This update comes from Brook Seekins’ recent email. It has lots of good information about her ministries and what her day-to-day life is like in Malawi. One Year One year ago this week, everything seemed to stop. I remember being in the middle of Mission Conferences and finding out that the...
James Lawley, former GMI missionary to Brazil, went home to be with the Lord on February 12. He and his wife, Nell, left for the mission field in 1952 and retired in 1994. They were the first Bethesda Mission (now GMI) missionaries in Northern Brazil. They served together with their five children...
This is from Alex Gulart about the church service last Sunday in their new building on the new property! You can just feel the excitement as you read this post: We praise the Lord for the first ever service on the new property! We cannot even start to describe how thankful we are for God’s...
https://gracem.org/wp-content/uploads/WhatsApp-Video-2021-02-08-at-4.21.42-AM.mp4 Batister is the Executive Director of Grace Community Development & Education (GCDE) which is an organization in Tanzania that sees to the needs of others, one of which is to make sure those who need an ATV...
This comes from a recent email correspondence written by Brook Seekins about her ministries in Malawi: Sunday, the youth group which recently started, met for their third time. We had some young people come from a neighboring village where we have a church plant join us. They walked one hour just...
The purchase of the land in Paraguay is complete. The congregation, along with our missionaries, have met in four different locations since they started meeting as a group several years ago, and they are thrilled to have property with a facility they can renovate and make it exactly what they need...
Puerto Rico is where GMI missionaries Lawrence and Barbara Trumbower have served for more than forty years. Since transitioning out of the radio ministry over a year ago, Lawrence has worked tirelessly at Camp Caribe maintaining and improving the property while also representing GMI as the last...
Our 2020 Christmas Catalog is out and available for your perusal. Just go to gracem.org and choose Projects and then Christmas Catalog and you’ll be able to see all the projects available on all the GMI fields. On our Facebook page (facebook.com/graceministriesinternational) we are also...
Omar (not his real name) is a motorbike driver on the island of Mbwera where the population is 100% Muslim. These people belong to the Wandengereko people group whose population in Tanzania is about 85,000 of whom only 0.7% are followers of Christ. Mbwela is located along the Indian ocean, 200...
Over the last month, several of our missionaries have been able to get to the field. On October 25, Ronnie and Jaque Mackensen were able to leave Nicaragua for Panama. They were scheduled to leave in April, but have spent their extended time in Nicaragua improving their Spanish and learning more...
Hello from SW Tanzania, We are happy to send you some pictures of the work that has been taking place since our last update in September. Kim and I hope you are enjoying your fall. One thing we miss since we moved from Pennsylvania to Africa is the cool weather and snow at Thanksgiving and...
Last week, in our His Grace is Sufficient quick update, we talked about Sylvia not being able to go to Mbewa Village because of a funeral that happened in the village. Everything comes to a standstill when there is a funeral. All adults are mandated to attend the funeral. No one goes to work and...
