Micah and Abbie Christiansen Prayer Letter: New Church Plant and Medical Clinics

Sending out some of your best people to start a new church is bittersweet. I have had the privilege of working with Louis Gyamfi in the children’s department for the last four to five years. His wife Josephine has been a teacher at Fundamental Baptist Academy and a children’s Sunday school teacher for longer than I have been in Ghana. They are about to move far north to Nandom, a city of about 50,000 people. Nandom is almost exclusively Catholic, so it is a different kind of challenge there than here in Kumasi. I am so excited to see what God will do with them as they start this new church, though I am going to miss them greatly. Please pray for Louis, Josephine, and their children—Judson, Maria, and Zane—as they go through this time of transition and beginnings. Please pray for God to give a great start to this new work.

November 2-8, our church partnered with Truth for Today Medical Missions to put on a series of medical and vision clinics at our church and in communities where our church has bus routes. A total of 2,117 people were given the Gospel one-on-one as a result of these clinics, and 1,652 people professed faith in Christ. Many of them promised to visit our church. Please pray as we follow up on these contacts, seeking to confirm them in the faith and to bring them to church.

Fruit to Your Account

Afrane got saved a few months ago. We started doing the first discipleship lesson; but his interest faded, and we lost touch. Then Afrane got injured at work, and he contacted me, asking me to pray for him. I found out that he had moved to a place near the church, and I went and visited him. God used this accident to reestablish our connection, and I met his younger brother Chris.
Chris does not live with Afrane, but Afrane arranged for Chris to stay at his house the following weekend so that I would be able to witness to him. I could tell that Chris was not really interested in the Gospel at first; but his brother had roped him into sitting with me, and he was trying to be polite.

However, as Chris came to realize that his good works could not save him, he became more interested and involved. In the end, he professed that he was trusting only Jesus to get him to Heaven. Afrane was so happy that I had come.

Both Afrane and Chris have promised to come to church. Please pray that God would work in their lives.

Afrane lives right next to one of the many private schools in Ghana. Like most of these schools, it does extra classes on Saturdays for those who pay extra. After visiting Afrane, we met a flood of children coming out of the school on a break. Soon, Josiah, Jesse, James, and I all had different groups of students gathering around as we gave the Gospel. The break was not quite long enough for me to draw the net with my group, but we will go back and follow up. We think we may do a Bible Club after they have finished their classes. Please pray for opportunities!

Yours for souls,

Micah Christiansen