by TW, Middle East Coordinator
The Evangelical (Presbyterian) Church in a city in Upper Egypt is a medium size church. In a receiving church environment this church broke through the challenges of sending and started mission efforts a few years ago. The church leaders and members are increasingly becoming mission oriented and have the zeal to take the Good News to the local community and going further beyond the borders of Egypt.
Recently the Lord has opened a potential mission field in Uganda and specifically at the Rhino Camp, a refugee camp in the north close to the Sudanese border. The targeted area consists of more than 100,000 Sudanese people served by 13 different local churches. Although the needs of this work are great and pressing, they have a heart to offer what the Lord has blessed them with. The vision is to adopt those camps and reach them through different ministries including evangelism, teaching, discipleship, medical, and vocational. They thought to achieve those goals by doing short-term mission visits over a period of 2 years.
The population of the serviced areas is more than 75,000 people in two regions. The Lord opened the door of a third area. The ministry extended to more than 41 churches, through 3 short-term mission trips to northern Uganda. The services they offered included:
- Spiritual Services: They had 2 conferences to train kids ministry leaders with an attendance of 226 participants. They had 3 student meetings at the camp with an attendance of 380 students. They had 12 online discipleship meetings and they distributed 4,650 Bibles for adults and for children.
- Mercy Services: The mission teams distributed 450 food bags and 9 sets of clothes for widows. They are supporting 8 individuals to enroll in a school to study different professions to help them to start work. They also afforded to lease agricultual land to 52 needy families and adopted 9 children. They supported 10 local churches with solar energy systems and connected 3 pipes to save water with huge tanks during rainfall.
- Medical Services: The mission team provided medical examinations to more than 3,000 people and distributed the necessary medicines. They distributed approximately 140 reading glasses.
This is a very encouraging example of a local Egyptian church that is mobilized to go for frontier mission. They need all kinds of prayers and support to be able to send more short and long-term church planters and to motivate other churches to get involved in God’s mission.
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