As we celebrated our risen Savior this Easter, we also celebrate these new believers that have embraced the living Savior and His gospel. The picture above shows the eighty-five new believers who were baptized at one location on Easter Sunday in Sierra Leone. Tree of Life trainers have faithfully trained disciples and have shared the Good News of our risen King with those who were in darkness. We thank the Lord for His faithfulness.

The Lord is moving in a powerful way across West Africa. This is clearly seen in Guinea Bissau as Tree of Life master trainers are training disciples across the country. In the week leading up to Easter Sunday, three hundred and seventy-five new believers were baptized in four different locations! In one location, the trainers baptized two hundred and sixteen new believers at one time. The picture above is fourty-one new believers that were baptized on April 20th in Guinea Bissau. Praise the Lord for all He is doing! 

Niger is a very difficult and dangerous place to take the Gospel. Operation World has the percentage of Evangelical Christians in Niger at 0.01%.  Most of the country has never had any contact with the Gospel. The picture above shows our lead trainer in Niger. This dear brother has trained twenty master trainers who are being faithful. As a result, they have planted over thirty churches. They use camels to get to the small pockets of disciples in remote areas to train and evangelize. The churches are made up of shepherds that are nomatic and are on the move. A master trainer is put with a church, and he travels with them as he trains and helps them reach others for Christ. 

We are asking that you would prayfully consider giving toward the needs of the trainers in Niger. There is a need to print five hundred Tree of Life manuals in two of the local languages which will cost $1600. There is also a finacial need of $900 to help with transportation and training needs for the master trainers to push into more remote areas. There is a need for at least one motorcycle that will cost $1400. This would be a huge help for the trainers to get to more areas quickly for evangelizing and training. Where the training goes, the Gospel also goes. Please pray for these faithful men they are in danger from jihadi terrorists and need your prayers. Below is a picture of three master trainers in Niger (first three men from right to left). The other six men are new believers from the work of these master trainers. Praise the Lord for His faithfulness, as He uses His church to carry the Good News to the ends of the earth.

At the beginning of April, leaders from Niger, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and the U. S. met together in Senegal to discuss strategy for the coming year. It was a wonderful time of fellowship and team building. We were also able to meet trainers from all over Senegal and Guinea Bissau. They were able to hear from one another what the Lord is doing all over West Africa. We thank the Lord for such a blessed time with these wonderful disciples.

A year ago, Training2Send trained a Pastor/Church planter along with his wife and son who is also a church planter in Tree of Life. The training was conducted through Zoom.  This certainly had its challenges, but these faithful disciples quickly understood the concept of the training and multiplication. They have trained twenty-one master trainers and have seen the Lord work in a mighty way. In March, the master trainers gathered with the new believers, baptized fifty-eight new disciples, presented Bibles to the each of the new believers. We thank those who have supported T2S which enabled the Bibles to be purchased and given. Please continue to pray for these wonderful children of God.

This year we have trained two local groups that have graduated and two more trainings are currently underway. A very faithful master trainer has started a group in Richmond this week. A locally trained master trainer has taken Tree of Life to his new church in Chicago.  There was also a group of pastors from a local church that have just graduated and were very faithful. They have continued to help train others. It is slower going in the States, but the Lord is still working and saving the lost using His church. Through the faithfulness of one of the ongoing groups, six people were saved last week. Praise the Lord! We press on.