“Thirty two persons participated in the ‘refresher’ training, including two people who led the event.\u00a0It took place in Kono, which is 359km from the capital Freetown. Diamonds were discovered in Kono in 1930 and are still being mined, but\u00a0Kono is impoverished and it is only within the last two years that the road to Kono was\u00a0redone and now has some intermittent power supply.<\/p>\n
Thirty people attended the Langham Preaching event in Sierra Leone in May.<\/em><\/sub><\/p><\/div>\nWe left a day early to visit Freeman Taylor, the leader of the\u00a0Preachers’ Club, who lost his son by road accident. Our regional coordinator participated in\u00a0the funeral. We encouraged, shared our experiences and prayed for the family.<\/p>\n
Restarting Preaching Clubs<\/h4>\n
We then left for Makeni and visited Pastor Macaulay. The preachers club in Makeni has\u00a0stopped meeting for a while. Macaulay had not done the training but is a friend of ours\u00a0who has started a church plant. We tried and made some contacts with persons who had\u00a0done the course. The current leader of the pastoral council had completed the Langham\u00a0course and we have started discussions to restart the club in Makeni.<\/p>\n
God is in control of his work. A few weeks before the training we received a call from a\u00a0pastor who had listened to our radio broadcast in Freetown and wanted to be trained.\u00a0Coincidentally he was from Kono and visiting Freetown. We then informed him about the\u00a0training and he joined the others to plan the programme. His church building was the\u00a0venue for the Langham programme.<\/p>\n
Some of the participants had not done the Langham training, as a result we had to tailor\u00a0the training to show what Langham is, the importance of the preachers club and how to\u00a0run one. We then worked on several passages using the principles to show how to get the\u00a0best out of a text.<\/p>\n
Prayer Points<\/h4>\nMany preaching clubs are running again, after the devastating Ebola emergency ended in 2016.<\/em><\/sub><\/p><\/div>\nWe praise God for\/that:<\/p>\n