For the past three years, The Mission Society and the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA) have been nurturing a relationship with the objective of collaborating in mobilizing Nigerian Christians for world missions. NEMA has adopted the goal of mobilizing 50,000 Nigerians to serve as cross-cultural witness internationally, with a special focus on North Africa and the Arab Peninsula. NEMA has adopted The Mission Society's Global Outreach Seminar, renaming it "Global Engagement Training." Next week, Darrell Whiteman and Dick McClain will lead a team that will be introducing this material during a four-day conference sponsored by NEMA. More than 120 pastors are registered for this event that is being co-sponsored by the Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, and Foursquare Gospel Churches of Nigeria.
Dr. Nkechi Nwosu, a Methodist pastor who has participated in one of The Mission Society's previous conferences in Ghana, and who has taught the material herself numerous times to Methodist groups in Nigeria, will be on the teaching team, as will Rev. Kirk Sims, The Mission Society’s Ghana field leader. Dr. Bauta Motty and Dr. Barge Maigadi, both seminary professors in Jos, Nigeria, where the conference will be held, will also be on the teaching team.
Jos is a city that has experienced tragic violence between Muslims and Christians on numerous occasions, the most recent being just last December when more than 100 people were killed during election-inspired rioting. Please pray for an outpouring of God’s Spirit upon this conference, which will be held June 23-26, 2009. |
