School of Cross-Cultural Missions: A Processing Plant for African Missions

The School of Cross-Cultural Missions invites you to participate in its 12 months (Certificate and Diploma) Missionary Training Program designed to produce men and women who are prepared to die, if need be, in order to unseat the enemy in territories (Unreached Places) where he illegally occupies.

COURSE MODULES:
Designed to take 2 years but condensed into 12 months so as to produce missionaries as fast and as effectively as possible.

COST:
The total fee is N130,000. It covers field trips, feeding and handouts.

FACULTY:
Over 60% of SOCM faculty is made up of experienced Missionaries, Expartriates and Mission Executives. Some are actively serving on different mission fields.

FINANCIAL POLICY:

SOCM is supported by the free-will donations of God's people. Our operating cost will be drastically reduced if each trainee is supported with an equivalent of four thousand naira (N4,000) monthly.

HOW TO APPLY:
A prospective Trainee must:
* Complete and return to our office:
*One Application form accompanied by two recent passport photographs and photocopies of all academic credentials.
*Letters of recommendation from two (2) reputable Christian leaders, one of which must be the pastor of the Church the applicant is currently attending.
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SUMMER MISSIONS SCHOOL:

SOCM conducts short-term intensive Cross-Cultural Missionary Training aimed at providing individual Christians/Congregations an opportunity to prepare for short-term Missions work among Unreached people groups. Church leaders, workers, students, Youth Corpers, Businessmen, Diplomats etc. (Particularly, those in charge of their church's missions programme or desiring to know more about missions) will find SMS unique to their training needs. A basic course certificate will be awarded to those who successfully complete the course.

For further information regarding Centre, Venue, Date, Course Fee, and application procedures, please contact the address below: Dean, School of Cross-Cultural Missions. Grace Foundations, Furaka/Dankankani, Off Bauchi Ring Road Celestial Bridge, P. O. Box 2704, Jos, Plateau State-Nigeria.

CAUTION:The entire training is rugged. It is deliberately made so in order to adequately expose students to the hard and harsh realities of the Third World mission fields.

THE MISSION MANDATE By Andrew Abah

God’s heartbeat is centered on reaching all humanity irrespective of where they are located with the gospel. Jesus came to this world just for that. Having finished His own part of the work, He mandated us to go ahead with the message across the globe but alas, this commission has suddenly become the great omission. This book is a special appeal for the church to return to that mandate.

HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MISSIONS SUPPORT By Andrew Abah

Many agencies and sending churches have lost a number of valuable missionaries due to inadequate support. The alarming rate of this attrition is responsible for a closer study on the subject mission support which gave birth to this handbook. It stresses the need for agencies, partners and sending churches to systematically explore the various areas of mission support beyond finance.
The list is endless but for the purpose of being precise the author focused mainly on prayer, moral, communication , logistic, monetary, etc The book also provides an insight into how emerging mission leaders should take care of their missionary personnel and how best the missionary supporters should appropriate their supports for maximum result.

NURSING YOUR MISSIONARY VISION By Andrew Abah

Nursing Your Missionary Vision is a small but very powerful book written with those newly called into missions in mind. It is a systematic exploration of how such missionaries should nurse and build their missionary vision without falling by the wayside. It began by redefining whom a missionary is, how to confirm that one is genuinely called into missions, and gave insight into the practical steps one ought to take to bring the vision to fruition.

SLEEPING CHURCH DYING WORLD By Andrew Abah

On August 22 – 26, 2006 missionaries and other stakeholders in world evangelization from several states in Nigeria and surrounding African countries gathered in Kaduna, Nigeria to deliberate on the theme: Sleeping Church, Dying World. The venue was the Chapel of Goodnews’ Missions Week. The author was privileged to serve as one of the guest speakers. During his presentations, several of the mission leaders present requested that the materials be published in book form so that the wider body of Christ could benefit from it.
It is this request that led to this publication. The book serves as an eye-opener to the position the body of Christ occupies in the world. It attempts to understand the place of missions in the early church and compares it with what we have in the church today. It also highlight the need to pattern our ministry after Jesus as “it is enough for a disciple to be like his Master” with emphasis on leaving our comfort zone for where Jesus had not been preached. The concluding challenge is that no responsible Christian is exempted from playing very crucial role in missions. You either GO or you stay back home to GIVE and PRAY.

WOMAN OF LIKE PASSION By Andrew Abah

Woman of Like Passion is an exploration of the life and teachings of a female General in God’s vineyard, Esther Omojo Oguche who lived a brief life on earth but significantly affected the lives of uncountable souls. She is a model of success. Everyone who came in contact with her left with a definite testimony of salvation, healing, deliverance and other manifestations of the miraculous power of God.

Faculty of School of Cross-Cultural Missions

1. Rev. Mike T. Placca
2. Professor Samuel O. Odeh
3. Pastor Emeje Andrew
4. Miss Charity Chile
5. Miss Mary Ojile
6. Mrs. Deborah Iboh
7. Rev. Jerry Mcjerandy Abbey
8. Pastor Issa Damaka
9. Pastor Radio Nestor Regis
10. Pastor Philemon Ahmed
11. Rev. Austin Aifou
12. Mrs. Abah A. Lucy
13. PastorMoustapha Oumarou

FRESH WAR ON BOLU FIELD

It is now as if all hell has been let loose on Bolu Field. The village head and elders recently vowed to withdraw the wives of all our converts if they refuse to participate in their annual initiation ceremony. We are glad that despite the threat, the converts have continued to stand. They come to church regularly and are growing in their Christian faith. They are determined to pay whatever price to stand in the faith. Please, pray along with us that God Almighty will strengthen the. Thus far, no wife has been snatched. Pray also that their wives will come to know the Lord.

