Special Invitation to 13th African Missions Summit (AMS 2008)

Warm greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is such a great pleasure to invite you to the 13^th African Missions Summit(AMS 2008).

March 12 -16, 2008 is the date for the Summit and the venue is our head office here at Jos. The theme is Breaking the Siege. We trust the Lord as usual to bring together at least 300 mission leaders from no fewer than 15 African countries and beyond to pray together and break the siege that have slowed down the work of missions in our continent and strategise on how we can make more meaningful impact in global missions. Our ultimate goal is to resource Africa to finish the task.

Highlight of the summit will include: presentation of fresh and first hand mission reports especially as it relates to update on the state of unreached people, facilitating of networking and partnership, providing every delegate with the opportunity to make input on the way forward via our strategic syndicate group discussion, etc. The audience will cover wide spectrum of the body of Christ such as missions’ supporters, student leaders, missions’ executives, church and para-church leaders, etc.

There is no registration fee for the summit but donations will be highly appreciated.

Pray along with us as we hope to provide CD and possibly other tools that will help move the work of missions forward in the hands of the delegates to the first 100 persons to register and attend. We will send more information on the summit as soon as we get your response. God bless you.

Chad Missionary Relocate to Remote Part of the Country

Our desire to reach the Arabs has made us start a fresh work in Chad. The work is been pioneered by Samuel Benuoji while Joseph Foula and his family are to join towards the end of the year. The village head has promised to donate a land to us when we are ready to build. For the meantime, the missionary is living in a small rented apartment of N800 but hope to move to a bigger one to make room for discipleship class. Pray for Benuoji as he spends time to learn the language and culture of the people. Pray also for Foula as he enters the last lap of his training at the School of Cross-Cultural Missions.

Kai-Kai work in Cameroon Progress

The work in Kaikai, North of Cameroon has been making progress as more persons give their lives to Christ. God used the Gospel Bankers in Warri to support the work with N150, 000 while we were praying and trusting God for fund to buy land. As the Lord will have it, the Mayor decided to allocate the land for us free of charge. The fund is to be used to carry out the excavation, blending and forming of the foundation of the mission house as soon as the document in respect of the land donation is released. From our estimate, between N350, 000 to N450, 000 more will be required to complete the mission house. Pray along with us that the entire fund will be available and the project completed latest by March 2008 when his annual rent will expire.

A major setback has been the health of the missionary’s wife, Pauline Damaka. She was hospitalized in Maroua for quite sometime. She has been discharged but still require prayers for complete healing. Pray for Issa Damaka as he combines his missionary task with the challenges of the wife’s health.

New Missionary Couples for Kwalan-Gobirawa

Issa and Rahila Maliki have moved to Kwalan Gobirawa to dwell among the people so as to give the work greater attention. They mainly use adult literacy as a strategy to get their attention. The Gobirawas donated a hut for the couple to move into but it will require a lot of work to make it habitable due to the harsh weather and also considering the fact that they have a new baby. We trust the Lord for fund – at least N500, 000 to raise a permanent mission’s structure for mission house before the end of 2008.

New Property Bought and Dedicated in Ahole, Niger republic

God has continued to bless the work in Niger Republic. Just last month, we got donation from Chapel of Goodnews, Kaduna to pay for a property in Ahole, home of the Izzala sect in Niger Republic. It was such a great encouragement and relief to us. We pray that God of heaven will richly reward the donors. John Beya, French Director of MET, Fred Adigun, President of FOLMO Ministries, Moustapha Oumarou, a missionary from Niger Republic serving in Nigeria along with the International Director joined in the dedication of the property with all our converts from all our fields in Niger Republic joining in thanking God for that great progress.

Funds (N200, 000) are still required to renovate the building (re-roofing, ceiling and plastering) to make the greater part of it inhabitable. Already, Blessing Boubacar and her husband, Emmanuel has moved into the property and a temporary thatch building has been erected to serve as a place of worship.