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).

 

 

 

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!

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 Malachi 3,1-4.23-24.

Thus says the Lord God: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; and suddenly there will come to the temple the Lord whom you seek, and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Yes, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
But who will endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears? For he is like the refiner's fire, or like the fuller's lye.
He will sit refining and purifying (silver), and he will purify the sons of Levi, Refining them like gold or like silver that they may offer due sacrifice to the LORD.
Then the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old, as in years gone by.
Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, Before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day,
To turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the land with doom.