The Carpenter Family- Africa Missions Conference!

Kimberly Mer — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:40:19 +0000

Thank you for being a part of our team here in Central Africa. Thank you for praying when the Lord brings us and His work here to your minds. We believe that prayer is an essential part of God’s work and trust the Holy Spirit to prompt people to pray when much prayer is needed.

Would you please join us in special prayer for a unique gathering about missionary sending that will be happening in Kibimba, Burundi over the next week? Some people have already started their journeys, others will travel on Friday, the 21st. The gathering is being called the Central African Missions-Sending Learning Conference begin on Saturday, April 22 and go through Friday evening, April 28. This is truly an International gathering as it will include church leaders from Burundi, Congo, El Salvador, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United States.

We are so thankful that Brad’s parents could come out for a visit and that they will be with Chelsea and the kids while Brad is on this trip.

Please pray for:

the Holy Spirit to be the leader of the conference.
each participant to be open and ready to hear and learn from God and one another.
the Lord to make even more clear His heart and vision for all peoples to be saved.
God to raise up key leaders to direct each Yearly Meeting forward to sending out their own missionaries.
the Holy Spirit to lead and raise up those that He wants to send out to the nations.
for the families and ministries that each of us will have left at home, for God’s blessing and protection over them.

In Him,
Brad & Chelsea
Sarai, Gideon, and Ian

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2023 EFC Central Africa Missions-Sending Learning Conference

Kimberly Mer — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 21:13:06 +0000

EFM is excited about partnering with EFC-Africa to sponsor a conference, hosted by Burundi Friends, from April 21-29, to coach each other in establishing strong and healthy missions-sending practices. EFC-Africa has been asking for input from EFM as we partner with EFC-Rwanda to start a new mission field in South Sudan and with EFC-Burundi to start a new mission field in Tanzania.

These activities lean into the second part of EFM’s Five-Year goal, which inspires multiplication movements:

To send 10 new missionary households from North America to launch 5 new fields by 2025. In launching these new fields we will pursue partnerships with Evangelical Friends groups on other continents who share our vision and wish to work with us.

This conference, hosted at Kibimba in Burundi, involves 52 delegates from 12 countries. In addition to eight delegates from EFC-Rwanda and eight delegates from each of the Kwibuka and Kibimba Yearly meetings in EFC-Burundi, we also have guests from other EFC-Africa yearly meetings including four from Congo, two from Uganda, and two from Tanzania.

Other guests and presenters at the conference include:

Two from the missions board of EFC-Central America (from Guatemala and El Salvador) to tell their story of sending missionaries to Cambodia
Three from FUM (from Kenya and Tanzania) to tell their story of missions sending, including sending to Tanzania and South Sudan
Four from Global Disciples to introduce their Small Business Development training in business as mission strategy to the unreached (trainers from Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh, and from the US, Eric Fleck, Wabash Friends Church, IYM)
One pastor from EFC-Coahuila, Mexico
Nine from the US, including Dan Cammack (EFM Field Director), Matt Macy (EFM Director of Mobilization), Thayne Thompson (EFC-MAYM Superintendent), Jim LeShana (NWYM Superintendent), Chris Stanfield (Pastor at Paonia Friends Church, RMYM), David Thomas (EFM Missionary), Brad Carpenter (EFM Missionary), Thomas Moore (Short-Term Missionary in Rwanda), and Luke Macy (EFC-MAYM and photographer). These guests go to tell the story of EFM’s missions sending, plus to witness, listen, and learn.

Purpose of 2023 Central Africa Missions-Sending Learning Conference

To learn from each other and to encourage one another as to what are the components of a unified yearly meeting missions-sending strategy in fulfilling the Great Commission to the unreached peoples.

As we discover opportunities for growth we may find where we could receive some coaching or training to strengthen our unity and capacity in missions-sending strategy framework and learn where healthy partnerships might be helpful.

We hope that each yearly meeting present will be able to answer the following questions:

What did we hear from other yearly meetings’ missions-sending stories that are opportunities for growth in our own missions-sending journey?
What coaching, training, or partnerships would we consider to strengthen our missions-sending framework?
What are the specific next steps we need to take in order to start new mission field/s? What are the specific dates for these next steps?

Thank you for praying for this special gathering, that the Lord of the Harvest would guide us and inspire action and obedience in us, as we discover further how to be faithful in the sending out of workers into his fields.

Sincerely,
The Conference Planning Team
Aaron Mupenda (EFC-Africa Director and EFC-Rwanda Legal Representative), Louis Pasteur Nizigiyimana (EFC-Burundi Legal Representative), Domitien Sabongerwa (EFC-Burundi Missions Liaison), Brad Carpenter (EFM Missionary to Central Africa), and Matt Macy (EFM Director of Mobilization)

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The Carpenter Family- Africa Missions Conference!

2023 EFC Central Africa Missions-Sending Learning Conference