Church Planting Efforts Accelerate
Bishop Abdoulaye Ba and Rev. Thomas Browne were trained in Ames, Iowa to be a leaders in BILD INTERNATIONAL (Biblical International Leadership Development). This program is based on accelerating Church-Planting Movements worldwide by training leaders in “the Way of Christ and His Apostles”. Rev. Thomas Browne took the training to Sierra Leone and Liberia, our English speaking nations, and Bishop Ba did the training through our headquarters church in Dakar, Senegal and as funds allow he will go to the other French speaking countries.
DONE leadership training in Senegal started on the 20th of February through March with the first series ‘Becoming a Disciple’ a six-session Bible study, and the First Principles of the Faith by Jeff Reed. Rev. Doris Ba in her report to the DONE Board writes, “The leadership of the churches of DONE Senegal is grateful to God for the leadership training under Bishop Ba.” The training will be every Friday and Saturday for three weeks. After the three weeks training, each leader will find a Man of Peace before starting the second book of the first series”.
Bishop Ba started the training by reviewing the Church Planting Movement (CPM). It was introduced by David Watson in his Church Planting Movement (CPM) and is being used extensively on the mission fields through out the world. Our leaders and church planters have been trained over the last several years in this method. In this method one goes out into a village or unchurched area as a friend and looks for a person who shows concern about spiritual matters. They then work with this friendship and under the guidance and movement of the Holy Spirit and in time they can disciple and began a cell group. Rev. Doris Ba continues, “We are convinced that at the end of our training we will be fully trained in “the way of Christ and His Apostles,” and we will be able to reproduce rapid and sustainable churches base on Biblical principles.
Bishop Abdoulaye Ba challenged us at the end of the first session that every leader should begin to find their man of peace. Before the end of the six sessions many of the leaders had already found their Man of Peace, including our Bishop himself with whom he had now started teaching Mamadou Ba and his whole family. Many of the Men of Peace found by the leadership in Dakar are now baptized and will start the First Principle training with the leader.
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