Gilles and Myriam Bonvallat studied at Geneva Bible Institute (IBG) from 1995-96 as they prepared to go to Nyankunde, DR Congo with AIM. Now the Institute is part of the French office’s mobilising strategy.

Geneva Bible Institute (IBG) started in 1921 as the “Ecole Biblique de Genève”. It was created by a Scottish man, Hugh Alexander, who founded the “Action Biblique”, a church denomination. In the 90s, the one-year course developed into a wider partnership with denominations working in France and Switzerland, to offer training for up to four years (www.ibg.cc). Although it started as a very mission orientated Bible school, the urgent need for pastors in France began to take priority. IBG’s vision is to equip students with practical skills and experience, alongside theological and mission knowledge.

Future generations
Since 2016, there has been a new focus on cross cultural missions, introduced through a Transcultural Mission Training Programme, to prepare a new generation of French-speaking missionaries. It is a great opportunity for the future pastors at IBG to catch a vision for mission, hearing from passionate and experienced missionaries. We pray that God would use these connections to raise up awareness and increase a vision for mission among church leaders in France and Switzerland.

A shared vision
We were privileged to be part of a small committee who worked to establish this new Transcultural Mission curriculum. It was a dream that grew in our minds as we were still in Rwanda. When we returned to Geneva at the end of 2013, we found out with great joy that God had put the same vision and burden on a few other peoples’ hearts too. Three years later, the first students started their Transcultural Mission training. We have had the joy of teaching a yearly course on Missionary Life, and a course training couples to be mentors.

Visions realised
IBG developed partnerships with several mission organisations such as AIM to help organise on-field internships (six or 18 months). Every year, as a partner, AIM attends a “Missions Forum” at IBG with the first-year students and other mission organisations, to share our vision and goals. A couple of months later, the students are presented with internship opportunities. This requires a lot of teamwork, with missionaries on the field willing to welcome and mentor interns, and IBG providing a short online training for mentors.
We are so encouraged by the AIM missionaries willing to take part in the programme, preparing to receive interns, even though no one might come, as there are always more placements than students! Without their commitment, this programme would be worthless.

From Interns to Missionaries
Since 2016, AIM has supported interns in Chad, the Islands, Mayotte, DR Congo and on a Borderless team in Canada. Some of these interns have become AIM long term missionaries as a result. We are so excited to see Francophone volunteers going to Francophone Africa!
In 2023-2024, AIM is offering eight internships. Our prayer is that these internships will catalyse, equip, and onboard godly long-term workers for Francophone Africa, helping to establish God’s kingdom among every people group in Africa.

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We interviewed Liz Hayden, a member of the staff team at Christ Church Mayfair, to find out what motivates them to be a global church. Christ Church have sent many people, including Dave and Cristyn Wakefield, who are preparing to teach theological education at Moffat Bible College in Kijabe, Kenya.

Can you introduce yourself and tell us about Christ Church?
Before working at church, I was a missionary myself. For two years I worked in East Asia and later as a Staff worker with Christian Unions in London.
Christ Church Mayfair is an evangelical Anglican church in central London. We are a ‘gathered church’ as our church family is spread all over the city, not many people can afford to live in Mayfair! We’re well suited to those who can reach the church easily for midweek events and find it easier to invite unbelieving friends and colleagues to church in a central location. The church family is mostly British, but with a strong international contingent.

Why is your church committed to sending people to other countries?
Primarily because the gospel is for the nations. Although we have opportunities to share the gospel with people from many countries, cultural and religious backgrounds, there are still so many in our world today who do not have access to the gospel.
Although we’ve always known that overseas mission is a good idea, our practical commitment to sending gospel workers overseas has developed over time. When we were first planted 20 years ago having missionaries seemed like a good idea, so we hastily ‘borrowed’ some from churches we had connections with! But gradually we have sent more and more missionaries from our church family.

