November Update -- 2023

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: Christopher has gotten a job working in the same local grocery store deli where his sisters Hope and Faith work, and he enjoys it a lot. Praise the Lord for providing a job, but this is just so he can get some customer service experience until he can find an IT job in his field. Meanwhile, he continues to look for IT jobs online, and has applied for enrollment at a local technical college, where he plans to begin studying for his Associates degree in IT in January. We continue to pray and believe God to provide him with a well-paying job in his field.

We celebrated Hope's birthday in November. She turned twenty-three years old. The picture to the left is our celebration of Jennifer's birthday in October.

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Ministry: As we continue to administer our discipleship training school (DTS), now in its eighth year, 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 five nations including Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, and the United Kingdom.

In November, Max, who is one of our students in Uganda, conducted an evangelistic outreach to a prison of 1,104 men, where they shared the gospel and witnessed for Christ. By the grace of God, they saw 136 inmates give their lives to Christ, which is over twelve percent of that prison's population. Praise the Lord! 

He wrote: "Praise the Lord! I testify of God's greatness all through the course work study I'm undertaking with DTS, [as well as His] grace to learn and unlearn. This has increased my desire to serve the Lord. We are learning discipline from one another in our LTG meetings, as we share the five accountability questions. God be praised." 

His wife, sister Rebecca, is also one of our students, and she shared the following praise report with us in November:

"Praise the Lord Jesus!

Brother Len,

I would like to testify of the good things that God has done for us. I shared the gospel and two ladies gave their lives to Christ. 

My dad just under went an operation and it was successful. Let's continue to pray for complete healing. I thank God for the course works in DTS, LTG meetings, and daily Bible Readings. They continue to build me up spiritually. I also thank God for the grace He has granted us to do this course and for our supervisor Grace, who continues to encourage us. Glory be to God Almighty."

In October, we launched a crowdfunding campaign for Marina, a Bulgarian national Bible teacher whom Len has known for thirty years. We did so, because she had lost her car in a flood in September, and the Lord helped us raise $5,500 for her in a matter of a few hours. Of course, a used car costs a lot more than that in Bulgaria, but we trust that the Lord will use it to help her at least get herself a used car for transportation to wherever she needs to go, including her ministry at the Bible school. Thank you very much to those who generously gave! Marina was shocked by the show of compassion for her situation and the generosity of those who gave. When she first heard about it, she was at a loss for words. Thank you once again for caring and helping.

DTS Photo Album.

Len received the following note from sister Catherine in England, who is one of our students there:

"Dear brother Len and sister Jennifer. 

I have got a small bit of news.

At the LTG group, our Lord gave me the Scripture, Mathew 18:19 to 20, where Jesus said, "I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."

We prayed for Esther [my LTG partner], who had cancer of the stomach, and the next day when she went for tests at the hospital, they found no trace of cancer. 

This week I watched Healing Streams on YouTube, and the minister prayed for healing for people watching, and I felt a warm burning in my stomach, and our Lord healed it.

Thank and praise our Lord. I am praying for you all.

Bless you all.

With love in Jesus Christ our Lord, 

Sister Catherine"

Praise the Lord! What an amazing miracle the Lord did to heal sister Catherine's long-term issue in her belly, as well as her LTG partner, Esther's stomach cancer. 

A very short, five-minute video of Catherine's testimony was published by God TV, which you can watch here. It's about how she was raised to life at age seventeen, after being dead for twenty minutes.

More DTS Testimonies

Len received the following report from brother Tom, who is a pastor in Uganda overseeing several churches, and who is entering into his final quarter of DTS training with us in two weeks:

He indicated that from August through November, he has continued using the free Jesus Film equipment he received in order to show the Jesus Film to 3,000 people in northern Uganda in the Luo, Acholi, and Lugbwara languages. This resulted in follow up being conducted with 700 people, 350 decisions being made for Christ, 20 small groups being formed, four new churches being planted, and 100 people being trained. His team gave evangelistic handouts to new believers and directed them to the newly-formed churches. They also assigned leaders to lead the new churches. Praise the Lord. You can also check out the following article about what the Lord has done earlier this year through his Jesus Film ministry: Hundreds Saved in Uganda Through Jesus Film. 

In November, Len received the following praise report from brother Justus in Uganda, who is a pastor there overseeing five churches, and is one of our DTS students:

"Praise the Lord Jesus Christ!

Brother Len,

Much blessings! God has been faithful and gracious to us. Last month from October 2nd to 6th, I called together all five churches of our ministry, including the senior pastors, assistant pastors, and deacons, and trained them for the work of God and the ministry.

The training focused on mobilizing missionaries of all nations who are passionate about living out the Great Commandments and Great Commission in their callings. [Our goal is for them] to go as revivalists (bearing much fruit), in and out of season, in and for the Kingdom. To God be the glory!

Thank you.

In and with Christ,

Justus" 

Praise the Lord! To God be all the glory.

Len also received the following testimony from Mwendwa in Kenya:

"Praise the Lord

The DTS articles and my walk with the Lord daily are helping me grow more as a disciple of Christ. The area I see this in is evangelism. It is now becoming a regular part of my daily life. It wasn't easy at first, and I had a lot of anxiety; but as I grow close to the Lord and His word abides in me, I find He is giving me words to speak, [along with] wisdom and boldness. He is answering my prayers to love the lost as He does. 

By God's grace He has also helped me write evangelism tracts on my website to share with others, and also I got a big box of John and Romans booklets, and tracts from a pastor I know. These are helping me a lot as I didn't have Bibles to give to new coverts. The last three weeks, I got to see four [people] give their lives to the Lord and share with many more around my neighborhood. I'm also giving out the tracts and the booklets as much as I can as I move around. 

God bless.

Mwendwa "

Ministries of DTS Graduates

We would like to share with you a brief article highlighting the ministries of three of our graduates at the following link.

Note: Some words in the recorded testimonies above may have been changed to correct the grammar and spelling, and to enhance their clarity and readability. This was done without changing the meaning.

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 a blessed time celebrating Jennifer's birthday, as well as Hope's.
2. For Christopher's part time job in the deli.
3. For the amazing testimonies of God's work in the lives of our students, especially the hundreds of souls that have been saved through their ministries, and the many disciples being multiplied through them!
4. For the opportunity to assist each of our students in becoming disciples of Christ and fulfilling their callings. 
5. For the Lord's leading, guidance, wisdom, and help administering the Doulos Training School (DTS), and for the progress the students are making.

Prayer needs:

1. For the Lord to help Christopher to find an excellent, good-paying job in the IT field.
2. For the Lord to heal Rebecca's father.
3. For the Lord to provide for all the needs of our DTS students.
4. 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. 
5. 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).
6. For the Lord to fulfill His purposes for us and our ministry.

Thank you so much for your partnership in this ministry.

with love from all of us,

The Lacroixs

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