Dear Friends and Family,
Recently, my mother found a rock in my room at home that says, “Send Me, August 3, 2006!” For several years, the Lord has been molding my heart to serve him overseas. I had written on that particular rock just a few months after returning from India where the Lord gave me a particular vision for serving Him in a third world country.
Over the past two years I have lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, working full-time at Riley’s Hospital for Children and attending a solid Bible-believing church, College Park. I have been able lead a small group for Jr. High students and attend a challenging Bible study.
Africa Inland Mission
During this last year, the Lord led me to Africa Inland Mission (http://www.aimint.org/). Initially, I have made a nine month to one year commitment to work with AIM. Just last week I was extended the opportunity to join a team going to Rundu, Namibia. The team leaves the end of September!! My team’s vision is to “…make disciples by meeting both the spiritual and physical needs of those to whom we minister. The emphasis will be on children and youth; through discipleship to lead them into a growing relationship with Jesus in a life transforming way. Our desire is to see youth grow up with an understanding of God’s Kingdom and their role in it.”
Main Focuses
1. Helping in a national hospital and assisting a missionary doctor.
2. Involvement in the Kaisosi Evangelical Bible Church Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project. (Youth in this society are undervalued. Most susceptible are the pre-adolescent and teenage girls who lack self esteem and social support. These factors leave many children and youth abandoned or in vulnerable situations.)
3. Following-up with a group of girls (ages 12-16) who participated in a sports camp this summer.
My ultimate prayer is that I will be able to live out the greatest commandment as stated in Mark 12:30-31, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” I am excited to have the privilege to assist and serve the Namibians, at-risk children, and missionaries, while sharing Christ.
YOU!
There is no way I can possibly do this without YOU! And I have urgent needs.
Yes…I need YOU!
Prayer
I NEED your prayers! Pray that the Lord will bring details together, provide finances, ordain and unite our team, and help me in transitioning out of Indianapolis and into an African culture.
Other prayer needs specifically for Rundu, Namibia include:
- Attitudes of apathy, low self-esteem, and fatalism.
- This culture also is extremely prone to envy and even within the church this presents obstacles to working cohesively as the body of Christ.
- The history of apartheid in Namibia has led to attitudes of separateness instead of unity in both secular society and within the church.
- Within the established churches of Rundu there does not appear to be a desire to reach the lost from other cultural backgrounds or train up future church leaders.
- The HIV pandemic has brought exceptional challenges throughout Namibia, including the Rundu area.
* The adult prevalence of HIV is the second highest in the world at 21% and the terrible consequences of this disease have affected almost every aspect of society.
* HIV/AIDS has been the largest factor in creating numerous orphans and vulnerable children in the Kavango region and has contributed greatly to the collapse of the family unit.
* Only 30% of children in Namibia have 2 parents in the home.
For more information on Namibia look on https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wa.html.
Finances
Recently, my mother found a rock in my room at home that says, “Send Me, August 3, 2006!” For several years, the Lord has been molding my heart to serve him overseas. I had written on that particular rock just a few months after returning from India where the Lord gave me a particular vision for serving Him in a third world country.
Over the past two years I have lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, working full-time at Riley’s Hospital for Children and attending a solid Bible-believing church, College Park. I have been able lead a small group for Jr. High students and attend a challenging Bible study.
Africa Inland Mission
During this last year, the Lord led me to Africa Inland Mission (http://www.aimint.org/). Initially, I have made a nine month to one year commitment to work with AIM. Just last week I was extended the opportunity to join a team going to Rundu, Namibia. The team leaves the end of September!! My team’s vision is to “…make disciples by meeting both the spiritual and physical needs of those to whom we minister. The emphasis will be on children and youth; through discipleship to lead them into a growing relationship with Jesus in a life transforming way. Our desire is to see youth grow up with an understanding of God’s Kingdom and their role in it.”
Main Focuses
1. Helping in a national hospital and assisting a missionary doctor.
2. Involvement in the Kaisosi Evangelical Bible Church Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project. (Youth in this society are undervalued. Most susceptible are the pre-adolescent and teenage girls who lack self esteem and social support. These factors leave many children and youth abandoned or in vulnerable situations.)
3. Following-up with a group of girls (ages 12-16) who participated in a sports camp this summer.
My ultimate prayer is that I will be able to live out the greatest commandment as stated in Mark 12:30-31, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” I am excited to have the privilege to assist and serve the Namibians, at-risk children, and missionaries, while sharing Christ.
YOU!
There is no way I can possibly do this without YOU! And I have urgent needs.
Yes…I need YOU!
Prayer
I NEED your prayers! Pray that the Lord will bring details together, provide finances, ordain and unite our team, and help me in transitioning out of Indianapolis and into an African culture.
Other prayer needs specifically for Rundu, Namibia include:
- Attitudes of apathy, low self-esteem, and fatalism.
- This culture also is extremely prone to envy and even within the church this presents obstacles to working cohesively as the body of Christ.
- The history of apartheid in Namibia has led to attitudes of separateness instead of unity in both secular society and within the church.
- Within the established churches of Rundu there does not appear to be a desire to reach the lost from other cultural backgrounds or train up future church leaders.
- The HIV pandemic has brought exceptional challenges throughout Namibia, including the Rundu area.
* The adult prevalence of HIV is the second highest in the world at 21% and the terrible consequences of this disease have affected almost every aspect of society.
* HIV/AIDS has been the largest factor in creating numerous orphans and vulnerable children in the Kavango region and has contributed greatly to the collapse of the family unit.
* Only 30% of children in Namibia have 2 parents in the home.
For more information on Namibia look on https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wa.html.
Finances
I was given the seemingly impossible task of raising the support I need for one year ($17,300) in one month. I am fully funded!!!!
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,” Eph. 3:20
Trusting in Christ,
Alysse
Alysse Cuthbert
alysse.cuthbert@gmail.com * Skype: alysse.cuthbert
*317-503-7785 * 67376 Lakeshore Dr., Dowagiac, MI 49047
