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Light in the World Ministries Update January 2026

Posted on January 5, 2026 | Leave a comment

1 Corinthians 15:55-57
(55) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
(56)  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
(57)  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you all for standing with us in prayer and faithful support during 2025. It has been another great year! We rejoice in the goodness of our God and His faithfulness to His Church. 

In December of 2025, we finished the year off with two schools in the following countries: 

Nyabihu, Rwanda, 30 students (27 Pastors 3 evangelists)

Rwamwanja, Uganda 51 students (42 Senior Pastors and Bishops)

We were able to run and finance 22 full-time schools across the following countries (listed by area / country)  in 2025:

Abeokuta, Nigeria:  Gisenyi, Rwanda :  Kampala, Uganda:  Lome, Togo:  Nkwende, Tanzania:  Goma, Congo:  Mahama, Rwanda:  Maradi, Niger:  Mbarara, Uganda: 
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso:  Runzewe, Tanzania: Rwenjeru, Uganda:  Bamako, Mali:  Oudtshoorn, South Africa (Locally Supported):  Abidjan, Ivory Coast:  Kabarondo, Rwanda:  Rweminyafu, Uganda:  Bwanga, Tanzania:  Kaolak, Senegal:  Nakasongola, Uganda: 
Nyabihu, Rwanda:  Rwamanja, Uganda

We are planning, Lord willing, to run schools in the following locations in 2026:

LITWM Calendar 2026
Month / Countries

February:         Congo, Togo, Rwanda, Uganda

April:                Ivory Coast, Uganda, Rwanda

June:                Togo, Rwanda, Uganda

July:                 South Africa (Locally supported)

August:            Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda

October:          Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Uganda

December:      Togo, Tanzania, Uganda

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Light in the World Ministries Update October 2025

Posted on October 9, 2025 | Leave a comment

Mat 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.

Below are photos of recently completed schools from August.

Abidjan, Ivory Coast: 34 students

Rweminyafu, Uganda: 32 students

Kabarondo, Rwanda: 28 students

October Schools presently in session:

Bwanga, Tanzania – 31 students
Nakasongola, Uganda – 32 students
Senegal

Most of our students that come through the School of Christ training are presently pastoring with some of them overseeing several churches under their care.

Repeatedly we have seen the great need for a True foundation (which is Christ), and a life of prayer coupled with obedience to God’s Word.  

Many of the pastors we have recently trained have mentioned the great assault of the devil to compromise the Word of God and lives of those in the ministry. However, the Word of God is true. The description of the Christ’s church is that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  This signifies to me that the Church of Jesus Christ is not holed up, cowering away trying to survive another day, but it is marching forward in the battle against sin and the devil to rescue the captives!

Many of the students from these classes have testified to a renewal in prayer, correction of wrong doings, and repentance from error.  Thank you for your prayers for these schools.

In one of the recent schools that graduated in Uganda, a student testified of abuse in the home. During graduation, after repenting before the class, there was reconciliation, and all were praising the Lord in the congregation.

It has been amazing to see the restoration of marriages through the school, as incidents like this have taken place time and again. We thank God for his victory through the Word of God!

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Light in the World Ministries Update August 2025

Posted on August 5, 2025 | Leave a comment

(Mat 16:16-17)  And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Recently completed schools:     
Ouagadogou, Burkina Faso:
As we said in our previous newsletter, this has been our twelfth year running the school here. During this time, we have been able to reach many pastors and leaders in different parts of the country. Please continue to remember the graduates from Burkina Faso in your prayers. 

Runzewe, Tanzania: This school graduated in July with 22 pastors present and 6 evangelists. The Lord continues to open doors for future schools in Tanzania. (picture below)

Oudtshoorn, South Africa: This was one of the best schools I have ever had the privilege of running. The students were spiritually minded, receptive and asked very perceptive questions. We thank God for their spiritual hunger, the Lord’s provision and the people in leadership who carry a burden to see the school established in their country.  (Picture below)

Bamako, Mali. We have trained many former Muslim converts that are pastoring churches and daily hazarding their lives for the gospel.  It is a difficult environment, and we thank God for our director, who has traveled there to help oversee the schools over the years.  We had a total of 43 graduates in this school.

