HAITII am greatly encouraged by the prospects of es-tablishing a TEE program to develop the leader-ship of churches in the Fond des Blancs area, 75 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince. Abner Noza and most of his siblings left this area years ago to seek a better life. Brother Noza became a taxi driver in Washington, DC. He is retired, but oc-casionally drives to supplement his income.

Twenty-five years ago Brother Noza felt God calling him to help his people. He started the GSI Haiti Mission. He became a certified pastor in Haiti. Over the years he raised money to start Gethsemane Church and School in his home community. The church is well established. The school children meet under frames covered with canvas. However a massive foundation with some finished walls await funds to be completed. The church and school are impacting the community and have a great future.

The mission is reaching out to help all churches in the region. In August, I presented the TEE method of leadership development to sixteen leaders to see if they were interested. They came from two associations of churches in the region with a combined membership of 40 churches.

Their response was very positive. An ad-hoc committee was established to promote the pro-gram, develop some basic policies to get the program started, set up study groups and pre-pare for my next training seminar in February or March. At that time, I will train the study group leaders for a pilot project of 6 or 7 classes. I will meet with the members of the two church associations and invite them to become a part of the program. We want this to be a grassroots

Forwarding Agents:Bob & Connie Sheffler3330 W. Festive Dr.Bloomington, IN 47403

Contact Information:tel. 812-391-6096/cell: 812-391-4229email: robertsheffler@yahoo.comwebsite: www/grassrootsld.org www.cltigh.org

CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTEand

GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTsponsored by Ivory Coast Christian Mission

equipping leaders to train MORE leadersIVORY COAST CHRISTIAN MISSION - Fall 2013 newsletter

To learn more about TEE and how it fills a leadership gap, visit our website atgrassrootsld.org

Mission Services2004 E. Magnolia Ave.Knoxville, TN 37917

Return Service Requested

Non Profit Org.U.S. Postage Paid

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Praise andPrayer Requests

1. Thank God for the opportunity to start TEE classes in Haiti.

2. Thank God for the growth of TEE classes in Ethiopia and Mexico.

3. Thank God for the growth of the churches in Nigeria

4. Thank God for the work of the Christian Leadership Training Institute in western Africa.

5. Ask God to provide funds for the Self-Help Tractor project and the Chamba Church Roof project.

6. Pray for the success of TEE classes in Ethiopia, Haiti, the Philippines and Mexico.

7. Pray for the development of strong leaders for the churches in western Africa.

Visit us at the following web sites:

Christian LeadershipTraining Institute:

cltigh.org

Grassroots LeadershipDevelopment:

grassrootsld.org

Bob preparing to teach in Haiti

training program that is owned and operated by the local leaders.

Three of my TEE course books have been trans-lated into Haitian Creole by Amber Alexander and published by Literature and Teaching Ministries. The books have been well received, but are mostly used as Sunday School guides. I welcome this opportunity to set up a program that will use them for their intended purpose of developing church leadership using the three-step TEE method.

NIGERIAThe annual youth camp of the Christian Churches was held in August. The theme of the four day youth camp was WHO IS A TRUE BELIEVER? Steward-ship, righteousness and Christian discipline were among the topics covered. The impact of informa-tion technology, drug abuse and healthy living dealt with the physical challenges youth face. Prayer night focused on dedicating one’s life to God. The youth went away rejoicing that it was the best camp ever organized.

Students of the Cross River State Christian College and Seminary completed a month of intensive prac-tical experience in various churches in September. The internships were relevant to their training in the areas of church planting, church growth, evan-gelism, counseling and church administration. The experience developed their practical skills and pas-sion for the Lord’s work. Both the churches and the students benefited from the intensive evangelism and visitation programs.

GHANA - Christian LeadershipTraining InstituteWomen Enrichment Seminars: Beatrice Ofori and Victoria Surugu held Women Enrichment Seminars for women in the Ada-Lower Volta Regions. This was the first time for a seminar at Sege so they were given the primary lessons on the Woman of Noble Character, being a Successful Wife, Winning an Un-believing Husband and a A Call to Lead. Lessons taught at the other seminars were Being a Successful Parent, Communication in Marriage, God’s Intention for Women in Creation, Avoiding Discrimination and Favoritism in Marriage, and Discipline in the Family. These lessons help women discover the best way to make changes in their traditions that will bring joy and happiness into the family.

