Dear Prayer Partners
For the past 3 days Stephen Bahago, Sam Dodo and myself have been working on goals, plans, budgeting, job description and performance standards for the Bible Clubs here in Nigeria. Our desire is to see this aspect of Word of Life Nigeria glorify God through growth that is not just numbers but truly changed lives that will have lasting impact. It has always been easy to share the incredible numbers that hear the Gospel through our drama team and evangelism weekends and the almost inconceivable numbers that trust Christ on a yearly basis. However it has always been much more difficult to convey the discipleship aspects of the work here, which we hope to change.
I mentioned that we did some teaching about evangelism and spent time in prayer last week with our volunteers, and Stephen continued that direction during our outing, bringing the volunteers together on Saturday to discuss the topic of responsibility. We enjoyed immediate results from this when it came to meal preparation, clean up and packing up on Sunday.
We were actually in 3 villages over the weekend, Lufom, Nyemdung and Yilpia with almost 1200 hearing the Gospel and 230 making decisions to trust Christ. Prayers for the Holy Spirit to work in lives and for the vehicles and equipment to not disappoint us were definitely answered. However, one team had to leave before they were really finished because the Maiangwa (chief) created a problem. Although the chief claimed to be a Christian, most of our team agreed that he wanted to go back to traditional beliefs and make the community follow.
The Drama team went out on Monday and have had some small difficulties with vehicles and sickness so please pray for them. Please also pray for wisdom for me as I work on my calendar for the next 6 months and as I finish preparing to speak this coming Sunday. To close on a positive note, Meredith is felling much better and enjoying teaching 3rd grade.
Part of His Workmanship
Bob DeVoe
