Kabiye Team News
September 1, 2008

Team Update

The team is excited to welcome our third teacher, Bennett Ritchie, who arrived in Kara this past Saturday. With his arrival, the preschoolers will now begin school. The Millers and the team enjoyed hosting the Brannans and Ganns from the Homewood Church in Birmingham. Their visit was a blessing.

We were also blessed to host our friend and brother Late Simlen who is helping us to introduce some new agricultural ideas to our churches. Read the Reeves update to learn more about how Late is blessing our churches. 

David, Becky, Hannah, Elijah, Gabriel & Caleb Reeves - kabiye4christ@yahoo.fr

Hello to everyone in God's kingdom. We are so thankful for life in Christ and we're excited to share what has been going on in our family the past couple of weeks. On the family front, there are two big pieces of news. School has started and Caleb turned two years old on August 23rd. Hannah (5th) and Elijah (3rd) have enjoyed their first few days of school and love their new teachers, Bekah and Daniel. Their third teacher, Bennett, has just arrived so Gabriel will now start Pre-K. We are thankful for a good start to the new year and for these wonderful teachers. Caleb has turned two and we are so thankful for him. We're waiting to have his party until next week. We'll post birthday pictures in our next update. Check out pictures of Caleb on his birthday on Becky's blog. http://beckyreeves.wordpress.com Allergies have kicked in again for David, especially, with the tasseling of the corn so please pray for relief for him.. Otherwise, our health is really good right now and we praise God for his protection and care.

Work these past couple weeks has been multi-faceted and in flux. David has been drilling wells for the past few months, but because of the excessive rains has postponed well drilling until November. In the meantime, he has begun working with agricultural development in the village of Tchefengda while at the same time mentoring Sobo, one of the leaders there, into a deeper relationship with Christ. This past week David worked with Late (a Christian man from Lome who is an agronomist) to teach composting and soil renewal through organic methods. The Christians are very excited to learn and David hopes that this will be a path for introducing these same techniques to other villages in the future. Becky continues her Bible studies with ladies here in Kara and they are going well. Please pray for her and the ladies who are involved.

Becky is also working as a liaison between Christian Relief Fund and the aids orphans and other orphans that they help sponsor through the churches in the villages of Lassa Tchou and Soumdina Po Wayi. Please pray for these children and the Christians in these churches as they minister to them and the adults who take care of them. If you are interested in supporting a Kabiye child who has been orphaned, please contact Christian Relief Fund via their website at www.christianrelieffund.org and ask to sponsor a child from Togo. There are currently 13 children being sponsored through the church in Soumdina Po Wayi and there are 12 more in Lassa Tchou who need sponsorship. Most of these children are currently being helped to some extent by the Christians as they are able but many go hungry on a daily basis and none of these children have access to schooling or health care without outside sponsorship. One of the orphans from Lassa Tchou in need of sponsorship is pictured here.

May God bless you and thank you so much for your prayers! Love, the Reeves family

Keep up with us on our blogs:
http://beckyreeves.wordpress.com
http://davidreeves.wordpress.com

May God bless you!
Love, the Reeves