The Shumaker Family's Blog

I just realized that I haven’t written for two months so I will attempt to give you brief highlights and lots of pictures on some of what God has done in the last two months.

We went on a trip to the Ivory Coast:

•  Preached a missions conference.  God greatly blessed the conference.
•  Taught some pastors and Ivorian missionaries on discipleship.
•  Was able to visit the churches that I helped in  and started while we lived in the Ivory Coast.
• Blessed to be able to see many of the brothers and sisters in Christ that I haven’t seen in years.
• Gained 4 pounds from the trip.  The food was yummy.

What God is doing in Burkina Faso:

• We had another wedding at our church. I was able to do a few counseling sessions and also officiate the marriage.
• Easter was a huge success. We passed out thousands of invitations and had 15 new visitors. 15 is a lot for Easter as all the other churches have special services also.  There were three professions of faith in Christ, and 9 people were baptized.
• One of those who were baptized was Pastor Justin’s wife.  She fell under conviction while he was preaching a few months back.
• The day after Easter is a holiday. We profited from the holiday and had a leaders meeting. We invited all the leaders from the different churches here in Ouagadougou to come. We had over 60 come. It was a great success.
• Visited two new villages. We were blessed to see many decisions for Christ. Pastor Salif has visited one of the villages a few times since and God is opening up doors for us to come back and start another church.  We are already stretched thin, but we are praying about what we can do.  “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few”.
• Pastor Justin traveled out to the village Ying-Toako, where we installed a water pump for them. He stopped off at the village where we visited a few months ago. He said they went to a new group of huts. They preached and about 30 prayed to receive Christ as their Savior.
• Pastor Salif had his first service on the new land in Pissila.  He had over 200 present that day.
• Held a three day pastors conference on evangelism and assimilation. It was a huge success, and we are hearing great results from the conference. Many of the pastors have been working harder at evangelism.

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