Dear Pastor and praying friends!

      We have had an exciting few weeks of traveling! It was a joy to be in churches in California, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina all this month. We loved seeing old friends, and meeting new ones. Thank you to everyone who graciously had us in.  We praise the Lord for one church partnering with us this month. Will you help us pray for 11 more partners so we can get back to 100%? 

      Exciting things are still happening while we are away from FBC Motherwell. Our young men are doing a wonderful job leading our youth program, and we are averaging over 25 young people on Friday nights. We had one man attend the first annual men's conference at Camp Rhino, and several attended a leadership conference this month. 

      We were excited to hear that one of our faithful young ladies named Tina was able to lead her first person to Christ! The joy Tina had as she told us about it was contagious. We pray others will follow Tina's example, and learn the joy of telling others the good news of the Gospel. Miso has also been able to schedule a bible study with a young man from his school. Please pray for him as he seeks to boldly proclaim Christ. 

        Our family has thoroughly enjoyed being back with our home church in between travels. Our oldest daughter, Mallorie, was able to attend teen Camp in July,  and our boys are loving their "junior boys," Sunday School class. We are thankful for the opportunity for others to pour into our children. 

Hello Pastor and praying friends!

      We hope you all are having a wonderful summer, with Independence Day celebrations and vacation Bible schools. We have been stateside for about 3 weeks, and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed catching up with family and friends. That being said, June was packed full of events and sad goodbyes.

      We tried to cram all the events we could into the last few weeks before we left. We started off June by hosting a VBS during the kids’ winter break. Our theme was “Noah’s ark,” and we had over 100 kids every day! The Lord blessed and we had 7 kids trust Christ as their Savior.

      The next week, we sent our teens and juniors off to camp. They heard amazing messages, and came back encouraged to serve the Lord. We saw one young lady from our church accept christ at Camp Rhino. 

      Lastly, we had a special anniversary service for our last Sunday in South Africa. There was a sweet spirit in the service, and a delicious meal to follow. We left thanking God for our faithful members. Please pray for our people in our absence and for those who have responsibilities in our church. 

      In the last few weeks, we were blessed to be with Bible Baptist Church in Palm Harbor, Fl, Fellowship Baptist Church in Maryville, TN and First Avenue Baptist Church in Hilliard, Florida. The cyber failure caused us to miss some flights and we had to cancel some meetings. We are thankful for Pastor Bradley Collins and his church allowing us to present our work in Asheville, NC.  Please pray for us as we begin to travel all over the U.S starting in California this weekend. 

Dear Pastor and Praying friends.

      May was an exciting month for us at Fellowship Baptist, as we had a lot going on. We started the month by celebrating our "mamas" at our first women's conference at Camp Rhino. Somewhere around 60 women, from all of our local churches came together to celebrate, "How sweet He is!" I was told it was a great blessing to all who attended. 

      Our church also dedicated the month of May to host our first Family Conference. We were so thankful to have Pastor Sipho Bonga come and preach five fantastic messages on parenting, marriage, and everything else the Bible says about family. Pastor Bonga and his wife are raising three children for the glory of God, and in a culture where marriage is an anomaly, we were thankful to have a national tell our people, "It can be done!" We averaged 35 adults every Thursday night in May. We were glad to also have Lighthouse Baptist Church join and learn with us. 

      We finished out the month by helping to host Fairview Baptist Church from Athens, Tennessee. They brought a group of about 25 people and were such a blessing. Pastor Matt Herrel and a few of his people came and helped us decorate our children's church, and get ready for our upcoming vacation bible school. We also were blessed to hear some wonderful preaching, singing, and testimonies. Thank you for coming Fairview!

      We will be leaving for the States in a little less than a month. Emotions are a little scattered, as we are excited to see family and faithful supporting churches, but also sad to leave our home and church family. We would appreciate your prayers over the upcoming days. 

      One of our biggest concerns in leaving for furlough has been leaving our very young church. However, God has met the need and given us peace. We are thankful Missionary Brandon Byerly and his family have agreed to work at our church while we are away. While we are not yet in a position to put in a national leader, this will help to keep our church running in our absence. The young leaders we do have now have some smaller responsibilities and I am looking forward to seeing how they will respond to the challenge. Please pray for these young men: Elethu, (19), Masilakhe (18), Masiwakhe (18), Miso (17). We also have been blessed with three single missionaries who will help with our children's church,  women's discipleship, and girl teen classes. Amanda Baine, Ashley Taylor, and Michelle Geiger will help in those situations. The Lord is faithful, and we trust Him to continue to build His church. 

       We still have a few available openings if you would like for us to update or present in your church. 

April Prayer Letter 

      Hello from the Sullivan Family. It has been a busy time since our last prayer letter, and I’m excited to share what God has been doing through your faithful prayers and support.

