Thank you again for being part of my faithful support each time I have gone to the “remotest part of the earth” (Acts 1:8) to share the gospel. I cannot have done it without you – both financially and prayerfully. For you have walked with me - to each village, each home, and each person whom I have shared the gospel with and who had made a life altering decision to follow Jesus. God loves each person and God knows each by name!

Over the past ten years, you have helped to sustain me by your prayers, whether to India or Africa, through heat and cold, rain and mud, sickness and health, and definitely in less than accommodating circumstances. I am therefore more than grateful for your support.

And now it has been just a little over a month since I returned from our India trip - which once again God wonderfully blessed - but am already preparing for our return trip back to Africa this summer. I will be joined by others from FCBC and also a handful of brethren from other churches.

The exciting news is that we are planning to return to the same region we ministered to last year.  It is an un-reached people group in Africa which has a population of 372,000, yet is only 0.05% Evangelical Christian. That is not only less than one percent, it is five hundredths of one percent!  The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of these people are Muslim! 

Why hasn’t Christianity spread among these people? Why haven’t more missionaries step foot into these villages? Are they too remote? Is the land or the people too inhospitable? Or is there some impenetrable spiritual darkness that rules over the people there? This then is our calling on this trip. And you are going with me, for I need you next to me now more than ever!

But our God is amazing!  Last year, we saw 1 in 3 persons we shared the gospel with make a decision to follow Christ - even though that meant persecution or ridicule from family members and fellow villagers.  It can only be attributed to the power of the gospel, for as the Scriptures say, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16), and I believe in the power of God to come upon us as we become His witnesses (Acts 1:8).