In June, Training2Send sent a master trainer from Niger to Chad to begin Tree of Life discipleship training with fifty-seven evangelists and pastors from around Chad. There was great excitement as these first-generation master trainers began to catch the vision of reaching their people for Christ. The Lord blessed this first phase of training, and now our trainer from Niger will travel back to conduct the second phase in two to three months. This will give the new trainers time to put Tree of Life into practice as they disciple and train others how to share the gospel. It was interesting to hear the reports, as these new trainers from Chad are already planning to take the training into Cameroon which is a neighboring country. The Lord is using Tree of Life across West Africa to ignite a missionary fire among His Church. As a result, we are seeing more workers for the harvest trained and sent out to take the Good News of Jesus to hard to reach places that only national missionaries can reach. With this motivation and purpose, Training2Send continues to train and equip these incredible men and women of God. We are very thankful for the Lord's work in using two local churches to fund this one-year training and their partnership with the national church. 

Also in June, Tree of Life training began in Guinea. Guinea has a population of over thirteen million people and less than one percent are evangelical Christians. Sixty-two percent of the population are unevangelized and completely untouched with the Gospel. This is truly stagering. Training2Send was able to develop faithful, national partners within Guinea and send master trainers from Sierra Leone to begin Tree of Life in the new region. The first phase was completed with resounding success and excitement among the group of trainees. Their only complaint was why it took so long to get the training to them. This has been a common statement among national disciples we have been able to train across West Africa. The main reason for this is resources. The Lord is opening so many doors for the training and equipping of His people, and we need churches and disciples here in the West to help with funding these trainings across West Africa. We have the resources to help these local missionaries reach their people for Christ. Please consider praying and giving towards the work of finishing the task in this difficult region of the world.

In the English speaking countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia, we have seen the Lord work in an amazing ways. In Sierra Leone, our partners who are in the field training are reporting so many new believers that they have stopped counting them, and are now only able to count the baptisms. They currently have 1,500 new disciples in Tree of Life training and by the end of the year, will have another 1,500. There is now an urgent need for Bibles and training manuals for these new disciples and trainers. Above is a picture of a group of master trainers in Sierra Leone with their Bibles. These men are pastors and master trainers. Their Bibles are falling apart, and some only have the Old Testament or the New Testament. Furthermore, the new believers that are coming to faith in Christ have no access to a Bible, especially in the more remote areas of the country. Our main partner in Sierra Leone told us that since there had not previously been any discipleship training in Sierra Leone, the need for the Bible was not there. However with such rapid growth of the Church, the urgency and eagerness for God's Word is immense.  

We ask that as churches and individuals, you would prayerfully consider donating used Bibles to Training2Send. We can ship about a thousand Bibles directly to Sierra Leone along with training manuals from the U.S. for $800. These Bibles can be used and even marked in. The Bibles will also be shared with the trainers in Liberia where we have seen over three thousand new believers in the last year and at least one thousand new diciples in Tree of Life.

The training manual is also an urgent need. Printing the training manuals in the U.S. is far cheaper than in Sierra Leone. While the costs for one manual in the U.S. is $3.37, the printing would cost $8.00 in Sierra Leone. We would ask the Church to prayfully consider helping us print manuals to send to our brothers and sisters in Sierra Leone and to Liberia as well.

If you or your church would be willing to help, please contact me at joe.training2send@gmail.com. Or if you would like to donate financially, you may do so either on the website training2send.org or mail it to Training2Send P.O. Box 1206 Verona VA 24482.