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 [...]
February 07, 2009 Bishop Dr. Pat Novak visits Freetown and Liberia The Team’s Arrival and Activities in Freetown 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 [...]
Sept. 20, 2002 Summer offers faculty special opportunities By Ellen Chrismer Doug Gross listens to the heartbeat of a young patient from the Ivory Coast’s Fulu Tribe, Many in the tribe had never seen metal before, much less a stethoscope. Courtesy photo When Doug Gross got back from a three-week trip abroad earlier this summer, [...]
Greetings from our Ministry in West Africa This newsletter will be focusing on Senegal written in the report to the DONE Board by Doris Ba. Doris Ba is discussing the training that both Bishop Ba and Rev. Browne were able to take in Aims, Iowa in Nov. 2008. As you will recall from May Newsletter [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dakar, Senegal Sunday June 3rd was observed throughout the Republic of Senegal as national women Day. Women from the Dakar church and the Rufisque cell group were all present on this day for a wonderful and worship together. After the service they had a joint meeting to discuss how they as women can be self [...]
A relief container loaded with ministry supplies was sent from First Presbyterian Church of Santa Clara to ministry HQ in Dakar, Senegal. We thank all of the individuals and churches for funding the shipment and donating supplies (clothing, pews, Bibles, medical supplies, etc.). Learn more about Discipling Our Nations Effectively at doneinc.org
Santa Clara, California – August 29, 2005 Attend this fundraising dinner for Women’s Micro-Enterprise on Saturday, October 1st, 2005 to support a path toward self-sufficiency. One particular business endeavor is in need of your support. With a one-pedal sewing machine, Doris Ba, wife of D.O.N.E.’s regional director, has begun a shop to give women a [...]
It was wonderful, It was exciting, It was successful, Praise the mighty name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Women from all walks of life came to celebrate this wonderful occasion with us. Pastors’ wives, members from different evangelical churches in Senegal, Catholics friends in the neighborhood, Muslim women, diplomats from the American, Nigerian, [...]
“ I now present to you the keys to my village, Let the will of your God for my people prevail through out our land.” Mbad Village Chief Saar The people of Mbad now have a church and a well. Their prayers have been finally answered. On May 16, 2005 the well and the church [...]
