OCTOBER 2017 UPDATE
FROM FROM SIERRA LEONE:
“So that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in Love , may
have power together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high
and deep is the Love of Christ, and to know this Love that surpasses knowledge
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” ( Ephesians
3:17-19, NIV).
The year
2017 is almost coming to an end as we have just about two months to go for the
year. We give thanks to God for his blessings in the ministry here in Sierra
Leone. Christ is indeed dwelling in the hearts of people who had not known him
and have now accepted him as their Lord and savior. The church is growing and
more souls are coming to the faith, more preaching centers are been established
in new areas. New villages and towns are calling for the Church.
Magburuka
and Kono are calling for the CRC church. Villages such as Madina are calling
for the light of Christ to dwell in their communities. These are all acts of
the Holy Spirit moving in various direction calling for the elect to come back home.
Halleluiah.
SHALOM FM RADIO KABALA: Following the approval of the
frequency for the radio last month, the Month of October was full with activities
at the station establishing the commissioning and dedication of the station .
Sunday October 22 was the day . The event was witness by the paramount chief of
wara- wara Yagala chiefdom several
religious leaders including the chief imam of the Kabala central mosque . Ron
Geerlings the Global director for Africa and Europe of the Resonate Global
mission from Grand Rapids as well as the International director for the Timothy
leadership training, Rev. Albert Strydhorst , were all in attendance to witness
the Love of Christ in Kabala town as the station was dedicated to the Lord for
the purpose of preaching the gospel of salvation as well as community
development.
THE NEW CLASSROOM BUILDING IN KCSS. The work on the new classroom
building at the Christian school is progressing fast. The foundation is now completed,
it’s been filled with, and very soon the floor will be done and the work on the wall will soon start.
CRC SL EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Seeing the need of harmonizing and
proper supervisions of church related schools, especially with the new vision
and zeal of the CRC churches in the villages taking up the challenge of
starting a Christian school in their communities using the little resources
especially the spaces in the church buildings to educate their young ones. The
Church has established an Education committee made up of seven people. They are
charged with the responsibility of supervising and monitoring theses schools,
as well as work with the relevant government ministry for proper registration,
and making sure that the schools met the requirements. Also its going to be the
responsibility of the committee to make sure that if donations or helps comes,
they are share accordingly to the various schools that are established or will
be established. Some of these schools are : Kondembaia and Yarah Nursery schools, as well as Nanfayie and Firawa Primary schools. We also have a school that
was started by Foria community. Others are Yirah Filaya Badela, Madina and
diang sukorrala. Among these Schools , its Nanfayie school that has a befitting
school building structure, courtesy of Smithers .
OFFICE, MULTIPURPOSE AND CHURCH
BUILDING: To God be
the glories, as we all know the first phase of the building was completed which
now host the Shalom radio. Our dream of completing the remaining structure is
still high hoping and trusting for your continue support. We need to raise the
second floor of the second phase, we are hoping that before the end of this financial year , we
should be able to move to the new office building . But that will only happen
if the resources are available. The third phase which is the auditorium shall
be used for worship, training and meeting centers for the church. We are
estimating about $34,000 to $40,000 to finish the whole work and if possible
with the furniture. [God helping us] when completed , the office building will
have twelve rooms for all the staff CES,
CRC-SL while the radio staff will continue with the already completed building.[
the first phase]
VISIT BY RON AND ALBERT: Another moment of blessings and
sharing the wonderful stories of the Love of God. Ron Geerlings of the Resonate
office in NA as well as Rev. Strydhorst
of the TLTI visited and had meetings with the leadership of the CRC SL, TLT
Participants and also partners from Liberia. All the meetings were held in
Sierra Leone.
Rev. Solomon
O Davis of the Peace on earth in Liberia came to discuss about the TLT in
Liberia, while Morris Sonnie was on the new work in Tienni.
Beside this
meetings, we were also opportune to meet with REN Soon Lee of the Korean
Presbyterian Mission [ KPM], in Waterloo. KPM operate and Reformed Theological
College [RTC] and would like to partner with the CRC-Sl in the area of
leadership training, for both churches and others in the country.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
1. Thank God for the successful
dedication of the Shalom Radio.
2. Pray for the staff of the radio
station for commitment .
3. Pray that the people will hear the
Word salvation through the radio and get save.
4. Pray for Pastor Morris Sonnie of
Liberia , while he was in Sierra Leone to meet with Ron and others , news came
that part of the roof of his house was destroyed by wind storm
5. Pray for Sierra Leone, Very soon the
ban on political campaign will be lifted and people will be campaigning for the
forth coming generation election ,pray for peaceful transition.
6. Pray too for Liberia, their election
has gone into a runoff , pray for peaceful election too in that country.
7. Next Month we planned to travel to
Nigeria to see our Children, for safety.
8. Joyce will be completing her national
service assignment on Nov. 2 Pray that God will help her find something doing .
Bernhard is still waiting for admission into the University, pray that he will
be able to get it. Things are very difficult in Nigeria. There are over 150
Universities in the country, but getting admission is always difficult for many
especially who do not have so call big person to advocate for him or her. For
us we trust but in God to do it for him. Judith is continuing with her study in
Wukari pray for her as well.
9. Monday October 30, we are expecting
two gospel artists from CRC Nigeria to visit our young people here to encourage
them and train them in the area of Church Music etc. Pray for safety as they travel.
[ Lordswiil Angulu Kadiri and Samson Shishi] . Lordswiil is coming from the CRC
Abuja while Samson is coming from Wukari CRC.
10. Thank God for the two Churches in
Nigeria who are paying for the people to come.
11. Pray for funds to enable us complete
our building projects in Kabala .
12. Pray for our new proposed areas of
Church planting in Magburuka and Kono, In Magburuka a Lady there offered us a
Free Land for the Church, she is a member of the Church in Wellington –Freetown
and she want the CRC in her home town.
In Kono, someone also offered to
host any person that we will send to start a church, pending when we are able
to find our own place. All these are opening that the Lord is making for us. We
need your prayers and supports to enable us fulfilled this mandate.
CONCLUSION; In all we give thanks to God for his
grace , and we appreciate you all for your prayers and supports for us, Please
continue . The Lord bless you.
Submitted by. Rev. Istifanus B Bahago
Leadership consultant . CRC SL:- Emails:-ibbahago@gmail.com
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