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17/02/2025

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12/11/2024

Week of PRAYER

23/09/2024

Lunette Coetzee my precious friend, missionary, preacher and Teacher. What a beautiful friend you are and always will be in the memories we have. Our time at CEBI! Planning outreaches and mission trips.

And then Elim, a place you constantly prayed for. Lives you touched on a daily basis. The lengths you would go to, to have lives transformed and communities changed.

What a legend. What a carrier of the grace of GOD!! 'a cedar has fallen in lebanon' is a gross understatement of the person you are and will be remembered as such.

Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants. New Living Translation The LORD cares deeply when his loved ones die.

06/08/2024

This morning 6th August, 2024, I read this precious devotion by Charles Spurgeon in his much-loved "Morning and Evening":
QUESTIONS FOR THE WATCHMAN
Isaiah 21:11 'Watchman, what of the night?'
We have enemies. Errors are a numerous horde, and a new one appears every hour. What heresy should I guard against? Sin creeps from its lurking places when darkness reigns. I must climb the watchtower and watch with prayer.
Our heavenly Protector foresees all the attacks that are about to be made on us. He prays that our faith will not fail when we are sifted as wheat (Luke 22:31). Oh gracious Watchman, continue to forewarn us about our foes, and for Zion's sake, do not hold Your peace.
"Watchman, what of the night?" What weather is coming for the church? Are the clouds lowering, or is it clear? We must care for the church of God with anxious love. With infidelity threatening, let us observe the signs of the times and prepare for conflict.
"Watchman, what of the night?" What stars are visible? What precious promises suit our present situation? You sound the alarm, also give us the consolation. Christ, the pole star, is ever fixed in His place, and all the stars are secure in the right hand of their Lord.
Watchman, when is the morning coming? The bridegroom tarries. Are there no signs of His coming as the Sun of Righteousness? Has not the morning star risen as the pledge of day? When, then, will the day dawn and the shadows flee away (Song of Solomon 2:17)?
Oh Jesus, if You do not come in person for your waiting church today, come in Spirit to my sighing heart and make it sing for joy.
Now all the earth is bright and glad with the fresh morn;
But all my heart is cold and dark and sad
Sun of the soul, let me behold Thy dawn!
Come, Jesus, Lord,
O quickly come, according to Thy word.

27/07/2024

Sterkte aan al ons Olimpiese atlete. Ons is trots op elkeen wat die voorreg het om deel te neem aan die grootste sportgebeurtenis Olympics

Ons gebed is dat Hy elkeen die nodige krag en deursettingsvermoë gee om Sy naam op die sportveld groot te maak!

05/01/2024

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21/08/2023

The Beja people are a nomadic people group who live in Sudan, Eritrea, and Egypt. They practice folk Islam and believe in the evil eye and jinnis (spirits). They try to appease the jinnis and draw power from them by using charms and amulets.
The Beja are a marginalized and poor people group. Most have little or no education and are therefore considered lower class and backward by their countrymen. They live in difficult-to-reach places, making it hard to reach them with the Gospel.
Pray for:
~ More Scriptures and resources to be translated and recorded into Bedawiyet.
~ Local Christians to hear the Holy Spirit’s urging and find creative ways to reach out in love to the Beja.
~ The Beja to find Jesus and begin a movement among their people.
You can read more about the Beja here: https://afrigo.org/articles/people-groups-the-beja-of-eritrea-sudan-and-egypt/

08/08/2023

21/07/2023

This Saturday! Could you impact the nations through your job? Join the online conference with speaker Peter Oyugi from MANI.
The theme is Africa: Innovation and Acceleration in Mission.
Hosted by Africa2Africa Connections, which wants to connect, equip, empower and support African followers of Christ that are crossing borders for work or study purposes.
Register as an online participant at www.a2aconnections.net It’s FREE !
Visit their page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083198565341 to see who is attending the PWP 2023 !
Associated with Africa Inland Mission.

04/07/2023

Benita, a missionary, lost her husband and son in the mission field. She shared her story of pain, confusion and her journey with God. We are sharing it in four parts.

Recap: Benita and her husband were working with the Avadin and Dukawa people group of Niger state, teaching the children and helping the community manage their finances and crops better. The Muslim minority of the area was deeply unhappy with the situation, knowing that their oppression of the people was nearing an end. When the Fulani came to raid the area, they were betrayed into the hands of the raiders and Benita’s husband and son were shot as the herdsmen demanded money. Eventually, Benita escaped and got to safety with her 3-month-old baby daughter. She wondered why God had allowed such a loss.

Part Four:
I still have a lot of questions today. I still spend lots of nights in tears, but thankfully the grace of God continues to keep me. I am not angry with God, because I believe nothing happens in the life of a Christian without the knowledge of God. He knew that this would happen to me.

The truth is that three weeks before the incident the Lord spoke to me about it, and that was why I felt uneasy on the day of the incident.

