Across the World is our month-to-month rundown of reports briefs, hyperlinks and quotes from Church buildings of Christ everywhere in the globe. Obtained an concept for this column? E-mail Erik Tryggestad at [email protected].
Featured picture (above): Stern-faced younger athletes march earlier than a Christian school-sponsored soccer match in Nigeria.
AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY — Greater than 80 individuals attended the annual Youth Day hosted by the Warringah Church of Christ. Joel Johnson of the Holland Park Church of Christ in Brisbane was the visitor speaker. “The Warringah congregation, along with Bob and Lynne Marks, have hosted the annual Youth Day for nearly 35 years now,” stated participant David Mowday, a member of the Gosford Church of Christ. “They’re to be counseled for his or her enduring dedication to our younger individuals.”
The Cotton Tree Church of Christ worships in Guyana.
GUYANA
COTTON TREE — A Church of Christ assembly in Guyana’s jap Berbice area not too long ago celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Minister Dharmendra “Don” Ramgobin has been with the Cotton Tree congregation “since its delivery,” he stated. About 25 individuals worship with the church. Guyana, a South
American nation of about 826,000 individuals, has a mixture of Caribbean, Indian and indigenous influences. Hinduism, Islam and Christianity are the key religions, Ramgobin stated, including that the Cotton Tree church would welcome evangelistic groups.
“Our individuals are very open-minded to the Phrase,” he stated. “We’re very hospitable individuals.”
Stern-faced younger athletes march earlier than a Christian school-sponsored soccer match in Nigeria.
NIGERIA
URUK OTONG — “Soccer evangelism” is the secret on this rural West African metropolis.
Rhema Christian Academy, a major college related to Church buildings of Christ, turned a flat space on its campus right into a soccer discipline and invited space youths to type groups and compete.
Just lately, the college hosted a month-long event. Groups marched proudly by the group earlier than the ultimate match, which drew a whole lot of spectators.
“A preferred musician in our group volunteered his companies … on the remaining match to spur each groups to victory,” stated college administrator Aniefiok Akpan. “This creates a second for us to promote our college packages.”
Following the championship sport, younger athletes, their mother and father and associates attended a session of the Rhema Youth Summit. “4 souls had been baptized after listening to the Gospel that evening,” Akpan stated. “The primary participant to just accept Christ was Etimbuk Sunday John, a skillful soccer participant with one hand. That was the primary time we used our new baptistery.” The subsequent evening, 14 extra individuals had been baptized after listening to Akpan converse within the college’s David and Lola Crouch Constructing.
Christians within the Philippines focus on the “Sword Technique,” a Bible research instrument utilized in Gospel Chariot’s 4 Fields Discipleship Coaching.
PHILIPPINES
BACOLOD — 300 Christians from throughout the island of Negros, the fourth-largest and third-most-populous island within the Philippines, realized tips on how to plant church buildings that plant church buildings.
Gospel Chariot Missions offered a workshop utilizing the 4 Fields Discipleship Technique. The ministry’s founder, George Funk, thanked the crew from native Church buildings of Christ who organized the occasion. Funk and fellow Gospel Chariot staff additionally visited close by islands and worshiped with a brand new Church of Christ in Guba on the island of Cebu.
“Let’s all pray that God proceed to make use of us as we multiply disciples and church buildings in all places,” Funk stated. See gospelchariot.org.
ZAMBIA
LIVINGSTONE — Greater than 400 younger adults from 17 Church buildings of Christ attended a latest “youth assembly” — which, in Zambia, can imply anybody from teenager to 35 years outdated — on this vacationer metropolis close to the sting of Victoria Falls. The Mukuni Church of Christ hosted the occasion.
Dennis Sabelo traveled seven hours from his dwelling in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, to discuss Dawn Bible Faculty, the place he serves as director.
