Salvation/Discipleship Across the Nations
In almost all our fields and nations where our missionaries work, we have received heartwarming reports of scores of persons that surrendered their lives to Christ. At Furaka, as COVID 19 subsides, we had a three-day outreach, which was well attended. In one of the nights, over 30 persons surrendered their lives to Christ. In one of the Sahel nations (name withheld), five persons from the the religion of our other cousins surrendered their lives to Christ.
At Bolu mission
field, one person surrendered his life to Christ. At Bum, 12 Zullawas
surrendered their lives to Christ, and all the converts who did not have bibles
were given a free copy of a bible each.
At Majid and Sahidu in Northern Cameroon, the gospel was preached, where
some Fulanis were excited to have one of them present the gospel to them so convincingly.
At Gommana, Northern Cameroon, our missionary has resumed work fully, and to
the glory of God, he met the converts doing well. In all these and other fields
with similar breakthroughs, we covet your prayers earnestly that Christ is
formed in them. Discipleship efforts are
ongoing. At Sanga, the missionaries reported that they have had an opening to
the Technical college to preach and disciple some new believers.
New but Difficult Frontiers
The missionaries at the Oma mission field continue to
comb the villages around them with the gospel. According to the missionaries'
report, they have been evangelizing Ugbogwu village, and God is granting them a
significant result. They feel it is time to start a church, the first church
ever for the new believers. This move has been resisted vehemently by the
village elders who claim that five denominations had made a series of efforts in
the past but were resisted. They sound
friendly and have invited our missionaries over for discussion several times.
We covet your prayers for the Lord to touch their hearts so the light of the
gospel would dispel the darkness in a greater capacity. We are also penetrating
Badiko and Pelu, but we need additional hands to sustain the work there. In the
same vein, we are penetrating some other necessary but challenging terrain,
which we would not want to disclose here for security reasons, but we covet
your prayers for divine protection.
IDP and Widows
Daudu/Makurdi IDP Camp
With the financial help of Tabitha Arise Foundation,
we have been able to provide foodstuffs and other necessary assistance to the
Internally Displaced Persons at the camp in Daudu, Benue State. We are grateful
to the Benue State Representative of Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association,
Sister Mimi Edward, for partnering with us to help make the purchases and to
Dr. Daniel Abah for assisting with the logistics. We are ever grateful to
Tabitha Arise Foundation for their consistency over the years in providing
relief to the vulnerable displaced persons at the IDP camps. God has also used the Furaka Grace Foundation
Women to provide palliatives to widows in the community. Rhema For the Native,
a Bible Translation group, also provided palliatives to a number of persons in
Furaka community through Grace Foundation.
Missions Training
Set 24 of the School of Cross-Cultural Missions are
currently on various mission fields for practical field exposures. They will
continue with the field trip through Christmas to have a taste of Christmas on
the field. They and the new set will resume classes on January 5, 2021. We
covet your prayers for divine protection and breakthroughs in their labors on
the field. Please pray for financial resources to meet up with the demands of
the prevailing inflation. Foodstuffs, in particular, are very expensive now.
Many of the students admitted for the January 5, 2021 batch complain of lack of
money to pay their school fees. If we must make progress with the work, we need
more missionaries, and if we must get more missionaries, prospective
missionaries must be well trained. We may have no other option but to go ahead
to allow some of them to resume without fees believing that God will provide.
Also, we will begin preparation to open up the
training for Portuguese speakers with the response God is granting us in Brazil. One of our staff will travel to Brazil to
learn the Portuguese language, and on return, we will begin to accept students
first to learn English in the first two months of stay and then resume missions
training afterward. Thank the Lord for our friends and partners in Brazil who
are eager to see this come to pass and pray that the Lord will empower them to
fulfill these promises.
Home of Grace (HOG)
Conclusion
Thank you so much for your partnership over the years.
Together, we have made progress despite COVID 19 and other challenges
determined to stop us these past months. For us, we cannot thank God enough. In
the face of the growing insecurity, we have traveled day and night, including
notorious routes. God kept us. Despite inflation, we have never been
stranded. When we are almost running out of foodstuffs, God provides. God has
consistently provided resources to meet up with our obligation to our growing
number of missionaries. In all cases, we knew it was God’s miraculous
intervention. Please, keep praying for
us just as we continue to pray for you. Mission work is much more dangerous
than ever, and resources are again more limited. May the Lord continue to build
His church in the dark places of the earth through us. May the Lord bless you
for all you do for His kingdom.
His bondservant,
Andrew Abah
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