Dear Kneeling Partner,
Calvary greetings in Jesus’ name, and thank you so much for your partnership since the year began. We are sorry that our reports have not been as regular as they used to be. I am, however, delighted to let you know that your partnership with us is yielding so much in terms of souls embracing the Lordship of Jesus, concrete discipleship efforts, church planting, and church building across many fields and nations. Below are some of the praise reports and prayer points.
Salvation Across Nations
In collaboration with Gospel Without Boarders, with headquarters in Sokoto, Nigeria, we had
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| Sahel children outreach |
outreaches in several villages in the Niger Republic, during which the health challenges of the people were addressed through prayers for healing and massive free medical care. Many persons surrendered their lives to Christ. This cuts across the Kamberi, Dukawa, Bokko, Hausa, and Fulani fields. Several others surrendered their lives to Christ during personal evangelism carried out by the missionaries, their families, and their converts. Some of the converts, as usual, came under heavy persecution, and some were relocated to places they were considered relatively safe.
Discipleship Efforts
Early this year, we adopted the Discipleship Making Movement (DMM) model across all our mission fields to harness the fruit of our labors and multiply the harvests. This is a follow-up to the training we had earlier, which was anchored by the leaders of the Final Command, Rev. James Forline and Pastor Mike Adegbile. For a start, a few “Men of Peace” were
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| AMS focussing on DMM |
identified across the fields, and through them, individuals who were not necessarily clergymen and women among our converts were trained, and Discovery Bible Study Groups (smaller units) were launched. The DBS targets those we were already discipling and the new converts. Please, pray along with us that this model will help the converts to grow stronger and abide in the faith despite the many pressures. We have included the DMM model in our School of Cross-Cultural Missions (SOCM)’s curriculum.
Church Building on the Mission Fields
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| Gobirawa church building |
This year, our target was to build 10 local churches in villages where none exist, as well as three mission houses where the missionaries will reside. God answered our prayers early in the year by getting individuals in our partner church, Soteria Church who volunteered to build four churches. We have since started the church's building, each in four villages, and they are all at different levels of completion. This is in addition to three villages where we raised a church, roofed each, and eventually grew a wall around two. In one of the mission fields, the converts built a mission house with mud blocks but could not roof it before the rainy season. We had designated support of N100,000 towards the roofing, and we have planned to complete it, but due to the collapse of one of the churches because of
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| Salkam church building |
the fierce rain storm, we shifted our concentration to the rebuilding of the collapsed church, and we rebuilt it with pillars in-between to roofing level. Pray along with us for funds for the plastering. We completed the foundation for a three-bedroom flat mission house at Zarazong but have been unable to continue due to financial challenges.
Insecurities and Prayers for Divine Protection
We
continue to covet your prayer support for our missionaries, their families, and
converts as the lingering attacks continue to expand in scope. Many persons
have been killed, churches and houses burnt, and many others injured. A threat
letter has been sent to one of the villages where we work, and the villagers are
in severe fear. In many villages, there is fear of famine as most villagers
cannot go to farms for fear of being killed, raped, or abducted. Thus far,
except for one of our converts shot last year, God has continued to preserve
us. Many persons in Plateau State have been displaced and need help urgently.
Please, pray for an end to these insecurities.
Missions Training
Our
current set of students were sent to the mission field for their first
internship and, to the glory of God, are safely back in the class. Close
observation revealed that more than one-year training will be needed for this
set. So much is required to be done in their lives for Christ to be formed in
them before we begin to delve into core mission courses. This requires a lot of
patience on the side of our Trainers. Please, pray with us for the missionary
trainees and many more, trusting God for financial resources to resume.
Home of Grace
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| Baby Mercy |
Conclusion
Once
again, thank you so much for joining hands with us to do this work. Every progress
we have recorded cannot be divorced from your selfless, sacrificial support in
prayers and finance. Despite all the odds, we are determined to advance
forcefully into new territories like Bilma towards Libya, re-engage some of our
lost territories like Chad, where Samuel Benuoji labored until his death, and
consolidate existing work. Please continue to partner with us. Pray that the
Lord will add to our existing harvest force, protect all our frontier and
logistic missionaries, provide resources to meet the upkeep challenges of our
missionaries in the face of gross hyperinflation, and complete all the building
projects we are currently embarking upon.
God
bless you. Maranatha.
Dr.
Andrew Abah
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