Family and Ministry Update

Dear friends and co-workers, I greet you in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who has called us to serve Him in this generation. It’s our prayer that the Lord keeps you and your family safe.We are enjoying God’s gratefulness in our daily life and ministry. Here is a short update on my family and ministry in the last three months. Our daughters and son are growing healthy. Lydia turned to 9, Ebenezer turned to 6, and Bethany turned to 4. Lydia is enjoying her fourth grade education, while Ebenezer is struggling to learn in a first grade setting. Bethany started walking a little bit. Ministry Update God is moving with us. In the last three months of July to September 2022 though staff and volunteers effort under my leadership we could achieved the following results:  21 Days prayer and Fasting  We mobilized over 3600 intercessors all over the country for 21 days prayer and fasting over 61 centers  Vacation Bible Club 135 children, teenagers and youth participated in Holistic Personal Development Program for a month from 11 July – 5 August, 2022. The program encompasses foundational Bible Class, Physical Exercise, Music, Arst, crafts and Personal development skills.  Panel Discussion July 28 and August 6 we had a youth and Parenting Panel discussion where averagely 700 people participated. Training over 23,435 people  trained for action Gospel Exposure over 356,271 people heard the gospel message, Decision for Christ 20,258 decision to follow Christ, Follow up engagement 8,442 new believers follow up,  Planted Churches and Groups, 147 churches and faith communities with a members of 2,997 new believers. Bible Study 9817 believers are engaged in weekly bible study within 867 groups.Glory be to the Lord! Changed Life Story 1. Chala Found the Lord thanks to the stolen tablet! God is always at work. One of the church planters’ trainers, Tesfaye Laleto, gave his tablet to his neighbor, Hassen Ibrahim, in the Afar region of eastern Ethiopia. A friend of Hassen Ibrahim named Chala Getachew snitched the tablet from his friend’s home. Miraculously, it happened for Chala to watch the Jesus Film in his language. He simply starts to watch, unknowingly thinking it is just a film. But at the end, he found himself humbled by what he saw and started crying for what Jesus had done to save him. He kneeled down and received Jesus Christ just there and returned the tablet to Hassen, his friend. Challa is the one in the yellow T-shirt. Praise to the Lord!  2.  Twenty-four People converted to the Lord at a Moment!No one can resist the power of God. The devil has tried starting from creation, but he is defeated, and is always defeated.This is manifested through the preaching of the Gospel. In the eastern part of Ethiopia, in the village of Dinkitu, there was a family that had been worshiping the devil for a long period of time. They have their own family witchdoctor, who is well known in the village, and all the members of the village community worship him. Normally, the people’s understanding was that it was not as if they were worshiping the devil. This kind of worship has been cultural and traditional for the people. The witchcraft was his mother. After the death of their mother, they locked the three houses with the material within and put these three houses under the responsibility of one of their brothers to keep them. It was said that this brother was the one who was caring for and sleeping with the devil’s python, which was worshiped by the mother and the whole community as a whole.In 2014, one of the family members, called Kassahun, decided to follow Christ. But, this was not accepted by the community and some of his friends. Even though he was determined to follow Jesus Christ, he didn’t hear their challenge and continued to worship the Lord. Following that, he also decided to destroy all the materials that were used to worship the witchdoctors. In doing that, he also presented the gospel to his brother, who was given the responsibility of the three houses and the materials. His younger brother received Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Finally, all the family, with twenty-four members, received Jesus Christ as their personal savior. At the end, they burned all the worshiping materials and gave those three houses to the church. A new church building is currently being constructed in the compound. 3. A family miraculously received Jesus Christ! The story goes like this: it is the story of a woman named Hawi Tufa. She is married and has seven children. The family’s livelihood is based on the production and sale of alcohol. Her father worships an evil spirit that is practiced in the family. One day, her brother-in-law got sick, and a witch doctor advised them not to take him to church. They did as the witch doctor advised them to do. After a few days her brother-in-law died. She was so sad about what happened. Her husband told the story of his brother’s death to evangelical believers, and they told him that it was the devil who killed his brother. This incident led him to receive Jesus Christ. But after that, the couple were not in harmony. The woman was not happy with her husband because of his new beliefs. Thus, she decided to leave the family and divorce her husband. But, she got sick and couldn’t leave the family. Then she called on those believers for prayer. They came and prayed for her, and she was healed. Currently, a weekly Bible study program is being conducted in her house.  4.     The Jesus Film Impact! A young girl named Hayat Hussen approached one of the church after the end of the Jesus Film Show. She told him about the Jesus Film Show that changed her life. She briefed the story as follows: Her father’s family are Muslims, and her mother has no religion. But her grandmother was a Christian. I saw my grandmother always praying. And it makes her happy to pray with her grandmother. In her dreams, she sees scary and terrifying things most of the time. Whatever happens in her life, people tell her that it is because of the devil’s influence in her life. Becoming hopeless, she denied the existence of God and the Devil. She became very stressed and wandered in spirit. Even though her brother was not a Christian, he brought her a Jesus Film video clip and invited her to watch it. And they sat together to watch. When they reached Jesus’s affliction and crucifixion, she couldn’t watch it and told her brother to pass it . But, he just continued to process the video till the end. After watching the videos, he started to meditate on what she saw, and finally she came to the conviction that it was on her behalf that Jesus received all that affliction and death. She believed and received that story in her soul. After that, she got peace of mind and tranquility. But, she didn’t start to go to church. While she was reading a spiritual book, she came to realize the importance of spiritual fellowship. But, even though she decided to go to church, she is afraid to do that. At that time, she approached an evangelical believer to teach her. After a while, her tutor invited her to a Sunday school program. In the middle of the worship, the Holy Spirit touched her and she started crying. That has become the turning point in her life to give her life totally to Christ. Currently, she is a member of one evangelical church where she is serving in the outreach ministry. Prayer and Praise Praise the Lord for the people who made the decision to follow Christ and those who mobilized for the kingdom expansion.  Prayer:Pray may the Lord give me wisdom and knowledge as I lead a global church movement on a national scale. As a family, we made an agreement to purchase a house and are praying to raise the down payment as quickly as we can to secure the bank loan. Only a few weeks were given to us by the property owner to arrange the necessary funds., I’m asking you to join my family in prayer and support financially. Thank you for your Prayer and Support!