On Wednesday January 21, 2009 Bishop Patrick Novak arrived in Freetown along with Marilyn,

Claudia and Paige to begin a two-day intensive seminar for leaders of the ministry using the First Principles Series. The following day the seminar got on the way with about 35 people in attendance. 25 came from the Leadership of  DONE and 10 came from the leadership of the Word of Faith Ministries. The Seminar began at 10am and ended by 4:30pm.
The Team Visit Word Of Faith Ministries

At about 5pm the team, accompany by five members of DONE Sierra Leone Leadership took off to visit Meshack, the Pastor and Overseer of the Word of Faith Ministries. Upon our arrival we were received by the Leadership of The Word of Faith Ministries Pastor Meshack and taken on a tour of the facilities. At the end of the tour an evening service was started with about 300 people in attendance.

We were welcome by the Pastor and General Overseer of the Ministry who spoke highly of looking forward to networking with DONE Ministries. Rev. Browne thanked the Pastor for the warm reception and stressed the need for churches to network in areas of common interest. Rev. Browne indicated that DONE Ministries was open and looks forward to work with the Word of Faith Ministries. Rev. Browne than introduced the member of the team including the local leadership that had accompanied him. During the Service Bishop Novak received word for a lady in the congregation who was suffering from severe pain in her abdomen. The lady showed up immediately. Bishop Novak prayed her for her and she was healed instantly.

The second day of the seminar did not hold as scheduled. Rev. Browne canceled it in consultation with Bishop Novak. There were too many activities to cover with less time. Since it was agreed that Rev. Browne would remain in Freetown for an additional month to continue the training he suggested that the team traveled to Kono and Bo waterside to see and get a first hand account of the work started by Pastor Michael Arona and Pastor George Cole. This was accepted but due to time the team could not visit Bo and Kono at the same time. Therefore it was agreed that the team visit Kono. When the team disembarked from their Monrovia flight, immediately they began their journey to Kono in a four wheel runner jeep. The journey took the team 16 hours to and fro Kono on a rocky and dusty road. In Kono the team spend the night at the Methodist Guest House. The next morning the team was led to the center where a service was held in honor of the team. Gifts produced by the center were presented to the team. Later the team was taken on a tour of the center by its Director who is  the assistant pastor to Michael Arona. The team departed Kona at 12noon, arrived at the airport at 9:30pm just on time to checked in and departed Freetown.

More tomorrow on the trip to Liberia with Bishop Dr. Novak…..

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Thanks to those who lifted me up in prayers for the three days revival.  A three days revival was led by me at the Philadelphia International Church in PA who Pastor is Pastor Samuel Martin.  My testimony couple with the message God put in my heart for His people (LIFTING UP GOD’S GIFT TO THE CHURCH), was heart touching many experience the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon them.  Many were transformed by the word.  Members testify that there are great changes now in the congregation towards the church and Pastor.  They have learned to honor, and appreciate their Pastor and also to be a blessing to the church in any way they can.

As usual Doris minister in songs for the three days.

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Delivering his sermon, Reverend Dr. Patrick Novak told the graduates and congregation that the harvest was ripe but the workers were few.  He therefore challenged and encouraged the graduates to go out and make disciple.

Five students received Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theology, while ten students were awarded Diploma in Theology, by the Reverend Dr. Patrick Novak. During the program the students were prayed for and commissioned by Dr. Novak to go out and make disciples for the Lord.

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To fully and effectively achieve their goal, the youth of the church organized a one day “Clean up Campaign” to clean the community and major street of Parcelles (map).

They spend 6 hours removing garbage, dirt and sand that had oven taken the street as a result of heavy rains. It was wonderful and exciting. This was the first time the community had ever experienced young people coming on the streets to work without asking or begging for funds from the residence, by passer, motorist or commuters. It was exciting and wonder. While the youth were concentrating on traffic control and getting the streets clean, the children were sharing tracks and witnessing to who ever came their way for the Lord.

It was amazing to see the young as well as the old Muslim receiving tracks from the children in public, something which would have been difficult or impossible for an average person to do in the public. The children distributed over 450 tracks and as a matter of fact they ran out of tracks. The move by the youth has been welcome and highly appreciated by the community.

