Mark 9:50
Historically, known for its salt flats and salt production, Uvinza, today, is just a medium-sized rural town.
While salt continues to be produced here, it is not the big enterprise of long ago.
Centuries ago, these salt and mineral deposits were very valuable resources, especially for the tribes living in the middle of Africa so far away from the salt and minerals that the oceans afford.
The road to Uvinza has been paved and it is a lovely drive from Kigoma east and south as we head out toward Nairobi.
We will stop in Uvinza as we travel today and look at the engagement status of the Vinza people.
As we reach Uvinza the nice tar road ends, leaving Uvinza town with rough dirt roads and tracks through town and the surrounding area.
The Vinza people are predominately a Muslim people group.
While there is a church presence in Uvinza and some of the villages where the Vinza people live, because they are a Muslim group, evangelical Christians live beside the Vinza without ever testifying to them about the awesome grace of God’s salvation through His Son Jesus Christ.
The above is a section of the Injili. This is the New Testament translated into Arabic. The left side is Swahili and the right portion is Arabic. While most Muslims in Tanzania cannot read Arabic, if they can read at all, they can read Swahili. This portion is John 3:16-17. God’s promise of a Savior and Redeemer fulfilled.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.” John 3:16-17
God loves us.
God made a plan for our salvation.
God does not condemn us.
God wants to save us.
Amazing isn’t it?
*Pray that the churches among the Vinza people of Western Tanzania would be salt and light to the Vinza people; sharing with them, the Gospel of truth.
*Pray for dreams and visions among the Vinza leading them to search for spiritual truth.
*Pray for an opening within Vinza communities enabling churches to reach out ministering in love and power.