How do you discern who to send?
We look for the same things we look for in those we appoint to leadership roles in the church: godly character, knowledge, and skills useful for ministry (or a willingness to acquire them). People typically have a desire to serve abroad, an affinity for cross-cultural work and then have a chat with the mission support group or a member of the staff team.
How do you maintain a strong connection with the workers you send?
We love it when our missionaries visit us, and we encourage them to do so as often as they are able. We regularly interview missionaries in our services and prayer meetings and feature them in our prayers each Sunday. Our congregation is quite transitory so every time our missionaries return the congregation will look very different to the last time they visited. We are considering connecting our missionaries to a home group, so that they can build deeper relationships with a smaller group of people.
Where we have sent someone from the church, we feel we have a stake in their ministry – the highs and lows, big decisions they are making – and so we like to send a staff member to participate in reviews and debriefs with their mission agency. We also link them with a member of the church who can check in with them pastorally.

How has sending people, like the Wakefields, helped and encouraged Christ Church? 
Sending missionaries is a really healthy thing to do. When people like the Wakefields leave, it’s painful, but sending key people overseas keeps us from becoming too comfortable or inward looking. It reminds us of the priority of God’s kingdom and keeps us depending on God for our needs here.
Dave and Cristyn’s decision to go overseas with a young family has also been a challenge to their peers. It’s a stage of life that naturally encourages us to seek stability and familiarity. It’s obvious to parents of young children that there is a cost for Dave and Cristyn. They will be far from home and their support network; they won’t be progressing on the property ladder or in their careers. To lots of people, including Christians, that’s crazy! But it reminds us of the immense value of the gospel and that it is worth taking risks for, whether we stay at home or go overseas.

What is the most encouraging thing about being a church with a global focus?
It’s encouraging that we can pray for the gospel to progress in places that many of us will never have the chance to visit. We get to hear stories of God working in unexpected ways in some very challenging contexts. 

What challenges are there to remaining committed to global mission?
The challenge for us is to ensure our missionaries are really known by the congregation, which has a high turnover. Some are with us for the long term, others are only here for three to five years to study or work. This can be hard for our missionaries who won’t recognise many faces in the room when they return. However, it is a wonderful opportunity to encourage young Christians to have a global focus.

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Phillip has been serving in North Africa with his wife, Denise, for the last 20 years. They have recently become AIM members and will continue to serve in this challenging and sensitive location with our support.

Phillip, how were you and Denise called to North Africa?
Our call to North Africa was divinely orchestrated by God. After my conversion, I was immediately enrolled into a discipleship class. After a long period of waiting upon God to know his will, he gave me a deep conviction for mission work. I attended seminars, conventions, training and Bible studies at the International Bible Training Centre (IBTC) in Lagos, Nigeria. The leadership of the church noticed the grace of God in my life and I was called to serve in the local church. A further call came when I was asked to assist a mission pastor in North Africa a few years later and I took over from him as the mission pastor.

How have you been supported in your role?
My church was involved in every aspect: in training, preparing, and financial and spiritual support. Most of my friends are are brethren from the church who gave me moral and spiritual support, and my family were happy for me.

What difference does that kind of support make?
Prayer and financial support are a big deal, especially serving in North Africa. It helps you as a Christian worker to focus on making ministry the main thing and means that we can take care of the physical and material needs of our family.

How has your support changed over the years?
Our church supports us in prayer and through leadership training. However, our denomination brought in a policy which means that financial support for missionaries ends after 15 years on the field. So the finances we relied on, which contributed to the kingdom advances we were a part of, were withdrawn several years ago. Given the peculiarities of our mission field, this has been a real challenge. Many sending churches in Africa seem to underestimate the impact that a lack of financial support has on missionary morale – indeed upon the progress of the work itself.

How do you see God at work?
The truth is that we experience God’s protection every day. One example is when the police were given details of a network of house churches in our city. The secret service had discovered five locations, one of which was where I taught every Sunday morning. So, one Sunday during Ramadan, the police went from one house church to another arresting everyone: men, women, and children. On that day we had four local believers among us. If they had been found it would’ve been extremely serious, but God was so good to us. Without knowing what was going on, we closed our meeting earlier than usual, so that when the police arrived, everyone had gone home. There was no one in the building, so they left. The Lord miraculously delivered us!

