Sponsor a Missions Team

The purpose of Mission Stations is to plant outreach bases and churches in areas that initially cannot support gospel workers. We target areas that are mainly Islamic or pagan population centres, but where people respond to the gospel message.

This work varies according the God’s leading on each occasion. In one site we may buy a block of land and build a church. Our pastors there may also reach out into further interior villages and start Bible studies in homes. These will eventually lead to self supporting churches in many locations. A Mission Station is a hub to spread the gospel in wider areas.

In other areas we may send pastors among settlements to mix with Islamic populations in their villages, on their farms on in their work place. This type of work begins with a discipleship process and eventually leads to an indigenous church being planted.

The more stations that open, the more converts eventually come into CFI for training for their own call, and so it builds. The churches and stations feed into the college and the college feeds into more outreach stations and churches.

We cannot predict how each new work will unfold, as each time the leading of the Lord takes us by surprise, and this is the way we would like the work to continue. We must go where God wants and do what he wants, using the people he wants. In other words, we must follow, not lead.

The Lord is giving us many indigenous people to lead in areas where we set up new works. This often seems to be vital as they know the people, and the work will continue stronger in the years ahead whenever it is indigenous. For example, when we reach out to Hausa or Fulani Muslims, we often have Hausa/Fulani pastors and mission workers.

At the moment we have over 50 applications from people to work with us in opening up new Mission Stations, to work in our churches or in CFI. These are trained and experienced people. We do not ask for applicants. We pray and study situations and people to see what the Lord is saying in each case. But God is adding the right people to our team. We are not interested in how many people we have on the team, but in following the Lord each day to reach out to the lost.

Many of the places we are reaching are almost cut off from civilization. Many regions are desperately poor. Many regions are dominated by Islam and persecution is strong. Many regions are depraved by all forms of pagan practices. But in these places there is a ready response to the gospel as the Holy Spirit moves on the hearts and the gospel is preached with boldness.

It takes team work: “How shall they preach unless they are sent.” Willing workers need a team. By God’s grace we have an army of good people, but they must be sent. Each one of us does our part, according to how God has placed us. Our delight is that one day we shall stand in heaven with many people from these cut off areas, whose hearts  have been transformed by the Holy Spirit to know Jesus, and be everlastingly grateful that we joined with other willing people to get the gospel  to them.

At the moment our Mission Stations are in Bauchi State of Nigeria. We expect that soon they will extend into northern Niger State and into other nations such as Chad and the Republic of Niger. We don’t know what God will do yet, or all the wonderful places and people God will lead us to, but our heart has been filled with his faith to send out labourers and we can see God’s hand in each step. These missions people are hard workers, “self-motivated”, called by God, with Spirit led effectiveness and boldness and integrity in Jesus.

Common expenses include wages for two or more pastors in each Mission Station and for some, housing for their wife and children in nearby built up safe locations, a motor bike, the purchase of a block of land, building a church hall using some local materials and the pastor’s and new believer’s labour, video equipment, small generators and speakers to show Jesus movies in the local languages. The aim is that at some point in the future each station becomes independent as a local church grows.

We are already supplying these things to missions centres as the Lord leads us. We do it carefully, at the right time, according to the work/initiative pastors put in and need/extent of harvest. Members of our main staff at CFI in Jos, including Kent Hodge, visit these centres to see what is being done and to help in the ministry.

Please come on board and be a part of this team. We will send you out an email card of the mission team you are helping.  Your funds will be used towards what needs to be done next as the Lord leads.

We ask you not only to support, but also to pray and link up with us through email to be connected as the work grows and unfolds. You may like to visit the field one day. Its not just money, though that is a needed part. It’s the whole joy and being involved with the rich gospel, with what the Lord is doing, and with his people as they risk their lives and see his miracle of salvation in others.

Recently we held an outdoor meeting in an Islamic dominated region. People were shocked at our boldness as we visited the Islamic king and prayed with him and then went to an open air centre to preach. The next morning several people came to visit our mission centre.

One man sneaked in the back entrance to our compound for prayer to receive Jesus. When he left through the front his wife sneaked in the back for the same. When she left through the front their son sneaked in the back for the same. These were Muslim and did not know that their other family members were coming. Each acted on their own. The next morning we started a Bible study in their home in the Islamic district.

Help bring the gospel of salvation to these people lost without the knowledge of Jesus. Help prevent these people becoming radicalised and militant by reaching out to them with the greater power of God in Jesus Christ. In each step God is acting sovereignly.