[Sonlifeafrica-newsletter] October Update

["Mark Tittley" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Message

Dear friends

 

This newsletter is a brief listing of some prayer for our ministry in the coming months.

 

Pray for me as I travel to Kenya to train key youth leaders in the cities of Nairobi and Homma Bay (on Lake Victoria) from the 13th to the 20th of November. This is our fourth and final stage of ministry development in Kenya and we will be looking to release nationals to multiply our training (based on the life and ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ all across the country). Pray for those that I am travelling with (Doug Holliday from Florida in the USA, and John Abrahamse, the director of J-Life Ministries in South Africa). Pray that God would give us wisdom as we choose and release the right trainers and coaches. Pray for our families as they stay behind - that they would be safe and know God's presence and enabling while we are away.

 

Pray for me as I seek to balance my role within Sonlife Africa and that of youth ministry in my local church. I am implementing the strategy Jesus used for disciplemaking in a church in Johannesburg (His People Christian Church) as a youth pastor in order to continually refine what we train, coach and mentor across the continent of Africa. I have been in the position for two months now and already we are starting to train teen shepherds to oversee the ministry, training believers and workers to share their faith with their lost peers, involving teens in service projects and presenting weekly evangelistic events aimed at leading seekers into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

 

Pray for Sonlife Africa as we merge our ministry into our sister organisation, known as J-life Ministries (The J stands for Jesus). The merger should take about six months to complete and will mean that Sonlife across the continent assumes a greater depth as we develop training centres in key cities across the continent and look to train and release coaching teams (a new aspect of our ministry outside of South Africa where for the past five years coaching teams have been trained and sent into local churches to compliment the Sonlife training). We believe that our organisations will be able to accomplish so much more together instead of working alongside each other.

 

Looking ahead to December (4th to 14th), I would covet your prayers as I make the long and arduous trip to Sierra Leone on the West Coast of Africa (a full day trip via Kenya in East Africa) and then a full day drive through the most challenging roads in the universe to the Eastern most part of Sierra Leone where the civil war started and ended earlier in this decade. I will be training pastors and youth leaders in Kailahun (a place largely untouched by Christian training organisations) and then launching our ministry in a new location - a city outside the capital Freetown.

 

For your interest, you may like to check out two websites of ministries referred to in this newsletter:

 

J-Life Ministries
http://wwww.jlife.org.za

 

His People Christian Church
http://www.hispeoplejoburg.org

 

Regards

 

Mark Tittley
mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

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