A new team formed in Bokkos following our latest volunteer training and new members have been added to teams in Panshin, Mangu, Bauchi and Jos.
Bokkos is a rural local government area south east of Jos, and consists of many dispersed farming villages surrounding the small administrative town of Bokkos.
The team was formed following new volunteer training at the end of January and early February. Twently-three participants took part in the training and all joined either the Bokkos team, or the existing teams afterwards.
During the training, they explored in depth the scriptural basis for social righteousness, which underpins all we do.
This includes our response to HIV/AIDS, medical and societal aspects of the disease, counselling, care and support, team work and relationships, how to contact churches, preaching, and establishing voluntary savings and accountability groups and action committees that administer Grace & Light activities in each church.
They also learnt how to share Grace & Light’s four key social righteousness focuses – poverty and wealth, work and corruption, sexual and gender-based violence, and the politics of righteousness.
Volunteers were able to put what they learnt into practice on the final day during vision sharing, counselling and testing in a Jos church.
Teams in Mangu, Bauchi and Jos now have new members and the Mangu team has reactivated following a five month hiatus.
In Panshin the team has also been reactivated, after being inactive for a few years. It is a small team and is being supported by Jos volunteers as they rebuild relationships with local church leaders and congregations.
This was our 49th volunteer training in Nigeria and the first time we have used our new Jos training centre to deliver training.
Prayer Requests
Please pray for:
- More people in Panshin and Bauchi to volunteer for training and strengthen these teams so they can continue to visit and minister to local churches
- The Bokkos team as they establish themselves and build relationships with churches in their local area; that members will remain committed to God and to Grace & Light as well as the congregations they visit
- Local church leaders will welcome volunteer teams into their churches to share the gospel with congregations, as well as counselling and testing for HIV and setting up voluntary savings and accountability groups.
