Light In The World Ministries

Ougadougo, Burkina Faso

Ephesians 2:13

(13)  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Greetings in the Mighty Name of Jesus,

Thank you all for your prayers and continued support. We are blessed to have seen God stir the hearts of pastors and leaders of churches in Burkina Faso and Tanzania during the month of June.

By God’s grace, in these schools we are seeing renewed hearts of saints returning to the altar of prayer. The result is a restoration of Bible believing and obeying men and women of God, stirred to see God work in revival and soul-saving power in their local communities.  It is the simplicity of Acts 6:4 at work, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.”  There are no gimmicks, no games, just hearts that are hungry for truth, burning with a desire to make Christ known everywhere.

This month of July we have three schools running in the following countries. Please remember our directors in prayer as they are often in difficult situations. Doors are opening before us and we need the wisdom of God to handle everything in accordance with the Holy Spirit’s will and direction.

July Schools:
Tanzania
Mali
Uganda

Yours in Christ and for His Kingdom,

(Mathew 24:14) And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Dear Friends

This month of June we have schools running in Nyamongo, Tanzania and also Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 

We are so thankful to be part of this work that God is doing amongst the leadership of the churches in the continent of Africa. 

To quote B.H.Clendennen from the series of Rebuilding The Gate:

“God Is getting us ready – getting His church ready – His preachers ready. He is raising up men of God, putting the fivefold ministry around them.”

I believe this. God is not dead! His work is continuing and moving forward!

(Psalm 19:7) The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Obedience to the Word of God brings more deliverance and saves more lives than all the learning of complex theology.  In running these schools our purpose is not merely to teach the Word of God, but that the students become the message they are hearing. For truth to become effective it must be practiced.

We have rejoiced to see countless pastors’ lives changed as they have gone through the school, have taken hold of the altar of prayer, and have presented their bodies afresh unto Christ so that His Will could be accomplished through their lives.

These last few months have been a busy but very profitable time.  Here are the countries where we have recently run the School of Christ training.   

Tanzania – During the month of February and March we sponsored two schools, one in a place called Mugumu, and the other in the city of Mwanza. This was a great blessing in these pastors’ lives as they were changed by the Word of God. 

We also graduated schools in …

March Uganda (Nakivale).  

March/April Niger (Niamey).

February Togo (Lome)

Please be in prayer for the upcoming schools this month in Uganda and Eastern Congo and in the month of June in Burkina Faso and Tanzania.

(Rom 1:15)  So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

We recently ran a school in the country of Uganda in a rural area called Rwamwanja, with 35 students in attendance. It is always a blessed time running the schools in these rural areas, as the pastors are generally more apt to receive the Word of God with meekness of heart and mind. Some of the testimonies received from the students during this time are as follows and are abbreviated to save space.

One preacher told how they had a deep-seated quarrel with a neighbor. During the series of “Repentance” in the school, the Holy Spirit worked in their hearts to confess their wrong and go back home to make restitution. This brought about a restoration of friendship with their neighbor, and during the remainder of the school saw an increase in this preacher’s personal prayer life.

Another pastor shared how the lesson on “Church and Home Relationships” deeply affected them. They saw that all true Christianity must affect their home life before we can successfully see it affect others.

During graduation, one pastor communicated how his church had been growing cold, but now his eyes were opened to see the need of revival. He went home to preach the precious truths he had learned to the flock entrusted to his care and was seeing the beginnings of a stirring for God in the hearts of his congregation.

One pastor was blind. The other students would lead him by the hand to the classes, where he sat and listened to the Word of God every day. To see him rejoice and praise God for what he had received in the school was truly humbling. It is such a privilege to be entrusted with this Gospel!

Please continue to pray. God is doing great things. If we can help these dear saints walk with Jesus, we have accomplished our purpose in running these schools.

We have already started our next schools this month of February.  One in Lome, Togo (West Africa) and the other in Mugumu, Tanzania. I shall be traveling to be with these schools in the coming weeks.

