Emmanuel International

Linda’s Story     June 12, 2025   

Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Linda Fitzmaurice, from the EIUK office participated with a church in England which was sending a group of volunteers in 2015,  She writes, “I was part of a short-term mission team to Ibumu, Tanzania. My church sent a group, aging from 16 to 72, to help build a science laboratory at the secondary school. We thought that we were going out to make a change in the
village but we all came back changed ourselves, with a new perspective on what we consider to be important in our lives. The villagers were incredibly welcoming, and the beauty of the country was breathtaking. For me, the best experience was attending church in the village, a very different event to our usual services in the UK. The singing and dancing were inspiring. Worshipping together in Swahili (which we could not really understand) was still surprisingly familiar. I felt a profound sense of unity with my fellow believers as we knelt together to receive Holy Communion. It struck me that my church back home was doing the same that very Sunday. We were connected as one family in God, despite the distance!”

Where it all started

September 12, 2024

The Letters of Patent declaring Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International to be a recognized charitable organization is dated September 11, 1975.  September 12, 2024 begins our 50th year, our Jubilee year!  In the Bible, every 50th year was a reset year, a year of rest. The Jubilee was a year of acknowledging Sovereign God, His grace, His provision, His heart for His people.  

With Samuel of old, on the 12th of September 2024, join us in raising our Ebenezer; for truly, ‘hitherto has the LORD helped us.” 

 I Samuel 7:12:  “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.”