      We ended March by celebrating our Risen Savior! The Lord blessed tremendously, as we had 100 in our service, 55 of those being adults. Our mamas prepared a delicious traditional meal, and we had a great time of fellowship. 

      In April, we were blessed by a new church member, Mama Nomalungelo. She is one of the rare few that has come to our church, having already made a profession of faith. however, after some discipleship, she realized she had not been biblically baptized. She didn’t let pride stand in her way, and told us she needed to be baptized the right way. It was a joy to watch her follow the Lord in believer’s baptism. We also saw two others baptized this month. We enjoyed having Pastor Ryan Hayden and a group from his church visit for a couple of weeks. His preaching was a huge encouragement to our family. 

      May started our “family conference.” Pastor Sipho Bonga will be with us, along with a few national churches, every Thursday this month. We are excited for our people to hear about biblical marriage and parenthood. Please pray for this meeting. There are very few traditional families in our area. Most of the people in our area are not married and most young people do not grow up with aspirations of being married. This is obviously an attack from Satan to distort God's plan. We covet your prayers as we battle this way of thinking amongst our people. 
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       “SAMP,” our new media ministry, is finally beginning. It has been a learning process for me, but we have begun recording and posting messages. We also want to thank Pastor Doug Horton for donating to this new ministry. We are hoping to get a recording studio together in the near future! 


Prayers & praises: 

• we want to thank God for giving Pastor Mxolisi Dama miraculous healing from Meningitis and complications this past month! 
• We also want to Praise God for providing a vehicle for us while we are in the States. Jehovah-Jirah! 
• We only have 6 short weeks before we bring our furlough. Please pray with us for the ministry here while we are going.  
• I am still looking to fill a few openings in Florida and Eastern Tennessee/North Georgia area, if any church is interested in us coming by. 

Hello Pastor and Church,


2 Peter 3:18 "But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen"
   In comparison to other months, February was not particularly eventful. Our family dealt with a couple of weeks of sickness. However, as I reflect on the last few weeks, I am thankful. We have had several faithful people, eager to grow in grace and knowledge. Our Sunday school has grown, and we are finishing up discipleship classes with several. Lord willing, we will be baptizing shortly.
 
What we have been up to: 

• We hosted our first “friend day,” at the beginning of the month, complete with ice cream sundaes! 
• An older gentleman accepted Christ as his Savior. 
• Our son Silas turned eight years old.
• Camp Rhino hosted its first young adult camp. We were able to send two young ladies. 
• We have enjoyed having Pastor Ryan Hayden and a group from Bible Baptist church here with us. The preaching has been such an encouragement. 

   Update on our Audio/Video ministry: We are still in the beginning stages of this new ministry. We have received $150 of the $1350 committed donations for it. But, we have still been able to purchase three microphones and video editing software. Please pray we can begin to faithfully record all services so that the Gospel can easily steam in our area. 

​​Prayer Requests: 
- We leave for a 6 six month furlough in just three months. Please pray for our church to continue serving the Lord faithfully in our absence. 
 - Please pray for God’s provision in finding a vehicle once we arrive.


  

Dear Pastor and Friends.

We blinked our eyes and we’re already a month into 2024! Here’s what we’ve been up to the past few weeks: 

• We had a wonderful week at Camp Rhino with our teenagers! There were 110 kids who came and heard the gospel, played a lot of games, and ate really well! We were able to send 16 teens from our church this year. It was a blessing to hear how God worked in their hearts. 
• Our kids went back to school , and kicked it off with a combined youth service at our church. Each month the likeminded local churches come together for a youth meeting. January was our turn to serve the youth. There were 100 teens in attendance and we saw the Lord save a soul! 
• Our church partook in the Lord’s Supper for the first time. We praise the Lord for giving us some saved church members. 
• We are excited about our upcoming furlough starting in August. If you would like for us to come and give an update or present our ministry please contact me. 

      Lastly, God has given me a burden for a new ministry opportunity! After discussing the lack of biblical resources in IsiXhosa, we are excited to start, “SAMP,” or South Africa Media Project. Our goal is to record every message, lesson, testimony ect, from our local churches, and get them online. Eventually we want to grow this into radio and podcasts. God provided the funds for some recording equipment, but we are now hoping to raise the funds for a centrally located recording studio the land has already been provided. If you are interested in donating or hearing more about this project, please let me know! 

We pray you have a wonderful February. 
1 John 4:16 - "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."

      Exciting Furlough update: Our family will be taking a short 5 month furlough towards the end of this year! After prayerfully considering the effects of being gone an entire year would have, we have decided to break it up into 2 parts. We will be in the States from September 2024-January 2025. And then again in the spring of 2026. 

      If you are interested in learning more about our ministry here in South Africa, or would like to have us back for an update, please let me know. We would love to see you!

