February 2020 Update from Abel and Sarah Miller

We have been living in Tanzania for this last year, continuing to work while applying for different necessary visas.  Our visa application has recently been denied, but we have appealed the decision and are waiting for the ruling from the “Ministry of Labour.” If we are denied finally, we plan on leaving the country for some time while we re-apply for an “Investors” visa. A while ago, as an organization we had made the decision to have some of our people apply as investors and we were pursuing that option as a valid platform to reach Gospel resistant groups. This visa denial may force us to pursue that line of applying sooner than we had planned. While we are out of the country, we would expect to either to be in South Africa pursuing accreditation of the curriculum that we have developed to train national church workers/ missionaries, or being back in the United States touching base with supporting churches and letting them know about the expected change of our visa status in country. We are fine with being moved from one place to another, both realizing and trusting that God uses such circumstances to move His people into different places of service.

It has been difficult for our team during this last year, as almost every one of us (13 families) have been experiencing the challenge of being in the country with an uncertain future.  We have had to leave the country every three months to be compliant with immigration regulations and renew our multi-entry visa (It’s a different type of visa) and it has been a strain on many of our families financially as well.

Health-

We are doing well overall health wise. We do occasionally get malaria, though we have not had it recently. Two of us did have dengue fever over Christmas, while Sarah was away visiting a village work. We experienced five days of high fever and impressive pain in our bones. It was as good as it could be though. We spent a lot of time reading