  Dear co-workers, I greet you in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, and Savior, who has called us to serve Him in this generation. It’s our prayer that the Lord keeps you and your family safe. We are enjoying God’s gratefulness in our daily life and ministry. Here is a short update on my family and ministry in the last three months. Our daughters and son are growing healthy. Lydia and Ebenezer finished today their second-semester mid-exam. Bethany growing healthy. Ministry Highlights God is moving with us. In the last three months from January – March 2023 through GCM staff and volunteers’ efforts under my leadership:1. Prayer and fasting: Over 7,337 people mobilized and trained for prayer and also prayed for the ministry within 423 groups. 2. Reaching Oral People: We have developed 42 stories in the Amharic Language that will be used for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting with the collaboration of StoryRunners. 3. Training: Over 28,149 people were trained for action, both for evangelism, discipleship, leadership, a healthy marriage, children, and church planting… 4. Gospel Exposure: Over 410,647 people heard the gospel message, decision for Christ: 19,653 decisions to follow Christ, follow-up engagement: 10,892 new believers follow up, 5. Planted churches and groups: 165 churches and groups with a membership of 4,582 new believers. 6. Bible Study: 8,517 believers are engaged in weekly bible study within 921 groups. 7. Food Support: 550 households supported food in Borena among the people who were and are experiencing severe drought and fodder scarcity. Changed Life Story  Impact of Story-Telling TrainingThe training was held in Yabelo from September 24 to October 22, 2022, with 18 participants; among the participants, two were Abagadas Waqefecha religion leaders, which is a cultural belief in Ethiopia, particularly among the Oromo tribes. We have never seen such a mixed audience for training. However, it opened a good opportunity to share the good news with the non-believers’ trainees, and they were expected to share what they learned or did with their neighbors and families every day after training and on weekends. There were also two Muslim English teachers working as local back translators twice a week, and they heard the good news very clearly through all the stories we were developing. One of them was very challenged, so he promised to spend more time reading the Bible. In addition to the trainees, we had 4-6 non-believers twice a week; all those gusts heard the story, retailed it, and provided feedback and concerns about the story. Generally, over 24 non-believers were engaged in the training in one way or another until it was completed    Well-known two religious leaders, Abo Guyo and Abo Dida believed in Christ during the training. Azmach had a conversation with the Abagedas as follows: As I interviewed Abo Guyo, I asked him how this training had helped him. He said, “It helped me in many ways.” I got my salvation and learned many things. This training is about the work of God, and that’s what I enjoyed. And I got something I call God’s son: “I very much like that I am the son of God.” He explained to me that he was used to everyone calling him father, so it was so good to know that he was a son of God. I asked him to share a little more of his story with me. He said, “At first when they came and told us about the gospel, I didn’t understand it like this.” I thought it would destroy our culture, and it did not go with our society, but now I come and hear many histories and don’t hear anything that opposes our culture. The way they were telling us was not the way the training was conducted. ” After I met Jesus, this was the right way and the way our communities were searching for it, and I am so happy to get such an opportunity to be part of this team.” Abo Guyo started sharing the gospel message and winning others immediately, like the Samaritan woman in John 4. I will share with you the continued impact in my next post. Praise the Lord! Prayer and PraisePraise the Lord for the people who made the decision to follow Christ and those who mobilized for the kingdom expansion. Prayer: 1. Pray that the Lord gives me wisdom and knowledge as I lead a global church movement on a national scale. 2. Today my wife, I, and some of the GCM team arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, to attend the Global Church Movement Annual Conference. Kindly pray to God to give us a fruitful time here. 3. Continue praying for my family’s relocation plan. |
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