One of Misgana Ministries’ priorities is to reach our community and the surrounding areas for Jesus. In this predominantly Muslim and Orthodox Christian area, sharing the Good News is of utmost importance.

In addition to expanding our local church we also want to support outreach efforts to towns and villages around us, especially those with no existing evangelical church. Although poorly paid, some evangelists are working hard to bring the word to several remote villages.

Satan is not so excited about this work. We had been focusing some of our efforts on the village of Bochessa—the village we had helped by building a bridge (click here).

However, due to spiritual oppression from the leaders of the village, we were asked to remove our church from the village. It was moved to an area outside Bochessa to another village called Gherbi. That little congregation is growing nicely, with many people giving their lives to Jesus. We don’t understand why such things happen; however, God does have a plan and, fortunately, He is in control.

The second village is Gobajocha, a village so remote and over such rough terrain that it can be reached faster by bicycle than by car. In Gobajocha, a small congregation has been raised up by a Meserete Kristos evangelist. Amazingly, the Muslim husband of one of the church members donated a prime piece of land to build the church building. A very basic mud building has been constructed on the site. Eventually we would like to build a proper church building for them.

Our mother church also has other outreaches, each under the responsibility of an evangelist or missionary.

Jihad (yes, that’s his real name) is a converted Muslim who has quite a story to tell. His whole testimony takes a long time to listen to, but extremely abbreviated, it is that he gave his life to Jesus after studying everything he could find about Him in the Koran. When he converted, his father took his wife, his children, and his house from him, and gave them to his brother. After doing all that to him, the family made plans to kill him and they declared he was no longer alive in their eyes.

As with many people who go through such a dramatic change (e.g. the Apostle Paul), Jihad is fervent in his love of Jesus and is determined to bring as many to salvation as possible. He is busy planting churches and witnessing to hundreds, and we are glad to be partners in his ministry.

In addition to the outreaches of the Ziway Meserete Kristos Church, we are also working with the same denomination in the neighboring towns of Adami Tulu and Meki, as well as some evangelical churches not affiliated with the Meserete Kristos denomination. It is so encouraging for us to be invited to their baptism ceremonies and related programs to observe the working of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of men, and to see the joy on the faces of the new Christians.

We have taken the Jesus Film, along with a generator, laptop computer, and projector to some of the villages where our evangelism work is going on. Attendance was amazingly good and several people submitted to the Almighty Authority of Jesus Christ as a result.

The Bochessa church building. Here a convert has come forward after services to give his life to Jesus. 

Outreach church building at the village of Gobajocha

Showing the Jesus Film in a primarily Muslim village