More church leaders are hearing about Grace & Light and welcoming our volunteer teams to their Sunday services following advocacy visits.

The first visit, in February, was a meeting with 28 pastors from COCIN’s Dadin Kowa regional church council in Jos south.

International coordinator Tassie Ghata spoke for an hour, explaining how Grace & Light works with local churches as well as how they can become involved, then answered questions for 30 minutes.

“They were interested and some expressed surprise that they hadn’t heard about us before. Many promised to invite us into their churches and are now making bookings with the Jos volunteer team.”

In March Tassie spoke before 35 pastors at the annual Plateau Baptist Conference, also in Jos. Again she explained what Grace & Light does and how we work with local churches; this time speaking for 90 minutes with an hour for questions.

“This time I also spoke about the politics of righteousness and sexual and gender based violence that they need to be raising with their congregations.  

“Subsequently the pastors have been inviting us into their Baptist churches for the second half of this year and they are sharing with other pastors who were not at the conference.”

Five of the Baptist pastors also came to Grace & Light's annual general meeting a couple of days later.

Prayer Requests

Please pray for:

• COCIN and Baptist pastors being willing to invite Grace & Light volunteers into their churches and actually booking visits for Sunday services
• More church pastors to hear about our work and contact our Jos office to find out more.