How has God opened doors?
In a country like this one it is extremely difficult to reach out, except when the Lord opens doors. You can labour for a long time but not see any genuine fruit. It was only when we began seriously seeking God through prayer and fasting that he began to open doors. It was during this time that I received a call from an unknown local lady asking me for a French Bible. She became the first genuine convert we had in the country and through her the Lord opened other doors, enabling us to reach many other people.

What other fruit have you seen?
We saw real fruit when the Lord opened a woman’s heart; she had a powerful experience of the Holy Spirit. Her conversion was so sound and genuine that she became an example among the expatriate and the local believers. It wasn’t long before her two children, a boy of 18 and a girl of 16, accepted the Lord and were saved. Her children were students but after finishing their studies, they have gone on to be instrumental in reaching out to many other local people.

What are your hopes for the future?
Our hopes are to reach out to as many souls as the Lord enables us, training them to be well established in the faith, helping them to become leaders and soul winners themselves.

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Mike Smailes is a local church pastor, passionate about the Lord’s Great Commission. Here, Mike shares some of the questions he has had about traditional mission work.

Nations are now ‘on our doorstep’. Partnership with indigenous churches across the world is bearing fruit. God is humbling us in sending many ‘missionaries’ to our own shores and in highlighting the harm that sometimes well-meaning missionaries from these shores have done.

Should we still serve as senders?
With my Bible open, I could never doubt the Lord’s priority in sending us into the world to make disciples. But whom should we be expecting the Lord to send? Is the plight of lost people in unreached people groups mainly dependent on those who live nearest to them? So then, are we better resourcing and encouraging those ‘on the ground’ instead?
Or, if we are serious about pioneering work among unreached peoples, where do we start? I want to see our church connecting with local churches on the ground – but what if there aren’t any yet? As you can see, I had a lot of questions!

“We sat in a crowded front room, surrounded by government officials who couldn’t have been more delighted by our presence.”

Challenging my mindset
I was still grappling with these questions when I was invited to partner with others in an exploratory trip to an unreached people group in West Africa. Though months in the planning, it was within just hours of my arrival that my presuppositions were vigorously challenged. It’s hard to describe how it feels being in a country with so very few who know Jesus. As you cast your eyes across a city whose millions have no opportunity to hear even the simplest explanation of the gospel, it does something to you.
Whilst on the two leg journey out there, our leader was contacted by a long lost acquaintance. She doesn’t yet know the Lord but she’d been profoundly touched by contact with him many years before in another country. She grew up in the city we were visiting and her uncle wanted to meet us. Our first evening would be in their home. Our leader tried to prepare us as best he could. This was a high caste man and our visit was not without risk. With a very small number of ‘workers’ in this city, it was imperative that our visit didn’t hamper their long term mission work in any way. We all had so many questions. How shall we explain our strange presence here? What of our supposed tourist agenda? Most of us were pastors for one thing! Do we answer questions about faith? Perhaps this nervousness would have been less marked if we could have predicted the warmth with which we were welcomed.

An open door
We sat in a crowded front room, surrounded by government officials who couldn’t have been more delighted by our presence. By the end, it felt like we’d made genuine friends. Our visit was only for a week but another long afternoon and evening was spent with this same group. They were keen to get to know us. Open to heartfelt conversation. Serious about wanting us to consider living and doing business there. In short, I came away with the profound sense that God was unravelling many of those questions in this one encounter. Here were a number of families who had no contact with Christians, no knowledge of Christ and little access to his word. But here we were – less than 24hrs in the country – and a door was already opening!
Please don’t misunderstand me – this is not an easy mission field. The ground is hard. Those working there are often discouraged, lonely and in some cases feel unsupported. But here was the message I couldn’t miss. These people need people like us to go and live among them!
There is still an aching need for us (yes those of us in the UK) to send people. The harvest is ripe. The opportunities vast. The need urgent. We need to pray for God to send people from our churches here. God is still in the business of sending people. Spending time with those already sent simply confirmed it.

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Simon and Miriam Desborough have been serving with a church in the East Midlands for a year, reaching out with the gospel to people from North Africa on a local council estate.

The church stands as the sole gospel witness, surrounded by ten mosques. It is a true melting pot of people groups and cultures, but Islam is unquestionably the dominant religion on the estate. The African people groups within the community were quite insular, a product of past fear and the racism they first experienced when they were placed in the East Midlands. However, as we built relationships over time, they softened and warmed to us.

