What a Week!

Wow! This week has been a whirlwind! We are seeing so many opportunities to minister here that we need four of ourselves to keep up. This week was the beginning of the women’s health program at BRiCC. The class started off small with four ladies, but we have seen more interest this week and hope for many more to join tomorrow’s nutrition segment. Please continue to pray for the specific group of ladies that God has put on Katie’s heart in BRiCC’s community! Pray that they would join classes tomorrow. Also, pray that the four Nigerian nurses who signed up to help teach will follow through and more will want to help their community by partnering with us. 

This week’s football match sponsored by BRiCC drew bigger crows then the first and we are trusting that more will be interested in attending the final on May 9^th. Jeremy has approached a major company in Jos called Indomie (Roman Noodles) requesting support with the prematch concert. It’s amazing to see God stretching us in the area of public relations as we learn to approach hospitals, schools, companies and individuals in the community to support BRiCC and peace in Jos. Please pray that God would continue to give us favor with people as we learn. 

We have had the opportunity to make some new friends this week and were hugely blessed to meet an ethnomusicologist here with Wycliffe Bible Translators. We were able to attend a music and art festival this weekend during which people from seven different ethnic groups around this region presented the gospel’s impact on their lives through traditional music, dance, drama and art. It was such a beautiful and inspiring thing to watch people who had previously been discouraged from using their traditional music, dance and arts (due to the misconceptions of early missionaries) use their talents to worship God! Praise God, that even in the most stressful times He is still on His thrown and worthy of praise. 

Katie & a new friend at BRiCC's Second Match

Some of the Nigerian dancers at the Festival

Jeremy performing at the International School in Jos