Ministry Update of Adopted Missionaries for ODNM

 Ministry Update of Adopted Missionaries for ODNM

Calvary greetings in Jesus' name. Thank you so much for your many years of selfless partnership, prayers, and support that have sustained the missionaries and help them to attain their present height in advancing God’s kingdom in the dark regions of the world. We are also grateful to all your friends and partners that have made the support possible.  Below are some of the reports:

Issa and Rahila Maliki

Completed one-room apartment for the Malikis

Issa and Rahila Maliki have continued to labor among the Gobirawa people in the Niger Republic. God has been gracious to them as more and more persons are surrendering their lives to Jesus. The people are mainly syncretic, combining idol worship with Islam. Just last week, a juju priest who has been like a principality at Kwalan Gobirawa village surrendered his life to Christ. Pray along with us that Christ will be formed in him as the discipleship process continue. Pray also that God would use his salvation to usher many persons to Jesus. Salkam, another village where they work, has converts that converge both for discipleship and adult literacy class. Most of them are Muslim Background Believers (MBB).

The need for accommodation in some of the villages where we work has been very critical. In one of the villages where they and the children reside more often, the building had severe cracks, and efforts to mend them over the years have not been satisfying because it was built with mud. Last month, they raised a building with mud blocks and needed funds to roof it before it rains. We are grateful to God for providing resources to roof it and plaster, it, fix door and window. They were encouraged. Rahila uses her sewing machine to attract Muslim women to herself to impact their lives for Christ. Some are indicating interest in enrolling as an apprentice. She covets our prayers for the fund to acquire more grinding machine,

Sunday and Faith Musa

God has been granting them huge inroads into more and more of the Kamberis. Now,

Repented Juju Priest

they have converts across Kebbi State, Niger State, and the neighboring Benin Republic. Some of the converts have been a disciple and are assisting them with the work. Some of them have been sent to Cross-Cultural Missions to be trained as second-generation missionaries. Some of the churches and mission houses built for those working for them during the dry season need to be roofed and plastered before the rain.  Pray along with them for the fund. Also, pray for them for divine protection as banditry, kidnapping, and other evils multiply in Niger State.

Andrew Marafa, Stephen Paul, and Abel Onuh

The work among Oma people continues to grow despite the opposition from the devil. God granted them it converts at Ugbogwu, and because of the distance, they began another discipleship class there. After much prayer, the community leaders agreed to use the government-owned primary school as a venue. Some of the converts at Oma moved out of the village

Andrew Marafa covets your prayers
for his healing

searching for greener pasture, and others who know the value of education relocated to places where there are schools. Nevertheless, they have continued to patiently work on the few remaining. In March 2020, Abel felt persuaded to disengage, and Andrew Marafa had some challenges with his health. He was invited to Jos for a medical checkup at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). The hospital confirmed that it was glaucoma and prescribed medication for him. There is no significant improvement yet, but it is too early to assess. We covet your prayers for divine intervention. Stephen Paul is alone on the field now, but we trust God for more laborers to deploy to the field.

Ladi Ekpa

After over a decade of serving among the Zullawa people and losing her only son, Ladi Ekpa formally resigned from the ministry in March 2021 on the ground of ill health. Please, pray along with us for a complete and speedy recovery.

Again, thank you so much, and God bless you.

CHILDREN GALORE FOR GFIM MISSIONARIES

God recently blessed three of our missionaries with new babies. Blessing and Emmanuel Boubacar were blessed with baby girl. They have both returned to their pioneering assignment at Ahole, Niger Republic. Rahila and Issa Maliki were blessed with baby boy. Nathaniel and Mercy Udalor were also blessed with a baby boy recently. The first two couples are doing very well with their babies but Mercy Udalor delivered through surgery and has not been very sound health wise. We covet your prayers for her. Our former staff, Josiah Alih was also recently blessed with a baby.

GFIM HOME MISSION DIRECTOR HEALED OF CANCER

Home Mission Director of GFIM, Lucy Abah was diagnosed to have cancer of the breast early this year. After removing the breast, further test revealed that the cancer had spread to the arm pit. It was death sentence but prayers were raised to God from virtually every part of the world for her.

Plan to take the Lucy to United Kingdom for further medical check up did not work out as the least cost received from the hospitals there is 12000pounds. The money was not affordable. We resorted to prayer trusting that God of heaven will heal her.

