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Photos: Training Session, Koboko

Dear Friends,

We recently finished a school in a place called Koboko, Northern Uganda on the South Sudanese border.  According to news estimates, over one million people have fled from violence in South Sudan to neighboring countries like Uganda and Congo.

The training was focused on South Sudanese pastors who have been forced to leave their country while the violence continues.  We had a great school with 30 of these leaders in attendance. They were all very attentive to the lessons and showed a good level of understanding.  I know many of these students face great difficulties in the days ahead.  Please pray that they would stand strong in the Lord to see the furtherance of God’s will and purpose in this area.

This month of October we have already started schools in the countries of Zimbabwe, Togo, Congo, Kenya and at the end of the month in Nigeria.

“We must recognize and earnestly seek that which God’s heart is set upon, that is a people of the cross; a people who have been crucified with Christ and whose life is a testimony to Calvary’s victory over every enemy of Christ.”  (BH Clendennen, SOC series: Almighty Blood)

LITWM September 2016 Update

(1Co 3:11)  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

The foundational material for all service and work that is done for God must be Christ. Without Him the whole structure of ministry and life in God falls apart.

The great blessing of the teaching of the School of Christ is to focus each student upon life’s lesson which is Jesus Christ.  He must be the first and primary thing that occupies the heart of each human.

I am so grateful to the Lord for the opportunity of seeing pastors and leaders of Churches across the continent of Africa be challenged and changed in their walk with the Lord as they go through these training schools.

In the month of August we completed schools in the following countries in Africa.

Country: Democratic Republic of Congo

City: Kinshasa – This is the fourth full-time residential school that we have run in the capital city.  There is such a great need in this country for the practical manifestation of Christ to be lived out fully in each Christian’s life.  The corruption within the country makes it a daily battle for believers to stand true against the prevailing system.  We thank God for the facilitators on the ground, who are working to carry forth the vision of the school into the different parts of their country.  We graduated a school here on the 27^th August.

City: Bukavu– This city is located near to the Rwandan border.  We first ran a school in Bukavu in 2008 and since that time we have gone back to run other schools.  It has been some years since we have been in this location and were able to graduate 20 students.

Country: Republic of Chad

City: Doba – This was the first school we have run in Chad. Our director whom we sent from Cameroon faced many difficulties in this school but we are rejoicing in the faithfulness of God to see the school established.  They graduated on the 22^nd August. 

In this month of September we start a school at the border of South Sudan and Uganda in a place called Koboko. Because of rebel fighting in South Sudan, people have had to flee their country for the safety of their own lives.  Our director Thomas contacted us saying that there is a great opportunity for reaching the church leaders located on the border, if we could run a school there.  So we have quickly put together a school and will be running it from the 12^th to 30^th September.

Country: Kenya

City: Nairobi  – For many years the School of Christ has been running in Kenya.  I rejoice in the steadfast commitment shown by the director Joseph and the team as they labor in running the schools.  They have completed a school in August in Nairobi.  We jointly work together helping support the work as they continue forward. They are starting a school this month of September in the city of Naivasha.

Thank you to those who pray and help support the ministry.  We are very aware that we are all in this work together.

(Psa 115:1)  Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.

Above: SOC – Doba, Chad

Above: SOC – Kinshasa, D.R. Congo

(Col 2:5)  For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

One of the fruits of running the schools is seeing the order and steadfastness that comes about in the students’ lives from being under the influence of the Word of God and prayer.

We receive students from different cultural and theological backgrounds, with cherished strongholds that have been lodged in their minds and are contrary to the Word of God.

In every school a conflict begins and is often intense. As the school progresses, prayer becomes effectual, truth is received and barriers are broken down. The result is order, steadfastness and a setting of the affections on things above.

In the month of June we graduated a school in Burkina Faso.

 Above Pictures: Burkina Faso Class and Graduation

Forty-seven leaders gathered from different villages across the country to meet for the school in Ougadougo (the capital city). The day before graduation, one of the older pastors in the school testified and encouraged the class of their need to walk in obedience to the revealed truth, to stand strong as they go back to their communities, and demonstrate that Christ is alive.

In the month of June we also had schools in:

Porto Novo, Benin Republic – We had twelve students.

Above Picture: Benin Republic

Shinyanga, Tanzania – We had twenty-four Bishops and Pastors.

Picture Above: Tanzania

Yaounde, Cameroon – We had nineteen students gather from different areas of the country.

Nairobi, Kenya – A school has just been completed.

This month of July we are starting another school in Burkina Faso.

In August, we have schools running in the city of Kinshasa and Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

We also have a school starting in the country of Chad, (a landlocked nation surrounded by Libya, Sudan, CAR, Niger and Cameroon). This is the first time we have ever had the opportunity to go there.

The only hope is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Man cannot be educated out of his evil; he must be Born Again!

Thank you to all who have helped pray and support the above and continuing work in Africa.

Picture above: School in South Sudan

We trust you are all well and rejoicing in the Lord.

We are looking forward to another great year of ministry in Africa as the Lord wills. Below is a list of some of the schools we have planned in the following countries.

February – South Sudan, Ghana, Zimbabwe
April – Uganda, Rwanda
May – Angola
June – Cameroon, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Republic of Benin
August  – Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Kenya
October – Togo, Tanzania
December  – Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo – Prison school.

New areas that have been opened to us this year are Chad and Angola.

We appreciate your prayers as the work goes forward.

Thank you to all of you who have stood with us during this year of ministry.  Looking back over 2015, I am rejoicing in the faithfulness of God, who has undergirded and strengthened the work in Africa to go forward.  To God alone be the glory given.

1 Corinthians 1:18
(18)  For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

We labor, believing in the Divine call of the Scriptures, to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.  Our aim is to preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord.

This month of December schools have been completed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast with 16 graduates; A prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo with 53 students and finally Kisumu, Kenya.

Below is a list of monthly schools we have helped to run over the course of this year; 24 schools covering 15 nations in Africa.

January:  San Pedro, Ivory Coast

February:  Rwamagana, Rwanda; Mubende, Uganda

April: Bujumbura, Burundi; Nairobi, Kenya

May:  Bohicon, Benin Republic; Impfondo, Congo; Pretoria, South Africa

June:  Ouagadougo, Burkina Faso; Shinyanga, Tanzania;  Shoshanguve South Africa, Maroura, Cameroon

August:  Impfondo, Congo; Hamanskraal  South Africa; Kinshasa DRC; Bukavu, DRC; Aflao Ghana

September: Benin City, Nigeria; Kisumu, Kenya

October: Winterveld, South Africa; Lome, Togo

December: Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Kisumu, Kenya; Kinshasa (Prison), DRC

God Bless you all and may you have a great new year.We are looking forward to a great year 2016.  I am working on finalizing a tentative schedule for this upcoming year.

Ive been meditating on an old hymn these last few weeks. Below is one of the verses of the hymn.

That no one can ever o’er throw.

The imminent threats that are faced all over the world are not a deterrent to the forward movement of the Gospel; but rather, it should spur us on to take the Gospel forward. God has commissioned His people and we can make a difference in the day and age we are living in.

We have recently graduated schools in Winterveld, South Africa with 23 graduates, and Lome, Togo with 14 graduates. 

During this month of November, our director in Kenya was invited to run a school in a place called Bungoma, Kenya with 30 pastors in attendance.