Ministry Update (July 2021 -April 2022)

Introduction

Ethiopia has over 115 million people, and out of this number, 25 million claim to have some relationship with Jesus, whereas more than 90 million do not. We have a biblical mandate to reach 90 million people with the gospel of Jesus Christ by mobilizing the 25 million Christians.

The Great Commission Ministry Ethiopia, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International, has been serving in the country for the last 42 years. The organization has four major field focus areas: student ministry, church ministry (Global Church Movements), leader strategies, and digital strategies. The organization has 250 full-time staff members and a little over 1,500 trained associates.

The church ministry (Global Church Movements), which I lead, began in 2014. It functions in five sub-strategics. such as church planting, mobilization, North-East Initiative (Missions), Women for Change, and children’s ministry. Many church leaders and believers have been trained and involved in it, and about 7,000 churches have been planted across the country since the strategy began. Our desire is to see healthy and multiplying churches in every village. This strategy has 78 staff, 1039 associates, 599 church planting training (coaching) centers, and 34 evangelism teams.

10 Month Ministry Achievement

The past ten months were challenging because of civil war, drought, and global pandemic Covid-19;  regardless, the Lord was with us in every aspect, and we were able to thrive in many areas. The following highlights are the Global Church Movement results in the last ten months.

• 52,700 people were trained
• 1,474,376 people were exposed to the gospel message through  one to one and mass evangelism
• 63,552 people decided to follow Christ, and 30,180 people are engaged in follow up groups
• 56,711 people engaged in the bible study groups
• 631 churches and groups were started and 3240 bibles  were distributed for the new believers
• We mobilized over 3,000 people for 21 days of fasting and prayer.
• We distributed over 1000  sets of children’s ministry curricula for the churches

Glory be to the Lord!