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Dear friends
Paul urges us to “teach God’s truths to trustworthy people who are able to pass them on to others” (2 Timothy 2:2). Last Saturday (15 October), Beryl and I had a golden opportunity to do just that. With the outside temperature at minus 3 degrees, in a warm and comfortable teaching facility in Warsaw, I was privileged to facilitate a discipleship workshop with twelve young people from Christian Fellowship North, together with the Youth Pastors, Adam and Monica. read on
Dear Friends
At the half-way point of our assignment in Warsaw the small groups development landscape is shaping up well. Beryl and I are glad to share with you this encouraging, summary news update:
. Five training groups are at the half-way stage of training: Saturday AM, Monday PM, Tuesday AM, Wednesday AM and PM
. Preached at the Christian Fellowship North on 2 October and at Christian Fellowship South on 9th October.
. Participated in a video recorded interview on Small Groups Development
. Q&A session with fifteen small groups leaders of CFN church
. Have been invited to facilitate a discipleship workshop with the youth of the CFN church on Saturday, 15th of Oct.
. Our training program for the Gydnia church (North of Warsaw, Southern coastline of the Baltic Sea) is being fine-tuned.
I hope these photos will help to give you a small taste of our experiences so far. Thank you, thank you for your encouraging support.
The good times have just begun!
Bill and Beryl
Our present visit to Poland is quite different to our previous four visits. This time, we are focussing all our thoughts and channelling all our energy on equipping and empowering the small groups director (Iza Pazdyda) of the Christian Fellowship North (Warsaw), and her faithful assistants, Marcin and Agata Gochnio. They are ideal 2 Timothy 2:2 “relay-runners” … receiving from us small groups resources and experiences the Lord has entrusted in our care that they may pass these things to other trustworthy “relay-runners”.
By the time we conclude our program in Warsaw on the 26th of October, a great deal of time, money and effort will have been invested in Iza, Marcin and Agata. I can tell you now, how blessed we are to be partnering with such fine, trustworthy, disciple-makers. What they have received from us they have already begun to invest in other “relay-runners”.
As stewards of the Lord, we are accountable for the valuable things He has entrusted in our management. We can manage, or mismanage “these” things – we can invest, or we can spend them … there’s a big difference. Are you investing in “relay-runners”?
“Lord, please help me to be a wise investor of the good things you have entrusted in my care. Help me to identify trustworthy relay-runners who will be glad to pass these things to other trustworthy relay-runners. Amen.”
Just a photo update from our fantastic visit to Warsaw in Poland.
During our visit to Nigeria we had the opportunity to see what Pastor Elijah’s wife Blessing was doing through a wonderful ministry to children in one of the most needy areas of Lagos. Their street children’s ministry has given birth to children’s small groups – which is amazing!!!
When Nick and I visited them we had a great time and it is clear that this ministry is having a great impact not only on the children themselves, but also their parents and the local community. When we were leaving, a little boy came up to us and asked “can you send us some drums” – which was kind of heart breaking as we didn’t have any funds with us and CCI is not a fundraising organisation. However, the point of this post is to share that God has provided for these kids – and they now have a great set of drums to use for their worship as well as some new benches so they don’t have to sit on the ground or on anything else that they can find! These wonderful gifts were paid for from a donation made to Dominion Impact Church by Christ Church Jebel Ali in Dubai – and we just want to express our thanks to God and to Pastor Steve Wright in Dubai for making this gift possible.
Thank you LORD!
Please prayerfully consider making a donation to support Pastor Elijah ministry in Nigeria. Your gifts for this ministry go towards community outreach groups, reaching out to women, orphans, the unemployed and illiterate and to support small groups training courses for in-church leaders and other churches in the community.You can do this right now simply by clicking on the PayPal button below.
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