Schools presently running this August   
Rwanda – Kabarondo
Uganda – Rweminyafu
Ivory Coast – Abidjan
Thank you for standing with us in prayer and concern for the training of these pastors and leaders. It is a privilege to be a part of what God is doing in His church all over Africa.

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Light In The World Ministries November 2024

Posted on November 9, 2024 | Leave a comment

Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire;
Let me not sink to be a clod—
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!
Written by Amy Carmichael (missionary to India)

We recently graduated schools in the month of October in the following countries.

1) Ntungamo, Uganda 2) Nyamogita, Tanzania 3) Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

After many years, we were invited back to South Africa to run an introduction class. In years past we had schools in the Pretoria region, but this time we traveled to a town called George located on the coast of South Africa.  Thirty two people gathered to watch the School of Christ lessons that Bro. Clendennen recorded in 1999. it was a great time of praying and allowing the Holy Sprit to speak to our hearts through His Word.

Picture Below: Class, Ntungamo, Uganda


In this little town in Western Uganda, every day for four weeks at 6:30 am, forty five students were gathered to pray and spend the day, studying the School of Christ.  At least twenty of these were church leaders that were pastoring churches in the surrounding towns.  Great was the hunger for reality! How the simplicity of prayer and the Word of God exalting Christ, kindles a fire for God in human hearts!

Pictures Below: Nyamogita, Tanzania


Picture Below: Abidjan, Ivory Coast


Picture Below: SOC Introduction Class, George, South Africa


This month of November we presently have a school running in Luuka, Uganda

Upcoming schools through till the end of December.

City                      Country
Rubavu,               Rwanda
Bukavu,                Congo
Thies,                    Senegal
Mbarra,                Uganda

Please also remember our following facilitators in prayer as they conduct these schools: Richard Kairu, Peter Rwaka, Isaac Rutihinda and Shalom Mawunou

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Light In The World Ministries Update February 2015

Posted on February 9, 2015 | Leave a comment
“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”.
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Picture Above: SOC, San Pedro, Ivory Coast
I.Coast-Class#2Picture Above: SOC, San Pedro, Ivory Coast
Thank 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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Light In The World Ministries 2014 End of Year Update

Posted on December 29, 2014 | Leave a comment

2014-12 Doala, Ivory Coast

Picture Above.  SOC Ivory Coast

2014-12 Limbe, Cameroon #2

Picture Above: SOC, Limbe, Cameroon

2014-12 Limbe, Cameroon

Picture Above: SOC Limbe, Cameroon

I returned from checking on schools that were running in Cameroon and Ivory Coast.  I’m so thankful for caliber of the directors that are working with us to see the school move across the continent of Africa.  In each of the schools there was spiritual life and understanding of the Truth of the Word of God. This worked itself into the anvil of daily prayer, fasting for each of the leaders that attended, seeking God for a move of His Spirit within their own respective families, ministries, communities and countries where these ministers are working in the gospel.

I have been reflecting since I got back on what has taken place this year. My heart is full of gratitude toward God to see His hand provide and forward the work of training leaders across the continent of Africa.

To quote the late B.H. Clendennen from the lesson “The Church is A Prophet”

“Prophetic ministry is in its totality, the ministry of spiritual interpretation.  It is the interpretation of everything from a spiritual standpoint. There never was a time when there was a greater need for such ministry.  That is, the need for a voice of interpretation – a spiritual voice interpreting things from a spiritual standpoint.  Millions are deceived today as the word of God is being interpreted from a carnal view.  Men have taken the scriptures and twisted them into lies.”

I may sound repetitive in saying this but this is the great need of the church in Africa and all over the world.  There is a desperate need to have the mind of God brought to His Church. I believe that, in the schools that we are running, there is an awakening of the leaders to come back to the foundation of God’s Church – which is Christ.  To once again let everything be done decently and in order, that is, to be patterned after Christ.

