In September 2017, many local churches were impacted in the beautiful East African nation of Tanzania.   Home to Mount Kiliminjaro (Africa's highest mountain), the Serengeti plains, and the historic island of Zanzibar, Tanzania has 45 million precious people who live in one of the world's poorest nations.  Over a million children have been orphaned there because of AIDS.   Good news is greatly needed in a land that has seen political corruption, drug abuse, immoral behaviour, witchcraft and a sense of helplessness.   God calls us to bring the Gospel to 'the least of these.' 

Lives were touched in the cities of Dar Es Salaam and Arusha, where we were able to minister to many influential business and political leaders, teaching them about evangelism and leadership.   One of our crusade meetings was broadcast across the nation over the radio, and open doors of favour showed God's hand on this trip.  Thank you for your prayers as we made some powerful divine connections for future ministry in this nation. 

The month of May 2017 was filled with over 40 ministry opportunities for our team of four from Canada.  We taught pastors, leaders and Bible school students, ministered in churches and even out in open air village meetings, which are not common in this majority Hindu nation.  We prayed for the sick, led people to Jesus and impacted lives in a part of the world that desperately needs the Gospel.  The crowded city of Kathmandu and the rest of Nepal are filled with temples where the people treat rats, cows, monkeys, snakes, mountains and millions of other 'gods' as sacred.  Here is where the message must go, to the people who need to hear God's good news the most!

It was a great pleasure to work together with my good friend and fellow evangelist Dr.Charles Kazumba in his home nation of Zambia in October 2016.  Together with a team of 11 from Canada & the US, we overcame a number of challenges to minister at a large church leadership conference.   While most of the team ministered at the conference, I was sent out to also minister in a number of local churches throughout the city of Lusaka, Zambia.

Whenever the Gospel is preached and people hear it and receive it... God makes a difference.  

Our time in Kenya was busy in October as over 100 ministers of the Gospel were impacted at leaders conferences during the day, while multitudes heard the Gospel each night at open air crusade meetings.  Pastors from Uganda, DRC (Congo), Burundi, Rwanda & South Africa attended the leadership times and received impartation and practical training in the word of God.   

Our team of 12 included 4 Canadians, 7 Americans and a pastor from Uganda.   We were privileged to meet and pray with a governor overseeing 1.5 million people from the region around the city of Eldoret, Kenya.   Much of our ministry that took place on this trip will be broadcast internationally on the Holy Spirit Broadcasting Network. 

If we want to change a nation, we must impact its leaders.   God calls us to at Canadian Fire Missions to make a difference in the lives of leaders.   While Jesus spent some of His time preaching the Gospel and healing the sick in the multitudes, He spent a great deal of His time with 12 men that He called to be leaders.  These 12 men that Jesus impacted left a great impact on the world of their day, literally scattering the Gospel far and wide from their starting point in Jerusalem.   The key to reaching nations is to reach leaders who will reach those nations. 

It was a pleasure to spend a lot of time with a young evangelist in Romania this summer.   Even though we did a lot of other things, reaching out to children, doing drama and evangelism in public locations, and ministering in churches - I felt my primary purpose on this last trip was to invest in the lives of young leaders.    If Romania is to be reached, then Romanians need to be at the forefront.   They understand the language and the culture, and their heart is intertwined with their homeland in such a way that God will use them to impact their cities and villages.  Pray for us as we develop this part of Canadian Fire Missions... the avenue of developing leaders who will reach their nations.