During the recent Disciple Making Movements conference in Lomé, the Lord showed me a few deficiencies in my approach to making disciples and training others to do the same. One thing that I became well aware of is that I had begun to develop a mentality that, because I am now busy training others to(…)
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Juggling in the Spirit: Oikos Training #7
[Apology in advance: This is a fairly long blog post, but the Lord did so much during this last training that I can’t imagine leaving anything out! I hope you’ll take the time to read this and rejoice with us about how Jesus is building and refining his church in Togo.] One of the greatest obstacles(…)
Prayer reminder: Oikos Training #7
Please join us in praying for the three-day training that will begin tomorrow morning (11pm Thursday night on the West Coast) and for all the students and teachers involved. This month we are blessed to welcome a new student, named Dieudonné, who is from an hour north of Kanté in the city of Mango. He is(…)
Disciple Maker’s Conference
What is a disciple? How do we make one? What is the ultimate goal in making disciples? These were just a few of the many questions we explored during the DMM (Disciple Making Movements) conference in Lomé last week. This conference was put on by several American and African disciple makers working in Rwanda, the DRC (Congo),(…)
Oikos Training #6
A lot of people have been contacting me to ask how the Oikos School training went last weekend, but believe it or not, I have been trying to write this blog post ever since last Monday! Let’s just put it this way: lightning fried our phone line (and thus knocked out our internet), I spent two days this(…)
Prayer reminder: Oikos School training this weekend
Tomorrow begins our sixth training session at the Oikos School for Church Planting. Because we were in the States until July, this will be my first time teaching in the school, which I’m really excited about. Everyone will show up Thursday night for dinner and a fun time of fellowship, then all day Friday, Saturday,(…)
Exciting Reports from Oikos Students, Part 1
The Oikos School for Church Planting has been going now for six months, and already we are seeing some of the fruit from it. Since we hold classes for only three days at the end of each month, the students are able to apply what they learn right away between each session. This also gives(…)
Finally Home
“Home” is a very fluid and hard-to-define thing for a missionary. While back in the States, the question we got asked more than any other was, “Is Togo home to you?” That’s actually difficult to answer. In one sense, yes, it absolutely is; we have our house here with most of our belongings, we have decided to(…)
Prayer reminder – 2nd School Session
Recently at our update presentation, we announced the launch of our school in Togo where we train disciple-makers. We decided to name the school the Oikos School for Church Planting. Our first session took place at the end of February with 15 students. Since that time, Andrew and the teacher/mentors have been traveling all over(…)
Togo Presentation Video
This past Sunday evening Tiffany and I had the privilege of sharing a special presentation to update our church about what is going on in our ministry in Togo. We were able to video it (minus a small section in the middle when the camera died momentarily), so I thought I’d share it here since(…)
Two Update Videos
On March 29 at 6:30pm we will be doing a special presentation at our home church, Living Water Community Church, to update everyone about what’s going on in Togo. I put a couple videos together to show each Sunday at church in the two weeks leading up to this, so I thought I’d share them(…)
Quick Update: School & Termites
I spoke with Andrew on Monday and just wanted to give you a quick update on the things I mentioned in our last blog post. He said that the disciple maker training went extremely well in spite of all the difficulties leading up to it. The students especially enjoyed learning some of the basics of(…)