In 2005, while I was teaching Jeremiah and Lamentations at our Bible school in Kinshasa, it was becoming more and more clear to me that God was calling me to go into the war-torn interior of the country to see what could be done to help meet the need for ministry training there. I knew […]
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The impact of training
Wherever Bible school training has been established in DR Congo, there has been a dramatic multiplication of laborers, and an explosion of evangelism and church planting in the surrounding areas. The same thing happened in the Province of Asia, where Paul spent two years training disciples in Ephesus. As the number of workers multiplied, the […]
Bible School Leadership Summit
Because of the enormous size of this country and its almost complete lack of infrastructure, it can be very difficult to gather leaders for meetings. That is why this particular meeting was without precedent. For the first time, all of the academic secretaries of our Bible school extensions in the interior were able to come […]
A special gathering of alumni in Mbandaka
Since graduating from Mbandaka Bible School, many alumni have gone on to lead successful ministries, plant new churches, and use their gifts and training to reach the lost and disciple new believers. To date, more than 100 have graduated from this influential ministry training center. These graduates recently gathered together in Mbandaka for a special […]
The Bukavu story: a journey of faith to resolve conflict
In 1992, a Rwandan Tutsi-led military operation swept through the Sud-Kivu Province. The Banyamulenge, a Congolese tribe of Tutsi origin who had lived and worked in the Congo for generations, were expected to take up arms and join forces with their Tutsi brothers. What resulted was another tragic account of needless bloodshed. But the hatred, […]
Buried in the jungle
Pastor Banampona Kimpenene was living with his family in the village of Tshelu in 1997, when Rwandan forces invaded the Pangi territory of the Maniema Province. Although he had served as a pastor there since 1985, his life was about to be turned upside down. Because tensions were building and he feared all he had […]