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The Lord said, "Pray the Lord of the Harvest that He send workmen into the Field." Always, the needs are greater than the resources. Local Bible school graduates are on standby praying for funds to release them to go to work!
Guinea-Bissau offers a unique opportunity in the 21st Century. Although the country is predominantly Moslem, there is an open door to the Gospel. This is an opportunity the Christian Church around the World should not ignore. Some of these people are native, tribal and poorly educate. How will they learn that the God who created them, also died for their sins? With Jesus by their sides, their future will be brighter than their history. Others are blindly following Islam, not realizing that they can have a personal relationship with God. You can help!
You can have a significant impact in a mission with little investment. For instance, a two member evangelistic- pastoral team is being supported for $400 per month. Two on fire young men are commissioned to go to villages like the one below to spend a month evangelizing and disciplining. As the Lord opens the door, the team sinks roots and begins to build a body of believers. The community supplies them with housing and will shortly construct a brush arbor church.
Missionaries from Youth With A Mission will next begin a brush school. Local teachers, trained in the Youth With A Mission school and Supervised by American teachers will open a school in this fortunate village. Tuition of two kilos of rice per month and $.30 will be provided as support for the teacher. Teachers now have 65 students twice per day in the schools like the one shown below. Because public funds are not available, schools like this one are the only schools operating full time.
Finally, buildings made of mud blocks, cement floors and galvanized tin roofing can be built for a few thousand dollars. With a three year commitment, you can help directly or as an ambassador through your church organization build a vibrant church over a three year period in one of the most remote countries in the world, Guinea-Bissau. Here's your chance to touch a nation for Christ!
Help Start a School
With over 600 villages outside of the cities in the Gabu region we have started two village schools as a joint venture between the village and Servants to Missions. It starts with the village providing a temporary reed shelter for classes and agreeing to pay 40 cents per month per student. We provide a teacher and materials for the school. The village commits to build an adobe wall building as a permanent facility and we provide cement for a floor to be poured and tin for a waterproof roof.
These villages have started schools and each has about seventy students. Many more villages are requesting to be considered for the next school. Our task is to hire and prepare Christian mission teachers to be planted and provide more floors and roofs. No government supported schools exist at the present time. Village mission schools offer the only hope for education and offer a dynamic foothold for the gospel!
Ours is a Christian faith ministry. Can you help? It costs about $1000.00 for the floor and roof of each school and $100 per month for each teacher. The cost of education for each student in the village is $44 per year. This may be an opportunity for you to sponsor a student, a teacher or a building.
Help Start a Church
Servants to Missions provides an active ministry to enable local national pastors to go out and evangelize villagers. In a mostly Islamic country we are having successes. After eleven years of evangelism, in the city of Gabu are three churches operating with a few hundred parishioners. Moving out from the city each village needs to come to the saving grace of Christ. One church has sponsored two sets of pastors to go out and preach the Gospel to the villages. Their task is to spend 30 days in a village to see if God has prepared the way for the villagers to accept Jesus. If so they have 3 years to develop a self-supporting church. If the village is not prepared to accept Jesus then they move to the next. World Evangelism to people who have never heard the gospel is God's purpose for these "last days."
A simple plan that will be very successful in Bissau Guinée engages two local pastors for a total of $200 per month. But the important part is the bond between the church in America and the new church in Guinea Bissau. This can only be done with prayer and help from you and your church. The program is fund limited because we ask only a three-year commitment. In that time you will see a church started, an entire village come to know the Lord Jesus Christ, a building be erected and missionaries to go out from that church to other villages. Here is a simple way for your church to get involved in Christian missions overseas!
Help Save a Child
The nutrition center in Gabu provides for mothers with infants. This program has about 50 mothers and babies come daily for a meal and education. Each mother receives milk and a high vitamin meal to build up them to nurse their baby with all the nutrients required for normal health and growth. Babies are weighed and records are kept to insure positive results are obtained or to quickly identify difficulties.
Christian medical missions and other hospital services are few and far between in this country where the infant mortality rate is one of the highest in Africa. The life expectancy of an adult is only 46 years old. Centers like this one provide a strong start for newborns. Judy Byers from Rowland Heights, California has invested fifteen years on this field helping save the babies.
Education about nutrition and medical care is provided for the mothers so after a few months they leave the program to make room for other mothers and babies. Through this program many mothers and babies have been restored to health and mothers have been educated to care for their infants.
People like you provide a donation to continue this program and to provide medicines for infant care when they are critically ill. In Gabu a government hospital provides doctors for critical care. If an infant is brought to them the doctor writes a prescription for medicine and supplies. It’s the mother’s responsibility to purchase the supplies for the doctor. Often the mothers come to the nutrition center for help, as they do not have the funds for medicines. Unfortunately sometimes the nutrition center can not help and the child dies of something that, by Americas standards, could be inexpensively treated. It’s the hardest decision the center makes. Can you help? As little as $10.00 could save a life.
Help Support a Missionary
Missionaries have been working in Gabu since 1990 building a foundation. The people in the city and the villages culturally accept them. Hard work has produced twenty-five churches since 2002! Much has been done and continues in feeding, home visits, showing Christian films, education and economic needs. The desire of the missionary’s hearts is to see the people of Guinea-Bissau, so enslaved by false religions, given an opportunity to know the Lord of Lords. Many are the chosen of God who are under the yoke of Satan, and are imprisoned by an invisible force that keep them from seeing the Father of Lights and His Grace which is revealed in Jesus. The Spirit of God is working in West Africa for the Christian evangelism of Muslims. This is an open door that only you can help fill.
Support for these African Christian missions and missionaries is from people like you. Donations keep them supplied with their monthly living expenses. Can you help?
Help Build a Church
There are many buildings that have been built and are in use by the Christian mission organizations here in Gabu, West Africa. The nutrition center, Jocum school for 180 students, missionary housing, Presbiteriana Church, Evangelical Church and others. There is now a need for a radio station building to accommodate high-powered equipment so useful in personal evangelism. The building is small but must be environmentally controlled for the equipment. The land has been purchased and is now being cleared. The building could be built by a church group going to Gabu or by nationals with funding provided to the missionaries. Can you help?
The current need is for equipping the Brand New radio station. A wall and building are currently completed, but we are in need of $15,000 to add a diesel generator and another $15,000 for radio equipment and antennas to be on the air. Soon the Gospel message will float across West Africa penetrating homes where the saving message of Jesus has never been heard before.
Help Provide Year Round Access to Villages
Servants to Missions is in desperate need of a small aircraft. With a small airplane the 14-hour trip to Dakar could be only a two hour flight. The villages cut off in the wet season could be ministered to all year long. Medical evacuation could be done rapidly in emergencies. There is little more effective in saving souls as saving lives. Your charity donation purchase or part purchase of an airplane could bring the message of Jesus to countless African villagers. Our missionary leader, John Hiskey, is a licensed pilot and aeronautical mechanic, so all we need is the plane.