Pablo serves in West Africa, where he uses English teaching to develop relationships for the gospel. Praise God for the time away in the desert with the centre staff, including a good conversation with one of the new teachers called ‘Kerry’. This has helped Pablo, as one of the latest in a series of believers to interact with him, in knowing how to take things forward with Kerry. In January, a TikTok account was created, which resulted in a surge of new enquiries from prospective students! Praise God that through this avenue, they have grown from 30 to 80 students a day. They have now started a new term of classes and activities. Please pray for good use of time and clear guidance to connect with the right people, especially with all these new students. Pablo will be teaching a new class this term on ‘Ethics’. Ask that this may open up many conversations about morality, ultimately resulting in the conclusion that our God is unfailingly and objectively good!  

Pablo* serves in West Africa, where he uses English teaching to develop relationships for the gospel. He is enjoying continuing to walk through Acts with ‘B’ and is astounded by how much his life resembles those of the apostles (4:1-22, for example). In November, despite being cut off from his family, he returned to his village to share the truth with them and through his fearless witness, his friend at the market where he works seems to have become a believer too. B is also now connected with the small community of local believers from his ethnic group, which has been a huge step in encouraging his young faith. Pray he’d be edified, and that his family’s hearts would open. Pray for Pablo as he has faced many challenges recently, including: pretty much everything in his flat breaking (fridge, toilet, fan, laptop, etc.); a robbery at the English Centre with expensive equipment stolen; and serious, harmful, and false rumours seeking to undermine their work and testimony there.

Pablo* serves in West Africa, where he continues to use English teaching to develop relationships for the gospel. Please pray for those who are interested – Issy, Zak, Barry, Sam, Moses, Sid and plenty of others – that there would be more chances to share, more open hearts, and more freedom. Pray for those who have believed – C, B, Mo – that they’d grow as they stand on Jesus the rock. Pray too for a quick resolution for a significant dilemma for the English centre as their NGO status in-country isn’t entirely clear (potentially all in order, but possibly not). If Pablo raises this with the authorities, they may seize the opportunity to make trouble. Ask for honest people to deal with.

* Name changed for security reasons