HAPPY NEW YEAR and Merry Ethiopian Christmas!

Dear family and friends, I wish you Happy New Year! It is my prayer that the Lord keeping you safe and under His mercy and bless you abundantly in the this new year as you are trusting Him. My kids Lydia, Ebenezer and Bethany are doing well. We are praising the Lord who keep our family safe and blessed our effort with much fruit in the kingdom.

Two and Half Year ministry Update

As you may know since June 2016 I have been giving leadership for South Region office which targeted 25 million. God is faithful, he favored us and bless our effort in the last two and half year.

The followings are some of the Highlights of while I have been giving leadership for the South Region:

In the last two year and six month effort we have seen that the ripe is ready to harvest as Jesus said “…I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35-36. The result which we have achieved in these months is live testimony, more than 20,046 people being trained for the kingdom work, 417,426 people are exposed in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, among them 40,680 people accepted Christ as their personal savior, 272 new groups or churches have been planted, 127 university campuses and High schools are targeted in our student ministry.

Amazing Testimonies have been seen:

Currently I am moving to Addis Ababa with another new responsibility in national level.

Starting January 1, 2019 I am leading Global Church Movement which focuses on equipping local churches to enhance it’s healthy and multiplication. By helping to establish vital, multiplying and sustainable churches and faith communities, one for every thousand people, in every rural village, suburban neighborhood, and urban high rise.

Under Global Church Movement many departments being functioned like (Church Planting, Church Mobilization for Evangelism and Discipleship, Women’s for change, Children Ministry, and North East Initiative which focuses on sending missionaries in Muslim and Orthodox demented areas.

Praise and Prayer!

Praise the Lord for the fruit he given us in the last years

Prayer:

Pray may the Lord give me Wisdom and Knowledge while I am taking this big responsibility.

Pray may God provide us car while I am moving in Addis Ababa with the new responsibly it’s is very important to have a car, using public transportation in Addis Ababa is difficult while it took too much time.

Blessings!    

Dear Family and friends we greet you in the precious name of Our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ who called us to serve Him in this generation. It is our prayer that the Lord keeping you safe and under His mercy. The last five month for our family was unique, which we are enjoying by God’s blessings & mercy.
These are the highlights of our family in the last five month:-

• Ebenezer our new boy come to this world safely
• We have started living our own home even the building is not yet finished
• Lydia our lovely daughter celebrated her 3rd years old

On the ministry side, God has shacking our organization to focus on reaching the city which I and my team were trying to reach. Starting from March all our staff are involved in mobilizing and training the whole church in Addis Ababa forward reaching the city in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. We call it “Addis Wave Gospel Momentum”. This gospel momentum will continue for 18 month until we will reach 1 million people in the gospel in the city.
Beside the Addis Wave Momentum, I and our Action Group team in the last five month we could reached 27,190 people in the gospel through training and motivating 1019 people in the city for the gospel. Among the gospel exposure, 5908 people accepted Christ as their personal savior an Lord!

Generally in the last two year means Ethiopian 2007-2009 year since I have started coordinating Addis Ababa City Church dep’t we have achieved the following results in His mercy:-

• 70,652 People heard the gospel of Christ
• 11,339 Accepted Christ as their savior
• 5577 Trained for the kingdom work
• 84 New church planted with a member of 2320 new believers

Prayer Request

1. Regarding our house building, God is merciful we are living there since June 27, 2016 even if we have not finished it yet. Still know we are praying on the following needs:

• For sanitation material and work= 11,951birr
• For ceramic and paint work =29,300 birr
• For kitchen Cabinets = 35,763birr
• For Fence work= 28,510birr
  Totally we need 105, 524 birr to finish our house.

2. I have given a responsibility to coordinate South region office Hawassa, which targeted to reach the whole South Nation Nationality and people region and some Oromia regions like Aris, Bale, Borena and Guji Zones, we have planned for 2009 E.C. to expose163,000 people in the gospel, to win 27,200 and to plant 700 new churches in the respected area’s. Pray may the Lord give us wisdom, knowledge and resources that we could able to mobilize the church for his mission.
3. Financially in this time we are in a critical depict . Pray may the Lord raise people who will support us.

In His Mercy and Love!

