Calvary greetings in Jesus' name, and welcome to the month of May 2024. Thank you so much for partnering with us to take the light of the gospel to places where Jesus was not known and to people under the cruel grip of the Prince of Darkness. The past months have been mindblowing. So much has happened, and as usual, we are committed to sharing the goodness with you and the areas we urgently covet your prayers. The report will fuel your partnership and prayers for us and the work. We would increasingly conceal the names of persons and places we consider a great risk to our work and missionaries.
Salvation and Healing on the Field
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| Just concluded the Gobirawa Widows Conference. |
At Kamberi Field, a young lady who had been challenged entirely for eight years got delivered. We also had another case of a swollen hand that miraculously healed.
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| GFIM DMM Selected coaches at just concluded retreat |
At Kwalan Gobirawa, a young lady also surrendered her life to Christ, while some widows were impacted through several gifts such as wrappers and foodstuffs. Thank God for the divine provision. The fantastic thing is that most of the gifts given to the widows came from believers in Niger Republic. We continue to participate in the Discipleship Movement (DMM) Coach Retreat to strengthen our DMM facilitators.
Sadly, we lost one of our converts to the bondwoman. This was after a long time of pressure and enticement to have him and others abandon their Christian faith using gifts like money, houses, and cars. Pray that this young man will become restless until he returns to the faith.
29th African Missions Summit (AMS 2024)
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| Joel Emmanson at the 29th African Missions Summit |
The 29th African Missions Summit (AMS 2024) was a huge success, and we are grateful to God and all our friends and partners who made it possible. Over 300 delegates from almost every state of the federation and surrounding African countries gathered at the headquarters of Grace Foundation on March 20-24, 2024. In addition to prayers, we explored how best to combat the growing darkness across the nations. Some of the guest speakers include evangelist Samuel Yahaya, Yinka Laoye, Sister Yemisi Madamori, and Pastor Joseph Egwuda.
Worship in Local Expression
Collaborating with the Declare Global Outreach Mission, our missionaries are recording music videos
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| Participants at the Worship in Local Expression |
Three Boreholes (Water for Life)
God provided us with three boreholes in three needy communities this quarter. The Zarazong community, where our School of Cross-Cultural Missions and the Home of Grace division of Grace Foundation are located, have been going through severe challenges of water. Three boreholes have been drilled in the past, but they have all failed. This last one is about 240 meters deep and gulped close to N5 million, out of which the drilling was carried out as support. The borehole machine, PVC pipes, electrical, and other installation costs were hefty. We are yet to enjoy the borehole very well because of the electricity cost of pumping water. We pray for funds to install a solar system to power the borehole.
The Final Command Ministry, as part of encouraging our access ministry in Beru funded a borehole project at the cost of N1.5million. Three drilling machine vehicles tried to get to the location but failed because of the fragile bridges on the route. The borehole is firm and in process now. Please pray along with us that the entire project will be successful.
The third borehole is located at Kwala Gobirawa, and it was built after many years of prayers. Join us to thank God for the breakthrough and that God would bless those who have sacrificially put their fund together to carry out the water project.
Mission House and Pioneer Church Building
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| New Benin Republic Mission House |
At Benin Republic, we have completed the wall work of the missionary residence. The converts used their fund and skills to build it. They used mudblocks, so they had to be roofed before the rain started. The cost of roofing, plastering, windows, ceilings, and doors would gulp about N 2 million. We have some bundles of zinc already. Pray for financial support to complete the work.
Missions Training
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| AMLI graduates |
The 27th set of the School of Cross-Cultural Missions has resumed its studies. We are grateful to Gospel Bankers and AFLEND for the support provided to sustain some of the students. We are so glad that most of the students are educated enough to understand the lectures, and the spiritual background allowed them to absorb and appropriate the training content.
Two of the new applicants (Fulanis) are from Niger Republic. We are yet to ask them to resume because of the funding. Other Nigerians also seek training, but their admission is still being processed.
The 26th set has graduated, but we are restrained from carrying out the graduation ceremony until they work on the mission field for at least one year and their mission leaders/field leaders affirm that they are okay for graduation. This is necessary because of the report we have received concerning some of our previous graduates.
Our bi-annual Advanced Mission Leadership course is scheduled for October 1-10, 2024. Pray along with us for all the resources, wisdom, and grace required,
Home Of Grace (HoG) Update
The children are growing in every aspect. We are glad they are improving their spiritual lives as we spent more time together this Easter break. Samuel Moses is pursuing a degree program in Guidance and Counselling at the University of Jos. Elizabeth Daji is in NDII (National Diploma) at Plateau Polytechnic. Her result for ND1 is relatively okay. Blessing Garba is in her second semester studying Theatre Arts also at the University of Jos. Emmanuel Bitrus and Zecharia Paul are on the verge of completing their remedial program at the University of Jos. Emmanuel scored 211 in his JAMB. Comfort Boubaccar wrote her JAMB examination last week in preparation for university admission. Yakubu Omali came first in his class, as usual. Naomi Isah and Timothy Dung came third in their classes. All the other kids are coming up but need to brace up.
We now have three corp members assigned to teach them after school hours and during the holidays. We also organized a holiday fashion design school with three experienced instructors on ground who taught them how to sew clothes.
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