I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s season. I personally love this time of year, focusing on the coming of our Saviour and then thinking on what we can accomplish with Him in the New Year.
Thank you to everyone who prayed for the Ladies’ Conference here at our church. Despite only landing in Nigeria 2½ weeks before the conference, God definitely helped, and the conference went very well. There were about 150 ladies present, with 30 churches represented. God used your prayers to help the ladies and pastors’ wives who came. A shining moment for me was hearing a pastor’s wife, whom we know doesn’t like to travel but prefers to stay in her home area, say on the last day, “I’m not ready to go back home. I want the conference to continue.” Please pray, as we will have our next conference this June in the Southwest of Nigeria so that more ladies who could not travel to our church can attend and be helped.
In December, my whole family had the blessing of going with the Holmes family to Morogoro, Tanzania, to help Missionary Jerry Wyatt III put on their first SMITE Camp. SMITE has helped train our young people so well in giving the Gospel and conducting Bible Clubs for children. It was a wonderful time, as we had 35 young people from the church come for the SMITE training. Through the week of teenagers conducting Bible Clubs, we saw 523 children come to the clubs and 212 children get saved! It was an extra encouragement to us that we could stay with the Morrow family, friends from Bible college who have been working with the Wyatts in Tanzania. It was wonderful catching up with them and seeing them work faithfully for the Lord. Emma and Lydia were thrilled to see monkeys out and about in Tanzania since we have no monkeys in our area of Nigeria.
Many of you have been praying for a church plant that we helped to start back in May. Salem Independent Baptist Church has been doing well, with high days near 70 people and over 200 people saved since May. Thank you, as your support and prayers have helped make this church possible.
That all the world may know,
Caleb Christiansen
SMITE Camp in Morogoro, Tanzania
