Dear Family, Friends, and Ministry Partners,

Just a brief update on my status.  I will now be departing on February 2, 2021. I had to change my ticket twice because of the South African visa process. I finally was granted a three-year Religious Worker Visitor visa.

My home was leased on January 15, 2021. The tenants and their dogs are enjoying their new home and the backyard.

Some household items and mementos are at the dock waiting to be shipped once I have obtained my visa. The suitcases and backpack are packed ready to get on the flight to South Africa.

“So where are you right now?”, you may ask. I am still waiting and staying with Grannie and my niece Shatoi Monique.  I am in God’s holding pattern for a few more weeks than I expected. Family, friends, and colleagues were all sending encouraging words and prayers. God’s timing is truly perfect. I know that God will continue to reveal more of God’s own reasons for what I considered as delays.

Tears filled my eyes as I saw some of the reasons. Some very deep and personal reasons just caused me to praise and thank the Lord for the Lord’s perfect timing.

If you read the news about South Africa, you see stories of travel bans, Coronavirus mutation, and the country having the most Coronavirus cases in all of Africa. What you don’t hear about is the families being impacted, the at-risk women and children, the teachers still trying to help their students, and churches still trying to help their community. You don’t hear about Teleios Christian School students and teachers. You don’t hear about Bethany Emmanuel Baptist Church, the Women’s Entrepreneurial Program, called Project Dorcas.  I plan on giving you more firsthand views, while exercising proper Coivd-19 protocols, of course. I will also be learning the language of the Xhosa people to better know and interact with families living in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

We have work to do all over the world where Christ is calling us to let Him live a life of purpose through us, in His name. Jesus states His purpose in Luke 4:18-19 (NLT), “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that the captives will be released, the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.” I ask the Lord to live out His purpose in me and through me and around me, in Jesus Name. Amen.

Faye Yarbrough

International Ministries Global Servant – South Africa

Praise Report:

• My home was leased for a year on January 15, 2021
• Household goods picked up and in the process of traveling to King William’s Town, South Africa.
• My Car was given to a friend who needed a newer vehicle.
• I was granted a three-year Religious Worker Visa by the South African Consular.

Prayer Requests:

• My February 1, 2021 Covid 19 test results will be negative.
• The Whole Eastern Cape Region and particularly King Williams Town being listed as a Covid-19 hotspot in the region.
• The children at Teleios Christian School and their families
• Persons who do not have extended family relationships during this pandemic.
• Children who are suffering from severe anxiety during the pandemic.
• The ministry of letting Christ be known through Math and Science at Teleios Christian School.
• Bethany Emmanuel Baptist Church, Project Dorcas, to continue to help women and their families during the pandemic.
• Our journey together, recognizing that God has brought us together to make a difference in the lives of children in South Africa and in your local area.
• Missionary families, especially those with children all over the globe
• MPT (Missionary Partnership Team) Agape
• Pray for my family that I leave behind physically when I go to South Africa.
• Partners and friends’ unspoken specific prayer requests

Connect with me by email: fyarbrough@internationalministries.org.

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