DONE Inc. News & Events

Our leadership, BishopAdoulaye Ba and Rev. Thomas Browne have a deep calling and anointing of God upon their lives as they lead our ministry of work among the Muslim and animist people.  God is blessing our work and we see the Holy Spirit’s movement among our workers.  This September 2008 God worked through a five person team from Pittsburgh, Penn.

They were Pastor Kelvonna Warner,  Apostle Lucrecia King, Sister Ethel Gardiner and Elder Petter Carngbe and his wife Bettie Carneby.   During their 14 day visit the team was involved in several activities, including Ministering the Word during worship services, teaching Bible studies, village Evangelism and praying for the people.  Peter Carngbe, a Liberian, and his wife used this time to visit his birth country and also visit our work in Liberia.

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Prayer Requests from our countries are first and foremost to remember us in prayer.  Next is the need for more funding.  We urgently need more funds to purchased training materials.  Although we can reproduce copies, in many villages that is not a possibility.  We urgently need funds to help our villagers finish their churches before the rainy season this year.  We urgently need funds for bicycles or motorbikes to our church planters.  We praise God for Church of the Valley, CA for providing funds for 10 bicycles for Liberia.  We pray for many of you to become participants in this ministry with us.  If you wish to specify an area of concern, note it on the memo line.

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Remarkable work in Mali for the Lord and advancement of the Gospel in January 2009 in a village. This village is about ??km away from Bamako. DONE Pastors  must travel about ??km to send email and charge their cell phone. Since the arrival of Pastor??, they were able to present a Seminar on Spiritual Warfare. The Chief of the village along many other villagers give their lives to Jesus Christ. Ten persons were baptized after their conversion. As you can see on the photos, they worship under the tree. The villagers are building a mud block worship center.

All names and towns are changed or abbreviated because of security concerns in this region.

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Eglise Evangelique des Parcelles Assainies which is our head church in Dakar with weekly attendance now at two hundred.  This church is comprised of 14 Nationalities.  This church has fully taken the responsibility to support its Pastors and Missionaries (Church Planters) without dependence from the U.S. Because of the emphasis on prayers and teaching of the Word, especially through this leadership development training by our Bishop Abdoulaye Ba, many of our leaders are challenged. As the result of this training, six Men of Peace were found and were baptized.

Pastor A who went through the training will also start the 1st principle in Mbour, and Fissel.  The church in Dakar bought a Motorcycle for Pastor A to help accomplish this work.”

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Bishop Abdoulaye Ba and Rev. Thomas Browne were trained in Ames, Iowa to be a leaders in BILD INTERNATIONAL (Biblical International Leadership Development).  This program is based on accelerating Church-Planting Movements worldwide by training leaders in “the Way of Christ and His Apostles”.  Rev. Thomas Browne took the training to Sierra Leone and Liberia, our English speaking nations, and Bishop Ba did the training through our headquarters church in Dakar, Senegal and as funds allow he will go to the other French speaking countries.

DONE leadership training in Senegal started on the 20th of February through March with the first series ‘Becoming a Disciple’ a six-session Bible study, and the First Principles of the Faith by Jeff Reed.  Rev. Doris Ba in her report to the DONE Board writes, “The leadership of the churches of DONE Senegal is grateful to God for the leadership training under Bishop Ba.”  The training will be every Friday and Saturday for three weeks.  After the three weeks training, each leader will find a Man of Peace before starting the second book of the first series”.

Bishop Ba started the training by reviewing the Church Planting Movement  (CPM).  It was introduced by David Watson in his Church Planting Movement (CPM) and is being used extensively on the mission fields through out the world.  Our leaders and church planters have been trained over the last several years in this method.  In this method one goes out into a village or unchurched area as a friend and looks for a person who shows concern about spiritual matters.  They then work with this friendship and under the guidance and movement of the Holy Spirit and in time they can disciple and began a cell group.   Rev. Doris Ba continues, “We are convinced that at the end of our training we will be fully trained in “the way of Christ and His Apostles,” and we will be able to reproduce rapid and sustainable churches base on Biblical principles.

Bishop Abdoulaye Ba challenged us at the end of the first session that every leader should begin to find their man of peace.  Before the end of the six sessions many of the leaders had already found their Man of Peace, including our Bishop himself with whom he had now started teaching  Mamadou Ba and his whole family. Many of the Men of Peace found by the leadership in Dakar are now baptized and will start the First Principle training with the leader.

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A church has been planted in Kono, Sierra Leone. In starting this church, it was reported that MA left the capital Freetown and moved to Kono where he has succeeded in starting a church.
MA is one of the oldest and committed members of DONE, in Freetown. He was one of those trained in the New Church Planting Method conducted by Bishop Ba and Rev. Browne during their visit to that West African Country two years ago.