Leadership Development Seminars: Stephen Ofori and Godfred Mintah held leadership seminars in the Ada, Lower Volta and Nkwanta areas. This year they are challenging leaders to analyze the local socio-cultural, environmental and technological factors as well as the global trends that affect the dynamics of their churches. One of the new challenges that fool Bible believing Christians is the prophetic church movement which deceives many with counterfeit miracles. The rural churches are facing migration to the cities, the loss of good leaders from the commu-nity, families that are too large to support and single parenting. This makes it difficult to grow the church. The challenge is to make changes so the churches can do more evangelism and plant more churches.

TEE Graduation ceremonies: Graduation ceremo-nies were held in the Nkwanta and Ningo areas for

The new Toyota pickup being usedfor Evangelism in Nigeria Some of the TEE graduates in the Nkwanta region

23 students who completed the required courses. Other areas of Ghana are still to schedule ceremo-nies for their graduates.

IVORY COAST CHRISTIAN MISSIONI was in Ghana in September for the annual board meeting of the Christian Leadership Training In-stitute. We are thankful that board members/TEE supervisors from all four countries were able to attend. Some years this is not possible because of political unrest in one or more of the countries. Liberia continues to grow in the number of TEE students. Ivory Coast is holding its own in spite of continued political unrest. Ghana is showing some decline, but Nigeria continues to start new churches and new TEE classes.

I spent two days with Austin and Amanda Ganyo in Tamale. I am on their board of directors in America - Training Tomorrow’s Leaders. We discussed their work and their plans for starting a church in Tamale, the fastest growing and third largest city in Ghana. Austin graduated with a Masters Degree from Cincin-nati Christian University last year. He supervises church planters in northern Ghana. These church planters were established by David and Barbara Kalb while they were living and working in Ghana. David and Barbara continue to raise support for the church planters and give guidance to the work through their new mission, Training Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Bob with Austin Ganyo, and two church planters, Kingsley Laryea and Daniel Marley

MEXICOJaime Castro reports that all is going well in the plans to relaunch Mexico Christian University in Queretaro. The training of teachers to use the Three-Step-Method of leadership development in June was successful. Thirty-two students did a pilot class project and they officially launched the TEE extension classes on August 3. They plan to launch an extension class in the USA at St. Charles, Missouri this fall.

ETHIOPIAFour new TEE classes are being started under the direction of Eshete Belete - two in Dessie (northern Ethiopia) and two in Enchini (western Ethiopia). They are moving forward aggressively after doing pilot projects for TEE and using them to train lead-ers for new church plants of the Great Commission Movement. Three of the TEE course books have been translated and printed in Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, thanks to the help of Literature and Teaching Ministries in Joplin, Missouri.

SPECIAL PROJECTSSelf-Help Tractor Project: We presented this project in the spring news letter. Daniel Marley is a church planter in northern Ghana. $18,000 will purchase a used diesel tractor with plow and trailer that will en-able his church to support itself, enable its members to be more successful farmers and provide funds for starting more churches. We have $6,500 donated for this project, but need to have the project completed before the next farming seasons which starts in March.

We thank Janet Mountjoy for her donation to the project in memory of her mother, Esther Simpson. Perhaps others would like to give a donation in memory of a loved one.

Church Roof Project: The Chamba Christian Church, under the leadership of church planter Kingsley Lar-yea in northern Ghana, has managed to construct a 30 feet by 60 feet house of worship up to the roof level. They have raised $1,000 of the needed $4,000 for a roof, doors and windows. The church is young and located in a strategic region where satellite churches are being planted. Completing the house of worship will give the church respect in the region and encourage the new Christians.

I spent one hour of intensive discussion with Enoch Nyador, director of FAME Ghana which is supported by Ghana Christian Mission in the USA. I have been on the Ghana Christian Mission board a little over a year. We had only an hour for discussion because of Enoch’s busy schedule. Enoch has been invited to be the president of the International Conference On Missions (ICOM) for 2017.

training program that is owned and operated by the local leaders.

Three of my TEE course books have been trans-lated into Haitian Creole by Amber Alexander and published by Literature and Teaching Ministries. The books have been well received, but are mostly used as Sunday School guides. I welcome this opportunity to set up a program that will use them for their intended purpose of developing church leadership using the three-step TEE method.

NIGERIAThe annual youth camp of the Christian Churches was held in August. The theme of the four day youth camp was WHO IS A TRUE BELIEVER? Steward-ship, righteousness and Christian discipline were among the topics covered. The impact of informa-tion technology, drug abuse and healthy living dealt with the physical challenges youth face. Prayer night focused on dedicating one’s life to God. The youth went away rejoicing that it was the best camp ever organized.

Students of the Cross River State Christian College and Seminary completed a month of intensive prac-tical experience in various churches in September. The internships were relevant to their training in the areas of church planting, church growth, evan-gelism, counseling and church administration. The experience developed their practical skills and pas-sion for the Lord’s work. Both the churches and the students benefited from the intensive evangelism and visitation programs.

