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Kumabo is the word used in Burkina Faso for what Jesus did for us at Calvary. Kumabo means to take the head out. Africans who were on their way to the coast to go into slavery were chained by the neck to the person in front and behind them. If someone cared enough to pay to redeem them, they were released from the neck iron and freed. Kumabo, to take the neck out, to redeem. Jesus paid for our redemption with His life (K. Conkle).

 

 

 

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Prayer Warriors Needed! Please join us in asking the Lord to establish a new church in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Pray that Jesus would direct our steps as we seek to obey His command to make disciples of all nations through the power of the Holy Spirit. Also, please pray for the unreached people groups in Sierra Leone; such as the Kuranko and the Fula Jalon. If you live in the Kenema area and would like to be a part of this core group, kindly message us for further details. Thank you!

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This is the new Western Karaboro church in Banfora, Burkina Faso (some of the people and the building where they meet). Please pray that The Lord would help new believers overcome persecution and for tribal chiefs to open their villages to the church's ministry. Thank you!

The Word

Book of Wisdom 2,23-24.3,1-9.

God formed man to be imperishable; the image of his own nature he made him.
But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who are in his possession experience it.
But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.
They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was thought an affliction
and their going forth from us, utter destruction. But they are in peace.
For if before men, indeed, they be punished, yet is their hope full of immortality;
Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself.
As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself.
In the time of their visitation they shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble;
They shall judge nations and rule over peoples, and the LORD shall be their King forever.
Those who trust in him shall understand truth, and the faithful shall abide with him in love: Because grace and mercy are with his holy ones, and his care is with the elect.

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