In May 2010, Pr. Makonga Mubila, our main Maranatha pastor in Bukavu, Dem. Rep. Congo, visited the church on Idjwe Island.  They have bought a plot of land there and are building a small church, although it still badly needs to have the roof completed.  An outreach event brought seventeen more people to accept salvation through Jesus Christ.  Please keep the church in your prayers, as they face many struggles there, and pray for the new converts to grow in their faith and to mature spiritually.

This is from the Wikipedia page for Idjwi:

Idjwi is an island in Lake Kivu, belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At 40 km in length and with an area of 285 km², it is the second largest inland island in Africa, and the tenth largest in the world. Idjwi is roughly equidistant between the DRC and Rwanda, with 10 to 15 kilometres separating its western shore from the DRC mainland and a similar distance between its eastern shore and the coastline of Rwanda . . . In 1996 the island was estimated to have a population of 112,000 DRC citizens and 46,000 Rwandan refugees . . . Malnutrition is common, especially among children, which is not surprising, given that almost all of the population is dependent on subsistence agriculture.

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