“The Lord’s purpose for all His church, which may only be realized by the few, is that it should remain the testimony of life which has conquered death and will conquer death right until the end.” except from School of Christ. Series Conflict, Lesson #1 “The Testimony of Life”.
Picture Above: SOC, San Pedro, Ivory Coast
Picture Above: SOC, San Pedro, Ivory CoastThank you for your prayers. I had a very blessed and encouraging trip to Ivory Coast via South Africa. The update on each country is below.
South Africa – At the beginning of my journey I passed through South Africa to meet with a former student who is a pastor of a church in the townships surrounding Pretoria. He ran the school in his church in 2012 and saw a move of God that brought a number of the young people from his area to faith in Christ. This group of young people then became students through subsequent schools that were conducted in his church. He has run the school on a part time basis in some of the other churches around the capital city of Pretoria. We have committed to help support the gathering together of the local pastors during the next six months to introduce the school and afterward assess the possibility of running a full-time school with these pastors.
Ivory Coast – This was the main purpose of my trip. I spent some time with the present school to make sure everything was in place and done according to the discipline and training we have set in place. Sometimes it is easy for things to get lax and wrong teaching to enter in; however, in this school I was very impressed with the fidelity and aptitude of the directors. The school was in a place called San Pedro about a six hour car journey from the capital – Abidjan. We will be sponsoring another school in Ivory Coast in December, but the brethren there have plans to run more schools that will be self supported during this year.
Gabon – In January our director for Togo went to Gabon to make preparations for the running of the school in May. There were over 200 pastors gathered for the introduction of the school in that country. Several of them were so interested, they traveled back to Togo with our director to get more information for their school in May.
This month of February, we presently have two schools running in Uganda and Rwanda.
Thank you all for your prayers and support.
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