At a time in their lives when many couples are looking toward retirement, Mike and Joann Noel took a big step into ministry in Tanzania, joining the CMF church planting team there in April 2012.
Estha, a 35-year-old woman in Tanzania, can’t read because her father did not allow his daughters to go to school.
Hereni, 36, was required by her parents to tend the family’s herd of goats from an early age so she didn’t have the chance to learn to read.
How can we help illiterate people learn and share the word of God?
This is a question that Eric and Caitlin Pitts, who serve with CMF team in Turkana, Kenya, often wrestle with. One technique that they feel is very effective is biblical storytelling.
For the past seven years God has been working in the most remote part of southwest Ethiopia near the South Sudan border in incredible ways, according to CMF team members Ted and Jennifer Bertleson.