We are concern about those who are yet to give their lives to Christ. They are really afraid of taking decision in the face of the threat. The missionaries, Pastor and Mrs. Moustapha Oumarou have continued to preach the gospel and show the village head and the Elders love.

Adult literacy which has been the bridge-gapping strategy does not attract many people during this farming season. Pray wit us thae desire of the Bolu nation will be turned to God. Musa Magaji has joined the Oumarous as a missionary trainee.

12TH AFRICAN MISSIONS SUMMIT REPORT

The 12th African Missions Summit has come and gone but the impact will remain indelible. The program which attracted over 200 leaders from no fewer than 10 countries representing over 50 agencies focused on the vast journey ahead. The theme of the summit was taken from 1 King 19:7.

Among those God used as resource vastpersons were Chairman of African Missions Network (AMNET), Rev. Canon Bayo Famonure and Presiding Elder of one of the Nigeria's fastest growing mission-sending Church, Chapel of Good-News, Pastor Joseph Egwuda from Nigeria Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Golbeck from Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, Rev. Peter Vumisa from Inserve, Elsie Govendor from WOTA, Durban, South Africa, Missions Pastor of one of the biggest mission-sending churches in South Africa, Morelleta Dutch reform Church, Rev. Hendrick Sayman.Other resource persons were Rev. Harouna Labo, Yazi Adamou, Nicky Dilli, etc.

The program featured talks, group discussions, windows to the world, missions' reports, etc. New contacts were initiated, networks were built, several lives were encouraged and almost every one present was equipped with tools like CDs containing several books that will strengthen them in missions.

The climax of the meeting was when Rev. Sayman was presenting the model of his church involvement in missions and had to digress to repenting on behalf of Whites for all the atrocities committed during the apartheid policy and colonialism. As a symbol of repentance, he washed the feet of all the representatives of every Black nation present at the summit. Tears flowed profusely and prayers of reconciliation were offered for one another. Evangelist Sunday Oguche who closed that session stressed that the attention of the host of heaven was drawn to what went on and that it will serve as a turning point for the church.

WIND STORM DESTROY UCH CLASSROOM BLOCK

Tragedy struck last week on the Grace Foundation Inland Missions’ field in the North Central of Nigeria, Kamberi housing the Unreached Children Home (UCH) as a heavy windstorm removed and destroyed the four room block housing the UCH primary School. The school which is one of the mercy ministries of the Grace Foundation Inland Missions has been the only educational hope for this less privileged unreached people.

If the classroom is not re-roofed immediately, the tendency for the wall to collapse under the constant heavy rainfall is very strong. Please, pray along with us that God will provide fund to re-roof the class-room immediately. At least N300,000 will be needed for the re-roof project. Thank God with us that none of our kids or staff was injured during the massive destruction.

It will be recalled that the roof of the building housing the kids was blown off someties last year. Pray against reoccurences of these set-backs.

FIVE NEW STAFF FOR GRACE FOUNDATION

Five new staff have joined the growing list of the family of the Grace Foundation Inland Missions.

The latest, Miss Hope Ejiofor is a 1998 graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where she read Food Science and Technology. Ejiofor who hails from Anambra State in Nigeria has worked among destitute children in Lagos before coming over to the Grace Foundation School of Cross-Cultural Missions(SOCM) last year for one year intensive residential mission training. She currently heads the Unreached Children Home(UCH) and reports directly to the field leader of the Kamberi field.

Isaac Onoja joins the team as a Driver in the international office while Nathaniel and his wife Mercy Udalor joins the foreign missions train to Niger Republic. They trained in our SOCM and had some pioneering work experience in Kupa field under the Tokunbo Salami-led Pleroma Missions.

Pauline and Issa Damaka resumed work fully earlier in the year to resuscitate the declining work of the ministry in the North of Cameroon.

We strongly covet your prayers for all these staff as they adjust to the challenging and rugged life style in this third world missions. Pray also for the fund for them to fully settle down to work.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel and Blessing Boubacar have deferred their plan to go for further studies in compliance to the instruction of the ministry leadership because of the sensitive state of the work. They agreed to stay back to help disciple the increasing number of Muslim converts in Niger Republic to the point they can stand on their own before they leave.

CAMEROON WORK YIELD FRUIT

Work among the Kai-Kai people in Far North Province of Cameroon which started early this year ago has yielded at least seven new converts. The new converts meet regularly in a house church to study the basic feature of Christ’s disciple and the responses have been quite positive.

The missionary couple handling the work, Issa and Pauline Damaka and their son, Silas are struggling to settle among the people against all odds. They have all been sick at one time or the other but that has not discouraged them in any way.

They are working hard to build bridges among the people and the village head. The current challenge, beside the ill health is the massive commitment of the people in this farming season. They have less time to listen to the gospel because they spend most part of their day in the farm working.

To facilitate the work, a small generator has been bought which serves for evangelistic work and sometimes and sometimes for domestic work.

House rents for the year has been paid but pray along with us to be able to acquire a land and put up at least a small mission house and possibly a church before the expiration of the rent.

We are grateful to God for the recent provision of some benches by one of our friends in Cameroon. Pray for God’s continuous blessing on John Enemali who did not only adopt the work in Kai-Kai, Cameroon but provides virtually most of the funding in terms of upkeep and rent since the work began.