Team Leader: Leonard Kiswangi
Location: Kinshasa
Primary Activities: Evangelism, Good Governance Workshops
Contact Information:
BP 4049
Kinshasha 2
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Email:
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Eighteen-year-old Mamy came to AE’s evangelistic mission to Kikwit, Congo, unable to speak. She could only make a furious dog-like cry. With tears in her eyes, she came forward with her mother, after hearing the hope of the Gospel message. As a social outcast, she was desperate to find release from her seemingly inexplicable condition. Since her father died four years ago, she had lived in a prison of fear and anguish. She could not bear to be around other people and didn’t even want to come to AE’s evangelistic gathering. Thankfully, prayer intercessors which AE had organized, encouraged her mother to come with her.Moved profoundly by her story, the evangelists prayed fervently for Mamy’s salvation and healing. Finally, she was mercifully delivered! Mamy immediately began to rejoice and enjoy the company of other people. She was no longer an outcast. And she was no longer capable of making the fearsome dog-like noise which kept her imprisoned for four long years. Jesus Christ freed Mamy to be a glorious light of hope to others in her city. She will now be welcomed into a local church and discipled by a pastor. And the news of her miraculous transformation will draw more Congolese to faith in the Savior.
3,400 New Congolese Believers!
The crowds multiplied as AE’s Gospel outreach to Kikwit progressed. Seven thousand came to the opening rally of the mission in June. Then 8,500 gathered the next day, with the third day attracting 15,000 to hear how Jesus could give them the hope they were so hungry for. So many eager new believers came forward to receive Christ that counsellors were hard-pressed to keep accurate count. But at least 3,400 people made decisions to follow Jesus during the mission week.Some of these new believers were inmates in the Kikwit central prison. Because of the pitiful condition of the facility, AE was eager to shine a Gospel light in an unforgiving place. With a total of 136 men and one woman in the prison, 50 inmates were shoe-horned into a narrow cell with no beds and infrequently provided food. Evangelists brought not only Christ’s Good News, but bread and soap to the discouraged prisoners.
In keeping with AE’s aim of sharing the Gospel in every possible venue, evangelists preached at a nursing college, where 400 students decided to put their lives in Christ’s hands. Yet so many more people in Congo have yet to hear about Jesus.
While African Enterprise ministers throughout the continent, the organization has Teams permanently based in ten African countries: Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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Team Leader: Melisachew Mesfin
Location: Addis Ababa
Primary Activities: Evangelism, National Youth Discipleship Program
Contact Information:
PO Box 70271
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Email:
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Elfinesh Dabi's family arranged her marriage when she was only 16 years old. This young Ethiopian woman has known little but sorrow since then.
Her first child died in the womb. Then, when pregnant with her second baby, she fell down by the side of a road, injured, and could not get up. A kindly stranger took her to a hospital. But her baby died soon after delivery.
After she ended up divorced at a young age, she decided to commit suicide. Her brother came home one day to find her with a rope around her neck... and prevented her from taking her own life just in the nick of time. But Elfinesh was miserable. "I am sleepless, "she says. "I never sleep even for an hour in a night. I am so much troubled that life is meaningless to me. I am tired of living and weep every time."
But then she came to hear the Gospel during AE's evangelistic mission to Akaki-Kaliti, a suburb of the capital city of Addis Ababa. "When the preacher was praying," she says, "the evil spirit inside of me started to manifest and I was delivered! I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior. Since then, for the last four nights I have been sleeping more than 7 hours a night."
"This is a new experience in my life!" Elfinesh rejoices. "I am seeing a great change. Now I have peace of mind and I want to continue with it!"
Because of friends who pray and give generously to AE, desperate young women in Africa can find relief from their suffering and meaning in their lives through Christ. Your support makes all the difference!
Fekadu Tolu has been desperate to find answers. Growing up in Ethiopia, his parents took him to witch doctors and he worshiped ancestors as part of the traditional religions. But, he says, "I don't have a settled mind. I hear voices inside of me and I am guided by these voices as to where I should go and what I should be doing."
Then he heard about AE's evangelistic mission to Akaki-Kaliti, a suburb of Addis Ababa, the country's capital, when he was looking for a house to rent. "A woman invited me to come and see," he says. "I came in and heard the word of God. When the altar call was made, I willfully stood up from my seat to accept Jesus."
Looking back on the past, Fekadu says, "I have lived a miserable life. I even felt there was no purpose for living. But now I think I have made a right decision. I have made a new beginning in life and I want to follow this path."
Fekadu will be welcomed into a local church in Akaki-Kaliti, where he will connect with other believers and grow closer to Christ through the rest of his life. Only through your partnership is AE able to reach out to lost people like Fekadu. Thank you for your support!