We are truly living in exciting times. Times where the Harvest is white and ready to be reaped. Times where an entire city will hear and respond to the Gospel. The Gospel is most needed where it has never or seldom been proclaimed. It always amazes us at how open and spiritually hungry people are in these remote areas.
It is not uncommon for people to walk long distances to attend the meetings. There are no chairs people gladly stand in the sun for hours at a time. Suffering people come in wheelbarrows on bicycles or in cars expecting fully to be healed. This intense spiritual hunger and expectancy creates the perfect conditions for real miracles to take place and real heartfelt conversions. Its places like this, places that are wide open, places that are ripe unto harvest that we must reach out to.
Dolisie is such a place that is open and ripe, a city with close to 140,000 people but less than a total of 4000 believers in all the churches. Twenty six churches in Dolisie have signed up to participate in the Gospel crusade. Reaching Dolisie is a logistical challenge that involves returning the equipment on the boat from Impfondo to Brazzaville then transporting it on the train to Dolisi. Essential team needs to fly in from Kenya for the preparation and technical setup. Anyone can do the ordinary, but faith does not do the ordinary but the extraordinary.
Please help us do the extraordinary; please help us to take the Gospel to Dolisi. Again God gives us the very real opportunity of reaching the entire city.
Coincidence or God incidence. With close to 2/3 of the town responding to the Gospel in Impfondo we had hopelessly too few follow up books. But not for long, the unseen hand of the Lord worked and surprised us all. On our final day in Impfondo we heard that the boat company we had made arrangements with to transport our equipment down the river back to Brazzaville was no longer able to carry our equipment. Our organisers begun looking for another boat and just happened to find one that agreed to take us. When going onboard to check the condition of the boat to our surprise we found hundreds of thousands of follow-up books in French. After a few phone calls the boat owner kindly agreed to give them all to us free of charge! These books had been stored in Brazzaville for CFaN and when the war broke out the books went missing. Well they resurfaced in the exact time they were needed in the exact place. What’s the chance of finding over 100,000 books 10 days journey into the rain forest! God had it all in control. Enough books were distributed and we now have a good stock for the next meetings in Dolisie.
During the week of our Gospel meetings in Impfondo there were scheduled elections. According to the one of the officers sent to monitor the Likouala district during the elections riots were almost certain. To his surprise there was peace in the town the entire week. In his report to the national security headquarters, he said that the Crusade held in Impfondo by the Christian church was a major factor that stopped the threat of riots. He ended his report saying that the government should open more opportunity of such activities in the cities of Congo as the Gospel is a maker of peace.
We feel that God is doing something special in the Republic of Congo. It’s now time for this great Nation to hear a clear bold proclamation of the Gospel. We ask you our partners and friends to help us go on to the next city Dolisie. Thank you for helping us to reach these remote and neglected areas of Africa.