Christ Our King Mission Alliance

An Unexpected Calling

I have had the privilege of meeting and loving refugees and people from other cultures for many years. Since coming to Christ in 1999, I have always had a heart for the least and the lost. But this particular journey started when a dear sister in our house church community found a pregnant Congolese woman passed out on the side of the road near our neighborhood in Grand Rapids. She happened to be a nurse and took the woman and her kids to the hospital. It turned out that she was the wife of a Congolese pastor in the area and they lived on the outskirts of our neighborhood.     

We did not speak their language and they did not understand our culture but they were believers and so Christ’s love compelled us to visit them and slowly but surely their children learned English and become our interpreters. We visited their church as a family and then I began teaching from time to time for their service and discipling a young Congolese man. I discovered that the man’s father, who was an elder in the church, was practicing ancestor worship. Desiring to equip the young man to talk to his father, I prayed and studied the Scripture to equip my friend and it turned into the writing of a book called, Talking with the Dead. 

I began to teach about death, the dead and the afterlife (Biblical worldview) and how that all relates to the Gospel and ancestor worship in refugee communities in Michigan and around the country. This opened the door to teach and disciple in East Africa and that led to the forming of Christ Our King Mission Alliance. The Lord told me that he brought me on this adventure and trusted this work to me because I was faithful to love the least of His people. Step out and serve and love and you will discover your gifts and calling.  

I have made several trips to Kenya and Uganda and have spent the last several years mentoring, equipping and discipling church leaders in Africa. God has graciously used the truth of His Word and the power of repentance to tear down many strongholds to bring hundreds of witch doctors to Christ and thousands have repented, been healed and saved including many Muslims, Catholics, prosperity preachers and spiritists. To date, we have planted over 25 churches with 165 MicroChurches in Kenya and Uganda and I have had the privilege to teach church leaders from many nations. What an amazing God we serve!

Lucas Comes to Christ … and a Whole Village with Him

Gerald, our coordinator in Uganda, was recently visiting on of our rural MicroChurches and he asked them, “Should we follow God or the culture?” A young witch named Lucas who was listening outside, came into the house and said, “I have been serving the culture my whole life and I want to follow God.”

Lucas is 22 years old and inherited the village shrine from his father when he was only 12. Gerald took Lucas home to disciple him and they prepared to travel back to his village and destroy the village shrine of his ancestors. When they returned, they went throughout the village calling people to burn their charms and one hundred people came to Christ. When they went to Lucas’ family to destroy the village shrine, the family agreed but Lucas’ brother and the next heir to the shrine, took some of the charms and ran and hid in the house. 

The brother suddenly died with the charms in his hand and Gerald wondered for a moment if the family and village would blame and persecute him. Instead, they recognized it as the hand of God and the whole family gave their lives to Christ and they destroyed the shrine. The family then asked Gerald to officiate the funeral, which is normally steeped in sacrifice and ancestral worship. Gerald agreed, shared the gospel at the funeral and taught the truth about the dead and two hundred more came to Christ. The church is now four hundred strong in that village area. 

Please pray that God would continue this great work and that we will be able to provide Bibles for all these new believers and small businesses for the witches that have come to Christ and lost their livelihoods.   

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