Thank you for your continued prayers, support and encouragement. It has been encouraging to see the work continue in Africa. I have just returned from South Africa and Rwanda.
Pretoria, South Africa. (Graduation picture below)
I have been working with the school in South Africa since 2008. The school that we just finished in September was a great blessing.
On the day we started there was such an aptitude for prayer. It is not often you get a school where everybody comes together with a desire to seek the Lord. Sometimes the prayer meeting is a bewildering time for new comers who have not had prolonged seasons of prayer by themselves. To pray for an hour without entertainment is a stretch for the flesh to come to terms with. By the end of the school the students were all testifying and sharing how God had dealt with them, spoken to their lives and taught them during the school. One of the highlights was a gentleman who came from an area near to the city of Durban. He is a pastor from the Zulu tribe and was excited about taking the teaching back to his home town, where there are at least 50 pastors that he says want to go through the school. He is requesting us to come there next January / February 2014.
Bugesera, Rwanda. (Graduation picture below)
After South Africa I was able to visit the school in Rwanda for the graduation. 35 leaders attended this school from the local area.
Nairobi, Kenya (Nairobi graduation, August 2013)
On my departure I was able to meet with Joseph Ngigi who is heading up the School of Christ in Kenya. They are running the school 2 days a week and also full–time schools during the school holidays.
Burkina Faso
This report is from Shalom who is working in Togo, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.
“From September, 5th to September 15th (a conference) was held in Burkina Faso Ouaga. This was an introduction of the School of Christ training program. This meeting has gathered 15 head pastors of churches who greatly appreciated the lessons of the school. After the introduction program it was concluded that the real training program will be held in the month of November with 27 pastors and their assistant pastors before we open the school to the other pastors of the country. In the training program was also the secretary of the Assemblies of God Council.”
Lilongwe, Malawi.
I have recently received this report from Pastor Joseph who is running the school in his church.
“We have just finished our September class of School of Christ, today Friday, September 27, 2013. We had 14 students (pastors and church leaders) who attended this class. Through their testimonies you could tell that God was at work in their lives during the classes and they have gone back to their respective areas changed people.”
Ivory Coast
Brother Shalom is in Ivory Coast at the moment conducting the School of Christ there. He recently sent a report as follows:
“I have been leading training programs but this School of Christ program we are having here in Ivory Coast, I can say it is the best I have ever lead in this year. We start the school early in the morning with a prayer and start the classes. Next Saturday will be the graduation ceremony with 28 pastors from influential churches in Ivory Coast.”
Benin Republic (below is a picture of the school that was run in August)
Please be in prayer for the schools in November that are going to be running in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. God willing, I will travel to DRC for the running of that school and also Nigeria and Uganda later in the month.
The focus and vision of LITWM continues to be running discipleship schools to train pastors and leaders. Our burden is that these pastors who have gone through the training would return to their churches and be a blessing, and that the churches would be a blessing to their communities and nations.
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