Calvary greetings in Jesus name. Thank you so much
for your input in the labour to enthrone Jesus as Lord over the dark nations of
the world. Your prayers have no doubt helped a great deal to strenghten our
hands and we have seen positive progress in many aspect of our work in the past
few months despite the intense hostilities from the Jihadists. We have had few
more conversions from Muslim background and have made conscious effort to
conceal the identity for security reasons but we covet more of your prayers for
greater grace to press on in the face of persecution. Below are some additional progress reports and
prayer points:
Furaka
Missions House
Thank you so much for your response to our appeal
for support towards the finishing of the
Furaka Mission House project. To the
glory of God, the roofing aspect of the work has been completed. In addition to
the support received, we got some interest-free loan to bring part of the
building to completion so we can move into it.
Consequently, the ground floor is already occupied. The floor is made up
of a two bedroom flat and another one bedroom/sitting
room. The facilities are serving as boy's hostel for some of our Home of Grace (HOG) as well as
residence for one of our missionary (one
of the Care Giver in charge of HOG).
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| Progress made on the Furaka Mission House |
We are now trusting the Lord for fund for the
ceiling, doors, windows, plumbing, tiling and plastering. When completed, we will have additional much needed standard toilets at the
mission base, one additional standard classroom for the School of
Cross-Cultural Missions, a mini
reference library, five self contained rooms and an office apartments. Again,
we are extremely grateful for the support rendered that brought the project to
this point. Also, pray along with us for funds to complete this project as soon
as possible.
Home
of Grace(HOG) Update
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| Baby Victor |
The school year is over and we are grateful to God
for helping all the HOG kids through the session. Two of the kids, Jecinta
Yakubu and Daniel Daji came first in their classes. Three of them, Jecinta,
Blessing and Dauda passed the common
entrance examination to secondary school. The school fees for take off for each
of them is N17,800. One of the kids, Jonathan Umoru, completed his Junior
Secondary School and is warming up for Senior Secondary School. Three of them,
Salisu, Mary and Racheal are awaiting admission to higher institution. We have
seen progress on all sides, spiritually, physically and mentally. We are
grateful to you for helping us to literally transform these kids.
We want to use this medium to register our appreciation to
those who partnered with us to put smile on the faces of the kids and to stress
again that September is resumption date for most kids. It is not too early to
appeal for back-to-school shopping since it is the beginning of a new session.
For vulnerable kids around the world, no school supplies means no school.
Uneducated kids are more likely to be victimized and they struggle to develop
communication skills.
Benin
Republic
Our most outstanding result from the mission field
this season is coming from Benin Republic. God has given us unbelievable favour
before the Muslim community we are reaching. Our Country Director, Nuhu
Karanbana was privileged to pay courtesy visit on the Benin Republic President
last quarter. We have secured a land at a strategic part of the town where we
planned to start work as soon as the rain is over. Hopefully, before the rent
expires, we will start work on our mission base ( both church and mission
house). God is already giving us converts and few other Christians who for long
have hidden their identities are already identifying with the work in the land.
Jordan
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| Ode Agabi: Penciled for Jordan Mission |
In answer to prayer and fulfillment of prophecy,
the desire of thousands of Syrians who are refugees in Jordan are turning to
the Lord. The need for discipleship has
become very crucial and urgent. Part of our global mission mandate is to
disciple the nations including those in the 'ends of the earth'. We consider
the Macedonian call via the leadership of the Nigeria Evangelical Mission
Association (NEMA) where the Grace Foundation's International Director, Andrew
Abah currently serves as a member of the National Executive Council an open door that must be explored to conserve
the converts in far away Jordan.
We are hopeful that they will in turn be God's
instrument to reach out to their own people. We are making plan to send two
missionaries to join a ministry on ground in Jordan in helping in discipleship
work. As usual, the trip will gulp so much. The flight tickets will gulp about
N400,000 if it is paid for in good time. Initial upkeep, visa and other
logistics will gulp at least N500,000. This is capital intensive like any other
foreign missions.
Jordan is an Arab kingdom
in Western Asia,
on the East Bank of the Jordan River,
and extending into the historic region of Palestine.
Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to
the south and east, Iraq to
the north-east, Syria to
the north, and Palestine,
the Dead Sea and Israel to
the west. Please, pray along with us for timely provision
fund.
Central
African
The Boko Haram menace have extended their menace
to North of Cameroon and Chad. This has made passage very dangerous and mission
work quite challenging. Our first work in the Central African region is
situated in the extreme north of Cameroon where we founded and ran the first
specialised resident Francophone School of Missions and later began pioneer
church planting effort among the Kaikai tribal group. The work was suspended
after about ten years of intense labour and
we were working at resuscitating it before the hostility. Samuel Benuoji who
coordinates the Central region works from Chad cannot move freely because of
the risks involve. Pray along for wisdom and encouragement. Pray for
restoration of peace and for safety for all missionaries working in this
region.
Niger
Republic
God has continued to do quiet but great work of
conversions and discipleship of the lives to the people of the Hausas,
Zabramawas, Fulanis and Gobirawas of Niger Republic and the boarder town of
Nigeria especially among the Muslims through the Grace Foundations' team. One
of the recent converts is under intense persecution and covets our prayers. He
is currently undergoing discipleship training in one of the villages. We also
covet prayers for our missionary team in the country. The family members were
recently exposed to different types of attacks which resulted in devastating
pressures like acute financial difficulties, death and hospitalization.
Conclusion
Again, thank you so much for your partnership. We
will continue to rely on you for prayers and financial support as we enter the
next phase of our labour. We need you now more than ever. We on our part are
praying along with you that your labour of love in joining us to enthrone His Lordship
to the most excluded dark nations will not be in vain. God will replenish your
source and increase you more and more.
His bondservant,
Andrew Abah
International
Director
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