Preparation For Southern Africa Missions Summit And DRC Missions Fest in Top Gear

Preparation for the 2nd Southern Africa Missions Summit scheduled to hold at Verulam, Durban, South Africa on Octcber 23-27,2008 is in top gear. Registration has commenced and we still have space for 40 more delegates from the West Africa Sub region. The summit fee is $100 and accomodation /feeding will be available for interested delegates upon payment of $100 (highly subsidised).

The theme is Breaking the Siege and we trust God to have MET Directors, Rev. And Mrs. Gerald Golbeck, Rev. Tor Uja, Director of Mission House International and Evangelist Sunday Oguche, President of God’s Care Mission, as guest speakers.

Interested mission leaders are to e-mail gracefoundationinternational@yahoo.com or call +234-8037054214.

Meanwhile, all is now set for the Missions Fest in Kinshasha and Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Our International Director, Andrew Abah is expected to serve as one of the main speakers. He is to minister in some of the local churches as well as renew some of the old contacts made in 2006.

Missions Mobilization In Franco-Phone African Countries

Recruiting french speaking missionaries has continue to remain a major challenge for the ministry. Recently, some bi-lingual believers in Chad came across our book titled Agony of Unreached People and were really touched by the contents. They pleaded that it should be translated into French so they can use it as mobilisation tool.

In response, we invited our missionary in Chad to Jos to embark on the translation. He translated both Agony of Unreached People and Sleeping Church Dying World. Our Associate Missionary, Radio Negis is set to edit them before the final print. Please, pray along with us for fund to get the book out and distribute at least 5,000 copies in 10 Francophone Countries in the next one year.

Mission Campaign Across Nigeria

The months of April to June 2008 was marked out for visitation to our mission fields in the Western and Central African Countries. The visit was necessary so as to encourage the missionaries labouring on these fields and have first hand information on their latest challenges and accomplishments. The journey could not hold because of the bad state of our only car. It requires replacement of all the tyres and shock absorbers. We were able to replace the tyres with brand new ones but could not replace the shock absorbers.

We therefore accepted invitations from churches and mission groups to minister at various mission conferences during this period. First we served as guest speakers at Gboko Missions Conference organised by Missions House International and then at the CMML Church, Lokoja where we spoke on “Missions: The Supreme Priority”. The church was reawaken for world missions and we made new friends needed to push the work ahead.

We were also main speakers at the Abuja Solemn Assembly and Missions Conference where we spoke on “Birthing Convenant Nations”. God honoured His words and strengthen the participants as many made commitment to be more involved in world missions.

Next to the Abuja Conference was the Kurmin-Mashi Chapel’s Mission Summit. The theme was: “Arise and Shine”. We handled all the preaching sessions and spent time to pray and counselled those who responded to be involved in missionary work. The presence of God was mighty and we give Him all the glory.

We also had open door to the Foursquare Gospel Church, Minna where we were to teach at their School of Missions and speak at a crusade in a village where they plan to start missionary work. Unfortunately we could not make it because of some challenges especially ill health.

The trip accross our fields in West and Central Africa countries is still very necessary. Pray for fund to put the car in good shape and preferably a 4wheel drive that can cope with the stress of such international trips.