Effective partnership worked!
Alongside our own individual cross-cultural outreach to the community, it was a joy to partner with the local church and help equip them for the work of evangelism on the estate. We were encouraged by the fact that they had already laid a foundation of relationship with members of the community, especially with those in positions of prominence. Consequently, the church was well regarded by many of the people. Female members of the church ran a women’s ‘craft and chatter’ group and attended a local women’s group. The male members of the church visited the cafés on the estate to converse and socialise with the men. Alongside a short term AIM team and individuals from nearby churches, the church held a summer outreach week to bless and serve the community. This week included cross-cultural training for the team, a children’s holiday camp on the weekdays, and a huge Saturday picnic in the local park.

Could AIM help your church?
Diaspora ministry is a unique cross-cultural frontier where knowledge of the worldviews of different African countries and people groups is important, but also understanding their migration journey and how they are currently responding to living in a context that is not their own. The people groups on our estate, for example, travelled to the UK through parts of Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Portugal and many more countries. All the while, they are picking up other experiences which shape their diaspora culture. We praise God that his glorious gospel transcends culture and that he is calling local churches to build bridges with the African diaspora in our neighbourhoods to proclaim his wonderful salvation. Perhaps the Lord is calling your church to the same work?

For more information visit: https://borderlessafrica.org/

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Tim carried out a survey with local church leaders to find out what has helped them mobilise people for mission.

It’s been said that “the sign of a great church is not its seating capacity but its sending capacity” (Mike Stachura, Operation Mobilisation). Do you agree? For me, this quote echoes the Abrahamic covenant, that God has blessed us so that we might be a blessing to others throughout the earth. As church leaders and members, what are our aspirations for the church?

An ongoing work
Mobilising workers for cross-cultural mission is not a one-off exercise. It is more likely to happen when a church and its members share a vision and interest in serving others both locally and globally. The mission of God is to see people from every language and nation redeemed for his glory. The calling of the church is to partner with God in his mission. We see this in many of the ways we ‘do church’ and ‘shepherd the flock’ but our primary call, to be his witnesses and make disciples to the ends of the earth, must not be forgotten. That means our churches have a role to play both locally and globally.

Given that 40% of the world’s population are still ‘unreached’ and only 3% of missionaries work among unreached peoples, we are still ‘facing a task unfinished that should drive us to our knees’.

So, we “Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” Matt 9:38. But what else can we do?

Seven areas to help your church mobilise people for mission:
Our survey of church leaders whose churches are actively involved in global mission revealed seven things to help our churches move forward.
1. Clarify your understanding of mission.
2. Have a church leadership committed to developing mission.
3. Review and assess where the church is and has been, regarding mission. 4. Formulate a vision, strategy and structure for the whole church.
5. Craft a mission policy to give direction and consistency.
6. Find partnerships that fit with your strategic aims.
7. Involve the whole church as it grows into mission.

Resource your church
There are many resources to help give focus and encourage a greater engagement with mission. Here are some suggestions to help raise the profile of missions:
• Invite a mission speaker
• Send a short term team to support an existing ministry
• Use small group Bible studies or courses that explore God’s heart for the nations
• Find fuel for prayer from those serving in mission situations
• Help your young people to engage in missions in their groups and devotions
• Encourage your church or small group to read a gripping and humbling missionary biography

You can also visit here for more resources and ideas to help you and your church.
Maybe you would like to join the AIM Advocates programme, where you can be more fully equipped to share the cause and needs of mission among Africa’s unreached peoples in your local church. If you’re a church leader, why not sign up to receive an occasional email which addresses a subject that bridges the world of missions with the contemporary church world. Who knows what fires may start from even a small spark of interest?

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Stephen Bazely gives his views on Andy Johnson’s book, ‘Missions: How the local church goes global’.

Longing for clarity
Having recently joined AIM after leading a local church, I was intrigued when our Director mentioned this book. There are many Christian books that have shaped me and this is one I wish I had read sooner! Even the foreword by David Platt made me stop in my tracks. Platt doesn’t pull any punches, immediately highlighting the dire need for missionaries and who needs to act: “It’s not primarily the job of mission organisations to address that problem. This is primarily the job of every local church…all toward the ultimate end that the name of Christ might be praised among every group of people on the planet.”

