Brennan Update: Tentative Schedule
Missions in Africa, Inc.
February 12, 2010
http://www.missionsinafrica.com
Dear Friends and Family,
This is a quick update to let you know what our itinerary looks like for our return visit from April 1st through May 14th. Please reach out to us in order to set aside time for a visit when we are in your area. We are looking forward to sharing our story with as many people as possible while we are back. Please remember that this is a tentative schedule.
- April 4th – April 10th Michigan, New York (for Pastor’s Conference)
- April 11th – April 17th Oconomowoc, Milwaukee, Madison
- April 18th – April 24th Manitowoc, Green Bay, Appleton
- April 25th – May 1st Oconomowoc, Milwaukee, Madison
- May 2nd – May 8th Minneapolis, Eau Claire, La Crosse
- May 9th – May 14th Oconomowoc, Milwaukee, Madison
We are looking forward to seeing you all very soon.
Serving the Lord in Swaziland,
Randy, Karen, and Shelly
Coming for a Visit
Missions in Africa, Inc.
January 19, 2010
http://www.missionsinafrica.com
Featured Picture: “Randy, Karen and Shelly”
Dear Friends and Family,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus.
Happy New Year to everyone! We hope and pray that you will join us in pursuing Christ and everything He has for us in 2010.
Randy, Karen and Shelly
We have an exciting announcement to make. The Brennans are returning to the States to visit from April 1st to May 15th. It has been nearly three years since we have been back. Wow, it is amazing how time flies!
We are hoping to connect with all the people who have prayed for us and financially supported the mission here in Swaziland. If you would like to see us please begin to communicate with us now. We are looking forward to sharing with you what the Lord is doing here in Swaziland. We have learned a great deal about the Lord and the Kingdom of God over the past three years and would love to share the lessons and experiences with you.
Also, please pray about how the Lord may want to use you to help us while we are back. We have already been offered a beautiful place to stay during our visit. We have no transportation at this point. A reliable car would enable us to get around to all the people we need to see. It is a humbling experience to be completely reliant on others for things as basic as lodging and a car. If you sense that the Lord wants to use you to help us please let us know.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
Love,
Randy, Karen and Shelly
Serving the Lord in Swaziland, Africa
Thankful for the Greatest Gift of All – Jesus Christ
Missions in Africa, Inc.
December 25, 2009
http://www.missionsinafrica.com
Featured Picture: “Thankful for the Greatest Gift of All—Jesus Christ”
(Picture of Randy, Karen and Peggy, mother at one of the “I Am Not Forgotten” orphan homes, and the kids that she loves on each and every day!)
Thankful for Jesus
Dear Friends and Family,
Greetings and Merry Christmas from Swaziland, Africa!
Celebrating Christmas is such an exciting time of year. For many here in Swaziland, Christmas has a new meaning. Do you remember the first time you realized the significance of Christmas? When the story of the birth of a little baby, wrapped in clothes and laying in a manger, when that story came to life for you and had real significance and meaning? Many here in Swaziland are realizing for the very first time that the best gift ever is “the gift of eternal life “offered to each of us by Jesus Christ through his birth, death and resurrection.
Each and every day of 2009 has been a sort of “Christmas celebration” as the good news of the gospel has been the focus of what we do. Sometimes it takes the form of feeding children, praying with our teachers, preaching and teaching at the Bride of Christ Church, giving out Bibles to those that can’t afford to buy them or rescuing children from abusive situations and placing them in loving homes like the “I Am Not Forgotten” project. All of these are being done with the purpose of pointing people to Jesus Christ, the giver of eternal life!
What a privilege it is to see the transformation of the hearts of men, women and children as they experience the realization that Jesus is real and He is alive today. For so many in Swaziland, this is their first “Merry Christmas!”
We would like to thank each and every one of you for your prayers and financial support. You are our partners and coworkers in this work in Swaziland as we share the gospel and see the transformation in the spiritual lives of so many men, women and especially the children. We continue to keep you in our prayers, that the Lord would bless you more than you could ever ask or imagine.
Merry Christmas and have a Blessed New Year!
