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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

W. Africa Report



I recently returned from a mission trip to a small country in W Africa called Burkina Faso. This trip also included a very strategic twelve hour layover in Dakkar, Senegal. Our small three person team left November 12 and returned November 21.

There we saw many demonstrations of the powerful grace of God through His only begotten Son---our resurrected Savior Jesus Christ! This grace in which we stand delivered believers, saved Muslims, and left many planted and watered seeds for our Father to give the increase in the future.

Most would see a twelve hour layover in a third world Muslim country as a liability not an asset. But the Lord opened a great Kingdom door for us in Senegal and we saw great things in just a few short hours! Our travel agent has a relative who is a teacher at, what we found out later, is the premier boarding school for children of missionaries who are commissioned in difficult countries in Africa.




Very quickly the Lord positioned us to minister to some of the administrators at the school. They had trauma from past experiences, some going back to childhood. Our generation is one of hurt people with broken hearts who have been then oppressed and taken captive by the devil. Also, in the 95% Muslim and witchcraft populated Senegal many of the people attempt to place powerful curses on the believers. So we quickly began to minister the word of life as found in 2 Timothy 2:24-26.2 Timothy 2: 24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

The power of our Abba’s grace was so being demonstrated that we were taken from one person to the next to pray, share the powerful words of grace we were given, and to actually see our Savior rebuke demons off of the lives of people! By the time we left we had seen brothers and sisters set free and edified and many children at the school heard a message of urgency to seek the Lord Jesus with their whole heart! And this was just the layover to go to Burkina Faso!

We knew that when we arrived--there would be spiritual warfare, but the Lord reminded us in Senegal that He is able! We met our Kingdom contact Ouattara Balagassina (Lassina). He is a man of God who works with one of the world’s largest Bible translators and is one of the two hundred out of the forty thousand believers from the Dogossee people in Burkina Faso. The Dogossee are our primary work in Burkina Faso because so few are saved. We work in an equipping capacity with about sixty out of the two hundred who are saved.

We went to them to encourage, equip, and challenge them to go to their people with the gospel. One of the pastors told us that we were angels sent by our Lord Jesus to tell them to WAKE UP as Jesus the King is coming soon! We saw an openness amongst the Muslims that was amazing and many were saved. There is another issue we have been dealing with that is becoming more prevalent as a tool of the devil in many Muslim countries.

In many Muslim countries the Bible translators have compromised as they have translated the name of Jehovah as allah. They do this because they say there is no other name for God in their languages. The Lord has shown me many Biblical reasons this is an abomination and must be stopped. Three years ago I began praying that the Lord would introduce me to a Bible translator in Africa so I could discuss this with them. We were also trying to determine what people group to engage there.

At this time the Holy Spirit used a missionary to introduce me to Lassina who is from one of the people groups we were considering and is also a Bible translator! Glory to God, he repented of calling Jehovah by the name of allah and has submitted my teachings of why this is against God’s ways to one of the world’s largest Bible translators! They are considering changing this practice so please pray!
Oh please see believer in Jesus---the time is now for us to shine brightly and do great exploits for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ!!!
Daniel 12:3: 3 Those who are wise shall shine
Like the brightness of the firmament,
And those who turn many to righteousness
Like the stars forever and ever.


Daniel 11: 32 Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.
This concludes the W Africa Mission Report 09