Akwanga Mission

My travels have recently taken me back to Nigeria. It was the close of August flowing into September and the rainy season in the middle belt of Nigeria. We gathered in the town of Akwanga, about an hour and a half drive outside of the capital city of Abuja for a Frontline Leader’s Conference. The event is one of nearly one hundred like it sponsored by Dallas based Global Advance around the world. The local hosting organization was CAPRO. The rains were sporadic but sometimes torrential. At one time during the daily sessions it rained so hard that while my friend and the lead on this missions trip, Jerry McQuay was teaching, you could barely hear him over the rains beating on the tin roof of our gathering place.



Pastor Nolan McCants before record crowd with Interpreter Very Rev. Gagara G. Mallunche

This meeting would prove to be historic as some 1200 pastor and leaders from throughout the region came for the three day conference. Only 800 had pre-registered, but the word had rapidly spread and daily the number increased, eventually peaking at this unanticipated number. The hunger was apparent as many came not knowing how they would even get back to their own village. Some slept in cars and some under the stars, risking safety to become strengthened through the scriptures. The word eventually reached local government officials, who once they got wind, began showing up unannounced to express their own amazement at what was transpiring and to offer their support of this and any future events such as this one. This was truly a victory for the Kingdom of God.

After this meeting I went on to Abuja where I preached at Dominion Chapel. Bishop John Praise (you’ve got to love that name) greeted me, opening his pulpit and his home to me. I shared on Trans-generational Vision, expressing the need to consider the enormity of a God-given vision and being intentional about laying proper foundations for the generations to come.

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