A team of missionaries led by GCA President Steve Childers are making their way to West Africa for the 2010 GCA West Africa Church Planting Inistitute. We’ve already shared details about GCA’s goals and aspirations in holding this summit. Now we want to give you specific details (i.e. dates and places) so you can pray with us. Steve has also asked us to pass along some personal prayer requests.
West Africa 2010 Dates:
- Depart USA: Sunday afternoon/evening, May 23, 2010
- Ghana, West Africa Summit: Monday, May 24, 2010 to Saturday, May 29, 2010.
- Togo, West Africa Summit: Saturday, May 29, 2010 to Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
- Return USA: Wednesday evening, June 2, 2010
Mission Team 2010 Leaders:
- Steve Childers
- Dick Brown
- Allen Hunter
Steve Childers’ Personal Prayer Requests:
- The health and safety of the African church leaders I’ll be training, as well as their families and churches while they’re away. Many of them will be traveling long distances in remote areas of Africa in order to receive the training.
- Wisdom for me to know what to teach: even though the training topics are already planned I often find that I need to change some topics, put down the prepared notes and address real needs that have surfaced during the training.
- The ability of my French translators in Togo to understand accurately the concepts I’m teaching and communicate them with great effectiveness—resulting in not only renewed minds but renewed hearts. I’ve learned the hard way that my translators can make or break the learning experience.
- My relationships with the African leaders would be deepened resulting in new levels of mutual trust, love and ministry partnership.
- God would be glorified and His invisible kingdom would be made visible through starting, growing and multiplying gospel-centered churches in West Africa (starting in Ghana, Togo, Benin & Senegal) that result in the spiritual, social and cultural renewal of all West Africa (15 countries) AND that West Africa would become a major sending sub-continent to ALL nations.
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