Kep & Debbie March 2022 Prayer Requests

• Pray for Kep and Debbie as they prepare to spend the month of April in Senegal, Chad, and Turkey helping to train church planters. Please pray for students in the 15 training centers preparing to plant churches across North and West Africa and the Middle East. Pray as they study God’s Word that they will grow in their love for Jesus and experience gospel transformation as they prepare to plant churches in this spiritually challenging area of the world. (2 Timothy 4:1-5).

• Pray for the 1,740 ESI (Equipping Servants – Disciples Making Disciples) participants in 170 groups meeting in 14 countries. Pray that these men and women will grow in their love for God and commitment to honor Christ by being true to His Scriptures with Jesus and His Gospel at the center.

• Pray for 120 pastors and church leaders from East Africa, Nigeria and Liberia who will participate in our first ESI Facilitator Training Retreat in Tanzania April 20-23; and as we start ESI in several African countries.

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Kep & Debbie February 2022 Prayer Requests

• Pray for Kep and Debbie as they prepare to spend the month of April in Senegal, Chad and Turkey helping to train church planters. Please pray for the many students in the 15 training centers as they prepare to plant churches across North and West Africa and the Middle East. Pray that they will grow in their love for Christ as they study the Bible, that they will understand the Bible as they study it, that they will live in accordance with its truth in real gospel transformation, and that the will learn to teach it faithfully (2 Timothy 4:1-5).

• Pray for the 1,740 ESI (Equipping Servants – Disciples Making Disciples) participants in 162 groups meeting in 14 countries. Pray that these men and women will grow in their love for God and commitment to honor Christ by being true to His Scriptures with Jesus and His Gospel at the center.

• Pray for the 100 pastors and church leaders from East Africa, Nigeria and Liberia who plan to attend our first ESI Facilitator Training Retreat in Africa (in Tanzania) April 20-23 with an eye to start ESI in Africa.

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James 2022 Mid-January Update

Hello from Bolivia -- we are thankful to God for your prayers for our ministry.

Please keep us in prayer especially during the next 4 months as we do extensive ministry travel. Next week we will be in Uruguay to visit three ESI groups, and spend a few days with our son Andrew and his family! I will preach at their church in Montevideo January 30. Then back in Bolivia, where our ILC Church plans to hold its annual family camp (unless Covid prevents us from doing this). Then to Cleveland March 3-31 to apply for visas to Africa for ministry in April.

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Christmas Greeting from the James'

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Hello from La Paz.

 Attached is our Christmas greeting to you -- with an encouraging testimony of how God transformed the life of one Bolivian through the truth of the gospel.

Kep and Debbie

James Update December 2021

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Greetings from La Paz!
Attached is our December Update where we announce news about a re-focus in our ministry. Thank you for your prayers -- we need them!!!
When you pray, you go with us in ministry!
Love,
Kep and Debbie

Kep & Debbie December 2021 Prayer Requests

1. Pray for us as we begin to refocus our attention to spend more of our time helping the church planting ministry in North Africa (50% in Africa; 50% with ESI Latin America).

2. Pray for the many opportunities Christmas gives us to make Christ known here in Bolivia. Pray for much fruit that remains.

3. A praise for the invitation we received recently to start ESI in 2022 in Tanzania. Please pray that the Lord will bring the right people together!

Out of Africa Update

I just finished up 4 weeks of ministry in North and West Africa. It was a huge privilege to be there! I was with an Egyptian based ministry. The first week at a missions mobilization conference in the Nile Delta with some 600 Egyptians who are interested in missions. The second week I trained leaders of the 15 church planting training schools who serve in locations that extend from the Middle East, across the 5 North African countries, and into Francophone West Africa. I trained them in our ESI way of studying the Bible to learn it, to live it and to teach it with Jesus in the center. It was encouraging seeing these church leaders so excited about studying Romans and discussing its message!! After that I visited two of the church planting training centers in Morocco and Senegal -- taking students through the same Bible study material. The Center in Senegal trains believers from one of the North African countries where it is against the law to be a Christian.

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Kep & Debbie November 2021 Prayer Requests

* Praise for the fruitful month Kep spent training Streams Ministry Trainers in Egypt, Morocco and Senegal. Pray that the students in these 15 training centers preparing to plant churches in North Africa and the Middle East will practice what they learned, and continue to study God’s Word every day to learn it, to live it, and to teach it faithfully (2 Timothy 4:1-5).

* Pray for the 1,740 ESI (Equipping Servants –Disciples Making Disciples) participants in 162 groups meeting in 14 countries. Pray that these men and women will grow in their love for God and commitment to honor Christ by being true to His Scriptures with Jesus and His Gospel at the center.

* Pray for our ILC church in La Paz, Bolivia that members will be faithful sharing Christ with people around us, and that the Lord will bring much fruit that remains.
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Thank you for Praying! Africa Trip Update

Just a quick update. God has given me the huge privilege of being able to spend time with and train team leaders of church planting training schools across N Africa, ME and Francophone Africa. The 4 days we spent together in Egypt were wonderful.

From there I flew to Morocco, where I have spent the entire week with students preparing to plant churches. Tomorrow, I fly to Senegal for more of the same. I have been impressed with every person I have met in these training centers--their deep hunger to know God and His Word and their willingness to face the high cost of following Christ and making Him known.

Thank you for praying,

Kep

Africa Trip Update

Greetings from La Paz!

I leave Bolivia tomorrow morning at 4am for Cairo (through Bogota and Miami and Istanbul.) During the three and a half weeks I’ll be in Africa, I’ll attend a mobilization conference organized by a Cairo-based ministry. They have over 500 registered–these are Egyptian believers interested in missions!

After this conference, I will train leaders of the 15 church-planting training centers in North Africa and the Middle East. Would you please pray that these participants will gain a renewed passion and love for Jesus as we study through Romans and spend time together interacting on the nature of the gospel and the grace of Jesus? Also pray that my teaching will not be lost in translation!! Everything will be translated into Arabic. Following this four day training retreat, I’ll travel to visit two of the training centers. It means a lot knowing you are praying–and the wonderful thing is that when you pray you go!

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