God is not done with me yet, and that is why I am still alive - I could have been killed alongside my husband and son. I believe my husband has finished his assignment and that was why the Lord allowed him to die. Before he died, he told one of his aunties that he knows that one day the Fulani people will attack him. He also told one of his pupils in the school that if he hears of his death, he should not cry, because he has finished his work.

In the course of time, God spoke to me, and I felt a deep peace in my heart. He told me that my marriage was not a mistake and that the fact that He allowed what happened to happen does not mean that He does not love me. I don't know what the Lord wants to achieve with my life; I only ask Him for grace to continue in Him.

I know I can't survive without Him; in my weak moments, I say things I am not supposed to say because I still go through emotional pain when I have a flashback of the whole event. Therefore, I ask for His mercy and help, so that I will not disappoint Him, because I know He loves me despite the incident.

After all of this, I went to get 15 of the children we had been discipling from the village. The villagers were abusing them, so I brought them to the city where they go to school and I care for them. The parents allowed them to come, to study, but did not know they were Christians. Unfortunately, the mission agency tried to force me to send the children back, even after the mission was no longer willing to help my daughter and I and cut us off.
However, these children are the fruit of our years of labour in that community. They are the seed of my husband's labour; to let go of them is synonymous with letting go of all the years of labour. I have made a vow to the Lord that I will do all that it takes to get them rooted and grounded in Christ so that they can go back to minister to their people.

I believe the Lord kept me alive for their sake. The Lord has been faithfully providing through Christian friends who believe in what I am doing and are standing with me. Psalm 121: 1-2 is a great encouragement.

One of my visions is to establish an orphanage for the less privileged and disciple them for Christ, but presently I am in the school of ministry while waiting on God for His direction for every step of my life. I will remarry someday if it is God’s will but my deceased husband was a very godly man and it would be hard to find someone like that again, who loves my daughter like his own. Meanwhile, I advise women to get ministry training before going out as missionaries, and they must also have passion for the work to avoid any kind of regret because they are bound to face challenges. If they are sure it is the will and purpose of God for them to enter into missions, then no matter how hard it is, the strength and the grace of God will keep them.

(See the first three parts of this story on our Stories page at www.afrigo.org/stories)

Excerpted from an interview by Rhoda Oluwakemi Appiah. She is married with three children. She is a pioneering missionary of Fullstature Missions International together with her husband, Rev. Daniel Hyde Appiah. She is a lover of God and His word, with an overwhelming desire to see God's kingdom advance in every sphere of society. Rhoda can be reached at [email protected].

Kemi Appiah

13/05/2023

The Distant Boat is a compelling story of the conflict a young man experiences when God calls him into missions. Filmed in Kenya, it is available in English, Swahili and Portuguese and can be streamed or downloaded. Watch The Distant Boat for free at https://distantboat.com/watch/

13/05/2023

Josephine Oumarou
Nigerian missionary to Niger

I lost my dad when I was only seven months old. As it is wont for an orphan, life became tough. My parents were traditional worshippers, but my elder brother and sisters became Christians after my father's death. After a while, my mother joined her children in the faith. Today, I'm a missionary spreading this love and knowledge of Christ among the unreached in Niger. l have lost my children and my husband in the mission field, but it doesn't stop me from serving Him.

Although I grew up with Christian siblings, I wasn't born again. In secondary school, I learned that I needed to accept Christ as my Lord. After attending a Christian fellowship, I knew I would perish without Christ. l did not want to miss the Kingdom of God, so I became a Christian.

I attended a mission conference. A presentation was made about unreached people groups, showing tribes where the Gospel had not reached and there was no church. I saw the people's suffering and felt terrible that I wasn't doing anything to help them. There was a strong push in my heart to reach out to them and help them.

I enrolled in a mission school almost immediately. After the training, l went as a missionary among the Zull people. There, l planted the first church with the help of Grace Foundation Inland Missions. When the church matured, l went on to reach the Bolu people in the Bauchi State of Nigeria. This is where I met my husband, who was from Niger. He, too, was a missionary. We worked together, and when the church could stand independently, we moved to Nassarawa State among the Mada people. Those churches are still standing.

Our missionary journey took us to Burkina Faso. We were there for a year, strengthening a local congregation. When we returned to Niger, the Lord called my husband home in January 2021.

I'm still serving as a missionary at Zarazon, taking care of orphans in Grace Foundation Inland Missions. When l see the people I have preached to serving God with the whole of their hearts, that's my greatest happiness.

A missionary's journey is not easy at all, but because of the joy and crown awaiting us, we have to be courageous and move forward. I pray for the Church in Africa to be bold and go out among the unreached people groups.

Find more missionary stories at www.afrigo.org/stories

:

• For God to give me the grace to serve Him more than ever.
• For encouragement for the race that is ahead of me.
• As the Lord leads.