Sabbath Message 2/8/33/120

Dear Friends,

This week we have had an encouraging week. The reports are starting to come in from various locations and they are promising. Aside from the few thousand baptisms of Christians this week, we baptised another 20-odd Muslims in Djibouti. Moses has returned to Ethiopia and has left the Senior Coordinator in Djibouti to do the remaining seven churches of the thirty that joined us. Moses is confident there will be many more baptisms over the coming weeks in addition to the large numbers already in the thirty churches.

The papers are now being translated into the coastal languages and sent into Eritrea and Somalia as well as the immediate surrounds. This is an exciting development in the areas of the ancient Abyssinian churches. This is the start of the restoration of the original faith as it was observed also in Islam in 610 – 632 and when the faith was in Abyssinia in strength.

The Churches have been done in Eldoret in the Rift Valley of Kenya and Walter is confident of them.  They are at the West Indies and Upper Hill areas of Eldoret.  We are awaiting the final reports on the inductions in Tanzania and in Mozambique, both of which went well so we are told.

So also did the work in the Congo, Uganda, Sudan and CAR proceed well. Ghana has inducted the four churches there and will report further soon. We are now working to get Eric to Angola for the inductions there. The Portuguese translations are coming along well.

The work is spreading like a well coordinated and structured plan. God is sending people to us completely outside of any plan that we might have envisaged. Everyone should be encouraged.

Please pray for the work in Madagascar as the group in Tulear is being persecuted. Religious persecution is not new to that country.

We have succeeded in reorganising the work in Zimbabwe and matters are proceeding well there now. It is starting to grow again and we expect some more new churches there soon.

Things are hopefully going to develop in Morocco and North Africa and the work in Egypt will be given a new start soon. It went more or less dormant for a while.

We should all be pleased with our efforts and the way ahead.

Please pray for us to be encouraged and uplifted in the work of God over the coming years. There is a lot to do and many people to reach in a short time.

Wade Cox
Coordinator General