I am thankful we have access by faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Although the days we are living in are uncertain and perilous, we still have access to our Lord and Saviour who changes not, is not discouraged nor distraught over present world happenings.

As a ministry, we have sought to enter through the doors that have opened in the year of 2021. God has enabled us, to continue to run discipleship schools across the continent of Africa. I am amazed that God has done so much with so little, but it has been His doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.  Time and eternity are relentless critics of the work we do and will show forth whether what has been accomplished is wood, hay, and stubble, or gold, silver, and precious stones. (1Cor3:12). It is for the latter we strive, by His grace.

Listed below are the schools we have run in 2021.

We start our next school for the new year on the 5^th January in Uganda. Due to changing Covid restrictions, it is difficult to plan exact dates further on in the year, listed below are the tentative schools we are planning.

1 Thessalonians 2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

I’m so thankful we have an open door into Africa! More importantly, the Lord has granted entrance into the hearts of the pastors that are presently going through the schools.

This month of November, I returned from a trip to Africa that included the countries of Kenya, Ivory Coast and Tanzania. It was a profitable time.  We are seeing a great desire for spiritual reality in the lives of the pastors we train.

Let me highlight three of the countries, we have been working in this last month.

• Ivory Coast: I visited this school for the last week of class and the students had been stirred in their hearts.  In the final week of study, they agreed to meet each night to pray from twelve (midnight) to three am. This was in addition to the times of prayer in the regular running of the school.
  

Picture: Graduation, Ivory Coast

• Tanzania: I remember the first time I came to Tanzania was in 2008 when I ran the school in a place called Mwanza. Since that time the school has spread across many of the Tanzanian regions.  During this year of 2021, we were officially invited back to Mwanza to run the school again with a pastor’s fellowship within the city.  What a joy it was to see God work in the leaders’ hearts as they grew in humility, sought holiness, desired God’s will and truth, and prayed through.

• Uganda: Our country director, had requested a school in October 2021. I gave the go ahead and such was the response to the school that 72 students signed up. Of which 60 graduated after the month’s training.  We have registered 40 for the new class starting in January 2022.

• Kenya: All year long we have been running schools in Nairobi. Although we have not had the numbers the other schools have, we have seen a steady trickle of pastors come through the classes, sometimes 10 students, other times 15.  In October and November, we have run two schools.

It is always wonderful when God visits and heals people’s bodies, but a much greater work is done when God opens spiritually blinded eyes to truth, convicts the heart and conscience and sets it on things above.  This is the beginning of revival.

Our purpose is to run training programs called the School of Christ. These month-long training sessions specifically aimed at Church leadership, establish students in Biblical doctrines required for life and godliness. Inclusive in the training is the necessary prayer meetings that forge the student to become a vessel of revival that God can use in these last days.

2 Corinthians 4:1-2
1)  Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2)  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Dear Friends,

We do trust and pray that you are all well.

At the end of September, I was able to travel to Tanzania where we graduated our second school in Kahama (Tanzania). The pastors in attendance were thankful for the privilege of hearing the Word of God. What a blessing to see these pastors hungry for God’s Word and desirous to pray. 

The greatest difficulty any ministry faces is to create spiritual hunger. Unless God works a miracle in people’s hearts there is no going forward.  God must create this spiritual desire.  We can ensure the environment is conducive to Spiritual matters, but the Lord must build the house.  Truly we have an entrance here in Africa to the lives of many pastors who are willing to be in attendance for the schools we run. We are seeing first-hand the hunger He is creating in the pastors’ hearts, and we are grateful.

During the month of September, we also completed a school in the country of Mali.

This month of October we have schools in

Kenya: Nairobi
Tanzania: Mwanza
Uganda: Kamwenge
Ivory Coast: Abidjan.

