We're still basking in the goodness of God and the generosity of our partners to provide for our August retreat. It truly was a connecting and building time for our ministry family. Our missionaries have returned to their nations of service and we are as committed as ever to hold up their hands.
Over the summer two outstanding opportunities for partnership were presented to us.
The first concerns church planting. Live School is a church planting strategy that has been very successful in southern Africa. We were privileged to host Eddie Robinson, a representative of Live School, at our August retreat. Through Eddie’s presentation and the time we spent with him we recognized God was bringing about a partnership. This was an answer to prayer for us because we’ve sought the Lord for the right church planting strategy, especially for unreached areas of West and Northwest Africa.
We’re in the process now of launching a pilot Live School in Gambia, to target the Muslim unreached villages in the entire Senegambia region. The financial provision has already been made for this initiative. We now need Gambian pastors and facilitators with a call to missions and church planting to become involved. We’ll share more as this project progresses.
The second opportunity concerns books for Bible training centers. Christ for the Nations has offered to ship 200,000 English and French books for our use in West Africa! CFN is providing the books at no cost. Our responsibility is for the shipping and clearing of a 20-foot container to Liberia, a total of $7,000.
The books will serve Bible training centers, evangelistic outreaches, discipleship programs, and churches in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Gambia.
These are exciting partnerships offering the potential to reach LOTS of people! Glory to God!
I so appreciate the partnerships God brings to us. We simply cannot do what God has called us to do without the partnership of others in the Body of Christ.
Your supply in prayer and finances is crucial and not secondary to our part. We cannot do what we do without you!
With love and thanks,
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