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Meet Clement. ☀️

For years, Clement “served the Lord in ignorance”. He was a leader in a local church, but it was empty, and he didn’t know the Lord.

In 2014, he fell back into drunkenness and witchcraft. It caused deep suffering for his family, and some of his children faced difficult paths.

Clement shared that he had lost all hope.

Then he met Isaac, a mission leader in Yei, South Sudan. Isaac invited him to a Sunday fellowship.

Today, Clement has given his life to Christ, is being discipled, and has newfound hope – for this life and eternity.

🙏 Pray for Clement and his family, and for more stories like his around Northeast Africa.

Our Village members are a community of supporters helping make this ministry possible every day. 🪴

Through consistent monthly support, they help train leaders, plant churches, and bring the gospel to communities that might otherwise never hear it.

The Village helps sustain the day-to-day work of our local leaders on the ground in Sudan, South Sudan, and the DR Congo.

To our Village members: thank you for linking arms with us in this work. 💛

Join the Village today: https://empower-one.org/give

Send us a message to learn more about how you can make a difference, or if you have any questions!

The church in Mvolo is a picture of how training one church planter can start a movement. 🌊

Pastor Noah is from Mvolo, South Sudan.

Ten years ago, Empower One opened a DTI training center in Maridi – about 130 miles away. Noah enrolled there to study doctrine, discipleship, and church planting.

After his training, he returned home and planted First Baptist Church Mvolo.

FBC Mvolo has been an incredible picture of multiplication – serving, making disciples, and planting churches like Doamiri Baptist Church (pictured).

Today, 30 students are being trained at the DTI in Mvolo, and some are going on to continue their training at NEATS.

The next Flagship Church will be built there to strengthen the multiplication that is already happening in Mvolo.

Thank you for praying for God to move in Northeast Africa.

💬 Help us spread the word by sharing with someone who would be encouraged with this story!

Flagship Water System Update! 💧

The water tower in Gurei is complete, and the towers in Mvolo and Yambio are under way!

These clean water systems help reduce waterborne illness, which is a leading cause of death in South Sudan.

As people come for clean water, they have the opportunity to hear about Jesus.

They also help bring in a small income stream for the churches, to help them strengthen and support their ministry.

Thank you for praying and giving to help make change like this possible!

We talk a lot about Flagship Churches – but what are they, and what do they do?

These churches are church-planting multiplication centers that aim to plant 50 churches every year until Jesus comes back.

💊 Each one has a pharmacy, school, and clean water system to serve the community, build trust, and strengthen the local church.

📻 Radio stations help extend the reach of the gospel where travel is often long and difficult.

📚 And Discipleship Training Institutes, extension centers of our seminary in South Sudan, equip future leaders with training in Christian doctrine, disciple-making, and church planting.

And this is all to build strong, self-sustaining churches in Northeast Africa that will:
⛪ plant more churches
🕊️and reach unreached communities in some of the hardest places in Africa

Follow along to hear more stories and impact from these church multiplication centers, and how you can be part of the vision.

Pastor Ahoch planted this church in the D**g area of Maluth in South Sudan.

This church is a picture of how the Gospel moves forward in remote and underreached areas: a church planter gathering a group of people to worship, pray, and study Scripture together.

Their faith and fellowship can grow into a movement that reaches an entire community with the hope of Christ.

Maluth also has opportunities to minister to families and refugees affected by conflict and displacement in Sudan.

Pastors in this area have asked us to pray for this church, for Pastor Ahoch, and for the surrounding community to be reached with the Gospel.

In many ways, women are the backbone of the church in Northeast Africa.

Recently, 102 women gathered in the DR Congo for a women’s conference.

They worshiped together.
They studied Scripture together.
They prayed for and encouraged one another.

Moments like these strengthen their faith, their families, and their entire communities.

We are so grateful for these incredible women and how they are shaping their families through faith.

Will you join us in praying for them as they return home to live out what they’ve learned?

What started 20 years ago as a meeting under a tree has grown into a flourishing church community – and so much more. 🌱

Last May, we celebrated the dedication of the Flagship Church in Kajo Keji. Thousands of people gathered from all over to witness how God is moving in the world’s newest country.

But the church at Kajo Keji knows that these blessings aren’t meant to stay in one place. They have a vision to take the gospel farther.

They’re planting churches across their county, throughout the state, and beyond.

We’re so grateful for what God is doing through them. Will you join us in praying for First Baptist Church Kajo Keji, and the new churches they are planting?

Your support helps plant churches and equip leaders so this work can continue throughout Northeast Africa.
🔗 You can give at: https://empower-one.org/give

This month, we’re praying for perseverance.

The Northeast African church lives this out daily: steadfast in faith and dependent on God in every season.

Seeds are being planted. Hope is taking root.
God is present and at work among His people.

We invite you to stand with us in prayer for our teams, the communities we serve, and every life that is being shaped by God’s faithfulness.

“Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” – Galatians 6:9