2021 End of Year Report

 

Compliment of the season and Calvary greetings from our Zarazong mission base in Jesus' name. 

We trust that you are fine, and this end-of-year memoir will find you growing in grace. We are incredibly grateful to God for choosing us and helping us both walk with Him and work for Him from January to December 2021. Our experiences have been incredible despite the many challenges, perils, and uncertainties we encountered during the journey. You played a very significant part in this walk with Him and work for Him, especially regarding pushing the light to various final frontiers across scores of unreached people groups.

Rescued from Kidnappers this year

We are particularly grateful for your unceasing prayers all through the year. It was pretty encouraging to note that we have brethren from across the world that do not only pray for us often but that we can swiftly contact to pray on specific issues when we encounter crossroads during the year. God graciously answered all your prayers and spared us of sorrows, untimely death, and fueled our determination to continue to serve Him in tough places and circumstances during the year. Besides sustaining many of our mission fields where we have been laboring, we engaged more unreached people groups this year. From January till now, we continue to see many souls embraced the Lordship of Jesus courtesy of your prayer. Some new believers also almost immediately engaged others like the woman by the sides of the well in Samaria recorded in John 4.

Besides sustaining old mission fields and engaging new ones, some other answered prayers include:

·        The release of our Missionary trainee kidnapped somewhere in the North-East by groups who are either Boko Haram or bandit. To be released alive after many days is a huge miracle.

• ·        A missionary and wife to one of our mission leaders who had mental health challenges also in Northern Cameroon has largely recovered. She and her husband are both laboring in North East of Nigeria.
• ·        We lost count of the number of miracles of healing and deliverances recorded across many of our mission fields. They all demonstrated that God still does wonders and backs up His words in the mouth of His servants and that He cares and loves the people in the dark places of the earth.

God, in answer to your prayers and sacrifices, met a lot of our needs this year like never before, and we are incredibly grateful for all these. We cannot exhaust the list here but just to mention a few:

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  ·        Fifteen motorcycles for both our missionaries and those we are networking with. Thanks to God Almighty and to the University of Benin Alumni Fellowship in the United States, Dr. Chuka Anude, my family members, and a few others who want to remain anonymous.
• ·        Borehole in three different locations: Bum, among the Zullawas, Zarazon, and the latest
  in Sanga. We are grateful to God for the provision and to Soteria Church in Baltimore, Maryland, my family members, as well as Final Command Ministries/Living Water/Rev. Mike Adegbile, respectively.
• ·        We completed church buildings at different locations, new church buildings that were started and completed, and one in the Niger Republic, which is at roofing level.
• ·        We completed some of the structures we began this year at our Zarazon mission base, as the 14 rooms’ ground floor hostel facilities for our Home of Grace. The Learning Center for our School of Cross-Cultural Missions (SOCM) is at an advanced level of completion.

Our School of Cross-Cultural Missions (SOCM) has continued to grow. We currently have 19 missionary trainees. One of them had mental health challenges, but the others have shown a significant level of God impacting their lives. We trust the Lord that at the end of the training session, many unreached people groups yearning for salvation would have missionaries. Again, thank you for your prayers and for sacrificing to ensure the continuity of the training program. These are some of what your partnership yielded:

• ·        Earlier in the year, we graduated 15 students from our SOCM. Thanks to all our partners

  

  SOCM students Returning from evangelism

  
  and Trustees that made it possible.
• ·        We engaged 19 other students despite the hyperinflation, and God used your support to provide accommodation, lecture notes/handouts, and utilities for them.
• ·        Provision of funds for the first internship. Our students spent two months at Benin Republic, Niger Republic, and several other unreached people groups in North and North-central parts of Nigeria.
• ·        Cooking and eating together is part of our training experience. They are helpful with regards to bonding and learning teamwork.  This is the most capital-intensive aspect of the mission training department. To feed 19 persons with their families became very difficult with the hyperinflation across Nigeria. We are grateful that you were there to help.
• ·        Our training program is made deliberately rugged to align with the problematic nature of African missions. Some of the students could not cope and withdrew.

The Home of Grace (HOG) kids are doing well. God consistently met our needs: 

With some of the HOG kids at
 previous Christmas celebration

·        At Ahole in Niger Republic Home of Grace, our missionaries sent in a prayer request for more mattresses for the kids as sleeping on the bare mats is causing them to catch cold. Not up to a week after we began praying, God sent African Services to meet the need.

• ·        At Jos Home of Grace, God used Tabitha Arise Foundation and other partners to bless the kids with beds and mattresses.
• ·        One of our kids was offered admission to Nasarawa State University to study Sociology and another at Kogi State University, where she studies Theater Art.
• ·        School fees of all the kids were paid, and textbooks for the new class were bought.
• ·        We had challenges with three of the kids coping with their studies. We are praying for divine help and searching for an extramural teacher who will help put them through after-school hours.
• ·        At the same time, many of them have improved significantly in their studies, with many more of them coming first in the classes.
• ·        We had some challenges with the characters of some of the teenagers who became victims of peer pressure earlier this year, and they were such that frustrated us, but God has helped us resolve the matter.

The widows’ care has been growing steadily with the help of some of our partners. We have catalogs of what God has been doing through them since the year began.

• ·        Three of the widows whose husband’s lives were cut short by Boko Haram and four others that died of other causes have been on monthly stipends.
• ·        Three other widows’ house rents were paid during the year under review.
• ·        29 widows were provided with foodstuffs
• ·        Thirty-five others were provided with wrappers and other types of clothes.

Appreciation/Prayer needs

To sum up, God has been truly gracious to us since the year began. It is difficult to exhaust the testimonies here. Besides the fact that they are many, many of the testimonies related to some of the fields are sensitive and could not augur well for the security of the new believers and our team. God made all these possible, and He used your partnership to catapult us to this height. We are highly grateful and pray that the Lord would replenish your source. As we round up the year, we still covet your prayers for three critical needs that God would raise persons that will make it their Christmas/end of year present to us:

• ·        Our Zarazon mission base that housed both the Home of Grace kids and missionary trainees is very porous. We need to fence it as soon as possible. Pray that God would raise persons that will fund the project.
• ·        We still have some outstanding church building projects like the Ahole, the Niger Republic that are yet to be completed. Pray that the Lord would provide the resources needed.
• ·        We feel burdened in our hearts to build a small apartment for one of our windows. She is the wife of a late missionary, and the house they live in the village has deteriorated so badly. The cheapest house we can build in the village will cost close to N1millon Naira.

Once again, thank you very much, and God bless you.