During 2014 we had plans to run the school in seventeen different countries across the continent, we managed to run it in fifteen of them. In some of the countries we were able to run more than one school.  Listed below are the full-time schools we financially provided for.  The countries are in bold script.

Gabon

Wau, South Sudan

Goma, DR Congo

Nairobi, Kenya (three schools, April, August, December we covered the cost of one and partially provided for the other two.)

Mubende Nebbi Uganda  (three schools, April and August in Mubende and then one school in Nebbi which we covered the director’s expenses and someone else sponsored the school.)

Rwanda,

Malawi,

Geita, Tanzania (Two schools)

D.R.Congo (We have been helping the school go forward in this country through partial support all year long, running schools in different areas of DRC.)

Congo (Brazzaville) (We have been helping the school go forward all year long.)

Burkina Faso

Togo,

Benin Republic,

Ivory Coast,

Cameroon

In some of these countries the directors have been helping to sponsor additional part-time classes.

LITWM is presently sponsoring a translation project in India, updating the Hindi version of the SOC.

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Light In The World Ministries Update November 2014

Posted on November 27, 2014 | Leave a comment

2 Corinthians 9:15  Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

On the day of Pentecost men who were dead in sin and transgressions were brought into a living relationship with Christ Jesus.  Jerusalem, the place of intense religious dogma and tradition, the place where Christ was crucified, was now the chosen place for God to bring forth men and women of spiritual life and understanding. What was seemingly a small number of disciples left after the crucifixion of Christ, exploded into three thousand being added to the Lord (Acts 2:41). The fruit was there because of the death and resurrection of Christ.

Someone recently asked me what is the greatest miracle I have seen in running these training programs for pastors and leaders? There have been times during the schools where people have been healed physically of sickness and disease, and that is wonderful. But, the greatest miracle I have witnessed, is people who have come to the school with dead tradition and religion and have been brought forth unto life eternal, into a living experiential life with Christ to be lived out day by day and hour by hour. This is a work that only Christ can do in a man’s heart and life and it is a miracle!

I came back three weeks ago from a trip to Togo and Benin Republic, where the school was being run.  In both places it was a great encouragement to see the spiritual life of the leaders being changed and transformed.

In December we have full-time schools running in Cameroon and Ivory Coast. 

Thank you for praying and supporting the work we do in Africa. We certainly know we are in this work together.

Pictures Below: Togo Class

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Light In The World Ministries April 2014

Posted on May 13, 2014 | Leave a comment
We just completed three schools in the month of April in Nairobi, Kenya; Rwamagana, Rwanda; and Mubende, Uganda.  I count it a great privilege to witness the great hunger there is amongst the Lord’s servants in Africa.  There is a priceless sobriety, discipline and yearning to seek the things of God. May God continue to water, give life and minister to His leaders in that continent.
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Picture of Graduation: Mubende, Uganda. April 2014
Whenever I visit the schools, my work is mostly overseeing and making sure that the schools are functioning in the lines of discipline, adherence to Biblical truth, and accountability in the finances.  We have native directors on the ground that see to the actual daily running of the schools. I try to spend a few days with each class in most countries, during which time I see how the director is doing and how the school is functioning.
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Picture of Graduation: Rwamagana, Rwanda. April 2014
 The job of these directors is more than just playing videos.  They have to answer questions, keep the discipline in the class, and make sure the cooks are not siphoning off the food to somewhere else.
Most importantly, they set the example for the class. That means they have to be present for the prayer meetings and ensure that no heretical teaching creeps in.  They have to understand that the position they hold is not for the propagation of their own ideas (the school is not a platform for their own personal ministry.)  Not every pastor or preacher can be one of these directors. We carefully choose them.  Not all the directors have stayed with us, some have been like Judas, some have had their own ideas and so we let them go their ways – but we continue forward.  Knowing what the Lord has placed in our trust is vitally important to us. We take seriously the charge and seek to hold that stewardship for His Glory and Kingdom.
Other schools that have finished recently and some presently running are as follows:
There has been a youth session in Brazzaville, Congo Republic; and regular schools in Togo and Ivory Coast.  In Democratic Republic of Congo they are starting a school in a place Kasaji, which is a completely new area.

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