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Dear Praying Friends of TTC,

We were saddened to hear on Monday morning that Pastor Mwangi in Kenya has succumbed to the coronavirus. He is lovingly remembered by his church family as “Our Departed Hero, Bishop Wilson Mwangi.”

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Prior to the Kenyan government’s suspension of all in-person meetings nationwide, Scott was scheduled to hold a two-day pastors conference at Pastor Mwangi’s church on Friday and Saturday of this week. This tragic event highlights the continued need for prayers for the church in Africa, as well as for God’s watch-care over our ministry – both in protecting Scott and in helping us to not be part of spreading this cursed sickness among God’s servants through our meetings. 

Today we also received an urgent prayer request from Pastor Bernard (one of our disciple-makers in India) about his wife Mercy’s parents who have contracted COVID. Mercy’s father, Pastor Benjamin, oversees over 100 churches. Both he and his wife are now in the hospital, but in addition to their physical challenges, they are also struggling to pay for their needed medical treatment. In this remote part of India, you have to pay up front in order to receive medical care. (If you’d like to donate toward the cost of their care, click here and under Fund, select “Pastor Benjamin’s COVID Hospitalization – India.”)

But… even while the enemy is coming in like a flood in so many parts of the world to steal, kill, and destroy through the pandemic, God is doing wonderful things among us and through our team in Africa. This past Friday, Scott was able to invest in 15 pastors who have been attending TTC Disciple-Makers groups for several months now. Each of these pastors will soon begin training leaders in their own churches, utilizing the practical training Scott provides to ensure that each disciple-makers group actually raises disciple-makers, as opposed to becoming just another Bible study. It was encouraging to hear their feedback and to envision all the disciple-makers that will be raised up in the months to come!

We are also excited to announce that this coming Sunday we will hold our first ever Disciple-Makers Network fellowship meeting (online) at 8 AM in Missouri, 3 PM in Zimbabwe and South Africa, 4 PM in Tanzania and Kenya, 6:30 PM in India, and 9 PM in the Philippines. This meeting is only open to those who are leading Disciple-Makers groups and their guests. Scott will be recognizing four of them who we consider to be Disciple-Makers Indeed. These are people who have trained disciples who are in turn teaching others. Including Scott’s initial training of them, each of these leaders (with their disciple-makers and those their disciple-makers are training) are a living example of the four generations of disciple-makers described in 2 Timothy 2:2.

There’s lots more to share, but we will save the rest for future updates. In the meantime, here are…

This Week’s Prayer Targets:
1. Comfort for Pastor Mwangi’s family and church, and for the families and churches of so many other pastors in Africa and India who have perished from this dreadful pandemic.
2. Pastor Benjamin and his wife to recover fully from COVID; provision of funds for their medical treatment.
3. Scott’s upcoming Raising Disciple-Makers seminar in Andover, Kansas on September 17-18, 2021.
4. God to guide the dozens of pastors who will be opening new Disciple-Makers groups in their churches in the coming weeks and months.

Thank you again for your faithful prayers and support!

Raising Disciple-Makers,
Scott, Patty, and the whole TTC team

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