Made it to Togo after the red-eye marathon.
This week is all about one big heartbeat: helping national leaders across the region move faster and farther together toward “a church in every village.”
Leaders from our ministry (Ethiopia, Togo, Congo-Brazzaville, Ghana, Chad, Benin, and a few more) will spend a day training on some of the tools I have been spearheading, as well as discussing what keeps new churches healthy and multiplying for generations.
Then I get to help facilitate feedback from three countries (Ethiopia, Congo-Brazzaville, and Togo) that are piloting a new tool, called GAPP, for coaching our staff and volunteers. They will share everything they’re learning—what’s working, what’s hard, what’s surprising. Several other countries requested to sit in and listen because they also want to learn how to utilize this new tool.
After that, more than 50 leaders from other organizations will join us for the full Coalition of the Willing West Africa gathering—two days of worship, prayer, and collaboration on how to complete the task as friends, not competitors.
Would you pray with me?
- Smooth travel and good health – long flights + December in West Africa can be adventurous!
- Clarity and unity as we talk through new tools and processes
- That every conversation points people to Jesus and multiplies healthy, reproducing churches
- The GAPP pilot countries – big decisions coming in 2026 about rolling this out wider
Thanks for carrying us in prayer. Means more than you know.
Greetings from Lomé,
Mike