In the grace of God we could able to to the following within my leadership Circle with Addis Ababa Church Led Team(Addis Ababa)

1. Mobilization

a. We have shared our church planting movement vision for 124 church leaders around 6K, Frensay, Giorgis, CMC, Kotebe, Legetafo, Akaki and Kaliti
b. More than 1500 believers mobilized for the gospel
c. Prayer Team organized

2. Outreach
a. Exposure 23,073
b. Decision 5,037
c. Follow up 1,233
d. New church (fellowship) started 33
3. Training (Evangelism and Discipleship)
a. 646 gospel workers
b. Child Ministries 760
4. Dessie (EECMY North Synod)

a. Exposure 3,970
b. Decision 668
c. Follow up 589
d. Training 190
e. Prayer over 200
f. New Church (fellowship) 35

Ground Total
Exposure 27,043
Decision 5,705
Follow Up 1,822
Training 3,096
New Church (fellowship) 68

Introduction:
Great Commission Ministry Church ministry global developed new direction to participated in church planting movement directly, and developed a training and coaching curriculum called “Multiplying Churches and Community” MC2” It has four phases; each phase needs at least three month implementation period before go to the next phase.

1. Addis Ababa Church Movement
In half of 2014 our leadership team have understood the need and established a team who focuses on reaching Addis Ababa.
Let me share you some of the need why we should focus on reaching Addis Ababa City intentionally.
Addis Ababa is the Capital City Ethiopia, which has political and socio-economic impact for the country.
Addis Ababa City is one of the unreached cities of the world. Even after a century of mission efforts. According to the 2007 general census of Ethiopia there were only 7.8 Evangelical Christians, compared to 74% Orthodox Tewahedo believers and around 16.2% Muslims.
Addis Ababa is characterized by wide spread socio-economic problems. Research shows that 150,000 woman’s commit adulatory every night. Ironically, however, 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.
For this reason from September 2014 I am coordinating Addis Ababa City Church Movement. It is a new department for our ministry, before we Great Commission Ministry Ethiopia have not focused working in Addis Ababa City as a missioned targeted area specially in the department of Church led movement, unless local church initiations.
For this year we have selected three sites (CMC, Akaki, Sdist Killo and surroundings); and assigned two staff in each site with a responsibility of coaching each church planters weekly base.
In the five month effort within Addis Ababa City in the grace and power of God we could mobilized and trained more than 212 people for evangelism and church planting, exposed more than 3225 people in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 389 people accepted Christ as their personal savior and Lord. In 11 place new follow up groups initiative has been taken which expected to grow multiplying church. In addition through our Action Group initiative we also shared the gospel for more than 5000 people and 2869 people come to Christ.

2. Children Ministry
As you I updated you in my pervious news letter since January 2014 I have been engaged in children ministry which God cares more. 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)
In September and January we had five days training called “Seed Planters Training” for key children ministry leaders Hwassa and Addis Ababa Bole city respectively. In both place more than 145 church leaders participated in the vision sharing program before the training held. In both place we have trained Children ministry techniques and curriculum for 258 selected key children ministers from 131 local churches and ministries. Through them and our team more than 410 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!

3. Semen Synod Church Planting Movement
Since July 2014 I been personal working church planting movement with Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekaneyesus North Synod which covers the whole north part of the country and some part of Afar, Oromia regions. Our plan is planting multiplying churches and community movement among the North Synod targeted area regions.

For this reason the Synod leaders with local congregation leaders they selected 38 key church planters.
I met with them October 2-3 2014 for the first phase multiplying church movement training. According to the training each church planters planned four month activities which mainly focused on evangelizing abundantly using different techniques and forming follow up groups which is mandatory to participate in the next phase.
According 31 church planters report in the last four month they could trained more than 260 people for prayer and evangelism, more than 3882 people heard the good news of Jesus Christ, 597 people accepted Christ as their Savior and Lord.

Praise
Praise God for the harvest or opened door
Praise for the trained workers
Praise for those 12,107 people who heard the good news of Jesus Christ, and 3855 joined the kingdom
Praise for the new started follow up groups which will grow to multiplying churches
Prayer Request
Pray for more workers “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Luke 10:2-3
Pray for resources may the Lord provide all needs for the movement
Pray for my family financial support

Thank you for your prayer and Support!
In His Love and Mercy!

