Introduction

Ethiopia has over 115 million people, and out of this number, 25 million claim to have some relationship with Jesus, whereas more than 90 million do not. We have a biblical mandate to reach 90 million people with the gospel of Jesus Christ by mobilizing the 25 million Christians.

The Great Commission Ministry Ethiopia, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International, has been serving in the country for the last 42 years. The organization has four major field focus areas: student ministry, church ministry (Global Church Movements), leader strategies, and digital strategies. The organization has 250 full-time staff members and a little over 1,500 trained associates.

The church ministry (Global Church Movements), which I lead, began in 2014. It functions in five sub-strategics. such as church planting, mobilization, North-East Initiative (Missions), Women for Change, and children’s ministry. Many church leaders and believers have been trained and involved in it, and about 7,000 churches have been planted across the country since the strategy began. Our desire is to see healthy and multiplying churches in every village. This strategy has 78 staff, 1039 associates, 599 church planting training (coaching) centers, and 34 evangelism teams.

10 Month Ministry Achievement

The past ten months were challenging because of civil war, drought, and global pandemic Covid-19;  regardless, the Lord was with us in every aspect, and we were able to thrive in many areas. The following highlights are the Global Church Movement results in the last ten months.

• 52,700 people were trained
• 1,474,376 people were exposed to the gospel message through  one to one and mass evangelism
• 63,552 people decided to follow Christ, and 30,180 people are engaged in follow up groups
• 56,711 people engaged in the bible study groups
• 631 churches and groups were started and 3240 bibles  were distributed for the new believers
• We mobilized over 3,000 people for 21 days of fasting and prayer.
• We distributed over 1000  sets of children’s ministry curricula for the churches

Glory be to the Lord!

Dear co-workers in the kingdom, 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 my prayer that the Lord keeps you and yours safe. My family is doing well. Lydia and Ebenezer, our daughter and son, went back to school for the second term, and Bethany, our third child, is also growing healthy. Prayers for the training of 800 movement leadersIt’s a week to see 800 national wide movement leaders. I hope that, as you may know, we, Great Commission Ministry Ethiopia, are organizing training for 800 movement leaders who are working with the Global Church Movement Strategy, under which I give leadership on a national level. The training conference will be held from March 22 to 25, 2022, in Debrezeit, near Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. These leaders have been engaged with us for the past two or three years, implementing our strategies and mobilizing and equipping people for the kingdom. The majority of them are church planter coaches and trainers. Some of them are female leadership trainers.Some of them are children’s ministry or Sunday school teacher trainers. Some of them are church mobilizers and action group leaders. Each leader is responsible for a specific ministry site and developing 10 to 25 leaders intentionally. These leaders come from all parties in the country, except Tigray and some parts of the western provinces, which are still under civil war. At this point in time, preparing such leaders for Ethiopia is more than just a conference. As the country faces many obstacles from time-to-time, such as civil war, starvation, drought, COVID-19, inflation, and so on, many people are losing hope as a result of these and other challenges. Seeing such a large gap, we are training leaders to carry the message of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ to everyone in every village of Ethiopia.

Prayer for God’s presence in the training
Prayer for safe travel for each participants and the speakers who travel from abroad
Pray for wisdom, knowledge and the Holy Spirit guidance for the organizing team 
Pray for my family health, this time my mother, mother in-law, sister in law are sick.
Please join my family and the team in your prayer.