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Future Plans... Lord willing in 2006, we will be leaving the Sabaot people who we will have served for a total of 16 years. We believe they are equipped to carry on the work we have begun with the Lord’s guidance. We want to start a 3rd phase of ministry. At that point we will have done the primary work of church planting for 34 years. For the past 20 years Janet and I have had a real calling to teach marriage and family enrichment to families and churches. It started when African families came and asked if we can teach them how to raise and nurture Christian families. We have taught many seminars and courses in family and marriage topics. We feel a real calling for this ministry. Lord willing, we will be visiting you in May, 2006 when we will share more of our plans with you. Marriages in Africa have just as many problems and perhaps even more problems than marriages in the United States. They struggle with the same struggles; Communication problems, raising children, handling finances. They have no training and no one to teach them. We believe and have seen the evidence that when we put effort into strengthening the family the church is strengthened. Our plan is to first go to Dar Saalam, Tanzania along with a team of missionaries to plant a church. Dar Salaam has 1.5 million people and 6 Church of Christ congregations with total membership around 600-700. One half of the population of Dar Salaam is islamic. We want to start a church so that it can be the Antioch of Acts for that area to send people from this church to plant more churches in Africa. We want to travel to other African countries to do marriage and family seminars, for example, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and throughout Africa. While the team continues to plant the church, we’ll come back and visit and then go out again. It’s a shift in our ministry but we fell God’s leading in this area. Please pray for us as we plan our transition to Tanzania for our next phase of ministry. Pray that God would prepare the soil for seed advance and much fruit would be born for the glory of God. - Fielden and Janet Allison
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