      December was an exciting month with anticipation of celebrating our Savior's birth. Here in South Africa, December is also part of our 6 week summer break. So you can imagine, we squeeze alot into these few weeks! In between all of the festivities and traditions, we were able to spend a week at Camp Rhino with 18 of our junior kids. Everyone had a wonderful time, and we had multiple professions of faith. Please pray with us as we follow up with them and begin discipleship. We were also able to host Tim and Jessica Johnson, as they were here to survey South Africa. During that time, my wife and mrs. Jessica were able to lead a 14 year old girl to Christ. Lord Willing,  the Johnson's  will be returning with their family to serve as full time church planters in the near future.  

      My wife and I always want to put a huge emphasis on "giving" with our children, but this year was extra fun because we were able to involve some faithful members of our church. One-hundred "blessing bags," were put together, and handed out around our community with gospel tracts. We are praying to see fruit from this small endeavor. Thank you so much to those who gave us special Christmas offerings.  We don't take your love and kindness for granted. 
 
      I baptized 5 people in December. These are folks who have been faithful to our discipleship lessons, as well. We're excited to see what God has in store for 2024! 

      August has been an exciting month in ministry! My wife and I started off the month by traveling to Cape Town, South Africa to pick up our first intern, Laney Hatley. When we arrived, we were surprised to be greeted with riots all over the city. As we drove for two+ hours, trying to safely get to our hotel, we saw many different townships, lots of burning tires, and a lot of hurting faces. Our resounding thought was, "South Africa needs the gospel." Cape Town needs missionaries. Would you consider your part in getting the gospel to the world?

      Once arriving back home, we were excited to start some new things at church, now that we have an extra helper. We started by revamping our service times. In the past, We have never received any interest in a Sunday School class for our adults before the main church hour. We decided to try bible studies/SS after our main church hour, complete with coffee and refreshments. These classes have been well attended and the people seem to really be enjoying it. Next, we added "Kings Kids," to our Thursday night service. This is a time where the kids can really focus on scripture memorization. Our intern, Laney, has helped us in heading this up, with hopes of training our daughter, Mallorie, to continue the class when she leaves. 

      We praise the Lord for giving us several visitors in August, including a couple of "Tata's," (men.) Culturally it is very difficult to get older men in your church. Most are either deep into their cultural beliefs (Ancestoral worship,) or simply absent from the home. So anytime we have men visit, it is an encouragement. 

      Lastly,   this past month we were able to see a 16 year old young lady accept Christ. My wife was able to meet with her and her mother to do an in home Bible Study. After the first week my wife asked the young lady if she had ever heard the gospel message before. She replied "no."  She had never in her life heard that Jesus died in the cross, was buried, and rose again the third day. After 3 weekly meetings, Yonela decided to accept Christ as her savior. We rejoice!

     The four young men I have been mentoring are doing well. Masiwakhe, Masilakhe, Miso and Elethu have been very faithful to everything we do at the church. There will be expectations laid on them while I head to the states for a quick trip. Pray they will fulfill their roles and be encouraged by doing hard things. Three of my four children and I will be traveling back to the states this month for a short trip. This trip will allow my oldest children to visit with family. I have also booked some meetings in the local area and will be updating some of our supporting churches about our ministry. Thank you so much for your continued prayers and support of my family! God Bless. 

Dear Pastor and Praying Friends.
     
      Our family started off June getting settled into a new house! God gave us an opportunity to purchase a home a little more centrally located to school and ministry, and we are so thankful for His blessings! 

      Unlike the hot, long summer days in the states, June and July in South Africa  are much colder, slower paced months. However, similarly, our kids do get out of school for “winter break.” School holidays are always a great opportunity for ministry. To kick off the month we had a youth lead service for our midweek. We had young men from our church do all the activities of the church service. One lead the singing, one lead the prayer request time and prayer. Some sang specials and 2 young men preached. It was a great learning experience for them and myself. Also, My wife kicked off the break with a girl’s sleepover and bible study at our new home. 

      Next, we were able to take many of our teens to camp at “Camp Rhino.” We had 13 young people from our church attend camp this winter. They had a great time and got to hear some great preaching about "Surrendering to God". The Lord did a great work through visitors from Southside Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tn. It was nice to see some familiar faces and fellowship with "our people" from Tennessee. 

      Lastly, I was able to take some of my young men to teach and help at a vacation Bible school for Madiba Bay Baptist Church. One of our older teens preached the gospel to the kids at Madiba as well as help for a VBS at Soweto Baptist Church. We praise God for all these wonderful opportunities! 

      In between all of the busyness, we were able to see 1 precious soul accept Christ and be baptized! We praise the Lord for answering our prayers. We are continuing on with weekly Bible studies with our young people, and ask that you please pray for Christian growth! I have started a young mens bible study after church. I have been teaching "What does the Bible say about being a man?". I have been very surprised and excited about the turnout. 

      Over the past couple of months we have had several personal donations to finish up our building. We just want to thank you for taking part in this ministry. We pray for fruit to your account! 

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