IN THE EYES OF GOD, THESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE

THE JOY YOU BROUGHT TO THESEBROTHERS AND SISTERS WITH LOVE

AND WILLING HEART, YOU DID ITFOR THE LORD.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU MORE ANDMORE

Dear blessed people of God,

I, Salomon Ntibaharire and my wife Gloriose Nizigiyimana are so glad and verythankful for the contributions given to support widows at our home church in Burundi.

On behalf of a hundred and four (104) widows who received your support, we want to give thanks for you did the work Jesus Christ would do if he was in such situation. Let us give you some pictures that you may understand that the work you did was great and very crucial.

This was when we arrived at the church, it was night and the rain was too much but we managed to reach the place safely. It took us much effort and energy because the place is far away from the good road but God was with us, He gave us His protection.

Leaders of the church welcomed us in the prayer to thank God for he helped us to arrive safely and also for the blessings our brothers and sisters from United States of America sent to help widows of the church.

It was amazing grace to see the way our brothers and sisters from very far heardsituation and involved themselves to save life, to encourage the hearts who are in hard times like widows. They also give thanks to Salomon and his wife who advocated for the widows. May God bless you all!!!!!

We did not get to sleep that night because we had a big work to package all the idems into plastics in order to facilitate the work for the next morning.

In the morning, we started by sharing the word to encourage widows and inviting them to be close to God, strengthening the faith in Christ and giving hope to receive the eternal joy with God in His kingdom.

My wife and I took time to share the word of God.

The man in front of us is a crippled. He has no hands; his legs are cut in the knees. His situation is terrible but he was able to listen to the word of God. These people are very vulnerable at the point they are taken to public places to beg for what to eat. One of these widows said, “It is like am dreaming, I can’t believe it is a reality!”

To be honest, there are people who are in hard situation in this world. Looking at them walking, it is hard to tell. But, if you can be close and listen to them, cries may fall down.

These two very old mothers are widows, blinds, and very poor. After sharing the word of God, encouraging one another, strengthening them and giving the word of hope, we started another important work which was a distribution of food (rice, beans), cooking oil (palm oil), sugar, salt, soap, and clothes. Below are the pictures.

I was telling them the order that will be followed to get their gifts.

This is the quantity that each widow was able to receive from you people of God. It is very touching the heart of God. I believe God will give you heaven; these are the words from these widows and vulnerable.

Here, I really cried, my wife was doing a great with her counselling gift to help this crippled man these very old widows when she was blessing them with clothes each. They also cried for joy.

I also was very happy to see them their joy back on their faces waving with theirclothes. They are very much thankful to God who remembered them through the servants of God.

We also shared a bottle of drink (fanta and juice) to enjoy together.

God made a Day for them.

Singing and dancing for the LORD ALMIGHTY

Cries of joy made them falling on me, It was a blessed day ever in my life. May God multiply such wonderful times.

A picture when were about to return home

Departing to their homes

My thanksgiving also goes to our church leaders who planned for this successful time, the spent the whole night and day with us, they collected all the

names at the extend that no even one widow was forgotten. May God bless them as the serve God who has rewards.

My thanksgiving reaches the team of three men, one young man and young girl who joined us to our journey from Bujumbura our capital city to climb mountains going to distribute these gifts, I could not find their picture but your contribution is very much valuable. May God bless you; you made a good choice to serve the LORD.

My wife, she is a brave woman in knowledge of God. She is gifted and hand a transformed mindset for the will of God. I discovered once again she is great. May God help her continue building good and relationship with Him for the glory of the Gospel of Christ.

Dear brothers and sisters from USA who contributed, this can sounded as a story because you were not at the field, but, please:

- May you receive all the thanks from widows you helped

- May you received all the blessings they sent to you

- May you receive their tears of joy and happiness return to you

- May you remember that what you did, you did it for God Himself.

One challenge that we faced, the number was changing up to almost times two that made us to reduce the quantity in order to serve all. It went very well.

ONE PRAYER REQUEST, WE HAVE A LOT OF ORPHANS, IF GOD WILL GIVE YOU ANY OTHER SUPPORT WE WILL APPRECIATE.

IN CONCLUSION: WE CAN NOT THANK YOU ENOUGH

Salomon and Gloriose