{"id":5504,"date":"2018-08-15T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hk.langham.org\/god-is-in-control-of-his-work-langham-preaching-in-sierra-leone\/"},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:57:29","slug":"god-is-in-control-of-his-work-langham-preaching-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hk.langham.org\/en_us\/news-and-updates\/god-is-in-control-of-his-work-langham-preaching-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"‘God is in control of His work’ – Langham Preaching in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Chris

Chris Jonah, Sierra Leone’s country coordinator for Langham Preaching, pictured here speaking at a conference last year.<\/em><\/sub><\/p><\/div>\n

Chris Jonah, Langham Preaching’s country coordinator in Sierra Leone, reported on a successful ‘refresher’ event there in May. This country has only recently recovered from the devastating Ebola epidemic, which stopped some of the Preaching Clubs<\/a> that had been running in various places. But now, many of the groups have revived, and the work is back on track. Chris’ report reflects God’s kindness to believers in Sierra Leone, who are persevering in teaching the Bible faithfully.<\/p>\n

“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

\"Sierra

Thirty people attended the Langham Preaching event in Sierra Leone in May.<\/em><\/sub><\/p><\/div>\n

We 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>\n
\"Sierra

Many preaching clubs are running again, after the devastating Ebola emergency ended in 2016.<\/em><\/sub><\/p><\/div>\n

We praise God for\/that:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Safe travels for our team from Freetown and that the car worked well.<\/li>\n
  • The enthusiasm of the participants and the excitement to be involved in the club.<\/li>\n
  • Hospitality of the host.<\/li>\n
  • Two new leaders were selected to run the club and they are set to meet next\u00a0Saturday to plan to restart.<\/li>\n
  • We agreed to run a Level 1 Langham Preaching seminar in Kono next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    We pray for \/that:<\/p>\n

      \n
    • God will give us wisdom to know how to proceed with Kono<\/li>\n
    • Good fruit from this visit<\/li>\n
    • The clubs will be fully re-established and sustained<\/li>\n
    • The group in Makeni will restart and that the one in Lunsar will be strengthened.<\/li>\n
    • Pastor Freeman\u2019s family, the loss of their 23-year-old son who was a final year
      \nstudent at the university is a big blow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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