Making a difference in Africa

We praise God for the opportunity to partner with GBIM in The Timothy Project with the Theological Seminary in Bangui, Central African Republic. Wooster Grace helps Sylvain Sangassere and his wife, Herodia & their child Gracia.

Sylvain & Herodia

Sylvain is in his second year at the Brethren Biblical Seminary in Bangui on the road to Boali. Pastor Tom Peters of ICDI was able to hand deliver a letter from our church and to give a huge hug and greeting from us to them. I praise God for Pastor Tom's big heart for Africa and it's people.

I thank God also for David & Ruth Ann Martin who are the GBIM Engage Africa US Coordinators.  They were able to get me a photo of the couple.  

Please find below two prayer requests from the GBIM missionaries in regard to seminary and bible institute students who are now on summer break. May we lift them up in prayer. 

1.      This is the season when a lot of the men travel back to their home districts to act as apprentices in local churches and hopefully to get some help with tuition and perhaps some food from gardens left behind in their home villages. Meanwhile the wives and kids are left at Bata to keep up the fields locally so there will be food for the coming year.  As families in the states often discover, when the father/husbands are away things quit working, people get sick, crises arise, etc.  SO PLEASE PRAY FOR THE MEN AS THEY TRAVEL AND LEARN, AND FOR THE WOMEN AND KIDS AS THEY WORK AND WAIT.

2.      2. In the last few years, gold has been discovered in various places in the area around Bata.  Students don’t go looking for it but many others have stopped farming and hoping to get rich, have gone seeking gold (sort of like 1849 in California).  That means fields are left unplanted and food is becoming scarce.  The price of the basic starch food, gozo (manioc), has quadrupled this year. Rains came late so that even those who were willing to work couldn’t plant their peanut crops so that will really cause hard times this fall. PRAY THAT THE STUDENT’S FIELDS WOULD PRODUCE WELL IN SPITE OF A DIFFICULT SEASON.

Please stop now to pray.