Two brave, generous, and big-hearted young girls come from time to time to share their talent and joy with our orphans through beautiful songs and stories. When they sing and play together, the joy is visible on the faces of the children.

Breaking Ground for a new Schoolhouse

Laying the Foundation

Education for our orphans will soon be indoors because of your gifts!

Danny and his the team have laid out the plot and the foundation.

A simple wooden classroom measuring 15 meters by 8 meters, roofed with standard corrugated metal sheets. This affordable solution will protect the children from the weather and significantly improve their learning conditions.

Kalehe Chapel

As the Lord allows, we are trusting HIM to help us build a camp chapel where all 130 children and local families can gather out of the hot sun and storms to worship the LORD together!

Pray with us that this vision will become a reality. Now is the day of Salvation.

"Without a vision the people perish."

McDonald UPDATE

Richard and Kathy McDonald · Radio Kahuzi

Dear Family and Friends,

We just had our second big rain this evening, and it’s really cold! So I guess rainy season is back with us again. Always so nice after the months of dry and dusty weather. Of course, even the little birdies are happy with the rain. I noticed the nest in the tree outside our front door is empty, so the little one has flown away. We were amazed how fast that little one grew – a couple of days ago, it was sitting on the top edge of the nest, looking around at the big new world, and now the Mama bird is gone, too. It’s always amazing to watch the way those birdies build their nests, twig by twig, little by little. God’s “Super Intelligence” at work, which man can never outdo!

This evening, Feza just crossed the border after buying our meds in Rwanda, and guess what? The border here to Goma is closing! A big market in Kigali is burning! We don’t know for sure yet why. Here, near Goma, well-equipped and trained forces from Kinshasa have arrived, and the M23 group is supposed to leave Congo, but they say that many are coming to help them fight, and they have printed new money to replace the Congolese franc! So the next few days will be interesting and important for sure.

This war situation is quite exhausting for the population, and just today another friend of the community died. Every day it’s someone else dying of diseases, or stress, or bandits, with armed men entering people’s homes to steal whatever is available. Poverty with the hill people is a big problem.

In spite of it all, we are thankful that we can be here to help wherever we can, like with Danny’s 130 orphans after the loss of 5,000 souls in the massive mud slides of 2023. The needs are so great, but spiritually, the Christian community is strong in the Word and in prayer. They know that this situation will come to an end sometime, and in the meantime, we have to stay close to the Lord, in the Word, and in prayer, to keep strong.

Three kids in our Sunday school are almost ready to receive their reward for having memorized all 100 verses from the memory book program, and how they love that! The girls receive a new dress and the boys get a new shirt, pants, shoes, and a brand-new Bible. Heavenly rewards for sure, and daily comfort for the rest of their lives.

Today, Danny and Zemmer installed four solar panels and a lithium battery at the beginnings of our new Christian Polytech Academy for the 130 orphans – for Danny and Julien, the teacher, to operate the new laptop and projector as we prepare for distance education using our low-orbit satellite internet connection and, with your help, an education kit.

Thank you for all you do to make this possible! In Heaven, we’ll have eternity to review how our Lord Jesus Christ worked in all these situations – that is, His Commission to the Church, the Body of Christ. Amen and Amen!

Receive His applause and our thanks – to you and to all who have a part in this ministry.

Keep Looking UP!

Rich and Kathy and our Radio Kahuzi Team

A Message from the Smiths

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Hebrews 11:1

And so we move ahead by faith into our 40th year with (BESI) Believer's Express Service, Inc.

In 1986 when we incorporated BESI for Rich and Kathy McDonald, the thought of a radio ministry was not even a dream; it was not on our horizon, but it was on HIS mind and in 1992 it became a reality.

Lesson learned: Always be flexible in your service to the Lord and ready to respond to the Macedonian call and to things that come "Out of the Blue".

Hiring and training a devoted staff was paramount along with their education and their children's education. Preparing leaders for our ministry and beyond to insure the future of Radio Kahuzi has been a priority. Over the past 40 years we have, with your help, paid the school fees for 28 staff children.

"Out of the Blue"

Then came four more...Lea, Richard, Benjamin and Kathleen.

After fleeing for their lives (a story to be told in the fullness of time) "D" and his family arrived one evening on Rich and Kathy's doorstep. It was 2014 and the children had already missed two years of schooling while in hiding and their dear mother, Makonga, was battling breast cancer and needed immediate surgery. What do you say, "There is no room for you in our ministry budget?" No, you have learned to be flexible. The Lord has placed them in your pathway, not someone else's. Prayer begins and HIS PLAN unfolds.

From that day onward your prayers have joined with ours and you have supplied their needs. Now we are asking the LORD to bring us a few special hearts to complete the college education of the last and youngest, Kathleen. She is finishing her Senior year at (CPA) Calvary Preparatory Academy and is ready to enter (CCU) Calvary Chapel University online but her tution is $400 a month. Our daughter and son-in-law have underwritten all the children's high school and college thus far; however, their son Judah is now in college and they are unable to carry this last $400 monthly.

If you, or your Sunday School or church are in a position to help Kathleen finish her education, please designate your gift: KATHLEEN AT CCU.

Thank you for your encouragement, and your steadfast support of Richard & Kathy and the entire BESI / Radio Kahuzi family.

Keep Looking UP!

Harold D. Smith, and our

BESI Board of Directors