The team in Togo that we are joining recently completed a planning time. You can hear some of the results in these comments by Matt Hangen.
“This Thursday-Saturday we held all day meetings as a team to finish up our 5-year team strategy. We’re organizing ourselves around a strategy that uses Inductive/Discovery Bible Studies in family settings, Access Ministries to gain organic access to communities and locate God-provided gate-keepers to communities, and rapid multiplication by having Bible-study groups teaching others in their communities before and after conversion. We as a team laid out a national strategy for providing resources for existing Church leaders and for having started at least 3 Bible study groups in each of the 5 regions of Togo by 2014. We’ll be sticking to the Kabiye at first because of our commitment to teach in the local language and then hope to see God using these people to teach their ethnic neighbors (Kabiye outside of the Kara region are minorities but typically live in clusters, speaking the other languages of surrounding peoples). If you’d like to see more detail of this document please let me know!”
Ryan’s thought: It’s exciting to be joining a group that is expecting God to impact the whole nation of Togo!
Wow! It looks like I’ll be visiting my brother in Togo Africa someday! When will you be going? Congratulations on making a life changing decision! Hugs to you Beth and the kids!