Miktile and Meseret

Dear Co-Worker in the kingdom of God, I have have shared  you some of my ministry updates highlights from September 2013 to August 2014 as follows:

September to December
Ali Mohammed:
Ali is from Ethiopian Somali born in Jijiga, he accepted Christ as his personal savior and Lord in Djibouti in the help of missionaries and came back to Ethiopia July 2013 to know about Christ more. That was the way we met, in the help of God I helped him spiritually through teaching the word of God and showing him my personal life. In the midst when he went to Jijiga to visit his family, he faced challenge from his family (mother, brothers, sister and uncles) because they were understood that he believed in Christ Jesus. Thus they arrested him for a days at home to protect him meeting with Christians and push him back to Islam. Through these challenges Ali continued confessing Christ as Lord, they offended by Ali’s strength and decided to kill him, but in the help of God Ali escaped at the mid night and back to Addis Ababa. Know he is growing and sharing Christ to others.

5 Killo Action Group:
From end of September to December I had trained Muslim Evangelism 25 to 30 members of Addis Ababa Institute of Technology students. In the mid of the training they went to Chanicho to practice what they trained in sharing the gospel to others for one day mission.. And the could able to share 730 people the gospel and 43 people came to Christ. Praise Jesus!
Danikara Mission:
Danikar founded in 50 KM far to south Addis Ababa between Debreziet and Mojo. The area is dominated by Ethiopian Orthodox and traditional believers, there are few evangelical believer’s not more than 150 as the leaders told within three denomination. I had got the opportunity to train the believers there and send them to mission. I have trained 53 believers basic evangelism and strategy called “PRAYER, CARE AND SHARE” in the initiative of Debreziet six college Christian student fellowship. After the training they continued evangelizing, in the first week they could able to share the gospel for more that 2000 people and 33 people came to Christ. Praise the Lord!

Katela Mission
With Addis Ababa University veterinary school and Kuriftu Kale Hiwot local church we could send one missionary to Katela in October, 2013 the place where there is no one believer there and I slept under tree to preach the gospel three years ago. As his three month report shows he could able to reach more than 600 people in the gospel and more than 75 people are interested.
Tanzania Staff Conference
In the first of December we South and East Africa Great Commission staff had conference at Dodoma, Tanzania for a week. Because of the conference we could imparted the vision which God has entrust to us with others and learned how God is working in each 24 countries differently.

January to April
My Local Church:

In the end of December 2013 I became Evangelism department committee, and started working strategically with the church full-timers and elders. We started from changing the way how it was been done. Previously almost evangelism work was becoming dying. Because of that there were no tangible way to reach the unreached. In these four month we could able to establish two new action team with 67 members through mobilizing the believers. We have also set outreach time every Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon, and training and prayer every Wednesday and Thursday. Because of that we could expose 2192, people in the gospel, 179 people come to Christ, and 45 were baptized.
May to August
Children Ministry: January 2014 I have been engaged in children ministry when Awana ministry launched first training in Ethiopia. Awana has a wonderful and applicable tools for children ministry. It clearly showed me children’s impact in the world mission while it is not valued that much in Ethiopian churches. So that, I have decided to work closely with children ministry. Awana program designed to be implemented within 2 hours in three segments, the first 40 minute game time, second 40 minute council time and the last 40 minute Team time. Game time is purposed to make happy the children and attract non believer children into the program, in council time teachers will teach them in different way using the teacher guide manual and in team time students will divided into 6-8 members according to their age to study Bible using student handbooks. From May 7-11 & June 2-6, 2014, we have trained 250 children ministers from 125 local churches from Lafto and Gulele sub city respectively. After the training many churches understood children ministry importance, some churches assigned fulltime staff, some churches started the program as it is. Because of that some no-believers children coming to the program and accepting Christ as their savior.

My Local Church
God has working amazingly in my local church. Both three action groups are working strongly even if some of them are being busy. One testimony I want to share you, fromJune 28-July 6 we were decided as an evangelism week and

New Believers with Bible

courage all Action Group team would participate all days. Most of them committed to take leave from their work place and spent the whole week sharing the gospel daily in group. Within a week in the power of God we could shared the gospel to more than 3500 and 143 people accepted Christ as their savior and Lord. Starting from that week people are accepting Christ in each weekly program. Generally. in these four months range we shared the gospel for more than 4000 people, 193 people came to Christ, 57 were baptized.
Garad:
Gara is the place I been started planting church in May 2013 with one of my ministry partner. The church is growing and expanding amazingly now more than 100 people attending in one church.

