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Light In The World Ministries update February 2026

Isaiah 12:5-6
Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

In the months of January and February we have completed two full-time trainings in Goma, Congo and Nakivale, Uganda

Picture: Goma, Congo

Picture: Nakivale, Uganda

We are presently running schools in Kirehe, Rwanda and Lome, Togo

Picture: Lome, Togo

The next schools start in April, in the following countries.

Ivory Coast
Uganda
Rwanda

Throughout these schools the constant emphasis is to become the Truth they are learning.  Christ must be made real to the heart and in our yielding to His purpose be allowed to live His Life through a human vessel. 

In each school the day begins with one hour of prayer and closes with another hour of prayer after eight lessons. The training lasts approximately four weeks.

Light in the World Ministries Update August 2025

(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.

Light In The World Ministries Update June / July 2025

Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Recently completed schools:     
Rwenjuru, Uganda:

This is our fourth school that we have run in this particular region of Uganda. We had been invited by a Church organization to train their pastors (over 400 leaders).  The head overseer was greatly blessed and challenged by the school. 

Schools in session:        
Ouagadogou, Burkina Faso:

This school will graduate on the 28th June. This has been our twelfth year running the school in this country.  We thank God for the privilege of training many pastors over the years.  This is our final school, for the moment, in this country. Prayerfully, we will return at a later date.  Remember this country in your prayers.

Runzewe, Tanzania:
School started the 16th June. We have 22 pastors present and 6 evangelists.

Oudtshoorn, South Africa:
School starts the 28th June. It has been a while since we were last in South Africa running the school. We are expecting 18 students. The school is mostly self-supported. We thank God for the provision and the people who carry a burden to see the School established in their country.

Bamako, Mali. This class starts at the beginning of July.

Upcoming schools for August    
Countries:
Congo 
Uganda 
Mali 
Rwanda

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.
To God be all the Glory!

Photo Above: Rwenjuru, Uganda graduated school June 12th 2025

All schools (unless stated otherwise) are financially supported through Light in the World Ministries.

Light In The World Ministries June 2024

Psalms 119:114  Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

Thank you for your prayers, we graduated schools in the month of April in the following areas.

City                       Country
Kampala              Uganda
Muhanga             Rwanda
Niamey                Niger

Uganda April. When it was suggested we run the school training in the capital city of Kampala Uganda, I was hesitant because it is notably difficult to get pastors in the capital cities to come to a four-week training daily from 6am to 7pm. So, I was surprised at the response.  We had 63 students who started the training, and 53 of them finished. 43 of them were senior pastors from the surrounding areas.  There has been an increased desire among the church leaders for the training we offer and a great hunger for God’s Word. We thank the Lord for what He did in the lives of these leaders!

Niger April. We continue to run this once yearly school in this country. We had 31 graduates,  17 of them are senior pastors.   Many of these pastors are leading churches in difficult situations.  

Pictures (Kampala, Uganda)


Picture (Rwanda, Muhanga)

This month of June we are running schools in

City                        Country
Rwampara          Uganda
Bukavu                 Congo
Ngara                    Tanzania

Thank you for your continued prayers for the success of these trainings.

“Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right Man on our side,
the Man of God’s own choosing.
You ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth his name,
from age to age the same;
and he must win the battle.”

“A Mighty Fortress is Our God” by Martin Luther

Light In The World Ministries April 2024

Acts 3:26

(26)  Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your prayers, we recently graduated schools in the following places.

City                        Country

Lome,                   Togo
Sengerema,        Tanzania
Masha,                 Uganda
Bukavu,                Congo


Pictures Below (Lome, Togo)

Sengerema, Tanzania       

Masha, Uganda

This month of April we are running schools in

City                        Country

Kampala              Uganda
Muhanga             Rwanda
Niamey                 Niger

Yours in Christ and for His Glory.

LITWM January 2020

2 Corinthians 4:15-16 (KJV) For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.  (16)  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Dear All,

We are looking forward to what this year has in store.

We have started our first school of 2020 in a place called Kyankwazi, Uganda.  Many of the pastors attending this school are pastoring in rural areas.  We expect great things to come forth from these lives as they pray and give themselves to the Word of God. Let us join in prayer and expectancy to what the Lord will do through these lives.

Below is our calendar for 2020.

This is our proposed schedule for the year, understanding that schools are added or locations are changed throughout the year. May the Will of the Lord be done!