Mission belongs to us all
As I look back at my own ministry, I realise that I failed to see this as our primary duty. It is so easy to think that mission is someone else’s responsibility, when in truth it belongs to us all. It is so easy to make global mission an add-on to church life, maybe a line in our financial reports. I reminded our church of the need to fulfil the Great Commission, but most of the time even reaching our own community felt like enough of a challenge. So, knowing that global mission ought to be a priority too might feel like the straw that broke the camel’s back. Yet in this book, written for church leaders and members alike, Johnson’s aim is to show how simple it can be to go global.

Helpfully, we are pointed to Acts 13 in the foreword, showing us how one church lived up to its responsibility. “[Here] we see the church at Antioch worshiping, fasting, and praying, and in the context of that local church with its leaders, the Spirit sets apart Paul and Barnabas as missionaries. The church prays over them and sends them out, supporting them as they go.”
If every church followed this example, imagine how God could transform our local communities and impact the world beyond our borders!

Unfortunately, I suspect that when it comes to global mission, many of our churches are closer to the funny, yet painful parody of mission conversations Johnson presents in his introduction. Describing a fictional mission committee meeting, he introduces us to Beth, a reflective member, who needs a strong coffee to recover, wondering why no one can agree on anything. Then we meet Dave who wants them to focus on evangelism not mission, Olivia who “suggested it would be so much better (and cheaper) to pay local pastors than to send out Western missionaries.”

Other characters have their own angles, none of which complement the other, leaving them all frustrated and no further along. Beth thinks, “Surely God must have given more direction about what the mission is and how we should pursue it. But she couldn’t think of where to find that direction or where to start.”

Finding a Biblical agenda
Before coming to AIM I had a rather short-sighted view of global mission too. Andy invites us to, “Imagine a local church where the congregation’s mission to the nations is clear and agreed upon. Members see missions as a core ministry of the church, not an occasional short-term project. Relationships with missionaries are deep, serious, and lasting. Joyful giving to missions is a basic part of the church’s budget. And members actually value missions enough that some want to uproot their lives and be sent out long-term by the church.”

Not convinced? Andy has seen it happen “in numerous churches, large and small. It’s not that hard. It all flows primarily from finding one’s missions agenda and methods in the Bible.”
I wish I had read this book sooner and been part of a church with such a glorious global focus. It is not too late. Andy reminds us that we are Jesus’ church, founded by Jesus “to guard the gospel, proclaim the gospel, and disciple those who respond in repentance and faith to the gospel.” If we follow this pattern then mission can become a core ministry of the church, not just an add-on.

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Our heart is to see Christ-centred churches among all African peoples and our priority is to go to the people groups still unreached with the gospel. Tim introduces us to what mobilisation looks like in the local church.

How can churches move towards mobilising people?
As we teach through the Bible, God’s heart for his glory and his desire to save people from every nation becomes clear. Then it becomes natural to pray for and share the needs of those who are unreached. Once a church is passionate and informed, they might start praying for and strategically supporting those already engaged in mission. When these things are in place, they can begin to equip and send workers themselves for short or long term global mission.

“Both the enquiry and application process are about discerning if God is truly calling candidates to mission service.”

How does AIM help churches?
We have resources (Bible studies, Sunday school materials, service outlines and more) to help busy church leaders equip their congregations and church members. Our friendly Mission Advisors can also help provide a focus and emphasis on global mission. They can help churches develop mission plans and strategies. They also act as mentors and encouragers for those considering serving as missionaries themselves.

What course could a church use to raise the profile of global mission?
‘Momentum Yes’ is a six part interactive course to help churches understand what God is doing in the world and how to get involved. It can be done individually or, even better, in a small group – we run sessions online and in churches.

What steps are involved in sending people?
If an individual, couple or family senses God’s call to missions, the first step is for them to discuss it with their church leaders. It is also wise to pray intentionally with a small group of trusted Christian friends. Agencies like AIM can help by speaking into the discernment process, providing information on ministry opportunities and approaches to mission. Both the enquiry and application process are about discerning if God is truly calling the candidates to mission service. Once that is established, the focus turns to making sure they are suitably equipped and directed to the appropriate ministry for them to be a part of.

