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FIVE YEARS ON...

B Y   D A V I D    M c Q U E L HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL   But for us at the World Missions Centre, Abidjan, it is an even bigger day. Today is the 5 th anniversary of the launch of the World Missions Africa Blog.   When we launched on January 1, 2017, we had only on our hearts a message to share about the love of God through our Lord Jesus Christ and on our minds anxiety and questions if anyone at all will read the message we blog.   Here was our first blog post published on January 3, 2017: “Welcome to our blog. World Missions, Africa is making every effort to bring the love of Christ to all humanity. Primarily, we focus on  Africa  now in our physical activities. But with the online community, our efforts extends to the ends of the earth. Jesus died for all humanity. Every race, every ethnic group, every people, male or female, bound or free, the gospel of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ is free to all. Jesus said, "...

ONE PASSIONATE HEART FOR MISSIONS

D a v i d   P a m   McQuel The call came early June 2010. "Hello" "Hi" I replied. "My name is Daniel Dafam, a staff of Youth With A Mission(YWAM) Kaduna Base" "Ok" I echoed. "What can I do for you" I chipped in. He continued on how he got my number through an old colleague and went on to explain that they needed a place for practicals for the DTS students of 2010, first batch. And they were told that our mission field is the perfect place. "What will be our responsibility? " I was a bit anxious, we are young mission field. " Non." Daniel replied. "Just give our students room to put to practice what they learned. But if the church feels led to help in anyway, it will be well appreciated." A few days later I told him that we have decided to get an accommodation for the 14 students coming and they will take care of their feeding and transportation. The deal was done, th Base in Kadun...

THE FAULTY CIRCLE

By David Pam McQuel Throughout the life span of the church there has been a continues circle. Its been a rollercoaster. The church will be on fire, great revival and an overwhelming expansion will come. The quality of commitment skyrockets. The passion for the things of God will be unparalleled. Then as the late Myles Munroe says, "the  greatest enemy of success is success". The church flourishes, and her prosperity becomes her bane. Everyone relaxes and she begins to pat herself at the back and singing her praises. Then management and administration takes centre stage and priority shifts from spreading the word to consolidation. Project Babel starts, and the church loses her call. Solidly, step by step, little by little we become at ease. Personal ambition, struggles for position, desire for fame and recognition come in and the spiritual life of the assembly is drained. With the  of the generation of the torchbearers, a new generation comes that had no experie...