The theme of my seminar, ”How to start missions in a church?”, dates back to three decades in Indonesia. During that time, at the request of GPdI’s leadership of the church, I had carefully prepared a practical strategy on how to start missions from Indonesia. (Strategy means learning how to win a war. Of course, […]
Labour Day Monday, Pastor Aki and I went to Dar-es- Salaam where the start of the mission seminar awaited. The participants were 32 Tanzanian pastors who got a spark from the previous courses. They wanted to hear how the work is started in practice. Pastor Jonathan from Finland and Pastor Shierley from Indonesia had already […]
Along with Aki Miettinen, we represented the team in Uganda’s mission work. Pastor Aki reports below aboutthe nearly three- week long work in Uganda.We arrived in Entebbe around midnight of 12.4 where we had meetings that same morning. On Saturday, the police chief, Brian, picked us up from Kampala’s surrounding area in Nansala province. […]
The first half of 2023 was surprising and multifaceted. Towards the end, changes turned into blessings. In this newsletter, we share about the four week mission trip in Africa, Pastor Jonathan and his family’s migration back to Australia and how God has lead new workers into GNN to continue the work. It appears that God […]
On Saturday 11.2, we had invited around thirty active church volunteers from our ministry teams for a private buffet lunch. We wanted to appreciate them for their efforts made during the past year in order to make things in VICF flow smoothly. Our volunteers have come from a dozen nationalities. Therefore, the main language for […]
Our partner, Ps. Francis Tusiime, is a warm-hearted person whose preaching touches the heart and whose prayers are powerful. His itinerary for his upcoming three-week trip is almost fully booked. Before his return back to Tanzania, he will be the main speaker in our Easter Encounter-program held in VICF, Tikkurila.
Jesus said, “Have faith in God.” (Mk 11:22) Then He clarified to His disciples that faith which does not doubt can even move mountains! This is the kind of faith Ps. Francis (left photo) from Uganda had, to move the mountains of challenges he faced a decade ago when arriving to Dar es Salaam at […]
Throughout the seminars, participants have raised a request to have concrete source materials for teaching. During their years in Kenya, the two missionaries, Mama Raili & Mama Mirjami, created practical Sunday school materials called Mwanga (Light) in Swahili. A couple of years ago, based on an idea, I had video recorded these sisters’ teaching in […]
Training Uganda’s Christian ‘Joint Forces’ Follow-up training for the Tanzanian GNN team Children’s ministry seminars in northern Tanzania Autumn mission seminars planned for southeast Asia Indo-pioneers facing challenges in remote areas GNN economy development to enable future tasks Wisdom and guidance for implementation
WE WISH YOU A WONDERFUL YEAR 2023! Tanzania In February, Pr. Jonathan had a mission trip to Dar es Salaam. He inspected the school facilities to be used for the June 2022 mission course. During that week, the local GNN team leaders also interviewed pastors applying for the course, over 30 of them registered. Pr. […]