The James Family

      

Kep is the International Director of Equipping Servants International (ESI)- a three-year, part-time training and discipleship program among pastors and leaders of different churches and denominations. Founded in 2002, there are currently ESI groups meeting in 21 countries in Africa, Latin America, South America, Europe, and the United States.

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  • Kep & Debbie March 2024 Update

    Thank you for your prayers. Debbie and I got back to Cleveland last evening after a month of ESI ministry in Latin America (Facilitator Training for 20 Spanish speaking pastors in Virginia, then Uruguay and Bolivia, and finally Facilitator Training for 30 pastors in Brazil's NorthEast region).

     

    We are very encouraged to see how God is giving pastors and church leaders a hunger to study God's Word so they can see Jesus and the gospel as its main message, in order to grow in their dependence on Christ and experience real gospel transformation. This is the only way any of us can faithfully teach and preach it in our churches. Please be praying that the Lord will continue moving His church forward across Latin America and Africa.

     

    On Saturday, I travel to West Africa for two weeks to teach 40 church planting students as part of one of the missionary training outreach schools. I value your prayers for clarity of understanding in everything we will be doing there.

     

    Also, I would value your prayers as my mom continues to recover from a bad fall in which she broke a vertebra. At 93 years old, she is making good progress recovering in a rehabilitation facility in North Carolina.

     

    Thank you sincerely,

    Kep

  • Kep & Debbie March 2024 Prayer Requests

    The biggest prayer request for March is for me March 1-15 in Mali, West Africa, teaching Romans to church planting students with an Egyptian-based ministry. There are 40 students gathered for 7 months who came out of a Muslim background, later came to faith in Christ, and now are committed to make Christ known in those same communities they came out of, and to and plant churches among their own people.

     

    I value your prayers as I teach Romans there, that each one will understand clearly the gospel and experience gospel transformation, to become effective as they go out to plant churches, and that they will make a commitment to become serious students of the Bible the rest of their lives!

    -Kep

  • Kep & Debbie February 2024 Update

    Download Kep & Debbie's February 2024 Update.

     

    Greetings from Cleveland.

     

    We leave in 2 days for 6 weeks in South America and West Africa. This update gives that itinerary, as well as a special prayer request for my 93 year old mother, who fell last night breaking a vertebra and now awaits surgery.

     

    We do value your prayers,

    Kep and Debbie

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Kep is the International Director of Equipping Servants International (ESI)- a three-year, part-time training and discipleship program among pastors and leaders of different churches and denominations. Founded in 2002, there are currently ESI groups meeting in 21 countries in Africa, Latin America, South America, Europe, and the United States.