Lydia, Ebenezer, Meseret & Miktile

Dear Family and friends we greet you in the precious name of Our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ who called us to serve Him in this generation. It is our prayer that the Lord is keeping you safe and under His mercy. My family is enjoying the mercy and the continued grace of our lord Jesus Christ. Lydia our lovely daughter is growing healthy. God is mercifully with us Mesi reached 8month of her pregnancy healthy.

The ministry we involved is growing and expanding amazingly, in the last three month in the grace of God me and my team which the area I give leadership we could mobilized and trained as follows:-

1. 57 missionaries have been sent to North and East Ethiopia among Orthodox and Muslim dominant area respectively.
2.   411 people were trained on the issue of evangelism and discipleship one to two days range.
3. We have motivated more than 1280 people for the kingdom work through sharing our vision and preaching in the congregation and conferences.
4. In the children ministry effort we have also trained more than 384 children ministries from 158 churches (39 church in Harar East Ethiopian, 108 Amaro South Ethiopia, 11 in Hossana and 8 Addis Ababa Christian schools.)
5. From the end of January to second week of February I went in Amaro the place were I born which is 480 KM from Addis Ababa to train a children ministries and mobilize church leaders and youth for evangelism and disciples with a team from Hawssa and Addis Ababa. In those times 73 church leaders and pastors were trained specifically in the issue of leading by obeying the word of God, the training was based on the book of Romans. 87 youth leaders also trained in the issue how to be and make multiplying disciples using small group platform. 184 child ministries also trained Awana children ministry curriculum and techniques which is simply to implement.

In the above effort we could shared the gospel to more  11, 181 people in both (one to one 1731 and mass or Jesus Film 9450 people), among the exposure 574 people are interested and 319 people are accepted Christ as their personal savior and Lord. Praise the Lord.

Our church planting team are working hard in developing second generation leadership, the new multiplying groups or planted churches are growing in 49 centers which initiated by our church planting team in Addis Ababa are growing amazingly.

As I have been informing you in the impervious posts Addis Ababa City is one of the unreached cities of the world, even after a century of mission efforts only 7.8% evangelical Christians, compared to 74% Orthodox Tewahedo believers and around 16.2% Muslims according to the last national housing and population censes. The city also characterized by wide spread socio-economic problems, the place which I am giving leadership as a church ministry department.

In the last one year and two month effort we have seen that the ripe is ready to harvest as Jesus said “…I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35-36.

The result which we have achieved in these months is live testimony, more than 43,462 people  are exposed in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, among them 5,431 people accepted Christ as their personal savior, in 59 place new groups or church planting movement have initiated, among them 49 are growing with a member of 1744 new believers while the 10 center scattered and joined the existed churches because of different reasons.

God also shaking the church and mission organization leaders to focus on the city, some denominations and mission organization are in progress to work with us in the city. Praise the Lord!

We are launching a 18month long evangelism momentum called “Addis Wave Evangelism Momentum” targeted to reach 1million people in the gospel within the city. I will update you in detail soon.

Praise and Prayer

We thank you all our partners for your prayers, financial and moral support.  Please continue stand with my family in the Great Commission Ministry-Ethiopia

The following are our praise and prayer items.

Praise

1. Praise God for the harvest or opened door
2. Praise for the new planted churches/  growth

Prayer Request

1. Pray may we grow  in Gods wisdom and knowledge
2. Pray for resources may the Lord provide all needs for the movement
3. Pray may the Lord raise people those who will support my family financially either regularly base or one time gift, so that we could stick in the ministry
4. At this time we have building small service house in the land which God has provided us . In God’s grace and provision the building is going well. It is now three week when we started building a house. Our project is first to build small service house to secure our house rent costs, the main house will be our secondary plan.  God is good, the service building is going amazingly. This time we have finished the foundation, colon and H.C.B work. We have invested 76,000 Birr around 3455 US dollar. We have got this support from five different individuals. Another amazing thing is the contractor who is building the house is non believer but He is working for us freely. We don’t know each other before when I approached Him for the first time in the place where he has been building G+2 house near to my land, after a while discussion he said I want to build your house freely. It’s amazing! I realized that non believer also God’s treasure.We have finished the finance, we are trusting in the Lord for the following our detail needs.
   1. For reinforcement grade beam = 7213.75birr
   2. For roofing = 19,250birr
   3. For door and Window= 27,850 birr
   4. For cornice  17,720birr
   5. For electrical= 14,030 birr
   6. For sanitation material and work= 11,951birr
   7. For wall fortification work = 25,275 birr (Cement= 92oo, Sand=4800, Sand 00=1400, Labor=9875)
   8. For ceramic and paint work (optional) =29,300 birr
   9. For kitchen Cabinets (Optional) = 35,763birr
   10. For Fence work= 9500 (traditional) or 28510birr (Modern)