We love you,
Randy, Karen and Shelly Brennan
Serving the Lord in Swaziland, Africa
Celebrations: 25th Anniversary, Graduations & New Believers!
Missions in Africa, Inc.
November 17, 2009
http://www.missionsinafrica.com
Featured Pictures: “Graduates” “Tent Revival” & “Jabu”
Dear Friends and Family,
Greetings to you in the mighty name of Jesus!
We are celebrating in a huge way here in Swaziland. Karen and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary on the 17th of November. Our special day was marked by a graduation at Mangwaneni Carepoint. We had 16 beautiful little people ages 7-11 complete our 2 year, basic literacy program. The Lord is raising up a generation of godly leaders here in Swaziland. It begins with giving them the tools to succeed in life….like being able to read their bibles!
Graduates
We are also celebrating the fact that the Lord has added 30 new adult believers to our fellowship at Bride of Christ Church. We started our evangelism marathon about 6 weeks ago. It has consisted of door to door evangelism, open air preaching and tent revivals at night. There are about 30 new kids as well.
Tent Revival
Here is an awesome testimony of a changed life of one of the new believers at Bride of Christ Church: Her name is Jabu and she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior shortly after the “revival” began.
Jabu, pictured on the left, white & black striped shirt
Previously Jabu had been a heavy drinker and was prostituting herself. She was using the proceeds from prostitution to buy food and clothing. Her testimony is that she has given all the clothes away that she bought with her money from prostitution and wants to make a fresh start with her provider Jesus.
Please join us in praying for all the new converts. We are praying that they will stay focused on Jesus and will be willing to walk with Him no matter what the cost. Thank you for partnering with us in building the Kingdom of God here in Swaziland and throughout the world.
Love,
Randy, Karen and Shelly Brennan
Serving the Lord in Swaziland
Evangelism Marathon Begins
Missions in Africa, Inc.
October 5, 2009
http://www.missionsinafrica.com
Featured Pictures: “Evangelism Marathon Begins”
Dear Friends and Family,
Greetings in the name of Jesus!
We have great news from Bride of Christ Church here in Swaziland. The Lord has raised up a core group of servant hearted people with evangelistic zeal to take the gospel to those in the surrounding areas. We sense that the timing is right for a great harvest of souls here in Swaziland and specifically in Mpolonjeni and the surrounding areas.
Charity, Pastor’s Wife
This past Saturday we went out to an area about 20 minutes walking distance from the main church and did “open air” ministry. This consisted of teams going door to door with candy and gospel tracts to homesteads in the area. As the teams went out, we set up our generator and speakers and played really loud music in a centrally located area where there is a lot of car and foot traffic. Normally on Saturday this area would be very quiet and serene. We alternated music with evangelistic messages and finally an invitation to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and invited them to come to church on Sunday. We believed in faith that the Lord did something in the hearts of the people who heard the message of salvation. As a result of our efforts on Saturday, we had lots of new faces in Church on Sunday. Six of the new adults and ten children responded to invitations to receive Christ.
Getting Prayed Up
Please pray that the evangelism marathon continues to be productive for the Kingdom. We sense from the Spirit’s leading that we are to continue at a brisk pace. We will be doing outreach every Saturday for eight weeks straight in this area to set up a new fellowship or cell church, then moving on to a new area that is still in relatively close proximity to the main church. We are planning on continuing with this type of outreach for 1 year, Lord willing. Our hope is to have 6 new fellowships or cell churches set up and functioning at the end of the evangelism marathon.
Grandma D
Please pray with us that many will come into the Kingdom. Pray that lives will be changed.
Thank you all for your faithful support and prayers. Your generous giving has enabled us to purchase the generator, speaker system and microphones. We continue to be the “bible people” distributing them freely for those who need one. We will be purchasing a 20 by 30 foot tent to be used at the satellite locations to get them up and going.
We love you so much and praise God for you in our lives. We would love to hear from you! May God Bless you and keep you,
Love,
Randy, Karen and Shelly Brennan
Serving the Lord in Swaziland
Welcome
Welcome to Missions in Africa, a ministry raised up by the Lord to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nation of Swaziland, Africa.