Nobody made commitment to Christ or rededicated their lives to Christ, but both Christian and Muslim, especially the Muslim are still talking about the orderly, disciplined and kind attitude of the youth.

Our prayers is that the Holy Spirit will work in the community and in the lives of all those who received tracks from the children. We pray that God will help us to lead his people by his wisdom and enable us to minister to them according to his grace.

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It was a powerful and exciting time of administering. There were great excitement, many confessions and testimonies of how people were blessed by what they term as “sound teachings”. To date the ministry has received several telephone calls and e-mail from individuals and institutions, congratulating the Bishop and the Ministry for further exposing what they term “the good and hidden part of the Koran”.

It the end of the seminar, the first, second and third year student of the Gambia Bible Training center were awarded certificates of completion.

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Dakar, Senegal

The week long seminar and revival services brought together over 150 participants from a cross session of Bible Believing Churches in Dakar and its surroundings.During the revival services many were blessed. 19 persons confessed receiving instant healing from several body pain, while 7 received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 9 Muslims and 2 animist accepted Jesus Christ as Lord in their lives.

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This past Sunday Bishop Abdoulaye and Doris Ba joined us. Bishop Abdoulaye serves as General Overseer for DONE Ministries in Senegal. After recounting how he became a follower of Jesus Christ after his conversion from Islam Abdoulaye talked about Mission and his understanding of mission.

Abdoulaye defined mission as sharing the name of Jesus Christ with those who do not know the love of God. What struck me most about Abdoulaye’s message was his singular focus on the “power of God” at work in the world and the idea that the news of Jesus Christ is fundamentally good news.

Abdoulaye also emphasized that the call to be a missionary has little to do with geography. As best I can remember he said, “If you have the money to come to Africa and be a missionary great, but if you don’t you can be a missionary right where you are”. This reminded me of a quote from Dr. Alister Begg, “There is no better place to serve God that right where he put you”. I personally think the challenge is to find ways to share the good news of Jesus Christ in the United States in an area where faith is becoming increasingly public yet increasingly private all at the same time.

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Pastor Sagara reports that his evangelistic team has yield a harvest of thirty converts. Mostly from the Fulani tribe of hard core Muslims. The team also held a meeting with the villagers and it was very very successful. It was agreed that another meeting will be held at the end of May in order to evaluate the growing relationship between the church and the villagers. He is praying that the school accepts that Bible be taught as a course by the church. Evangelism is also growing through his door-to-door evangelistic team.  One of the major problems he faced is that he needs a motorbike to make follow-ups on the church’s ever growing new believers.

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The women have decided to move out of the city in order to open new preaching areas through the power of the Holy Spirit.  We are sure that at the pace at which we are moving God will soon work miracles in these areas. We are looking for a man of peace and during our evangelization of the city we have focused on John 1:1-4, Ephesians 6:10-18 and Mark 16:15-18. The topic taught is the authority of the word of God.

While preaching we encounter one woman who confess that she has been following our evangelistic team for sometime now since she came from the hospital at the beginning of the month. She is an influential Muslim woman who claimed that after our prayers she has been delivered from the spirit of death. She felt this death spirit had been trying to overcome her for some time. Her confession is that after following our team who had been preaching around and praying for people God finally freed her. We are praying that God will use her in her area and possibly be our man of peace. We are hopeful that within the next few weeks God will give us a success report for you.

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Our strategy has focused on door-to-door evangelization campaign twice a week. During this time we had the opportunity of sharing the word of God with several people who never heard of the Lord. Among these people, was a Fulani who after hearing the word became a follower of Jesus.

We met a woman who could not walk for eight months. We prayed for her and God performed a miracle in her life. The following Sunday she walked to church and spent the day with us leaving on Monday.

We had a meeting: the church and the villagers, on March 2, 2006. The objective is to build a partnership and share the word of God. This meeting will be with the village chief, the mayor, the school Director, and other people, around twenty. It is truly my hope and desire that with prayers and through the power of the Holy Spirit our man of peace will be found and developed in this area and will help us break new ground in the surrounding area.

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