Close Connections

Great day to celebrate what the Lord is doing. We spent this past Monday and Tuesday in Atlanta GA at a Close Connections partnership meeting.  These are some of the things we learned: During 2009 in Botswana ended with reaching 29 schools, 55,000 students and ended up with 10,121 pledges for abstinence and 4,821 commitments to Christ in Botswana through Face the Nation.  University of Botswana experienced 32 pregnancies in 2008 dropped to 0 in 2009.  Open Baptist Church the church we will be working under, had 300 commitments to do missions outside of Botswana.  They had 200 commitments to support missionaries.  That is 50% of their members committed to supporting missionaries.  This is all from the supernatural power of God.  Now the government is asking the Church to help them save their nation. They are realizing that condoms are not working in the fight against HIV-AIDS.  Botswana has increased the average age of their people by providing free anti-virals but is failing them telling them condoms are effective.  The HIV-AIDS incident went up in 2009 by 1.2%. The prevalence rate is over 25%.(Still number 2 in the world).  They are beginning to realized the have a moral problem.  There is a lack of honesty and integrity when it comes to sexuality which is killing their nation.
We do not loose hope. We believe we are standing on the brink of a tide - a time of turning to our LORD. It is an awesome time to work in a nation that is asking the Church and Jesus Christ to save it.  For the first time they will be airing "Choose Christ" commercials to save a nation on their national  TV stations. 
Pray for Botswana and it's people.  Pray for those that minister in Botswana as they partner together through Close Connections to reach the nation for Christ. Pray that God will continue to guide us as we are obedient to His call.

Scott & Tonya