During my 2008 visit to Liberia, I received several calls from MA extending an invitation to visit Freetown and see for myself what God was doing through him and the ministry. I did not honor the invitation at the time due to insufficient funds. The church started by MA is an independent DONE church. If funds are availability, I will be glad to visit MA in 2009.

Fifth in a series of updates from a 2008 Liberia trip by Rev. Browne. All names and towns are changed or abbreviated because of security concerns in this region.

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Health and Persecution
MD, a member of the Town Cell Group lost her Father on June 8, 2008 as a result of the lack of clinic in the community and the unavailability of vehicle to transport him to the next available clinic after a brief illness.

Brother MS of the Town Cell Group, on June 17, lost his sister over night from cholera due to lack of clinic in the area.

On June 14, a couple was cast out of their home along with their two little children as a result of becoming Christians.

Plan of Action

Begin Children’s ministry

Three days prayer retreat

Three days leadership training workshop. (Hopefully to be conducted by Rev. Browne)

Purchase 10 Holy Bibles, bicycle and generator.

Hindrances/Obstacles

1. Heavy rainfall most often hinders evangelism and the use of our new bicycle in reaching the various cell groups.

2. Lack of communication asset also hinders fast and easy report on mission progress in the ministry. Cost of using commercial cafe unimaginably too high. For instance, to scan one picture (photo) costs not less than 50.00 Liberian Dollars or one United States Dollar.

Recommendations

We recommend the following as a way forward for effective ministry operation:

1. Immediate incorporation of the ministry in Liberia for our security and to avoid would be future problem.

2. A simple desk top or laptop computer, a digital camera to enable easy reporting.

Prayer Request

Kindly pray along with us for all that have been recommended, and for success in these Muslim communities where our church planters presently work.

Fourth in a series of updates from a 2008 Liberia trip by Rev. Browne. All names and towns are changed or abbreviated because of security concerns in this region.

The community visited is 85 percent Muslim with a few thousand inhabitants.

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The Town Cell Group was established through HT. She heard about the prayer meeting and Bible study at the other Cell Group; expressed her desire to be in attendance but the many miles walking distance between the villages prevented her from doing so. Therefore she made her premises available and appealed for a cell group to be started. A cell group was started to the glory of God. According to her there is no church in her village. HT was introduced to us by JM from the other village Cell Group.

Third in a series of updates from a 2008 Liberia trip by Rev. Browne. All names and towns are changed or abbreviated because of security concerns in this region.

The community visited is 85 percent Muslim with a few thousand inhabitants.

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JM, the person of Peace, and members of the town cell groups have decided to construction the town worship center. Not only have they decided to construct a place of worship, but are deeply involved and personally contributing in terms of materials and labor.

The group constructs a place of worship. The church building project will seat more than 400 persons when completed.  (See photo essay below)

PHOTO #1 Shows four members of the construction team cut sticks ( 305 ground poles and 82 for the roofing) to begin constructing the house of worship.

PHOTO #2 A group of women willingly carrying some of the poles on their head.

PHOTO #3 A group of men help cut ground pole to measuring height of the building. After carefully observing the seriousness of the building project an observer declares his willingness to form part of the Cell group as well as the working force. To God be the glory.

The men and women are 50 – 50 up to the task. The men leave early morning to go into the bushes to cut the poles and other materials, and later returned to the site to move on with construction. The women voluntarily assist in transporting the poles and materials on their heads to the construction site and provide meal and safe drinking water for the working men.
It is worth noting that these women walk for about 30 minutes in trying to get the poles to the construction site.  They enjoy being a part of the construction. They are excited about the construction and are always the first to arrive at the site.

It is raining season in Liberia. Most path ways in the villages have become dangerous and almost inaccessible as a result the heavy down pour of rain. This has limited and placed a temporary restricted on our movements between villages.

Second in a series of updates from a 2008 Liberia trip by Rev. Browne. All names and towns are changed or abbreviated because of security concerns in this region.

The community visited is 85 percent Muslim with a few thousand inhabitants.

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A five person Business Board for Senegal has been established. The committee was appointed by Bishop Abdoulaye Ba, at the request of the U.S. Board of Directors.

While in Africa Dr. Novak had the opportunity to meet with some members of the business board. He briefly shared with them the purpose for the establishment of this board and what was expected of them as members of the Senegal Business Board.
The construction of a septic tank as requested by the school that intends to lease the building has begun. Fruitful discussions between the Business Board and the school continue.

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