Calendar: 2020

January Uganda,

South Sudan

February: (Togo, Ghana, Benin)
March: Tanzania
April: Kenya

Niger

May: Rwanda
June: Burkina Faso
July: Chad
August Nigeria
September Mali
October (Togo, Ghana, Benin)
November Ivory Coast

Light In The World Ministries Update August / September 2015

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.

August was a busy month for the ministry.  We had schools running in five different countries.  The first was in Northern Cameroon in a place called “Maroua”. The purpose of this school was to draw pastors from the neighboring countries of Central Africa Republic (CAR) and Chad.  Due to civil unrest in the country of CAR it made it difficult for some of the pastors to travel into Cameroon.  The areas highlighted above are places of intense persecution for Believers. We pray that the pastors who went through the school were fortified in their lives to go back to their homes and take the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to those that don’t know Him.

2016-08 Maroura, CameroonAbove: SOC Maroua, Cameroon

Other schools that we ran in August were in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where we sponsored one school in Kinshasa (West DRC) and another in Bukavu (East DRC).

2016-08 SOC Kinshasa   Above SOC Kinshasa, Congo

I visited a new school we were running in Ghana on the eastern side near to the border of Togo. This is the first time we have run a school in this region.

In Hammanskraal, South Africa we graduated a school on the 8th August.  The next school that I had planned to run in South Africa was booked for OctoberHowever, such was the demand from the pastors to run another school,  I agreed to run two more concurrently in the same area.  Both of these schools graduated on the 5th September after completing three weeks training.

SOC Hamanskraal, South Africa

Above: SOC Hammanskraal, South Africa

Preparation of Cow for Graduation Meal

Above: Graduation Meal, South Africa

In Impfondo, Congo we graduated our second school with twelve students.

2016-08 Impfondo, Congo August

Above: SOC Impfondo, Congo

In this month of September, we have great openings in the country of Kenya.  Our director, Joseph, has been able to introduce the school to 70 pastors in the Kisumu area of Kenya.  The school will be running there this month.

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, (T.Austin Sparks)

Light In The World Ministries June Update

Throughout the Bible we see God is jealous of life; He is infinitely concerned with the life of His Son, expressed through His Church. We are in a battle of life, the fight that we are involved in is; shall God’s life be expressed through us as individuals and the Church corporately, or will it be hindered.  The psalmist stated in Psalms 17:15
(15)  As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. 
As we continue to run schools across the continent of Africa, we find much that tries to hinder the forward movement of the gospel.  I am so thankful the battle is not ours but it is the Lord’s.
South Africa,
We just finished a full-time school in South Africa.  We had over 20 senior pastors gather, some have been ministering the gospel for over 30 years. There was great humility, discipline and desire to know the Will of God.  We are trusting God that this is the beginning of a great breakthrough in this country.  After this school we made plans to run day schools in different localities, gathering pastors together from that area. The day school has the same discipline as the full-time school, the only difference is we do not accommodate them overnight, which reduces the cost.  We started a day school on the 15th June and will graduate the 4th July.
Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Benin Republic, Bohicon
We had 15 leaders graduate a full-time school in the town of Bohicon, Benin.
Bohicon, Benin
Bohicon, Benin (2)
Bohicon, Benin (3)
Bohicon, Benin (4)
Bohicon, Benin
Above Pictures from School in Bohicon, Benin
Congo, Impfondo
Impfondo is located in the northern regions of Congo, this was the first time to run the school in this area. We had a very receptive response from the pastors and they received the word with all readiness of mind.

Impfondo, Congo

Impfondo, Congo

In this month of June we have schools running in Tanzania; Burkina Faso; Uganda and the day school in South Africa./

Light in the World Ministries update January 2015

I am excited about the opportunities set before us for this year of 2015.
Below is a schedule listing the places we plan to run the school during the year.  I want to be careful to preface this with as God wills and directs.

January: Ivory Coast

February: Rwanda, Uganda.

April: Burundi, Kenya, Nigeria,

May:  Gabon

June: Tanzania, Burkina Faso

July: Cameroon (Chad & Central Africa Republic)

August: East & West Congo, Congo (Brazzaville)

October: Ghana, Benin Republic, Togo

December: Cameroon, Ivory Coast

Light In The World Ministries 2014 End of Year Update

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.