2013 Annual Report - The Foursquare Church

2013 Foursquare Cabinet Foursquare Missions International
Niamey; in Senegal – several hectares have been purchased and are being developed for a
mission base in the southern part of country. All this can be celebrated as these purchases will
secure the long-­‐term vision of the church and offer opportunities in the future for indigenous
works and workers to grow – knowing that they have the security of their own facilities to work
from – and this can not be easily kicked out Muslim landlords.
Central Africa Region
Though not yet an official Foursquare region, the countries (The Central African Republic, The
Democratic Republic of Congo, The Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea,
Chad and Sao Tome and Principe) are monetarily and politically linked. Over the last few years
Dan has seen that all these countries now have viable Foursquare churches except for the
smallest island nation of Sao Tome and Principe.
• In the past five years we can celebrate that the Foursquare works here have and are
especially consolidating and maturing in the nations of 1) Cameroon, 2) The Democratic
Republic of the Congo and 3) The Central African Republic. Despite huge obstacles
endemic to Africa (material needs, war and rebels, disease, etc.) – over these last few
years we have seen in partnership and coordination with the Dan that the nation of
Chad has been opened by the Foursquare Church in The Central African Republic; The
Republic of Congo has been opened by Foursquare Democratic Republic of Congo
(KINSHASA); Gabon opened by Foursquare Holland and Guinea Equatorial opened by
Foursquare Spain.
• Amongst these nations Apostolic leaders and anointing are flowing particularly three of
them 1) Cameroon, 2) The Central African Republic and 3) The Democratic Republic of
the Congo evidenced with church planting exploits and national programs for leadership
training and multiplication. This gives a new indigenous stability to this part of Africa
and will allow these leaders to determine their future as concerns regionalization issues
/ multiplication. Presently they are thrown into the two Regions that are referred to as
West Africa and Francophone Africa.
• All the nations here identify as French-­‐speaking yet they would probably be better
served (due to distance, costs, and other impracticalities in the present regional
configurations) to become their own region and the leaders have begun to talk and
process in this direction. Done in a healthy way this should be nurtured and celebrated.
Challenges and areas of prayer
1. National Leaders of Chad & Senegal -­‐ Both still deal with health issues.
Particularly the Senegal leader who has a kidney and liver cysts /infection disease
and is often in France for medical treatment. On-­‐going intercession asked for.
2. Guinea -­‐ The sudden death in the second week of September 2012 has not
stopped the work and the Cote d’Ivoire has apostolically picked up the burden with
new land purchases and building projects going on as new churches are being
planted.
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