Debreziet & Adama Mission 

In May we had a mission campaign at Debereziet and Adama for a week with some missionary team from USA. We exposed 3164 people in the gospel and 66 accepted Christ as their savior and Lord through Jesus and Magdalena Film show and one to one evangelism.

Wora KaleHiwot
I had an opportunity to train 25 people from Woyira Kale Hiwot Church in the end of May and in this month also I mobilized the whole congregation on Sunday worship time to go out and share the gospel. Because of that we shared the gospel to 98 people and 2 were decided to follow Christ.
Dessie Mission
Ethiopian Evangelical Church MekaneYesus has designed a five year strategy to reach five million people in the gospel and made partnership with Great Commission ministry for the implementation. For this year implementation I was assigned Dessie and went there end of July to train the first voluntary missionaries. I have trained 30 voluntaries for three days. During the training we had an outreach time for 40 minutes, and shared the gospel for 55 people, from among them 10 people come to Christ. Finally they being send to different areas to continue the work.

Multiplying Churches and community training
We Great Commission ministry church led movement have been launched the multiplying churches and community strategy in target to plant 80,000 multiplying churches and fellowships in 2020. For the coming new Ethiopian year we have targeted 25 church planting sites. 30 multiplying churches and fellowship will be planted in each site. From August 18 to 21 we have trained first phase manual to 40 our staff sand key associate staffs. While I was one of the trainer. During the training for 40 minutes we went out to share the gospel, and in His grace we could able to share the gospel for 220 people and 33 people decided to follow Christ.
Praise
Thanks the Lord for he used me as means to reach those more than13059 people who heard the gospel and 559 people who accepted Christ
We have celebrated our child Lydia, first year anniversary in the last month praise for his Mercy and Love
She is lovely! May the Lord have mercy on her all the time
We Praise you Jesus for your precious gift!
Prayer
Pray for the new believers spiritual growth
Pray on the plan we have for the next year
Pray for our support

Thank you for your prayer and Support!

In His Mercy and Love!

Meseret , Lydia & Miktile!

In the last three months I was busy in reading many books, writhing , meeting with some people who has a passion and concern for the lost and who are working among the lost that I’m working strategically, and prayer to prepare the first training material. In the grace of God I could able to produce the first basic training material and to collect their strategy from different sources.  I could finish writing the first training book and organizing their strategy in the last week. In  the will of God I believe we could print after a months. I’m just waiting some time for some comments and typing to print.

In the month of December 2012 and January 2013 I was train 70 selected students from Ketebe Teacher Education College in Canaan Movement. After the training those 70 students went to different area; some of them Diredawa and  Harar and the rest at Addis Ababa surrounding Ketebe for a one week mission. In the power of the Holy Spirit they could able to share the gospel for  2778 people and from those 155 people are received Christ as their Lord and Savior. As Antetneh said the result that they have achieved is the impact of the training, before the training most of them were developed  negative thinking about the lost, but through and after the training they challenged to believe as they can able  to share their faith to lost and our faithful God also showed them how the lost are hungry for the gospel in field. Be glory to the Lord who knows the way to teach us.  

In the grace of God me and my wife we could able to motivate our neighbors for Bible Study since December 2012. Two of them are nominal Christian and five of them are fanatic orthodox believers. We do Bible study in every Wednesday and Saturday night from 8:00 PM to 9:15 Pm in our home. We are studying the Book of Romans. We have finished the first 6 chapters. In the middle of chapter two one decided to give his life to Christ, and his friend also challenged to accepted Christ in the middle of Chapter three but not decided yet.

