work place where he is renting in Masindi, central Uganda.
I am making an attempt to capture his live testimony and send it to all the brethren around the world.
I have only exhausted not even half of the testimony. May you remain strong in the Lord and serve Him with fear and trembling."
Len sent out his monthly edition of Old News That's Still Fresh in November to pastors, elders, and laborers in the harvest in the US, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. We highly recommend the three articles contained in this edition.
Resources: We would like to remind you that Len's 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:
- For allowing us to celebrate Hope's twenty-first birthday.
- For healing Hope from the cold flu and stomach illness.
- For enabling Jennifer to travel to West Virginia for a few days to visit her parents.
- For helping Christopher to memorize the entire book of Revelation.
- For the amazing testimonies brothers Grace, Max, Richard, Tom, and Isaac in Uganda.
- For the mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit happening in Uganda.
- For the way He is multiplying disciples through our students.
- For the opportunity to assist each of our students in becoming disciples of Christ and fulfilling their callings.
- For the Lord's leading, guidance, wisdom, and help administering the Doulos Training School (DTS), and for the progress the students are making.
- For the Lord to help Faith find another job since she is not getting enough hours at her new one.
- For the Lord to heal Faith and Len from eczema.
- For the Lord to provide for all the needs of our DTS students in the hardships they're experiencing, especially those in dire need in Uganda.
- For the Lord to assist all our DTS students in any life challenges they may be experiencing.
- 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.
- 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.
- For the Lord to fulfill His purposes for us and our ministry.
- 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.
with love from all of us,
The Lacroixs
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