West Africa MIssion

Klint Ostermann • April 21, 2025

Kingdom Work in West Africa

With your generous support, we traveled to Senegal in April for the West Africa Farming God’s Way In-Field Mentoring program, where we witnessed God’s transformative power in incredible ways.

In-Field Mentoring focuses on coaching Farming God’s Way trainers as they lead community training sessions, to help them on their journey to become accredited trainers. Currently, West Africa has only one accredited trainer, compared to 17 in Uganda alone. The region desperately needs more trainers to address both physical hunger and spiritual needs through food production and the Gospel.

Twelve trainers seeking accreditation—from Senegal, Gambia, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, and Benin—participated, and we’re optimistic that several will achieve accreditation next year. Additionally, about 80 attendees, including people from surrounding villages, missionaries, Peace Corps volunteers, and others interested in Farming God’s Way, joined the training. The mentees did an excellent job delivering their sessions.

During the training, six individuals committed their lives to Christ! Two Peace Corps volunteers from Hawaii and California approached local missionaries with questions about Jesus. They shared the Gospel with them and provided them with Bibles. We also had a powerful testimony from a Muslim woman from a restricted country in Northwest Africa, which we’ve shared in another post that can be found here.

Without your support, these nine individuals might not have encountered the Gospel. Thank you for making this impact possible!

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April 2025 Newsletter

By Klint Ostermann • April 21, 2025

Healings and Salvations

By Klint Ostermann • April 16, 2025

Last week, during our West Africa In-Field Mentoring in Senegal, we witnessed God’s transformative power in remarkable ways. I’m excited to share this story with you. In-Field Mentoring involves coaching mentees as they deliver sessions for community training. As mentors, we guide them beforehand, evaluate their presentations, determine if they earn credit for the session, and provide constructive feedback for improvement. Occasionally, a mentee struggles, requiring us to step in to ensure the audience receives accurate information. This happened on the second day during a session titled “Consider Your Ways, for You Are the Temple of God.” This powerful session often leads to repentance and salvation, but the mentee struggled to convey its message. I stepped in to lead the session, and as I spoke, I felt the Holy Spirit moving in the room. In Senegal, where 97% of the population is Muslim, sharing the Gospel openly can be met with resistance, and attendees have left trainings after such presentations. Yet, I felt led to share the Gospel boldly. Praise God, six men raised their hands to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior! We guided them through a prayer of repentance and connected them with a local pastor for discipleship. During the break, a Muslim woman from a closed Northwest African country approached me. She had traveled to Senegal specifically for this training and shared that the Gospel message I presented needed to reach her homeland, where such teachings are unheard. She revealed that for years, she had suffered from a debilitating nerve condition in her leg, impairing her ability to walk. She had been praying for healing for years, yet she found no relief—until the first day of our training, when God miraculously healed her! Overwhelmed, she felt something stir in her heart during the Gospel presentation but didn’t fully understand what was happening in her. She even said she wanted to become a Farming God’s Way trainer. Her country is deeply hostile to Christianity. Apostasy can carry a death sentence, though no known cases of this has occurred in recent years. Converts face severe risks, including family rejection, loss of livelihood, or exile. Extremist groups further endanger those who leave Islam. We provided her with a Bible and connected her with missionaries working in her country. Through Farming God’s Way, someone from a closed nation, who might never have heard the Gospel, encountered God’s love. Additionally, two Peace Corps workers from Hawaii and California attended the training. Afterward, they approached our team with questions about Jesus. Missionaries shared the Gospel with them and gave them Bibles. God is moving mightily through Farming God’s Way, drawing people to Him in unexpected and beautiful ways. Thank you for supporting this work that is transforming lives!