Dear Friends,
Thank you again for all the support and love during our trip in Australia. We are very blessed by the kindness and mission heart of sacrificial givers. We are sorry to hear of the floods in NSW and pray for the Lord’s help for those affected.
Read “Jesus’ Teachings” by Kent here. In the Old Testament, the sacrifice was the blood of others. In the Jesus priesthood, the sacrifice is self-giving.
Toyin Alabi and wife Ronke lead CFM’s crisis-care home in Abuja Capital Territory, our primary and secondary school there, with churches and mission stations. Believers love to express truths through joined words, like “Godfidence.” Some of Toyin’s recent sayings include:
Some with a little pidgin:
“I no get all the answers, but I get God—na Him be my confidence. That one wey dem dey call Godfidence.”
“Godfidence is the understanding that while you may feel weak, God is strong within you. Let them see your boldness and ask where it comes from.”
“Godfidence isn’t arrogance. It’s assurance. Not in yourself—but in the God who never fails.”
Toyin Alabi - one of the many very best leaders God has blessed CFM with. With thanks to the Lord! Toyin raises many leaders after him, while he is also mentored by other CFM leaders.
Thank you for praying for all.
Three Things we Have Used to Build Peace
1. Sowing mercy into hearts - to reject and atone for engineered division, sorrow, bitterness, anger and vengeance - through love of neighbour (as per the Good Samaritan.)
2. Building relationships between crop and cattle farmers by rejecting the propaganda and returning to integrated farming.
3. Promoting hope for a future among the teeming youth by building local economic community and by spreading awareness of steps to overcome deliberate economic collapse.
In each of these three areas, by God’s grace we are swimming upstream against globalist domination, which “tariff wars” are now working to dismantle. Pushback is inevitable, with its real perpetrators disguised, but freedom will prevail.
In the book of Revelation symbols were used instead of plain speech, about the powers of the first century, to protect the church from persecution. Today, people are being corralled by loss of energy, loss of banking rights and of cash, of speech, to take away our voice. We therefore also must use parables, as we peacefully subvert the powers harming millions of lives. Through it all, God is strengthening us and promises his church victory in her support of those preyed upon.
What we know is God is in control.
GODFIDENCE!
Above: Bible college boarding students and some Crisis Care Home teenagers, in their chapel meeting last Sunday. Lower: Dancing with joy!
Messages are given mostly in English and interpreted live into Hausa and French.
Update on Our Foreign Students
We are still working on getting passports for our Francophone students and staff, as now required, and trusting the Lord for his intervention. They still need to leave the country by early June, but with passports, will be allowed to return. Thank you for your prayer and support.
We still need significant financial support for our frontline mission work, and many projects aimed at restoring shattered lives. Please see details below on how to send financial support.
Love in Christ, Kent, Ruth and the CFM Team
Donate
Donations to CFM’s associated accounts below, go 100% (less bank charges) to the work of CFM in Africa, without any administration costs.
Giving in Australia: 1. Christian Faith Ministries Australia (CFMA) Incorporated, BSB 035046, Account No. 607721. Secretary: Warren Mack cfmaustralia@outlook.com. CFMA is a registered Australian Charity (ABN: 24239839075). Donations to CFMA are tax deductible. If you would like statements for your gifts, please read this attachment. 2. Voice of the Martyrs kindly receives tax deductible gifts on behalf of CFM. Please contact Melissa Hill (mhill@vom.com.au).
Giving in the USA: CFM is a tax-exempt charity in the USA. Christian Faith Ministries USA, US Bank, Routing Number 122105155, Account Number 151708783072. Contact Bart Langland tmatf16@gmail.com. Or make an online donation at CFMUSA.org.
Giving in the EU: Christian Faith Ministries Africa is a registered charity. Boezingestraat 103, 8906 Ieper, Belgium: IBAN: BE50 7330 7602 7418, BIC/SWIFT: KREDBEBB. Contact Pieter Morisse, pieter.morisse@telenet.be
Giving in the UK: 1. Transfer to CFM’s account in Belgium, details listed above. 2. Use the “Make an Online Donation” link (see below). 3. Transfer directly to Nigeria (details below).
Make an Online Donation: You can click CFM Donation Form to be taken to a secure site where you can make an online donation.
Transfer to CFM in Nigeria: This must be made in US$. United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Nigeria. Swift Code: UNAFNGLA. UBA branch sort code: 033200987. Beneficiary account number: 3002513431. Beneficiary name: Christian Pentecostal Faith Assembly. Beneficiary address: Wurin Alheri, Du, Jos South, Post Code: 930101, Plateau State, Nigeria. Bank address: UBA Plc., Dadin Kowa Branch, Jos North, Jos, Post Code: 930272, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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Our Faith:
We believe in One creator God, who created all things. The incarnation of God in Christ, as redeemer, son and heir of creation. The death of Christ for our sins, his bodily resurrection on the third day and his current rule over the nations. God the Holy Spirit, the agent of salvation and restoration in the church of Jesus Christ. The resurrection of all humanity from the dead and the final judgement. Eternal life for those of faith and eternal destruction for the godless.