- The Covid-19 pandemic is now beginning to progress through deeply impoverished Africa. Please pray for the folks there who are desperate in so many ways - many, many who are needing to know Jesus. Please pray that people would turn their hearts to Jesus as their Savior. Here are some reports coming in from Africa ...

"Rice and beans, a food staple for urban families in living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are becoming more difficult to access and purchase during the Covid-19 pandemic. Food prices in the major cities are up anywhere from 5% to 88% with the price of rice and beans up 25% Rice is selling for 45-50 cents per pound. Charcoal sells for 65-70 cents per pound. The average wage per day is less than $2.00."

"Given the precariousness of life, the vulnerability of families and certain already vulnerable groups, there is already a problem of survival in an economy where people live on less than a dollar a day." (Vice President for the National Protestant Church DRC)

Please pray for God's sustaining power and His unfailing love for a people already suffering in ways we cannot conceive.

From Toe-Blake Roy, Director of BLF Canada

- Yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, 4/22/2020) around 13:45 my Dad went to meet his Lord and Saviour. This was expected, but in a time of the restrictions of Covid-19, many things have changed in the normal way of doing things and we learn new ways of doing what needs to be done as we go.

Linda and I are very grateful for your prayer support in this time!