Dear Friends,
We are very grateful for the kind response to our current urgent need, both small and larger gifts. We have received $20,000 and still need $70,000 to cover our current debt and running costs for this week and next week. Thank you to those able to give. Thank you for praying.
Above: Kent & Ruth with CFM leaders, Gabriel and Tope (centre), Paul and Kate, at CFM’s community dam, 2019.
These are some of CFM’s “traveling missionaries,” who oversee CFM’s missions in Nigeria. They plan which places to visit, where support is needed, where to open new centres. They are setting up missions hubs in different parts of the nation to serve unreached communities. CFM serves 150 missions centres now and we are working towards 400.
Communion Community (Our message at last Sunday's chapel: the life of the church.) “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.” (Acts 2:42) “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:46-47) (They shared their food with each other.) “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.” (Acts 4:32-35) What was the communion? (Sharing together.) What was the apostle’s doctrine? (God humbled himself to serve us. We humble ourselves to serve each other. Philippians 2:5-11) The Upper Room “When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.” (John 13:12-17) (We follow his example, do to others, what he did for us.) “After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:17-19) (Still in the Upper Room, the communion is sharing the life he gives us and giving ourselves for each other as broken bread, as Christ gave himself for us. It's following him, serving, like in the washing of feet.) “So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat, for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk. Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? Certainly not in this matter!” (1 Corinthians 11:20-22) (They were to wait for each other, for the poor, and share together as one people. Because they didn't do this, didn't care for each other, many were sickly among them. The death and covenant of Christ becomes our call to love each other. This is the Lord's table.) "For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes." (1 Corinthians 11:26) (He died for us. We die for each other. This is the meal. We are the Lord's broken bread of grace to serve.) This is the upper Room. This is Pentecost. This is the anointing. The Spirit uniting us as one. The Spirit baptises us into one body, one family of care, from all backgrounds, no divisions. (1 Corinthians 12:13)
Last Sunday’s chapel: The Communion. Click to view.
In the Garden of Eden, the angel was jealous that God gave dominion over creation to weak humanity. The angel decided that if he couldn’t have it, then no one would enjoy it. The satan is still at work, behind today’s lockdowns, 15-minute cities and net-zero carbon mandates. Nigeria has been punished by the same globalists’ economy-destroying policies for decades, forced from prosperity to destruction. It is now about to turn around. Soon, Nigeria will break free to refine her own oil, make available to her population and neighbours her own clean gas, and install nuclear power for her energy sector. This will clear her debt trap, stop the felling of trees for firewood and green the Sahel and Sahara desert for agriculture. Liberty is coming.
Graduates of CFM evangelising all over Nigeria. Above, evangelism through the “Jesus Film” and preaching.
Healing Divisions (Kent's Romans Class)
In Romans 4, Paul discusses the faith of Abraham and David, showing we are not saved by “works,” meaning the traditions of sectarianism and culture, such as circumcision. Paul concludes “Therefore, the promise comes by faith so it may be sure to us all, from all backgrounds.” (Rom 4:16, paraphrased.)
Paul was speaking about faith in order to show it cuts across divisions and builds us into one family. The point is the community. What is Paul’s larger message? He was asking the question of the Jews at that time: “God promised Israel he would renew the nations and fill them with his glory. Many thought Jesus of Nazareth was the one to fulfil the promise, but he was crucified, and we are still under Rome. What is God’s plan to fulfil his promise?” The plan is, God makes us one through faith, which pulls down the dividing wall of our superior traditions.
Paul then shows that faith equals faithfulness: as the Holy Spirit overcomes sin in our lives, we each show the same faithfulness to each other as Christ showed to us when he died. This heals/ saves our hearts and our communities. As per Romans 8... when the children of God are revealed (the Jew/ Gentile one family of care), creation is delivered from its bondage to corruption.
This ultimately happens in the resurrection, but we are it’s witnesses and life now. This creation-renewing plan, by making a new united humanity in Christ, the second Adam, was Paul’s message. If this plan doesn’t work, if we don't have faith, love and hope through Christ and his plan, then what other plan will heal us?
Burial service for our beloved Sheik Shehu Galadima, gone to glory. A dear friend, who came to Christ as an Islamic scholar and sheik, preached in mosques all over the nation, imprisoned many times for his faith, a father to many Muslim background Jesus Followers. CFM disciples attended the service. May God give the church many more like him.
CFM’s primary school at the Wurin Alheri campus have Club Day and show what they are learning in science, agriculture, public speaking and others. (Click images to enlarge.)
Some of our children go home on buses, some by tricycle-taxis, some by bicycle, some by foot. Above, a father collects his family after school.
God placed us in families to care for each other. What is the church but God’s one big family, from all languages and backgrounds, to care for, heal and rebuild the broken? As Jesus has done for us, we do for his people.
Thank you for joining us to rebuild God’s people and to bring the gospel to the hard places in this broken place.
Thank you for praying and for financial support as God enables. The Lord is doing wonderful things.
Blessings, Kent, Ruth and team
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