Reaching Our Community
We support one another as we reach out to our community.
Each month home fellowship leaders who belong to the Ibsa Abdia network gather together for a time of fellowship, equipping, encouraging, and helping each other work on their strategies.
Shadrach* shares about their latest gathering,
“We gather to share a simple meal of rice and beef pilau, tea and bread. We go around and each leader shares a brief update from their home fellowship and ideas for a way forward to reach his community. Some ideas shared this month include:
deepening relationships with friends and family to win the opportunity to share the gospel with them,
visiting the sick,
passing out audio Bibles if someone is open,
and sharing the Jesus Film inside someone’s home.
Each idea is presented and discussed among the group for feedback.
We always include a time of encouragement. Ministry is so challenging. In our context, having a strong family unit is a great witness. We want to ensure all our families are thriving and we join together to encourage one another.
We will end our time with one member sharing a short devotion from something God has placed on his or her heart. This time, my wife shared from Psalm 123 and how God uses difficult times now to prepare us.”
*Names altered to protect the identity of those working in areas of increased persecution.