Light In The World Ministries

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.

Picture Above: Bujumbura, Burundi SOC  Class

Romans 15:4-5 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.  (5)  Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

In the schools we run we strive to produce a spiritual climate.  This will reproduce in the hearts of the students, as they yield their will to God, a spirit of faith and love in Christ Jesus.  As the Word of God and prayer have central place they learn, not just in theory, but in practical application that the purpose of their existence is to be conformed to the image of Christ.

I recently returned from a trip to check on the schools we have helped sponsor in Kenya and Burundi.

In this month of May we have one school presently running in Impfondo, in the northern part of Congo with 20 pastors in attendance.  On the 18^th of May we have schools starting in Pretoria, South Africa and Bohicon, Benin Republic.

SOC Class Mubende, Uganda

SOC revision class Uganda

Uganda SOC Army Chaplains testifying about how the school changed their lives.

2 Corinthians 8:1-2
(1)  Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
(2)  How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

Returned from my latest trip to Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda where we graduated schools and held revision classes in Uganda and Rwanda.

Uganda: While I was there on this last trip I met with approximately 100 former students to gather to pray and review some of the school of Christ teaching and seek God’s direction for the future in Uganda.  On the second day of the revision class, something very wonderful happened.  With no prompting from myself, the students suggested to run another school this year in Uganda and that they should be the ones supporting it.  In a period of 20 minutes over $500 was given for the running of the next school in the month of June.  That might not seem like a lot of money, but when you consider that their income can be from $100-$200 per month, it is miracle.  This giving attitude brings joy to my heart to see that we are laborers together to help forward the gospel in that nation.

Rwanda: We graduated a school in a town called Rwamagana and held a revision class in the district of Kirehe with 50 former students.  During the revision class we listened to former students testify about how their lives had changed through and after the school as they went back to labor in their ministries.  To equip these soldiers for Christ with the Word of God and prayer is to give them the tools to overcome in the battle of life.