My Story

Depending on God

I felt the Holy Spirit urge me to drive across the city and walk around a railway station to pray. As I was walking around, a man approached me. Without any introduction, he said, “I feel like God wants me to give you a place to start a church.” It took six months of follow-up conversations, house visits, and prayer to discern what this would unfold into.
On February 14, 2015, our team climbed up to the flat rooftop that was supposed to become the church. My ministry partner led the first on-the-spot Bible study. Together we prayed to seek God’s blessing and prophesied over the colony. Everyone became excited about God’s Word coming to this new place. It seemed that on Valentine’s Day, Jesus wanted to bring His love to these people. To THESE people.
In a land of thousands of people groups and hundreds of languages- it did not escape our attention, how amazing it was that the love of Jesus was pursuing our local people! Nearly every day, we diligently began visiting people in their homes, sharing the Word, and praying with them. We never forgot that God was on our side.
We had one mission: Love God. Love People.

Overflowing with Excitement

We wanted to simply teach the Word, and teach the Word simply. It took nearly three years of pioneering until we had a consistent gathering of people to disciple and equip. By December 2017, God connected us to SGWM and we were rejoicing that our movement officially became part of Calvary Chapel!
Brick by brick, a baby fellowship hall was born, and the Presence of God began drawing people in. This winter, we experienced a movement of people hearing about Jesus and the real meaning of why we celebrate Christmas for the first time. Now, we do not have space to put up chairs for every person, so the people crowd in and sit on mats! Even more people spill onto the stairway to listen.In our excitement, our ministry team went out on New Year’s Eve riding around the city on motorcycles shouting to people: “JESUS LOVES YOU!” We currently have the enormous blessing of having three brothers from our ministry team enrolled at Calvary Chapel Bible College in our country. It is our vision to have men equipped with God’s Word who can expand the current vision we have in our colony and beyond.

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