On hearing this, the MET Directors, Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Golbeck invited her for a medical check up at one of the best hospitals in South Africa in oncology, the Little Company of Mary Hospital. Several medical tests were conducted for her and the result revealed that there is no more trace of cancer in her body. They paid for the entire medical bill. We thank God for this great miracle. Thank you for all your prayers and we specially thank the Golbecks for their sacrificial love for us.

We particularly register our deepest appreciation to Pastor Joseph Egwuda and General Onoja who stood by us as fathers during these trying times. We are grateful to Rev. Gloria Davies for input in the area of food supplement and teaching us how to use fruit and vegetable to combat the spread of cancer. We are eternally grateful to family, friends and Grace Foundation Inland Missions staff who traveled long distances, made several phone calls, sent in letters, and did everything to encourage us. The Lord bless you richly.

GFIM PROVIDES LEADERSHIP FOR MET IN SOUTH AFRICA

For the second time in two years, God opened the door for Grace Foundation Inland Missions to make input in training 22 Pastors and church leaders from Canada, Malawi, Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, etc. in missions.

The program which was organized by Missions exposures and training, an arm of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada had the GFIM International Director, Rev. Andrew Abah as the Program Resident Director assisted by his wife Lucy Abah.

One third of the program was devouted to class work while the remaining two third were field trips to world religion centers like Islamic Propagation Centre, Hindu, Hare Krishna and Buddhist temples aimed at providing insights into the challenges of the remaining unfinished task of world evangelization and churches and Para-church groups that are already contributing immensely to world evangelization like Hands for Christ, Petra college, Emmanuel Press, Hatfield Church, Kwasiswabantu, NG Moreletta Church, etc.

Rev. and Mrs. Abah deeply appreciates the hands of fellowship, love and partnership extended to them by the Directors of MET, Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Golbeck and all the seasoned world class presenters that they worked with during that challenging and interesting ministry assignment in Pretoria, South Africa.

The application forms for 2008 MET sessions are available now. The English session will hold in April 2008. There are programs in French and Portuguese also. Interested candidates should contact GFIM office or info@metmissions.org.za .

GHANA HOSTS MISSIONS CONFERENCE

Close to 100 Pastors cutting across 40 churches/denominations converged at Tema near Accra, capital city of Ghana for a minister’s conference with focus on The Missionary God. The program was hosted by Great Faith Miracle Church while the GFIM International Director, Rev. Andrew Abah spoke on the theme.

He was supported by SOCM Visiting Lecturer and MET Representative for Ghana, Rev. Jerry Abbey. Rev. Abbey traced the root of the Ghana church not taking their rightful position in world evangelization to improper discipleship.

We appreciate Pastor and Mrs. Edward Amankwa, Rev. & Mrs Abbey, Rev. Gideon Ahiagba and his entire team for making the five day visit of the International Director a memorable one.

UCH REVIEW STRATEGY

Over 10 years of seeking to give hitherto unreached kids a meaningful future, the ministry recently drastically reviewed her strategy of running home for the kids on the mission fields. Consequently, a decision was reached to move the kids to the mission headquarters in Jos, Plateau state capital. The reasons are:

* The need to reduce the spiritual warfare mounted on the kids by those who do not want them live. You will recall that the culture of some of the people encourage that kids be put to death if their mother die when they are still kids.

*Secondly, some of them have been very sickly and will require to be closer to standard hospitals until God fully heal them. We lost baby Victor after over one year of striving to keep her alive.

*Thirdly, the recent destruction by windstorm of our only four-classroom block which services the UCH is a major setback which we are yet to recover from. The primary school will resume under the tree in the next two weeks with little or no facility.

* The relocation will afford us more volunteers who will be willing to give us their time to take care of the kids than its original location on Kamberi field and finally it will provide more platform for more kids from other tribal groups from outside Niger state which was the original hosting state.

With God’s help, we have brought five of our kids to join the ones in Jos amounting to eight. We have limited ourselves to this number because of limited accommodation coupled with financial implication. We have seen a land we plan to build a house on, that will accommodate 50 unreached kids. Almost N2.5million($19230) will be required for the land and the structure. Pray for God to provide the fund for capital project and fund for recurrent expenditure like school fees, uniform, books, food, etc.

Dukawa Field, Nigeria