On the other hand in February my wife went to Minijar  for one week mission with 14 students from Addis Ababa Institute of Technology the place where she was worked for two years one years ago. Minijar is a challenging area that almost all the people are closed heart for the gospel of Christ because of their religious sensitivity and their culture backwardness. They faced some warning oral but not physically.  Finally they shared the gospel for 720 people and 85 people receive Christ as their savior and Lord. Amazing thing is all the students who went Minijar are challenged in the love of the lost and decided to send one missionary, they are raising money and looking for the missionary. Please join them in the Harvest through your prayer!   On the other hand 20 students from Addis Ababa University College of Commerce while my wife is ministering went to TuluBollo for one week mission. They also able to share the gospel for 800 people and 20 people accepted Christ as their Savior and Lord! They also offered some student books and dictionaries for High school students. God has working Amazingly with Addis Ababa University College of Commerce Students, after the break semester mission all the christian student are compassionate to share the love of God for the lost. In the help of the Lord the they decided to share their faith daily in the school compound and surrounding in dividing into groups every daily. for Example Friday the whole fellowship members, Tuesday Action Group with Prayer team, Wednesday Action Group with Bible Study team….  Because of that many people are getting the opportunity to hear about Christ and coming to their TRUE Savoir.  DON’T FORGET PRAYING FOR THEM EVERYDAY AS THEY ARE TAKING THE INITIATIVE Please! 

 Praise:

1. Praise the Lord for those who are studying Bible with us and those who are motivated to share the gospel and receive Christ

2. Praise the Lord for the Muslim Evangelism training material that I have produced and preparing so

Prayer Request:

1. Pray for the ministry that I have started

2. Pray may the Lord give wisdom for us and understanding for those who are not Christian but studying Bible in our home

3. My wife is our month and three week pregnancy , please pray for her health and the baby growth.

4. Finally pray for our support may the Lord raise more partner for us.

Spiritual Movement

In the September update I was mentioned what is been happing in Addulala. Mritsew is one of my key disciple from Debrezeit he grow up in Addulala; God has filled his heart with the love of Adulala people to reach them in the love of Christ. He was the one who facilitates the Adulala Training and mission Expo September 2012.

In the beginning of November, 2012 he go back to Addulala to visit the new believers and to follow up how the trained people are expanding the kingdom of God. On the way he went to the prison and shared the love of Christ  18 people come to Christ and he offered the New Testament Bible them, now they are studying Bible together.

After the Prison the Holy Spirit lead him to Ashufe 35 Km far from Debreziet. He arrived at the night and meet the Kebele Administration and explained him as he is came there to share the love of God. The kebele Administration against his idea and took him to the Prison  and arrested. Mirtsew started sharing the gospel for the Police man and the police man released him from the prison in that night. After he came out from the prison he meet again the Kebele Administration and asked him please take me in your home. I don’t know any one here please host me as your guest . Then the Administration was bring him in his home. At that night Mirtsew shared the gospel for the whole family and 8 people give their life to Christ except the Administer. In the next day that family pleased Mirtsew to stay with them and teach more the word of God, and Mirtsew teach them for three days and two additional night. On the while that family were invited their neighbors and relatives on their bible study time. And most their neighbors and relatives got the chance to hear the gospel and came to Christ. Praise the Lord

Mexico  Area Students

In October 26/2012 me and my wife were train 87 students from different schools in basic evangelism and Pray, Care and share training with the Central Student Led Team. In the mildest of the training we able to share 101 people the gospel and 43 came to Christ.

Holeta Mekaneyesys Church

In Nov 3/ 2012 Holeta mekanyesys Chruch was invited me to train how to evangelize. In the power of the Lord I was training the basic evangelism training 16 selected people. After the training we send 20 student missionaries there, Awash Melka and Meki they able the share the gospel more than 1000people and 130 came to Christ and grace of God.

The Book of Johan

From October 2012 have been training 10 professionals in every Monday from 4: 7 PM. In the last two months we have finished the book of Johan. Through the training God was teaching our heart and opened our eye to see what he is seeing and to feel what he is fleeing. He showed us what his heart looks like especially for the lost. Praise the Lord! Now we are started the book of 2Timothy.

Praise

1. praise the Lord for the spiritual Movement in Adulala and surrounding

2. I have meeting with some believers who have burden for the Muslims praise the for those people.

3. My wife’s disciples are multiplying themselves in Addis Ababa University College of Commerce Praise the Lord for that Movement

Prayer Request

1. Pray for the continuity of the Movement Adulala and surrounding

2. Pray that the Lord raise more people who will work among the Muslim community with us

3. Pray for our personal and ministry Support