Nigeria
Praise
- Comfort is running training in Maiduguri this week with Good News Church and is expecting 30-40 participants!
- Seven teenagers in Maiduguri that Comfort has trained in use of the gospel card have agreed to speak to their friends about the gospel this week and will talk to Comfort on Sunday to share with her how it has gone and learn from her how to follow up with any new believers!
- Kidnappings in Maiduguri have reduced to some extent.
- One of the former drug addicts from the jungle outside of Jos, Benjamin, has been actively reaching out to his friends, and will be bringing 7 of his new-believer friends for Samuel to begin teaching tomorrow!
- The church in Rashalang, that the Nigeria team planted last year has 28 members and is doing well! They have moved on from learning from the follow-up materials to also using other church materials.
- Jos has been calm for a week.
- The former Muslim sheik is traveling in Katsina and Kaduna safely! Pray for him and for the Muslim background believers he is working with.
Prayer
- For the trainings and outreaches mentioned above, and for Comfort, Samuel, Benjamin, Osang, and Peter, and Solomon particularly as they work with these people.
- For Peter’s mother-in-law, she was admitted to the hospital and had to receive a drip. She is diabetic and is ill! Prayer for her healing.
- for continued peace in Jos.
- One of our trainees from Gindiri Theological Seminary, Solomon, has come to Jos to get materials to use in his field practicals, pray for him as he reaches out!
Ethiopia
Praise
- for continuing peace!
- for the declaration of the end of the conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia!
- for the blessing of the Christian Prime Minister who is leading the country wisely.
Prayer
- Rich is leaving for Ethiopia on Wednesday for 3.5 weeks! There, he, Eyasu, and a team of strategically selected trainers will train 200 university students in two sites, and 60 career evangelists in evangelism and follow-up. Prayer that God will protect them and prepare the hearts of the trainees.
Cameroon
Praise
- The military was going through and burning houses on the hilltop (the killings have been ongoing) and a doctor in the hospital called the army commander on Bamenda and told him what the military was doing and he called them and told them to stop.
- Florence and her husband were in a vulnerable area and prayed that God would stop the military before they came to their house, and He did!
Prayer
- The expatriate doctors have decided to relocate, most of them will be gone in the next two weeks, and the last remaining one may return to the US for a few weeks. Pray that even without the pressure of the presence of international people, the government will respect the lives of the refugees in
- Some of the committed evangelists and trainers we’d like to bring from Cameroon into Nigeria for extra training are having trouble getting passports (including Linda, who trained the new believers this month, and Pastor Yisa). FFICM is going to help them with their expenses, we need prayer for continued resources for us as we meet these needs and that the government will approve the visas in time!
- Florence is traveling to Kent Academy for a retreat, she is in southern Nigeria right now having just crossed the border. Pray for her safety!
