In late January, T2S traveled to Ghana to meet with and encourage the master trainers and leaders along with visiting some of the new church plants. We were also blessed in watching nearly 60 baptisms from new churches and Tree of Life training groups. We were excited to see how the Lord is working through these trainers. The leaders have done an excellent job in developing networks of trainers in 8 of 16 regions of Ghana. In January alone the trainers report from those regions 873 new believers, 319 baptisms, and 21 new churches. T2S started the training there in July 2021, and we have seen the Lord multiply in amazing ways. We are thankful for the support by local churches and faithful disciples who have joined us in fulfilling the Great Commission in West Africa and beyond.

In 2022, T2S’s lead trainer from Niger began the training in Chad. In that training, two faithful pastors came from Cameroon. This was a three-day journey for them. After receiving the first phase of training, they immediately began to put it into practice as did those who were attending from Chad. At the end of 2022 the training group graduated and have been very faithful to continue the missionary work as master trainers. The above photo is of recent baptisms in Cameroon that took place as result of the trainer’s faithfulness. For the month of January alone, trainers planted 101 new churches with hundreds of new believers in those three countries.

"All of this is for your benefit. And as God's grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory. That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed everyday. For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So, we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever" (2 Corinthians 4:15-18 NLT).

The photo above is 11 new believers that were baptised in Ghana while we were visiting a new church plant in a small village. These new believers had heard the Gospel message from faithful trainers who shared the Good News with them. This was possible because of those who have given to T2S which enabled us to send those trainers to where the message of Christ needed to go. T2S exists to bring glory to God through the fulfilling of the Great Commission. We tell the master trainers that we must continue in this work with commitment until the Lord returns or He takes us to glory. This takes endurance, perserverance and an eternal perspective. T2S wants to thank those who continue to labor with us until the task that the Lord has given us to do is completed.