What does it look like to prepare to go?
There is no ‘one size fits all’ model to prepare new workers for the harvest field, as everyone is different and at different stages in their lives, biblical understanding, spiritual maturity, professional training and skills. Working together with church leaders and candidates, we consider a range of options such as Bible college, online Bible training or studying at your church. AIM also has a range of required courses to help candidates prepare to live simply in cross-cultural settings.

What happens next?
As part of their equipping and preparation, new members attend European Based Orientation (EBO) before they leave for their first assignment. EBO is a four day programme covering a range of practical, security and spiritual issues that are necessary as the time to actually go approaches.

Africa Based Orientation (ABO) is an invaluable three week programme in Kenya for all new AIM missionaries, right at the start of their assignment. ABO is led by experienced missionaries from Africa and other settings, with experience and cultural and theological insight. Lifelong learning is a key value at AIM, as there is always more to learn as we serve one another.

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Looking back, we have seen the growth of the church in Africa, but where is God calling AIM in the future? Here William, who heads up AIM’s Northern Region, shares his thoughts and hopes for AIM’s work.

What is AIM’s focus in the north?
The northern region of Africa is something we have approached in three phases. Before 2001 AIM had no one serving in the region. The first family into North Africa travelled out the week before 9/11! By 2003 there were 5 families on location. The second phase involved entering different North African countries and into the Horn of Africa.

And the third phase?
That is going to be the Sahel: the inland band across Africa. We have some people in Chad and South Sudan already, but not in Sudan. 95% of Sudanese people are unreached; that’s over 44 million people: it’s a massive country.

With the theme of giving thanks, how should we give thanks for what God has done already?
From having zero workers anywhere in North Africa just over 20 years ago, AIM has seen a large increase in workers called to this region. This growth is timely because this is where the greatest need is. I give thanks for the growth, but I am still praying for more workers because the need is so vast.

In what ways have you seen God at work in the region?
God has put people in critical places, where countless North Africans have had dreams and visions and our people have been there to make sense of those dreams, filling in the gaps with the Word of God.

What are the challenges and opportunities?
The hardest thing to come by in North Africa are Christ-centred churches. There are so many factors working against that. So as a region, our focus is the transformation of individuals by the power of the Holy Spirit. To see transformed, Christlike people witnessing to the good news. For example, husbands who fear Christ, and are transformed, loving their wives instead of beating them. That is countercultural in so many parts of North Africa – it is powerful stuff.

How can we pray for northern region?
You may have seen stories on social media of believers imprisoned in the Horn of Africa. We also knew of a young family of local believers, a mother and child, who were imprisoned for nine months for being Christians. We are waiting to hear about another Christian in North Africa, who was arrested and given a death sentence, to find out if he was executed. These are real human beings being persecuted for their faith. Many cannot even risk sharing their faith with their families; one young teenage girl was killed by her father for her faith. This is happening today. This is a persecuted church.

How can we be praying for you?
I want to see a growth in the number of people called to work with us in North Africa. Over the last few years, we’ve done a good job of establishing our base and getting our people grounded. I’d love to see three new teams of people joining our one year training programme before going on assignment.

It’s exciting!
Yes, we’ve got a very bright future. It’s exciting to be part of something that’s really core to what we do as an organisation.

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Ann is working among the Neem* people in Chad. She is a doctor, working part-time with mentally ill and epileptic patients in a government district hospital. She also supports the small local church through the women’s group and working alongside the elders. The church is made up of Chadians from the south. Services are conducted in French, even though significant numbers of women attending hardly speak any French.

Locally, people speak Chadian Arabic (which Ann learned elsewhere) and Neem which she is trying to learn for the women in some villages who cannot speak Arabic.

Ann has been reaching out with the gospel to the women she meets. For those who have expressed interest in following Jesus, she does ongoing Bible studies. There are now portions of the Bible in draft form in the local language, however an oral form is also needed as many are illiterate. She is building relationships in preparation for new team members who will hopefully join her in November.

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