Mission Trip to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Rev. Patrick R. Novak D/Min, P.H.D., Senior Pastor of Church of the Valley in Santa Clara, California discusses the church’s mission trip. Pastor Patrick Novak introduces Marilyn Kibambe and Paige Takemoto, who offer testimony on the D.O.N.E. (“Discipling Our Nations Effectively”) mission trip to Africa. From Church of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First 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. I came in contact with B a former Christian whose bride price was paid [...]
God gave for D.O.N.E. to bring both Bishop Abdoulaye Ba and Rev. Thomas Browne, our African leaders, to Ames, Iowa to attend and be trained at the 2008 BILD (Biblical International Leadership Development) INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT. There were over 350 people in attendance from 40 nations around the world. Our US Board of Directors, Dr. Rev. [...]
The Dakar Central Church is using Cell Groups as one the means through which many Senegalese are being evangelized. One Pastor has been successful in establishing four cell groups comprised of Catholic, Muslims & Animist backgrounds. We praise God for answered employment needs as well as spiritual needs. The leader of one cell group who [...]
Heavy rainfall has been a hindrance for progress to outreached villages and towns of our target groups. Homes and agricultural activities were affected in G and S towns. But God is still doing new and great things. G Town cell group has 2 new converts and 13 people were baptized. B Town cell group has [...]
Joel has vowed to remain a Christian and to tell relatives, friends and everyone she meets about the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, despite family rejection and declaring her an infidel, a frustrated lady and one who does not have hope. Joel says despite of all the ill threat and persecution from relatives, she still [...]
Conakry, Guinea Pastor Jean Mara reports that one of his men of peace we visited while in route from Liberia, a Muslim is cooperating and doing everything to implement the new CPM. This man is an owner of a transport bus that takes local business people to the market every Friday. Transportation in the area [...]
Mali It is no surprise as God turn Saul to Paul and a great job was done through him. The Moslem boy (Name withheld) who reportedly join the church four months is being used by the Lord to confront his parents privately and during their family spare time. Because he is not knowledgeable in the [...]
Burkina Faso Pastor Moumouny reports that after searching for an estimated period of about 14 months, he is convinced the man he found possesses the qualities of a man of peace (Luke 10). He is excited and working with his man of peace. Moumouny says that the man (name withheld) has now introduced him to [...]
