We’ve all heard this phrase from Acts 1:8, which is also translated as “the uttermost part of the earth.” Sometimes we think of this place as being a remote corner of the world that’s next to impossible to reach—perhaps a village hidden in the jungle somewhere hundreds of miles away from civilization. For the Congolese […]
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The story of Ezechiel Kabanga
Ezechiel Kabanga had grown up in the Katanga Province and was working in Sakania (a city near Lubumbashi) mining cobalt, magnesium, copper, and coal. Suddenly, in 1993, he was ordered to leave. Kabanga told us that many Baluba were beaten, others burned alive, and some even buried in latrine holes before they could leave. They […]
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 when Paul spent two years training disciples in Ephesus. As the number of workers multiplied, the Word […]
A graduate giving back in Kindu
Pastor Kalunga and his wife were among the first national AG missionaries ever to go to the remote Maniema Province. When they first arrived in Kindu in 1980, he preached everywhere—traveling hundreds of miles on foot each week to reach remote villages in desperate need of the light of the gospel. Over the course of […]
Pastor Timothée’s tent church
Pastor Timothée (pictured here with his wife, daughter, and missionary Bill Shaw) recently graduated from our Bible school extension in Goma. Two years ago he planted a church to complete his pastoral training. He owned property in town where he had planned to build a family home but decided to donate the land to the […]