Against All Odds
How do you serve the Lord in impossible circumstances? In the Bible, there are many people that lived for Him in the midst of great difficulty. Think about Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Ruth, Esther, or Rahab. A modern-day example of this is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where Gospelink supports over 100 families serving the Lord against impossible odds. DRC is a nation of 88 million people (about twice the population of California) who live in a vast nation of dirt roads, little electricity, over 100 active rebel groups, and the largest UN peace keeping army in the world.
This is exactly where Pastor Isidore lives! He was a former Congolese soldier who killed dozens of people before coming to Christ and finding peace and forgiveness in Him. He was trained for the ministry under the leadership of National Director, Athanase Habimana. Now, Pastor Isidore is a Gospelink missionary and he takes the light of the gospel into the darkness! Often, he is gone for weeks to share the gospel in remote villages, military camps and rebel camps. On a recent evangelism trip, he discovered that six of his seven children had become so sick that three of them were hospitalized for treatment and one of them almost died. The funds he received from his sponsors here in the USA helped them to recover and live yet another day.
Last year he took the Good News to Kibumba and Nyanza villages and also to Rumangabo military camp. In this camp, Pastor Isidore read from 1 Corinthians 3:16 and shared how God created our bodies to be a temple where His Spirit can live. He also explained how many of us use our bodies to do evil and that we do not allow God to live within us. From Romans 6:23 he shared that the wages of sin is death, but faith in Jesus Christ provides everlasting life! These soldiers listened with great intensity to the man of God as he explained what his former life was like and what his life is like now. Through his testimony and the reading of God’s Word, 50 soldiers in Rumangabo camp received Christ in 2020. Now, Pastor Isidore has baptized 40 of them and they are growing and becoming disciples who will make more disciples in the months and years to come.
God is still changing lives and authoring His story through exceedingly difficult circumstances in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Would you pray for our native missionary families serving the Lord in this far away nation?
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