Picture Above: School of Christ, Tanzania September 2021

Acts 4:31

31)  And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

In July, we graduated our second school in Tanzania this year in a place called Kahama. We rejoice that we were able to run the school with these Pastors and evangelists that attended this training.

Above: Bro. Ulf with Director Tony SOC graduation. Kahama, Tanzania

Above: Class Photo. Kahama, Tanzania

Above: Graduation, Kahama. Tanzania

Due to the good report from Tanzania, we have decided to run two more schools this year in that country. The doors are open and there are pastors that are hungry and requesting the training.  The next one starting in September will be again in the town of Kahama, and then afterwards in the month of October we will move the school to a place called Mwanza.

At the present, we have a school started this week in Mali with 35 students in attendance.  God has given us favor in this predominately Muslim dominated country.  Pray for our director as he guides the school there.

We were due to run our third school in Kenya, but decided it would be wise to postpone until Covid restrictions have lessened in that country. 

James 1:25

25)  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

                Thank you for your recent prayers for the schools in Africa and my travels.  We are so blessed to be able to serve our Lord Jesus Christ in this generation.  He is the only source of Sanity, Truth and Power in our lives. 

                My latest trip in June took me first to Uganda where I visited the School of Christ running in a rural area called Kyankwazi.  We had 26 students that graduated the class and rejoiced over the changed lives and ministries that had happened during this course.

Picture Above: Uganda, Kyankwazi district June 2021

My second stop was in Kenya, where I visited the school in Nairobi.   

Thankfully, the schools in Kenya and Burkina Faso completed their training and graduated as planned. 

Picture Above: School of Christ Burkina Faso. June 2021

In this month of July. we have graduated our school in Tanzania, Musonga (village) with 23 students.

We also started our second school in Kenya which has recently graduated.

SOC Kenya July 2021

We presently are running our second school in Tanzania in Kahama town,

In August we have schools planned for Kenya and the country of Mali.  In September we have an introduction class to the country of Senegal.  Please be in prayer for these schools.

Revelation 15:3-4

3)  And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

4)  Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

Dear All,

We trust and pray you are keeping well. The Lord has continued to advance the work in Africa, even with the uncertainties in the world because of Covid. Our scheduled training programs have been changing due to the government restrictions and lockdowns of the countries we are working in, but we continue to forge ahead, and will continue to do so as the Lord wills and provides. We are convinced now is not the time to shrink back, but to move ahead with purpose. Today is the day of salvation. The world still needs the Gospel. 

Here is an update on the trainings that have taken place.

At the beginning of March, I visited Togo where pastors from three countries were gathered (Benin, Togo, and Ghana) for the School of Christ training.  The school ran for four weeks and was a great blessing. We had 24 leaders graduate, and we rejoice in God for all His goodness towards us.

From Togo we started a school in Ghana at a refugee camp located in Egeikron.  They have finished the four week training and have graduated with 30 students.

In Rwinkwavu, Rwanda a full-time school just finished and graduated with 19 leaders. 

We are starting the school in Niger on the 19^th April, and also are planning for the school to begin in Uganda.

Our classes for Kenya got postponed due to the government lockdown, but as soon as they open up we will be moving ahead with the training.

I will share with you  a testimony from a pastor from one of the refugee camps where we ran the school.

My name is PASTOR NEAMAIN PEKOUA, I have spent many years in bible schools for nothing, I know that I am not the kind of minister God want me to be, when I hear that the school of Christ is coming I register my name, I just say to myself, as the training is free and we will also eat three times a day, even if I go and the teachings are not good, I have not wasted my time for nothing like the other times; but the Lord God loves me so much, the kind of teachings I am looking for so long is the one I have seen here in the school of Christ. The prayer sessions, the teachings and the disciplines has made of me a man with assurance. Thank God for the life of the school of Christ and to those that makes it possible for us to eat very well during this training, we are refugees and that is ten years we are in this camp left on our own.

Please remember our directors in prayer as they travel to difficult places to run these training sessions.