   Total 216,862.75 birr or $9,858 US dollar

   This is the details we need to finish the house depending on actual costs of the contractor details.  Please pray many the Lord raise people who will support us in this critical time. It is our belief that you are the one whom the Lord raised to bless my family!

Thank you for Partnering with us!

Miktile, Lydia, Meseret

1. Addis Ababa City

Key Verse
“I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.” Josh 14:11-12
As I have been informed you in the pervious news letter me and my team we are focused on reaching Addis Ababa city with the gospel of Christ our Lord. Because of Addis Ababa City is one of the unreached cities of the world, even after a century of mission efforts. Only 7.8 evangelical Christians, compared to 74% Orthodox Tewahedo believers and around 16.2% Muslims according to the last national housing and population censes. The city also characterized by wide spread socio-economic problems. Research shows that 150,000 woman’s commit adulatory every night. Ironically, many evangelical churches seem satisfied with what they have achieved and have almost ceased their evangelistic efforts. Most Church planting efforts in the city are not focused on the more than 92% unreached residents of the city rather characterized by sheep stealing and internal competition. It is becoming common to see that new denominations grow almost every year without new vision or strategy, instantly booming but shrinking in a short while.
As a Great Commission Ministry we believe that God called us to stand on the front line to motivate churches and believers to give their life for the purpose that God created them, which is the Great Commission.
Now it is one year when we started implementing the church planting movement in Addis Ababa City by training and coaching 56 church planters from the area of 6 Killo, CMC, and Akaki Kaliti and it’s surrounding since November 2014. In addition to church planter we have organized Action Group Team with a member of 73 passionated believers from different local churches.

My team have been coaching, mentoring and training church planters in their foreseen church sites. currently we are coaching 29 faithful church planters, the rest were dropped from the movement in different reasons. In the last 12 month effort in the grace of God we could mobilized and trained more than 1,002 people for evangelism, exposed more than 32,281 people in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ through one to one evangelism and film show, and 5,112 people accepted Christ as their personal savior and Lord. Most of the new believers were joined the existed local churches, some of them have been a means to plant new churches.
Finally, we have planted 53 new churches or follow up groups with a member of 1744 believers. Among the total 38 new churches are planted in Addis Ababa city and the rest planted around GerbeGuracha, Ginchi, Arsi Dabobesa. It is our prayer that these new churches or groups will grow and multiply rapidly.

2 North Synod Church Planting Movement

North Synod Church Planters

As I were mentioned in my pervious news letter I have been helping the North Synod of Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekaneyesus in church planting movement through training and follow up.
According 31 church planters report in the last 13 month they could plant 35 new churches or follow up groups with a members of 576 believers.

3. Children Ministry

As I updated you in my previous news letter since January 2014 I have been engaged in children ministry which God cares more with Awana Ministry. As written “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.” Matt 18:6 &14 (NIV)

From January 2015 to November 2015 we have shared the importance of Children ministry for church pastors, and trained Children ministry techniques and curriculum for 494 selected key children ministers from more than 200 local churches and ministries. Through them many children ministries have been trained 3-2 days version training). In the church where this curriculum implemented children are excited to memorize verses every week, loved the program, growing spiritually, family are excited. In some place non believer children‘s are joining the program, some are decided to follow Christ. Praise Jesus!

Praise

• Praise God for the harvest or opened door
• Praise for the new started 88 churches/follow up groups growth
• God has provide us 216 sq.m land at Debereiet City freely, praise for His provision.

Prayer Request

• Pray may we grow in Gods wisdom and knowledge
• Pray for resources may the Lord provide all needs for the movement
• Pray may the Lord raise people those who will support my family financially either regularly base or one time gift, so that we could stick in the ministry and could able to build a house in the gifted land.

Thank you for your prayer and Support!

In His Love and Mercy!

Miktile, Lydia& Meseret