GHANA - Christian LeadershipTraining InstituteWomen Enrichment Seminars: Beatrice Ofori and Victoria Surugu held Women Enrichment Seminars for women in the Ada-Lower Volta Regions. This was the first time for a seminar at Sege so they were given the primary lessons on the Woman of Noble Character, being a Successful Wife, Winning an Un-believing Husband and a A Call to Lead. Lessons taught at the other seminars were Being a Successful Parent, Communication in Marriage, God’s Intention for Women in Creation, Avoiding Discrimination and Favoritism in Marriage, and Discipline in the Family. These lessons help women discover the best way to make changes in their traditions that will bring joy and happiness into the family.

Leadership Development Seminars: Stephen Ofori and Godfred Mintah held leadership seminars in the Ada, Lower Volta and Nkwanta areas. This year they are challenging leaders to analyze the local socio-cultural, environmental and technological factors as well as the global trends that affect the dynamics of their churches. One of the new challenges that fool Bible believing Christians is the prophetic church movement which deceives many with counterfeit miracles. The rural churches are facing migration to the cities, the loss of good leaders from the commu-nity, families that are too large to support and single parenting. This makes it difficult to grow the church. The challenge is to make changes so the churches can do more evangelism and plant more churches.

TEE Graduation ceremonies: Graduation ceremo-nies were held in the Nkwanta and Ningo areas for

The new Toyota pickup being usedfor Evangelism in Nigeria Some of the TEE graduates in the Nkwanta region

23 students who completed the required courses. Other areas of Ghana are still to schedule ceremo-nies for their graduates.

IVORY COAST CHRISTIAN MISSIONI was in Ghana in September for the annual board meeting of the Christian Leadership Training In-stitute. We are thankful that board members/TEE supervisors from all four countries were able to attend. Some years this is not possible because of political unrest in one or more of the countries. Liberia continues to grow in the number of TEE students. Ivory Coast is holding its own in spite of continued political unrest. Ghana is showing some decline, but Nigeria continues to start new churches and new TEE classes.

I spent two days with Austin and Amanda Ganyo in Tamale. I am on their board of directors in America - Training Tomorrow’s Leaders. We discussed their work and their plans for starting a church in Tamale, the fastest growing and third largest city in Ghana. Austin graduated with a Masters Degree from Cincin-nati Christian University last year. He supervises church planters in northern Ghana. These church planters were established by David and Barbara Kalb while they were living and working in Ghana. David and Barbara continue to raise support for the church planters and give guidance to the work through their new mission, Training Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Bob with Austin Ganyo, and two church planters, Kingsley Laryea and Daniel Marley

MEXICOJaime Castro reports that all is going well in the plans to relaunch Mexico Christian University in Queretaro. The training of teachers to use the Three-Step-Method of leadership development in June was successful. Thirty-two students did a pilot class project and they officially launched the TEE extension classes on August 3. They plan to launch an extension class in the USA at St. Charles, Missouri this fall.

ETHIOPIAFour new TEE classes are being started under the direction of Eshete Belete - two in Dessie (northern Ethiopia) and two in Enchini (western Ethiopia). They are moving forward aggressively after doing pilot projects for TEE and using them to train lead-ers for new church plants of the Great Commission Movement. Three of the TEE course books have been translated and printed in Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, thanks to the help of Literature and Teaching Ministries in Joplin, Missouri.

SPECIAL PROJECTSSelf-Help Tractor Project: We presented this project in the spring news letter. Daniel Marley is a church planter in northern Ghana. $18,000 will purchase a used diesel tractor with plow and trailer that will en-able his church to support itself, enable its members to be more successful farmers and provide funds for starting more churches. We have $6,500 donated for this project, but need to have the project completed before the next farming seasons which starts in March.

We thank Janet Mountjoy for her donation to the project in memory of her mother, Esther Simpson. Perhaps others would like to give a donation in memory of a loved one.

Church Roof Project: The Chamba Christian Church, under the leadership of church planter Kingsley Lar-yea in northern Ghana, has managed to construct a 30 feet by 60 feet house of worship up to the roof level. They have raised $1,000 of the needed $4,000 for a roof, doors and windows. The church is young and located in a strategic region where satellite churches are being planted. Completing the house of worship will give the church respect in the region and encourage the new Christians.

I spent one hour of intensive discussion with Enoch Nyador, director of FAME Ghana which is supported by Ghana Christian Mission in the USA. I have been on the Ghana Christian Mission board a little over a year. We had only an hour for discussion because of Enoch’s busy schedule. Enoch has been invited to be the president of the International Conference On Missions (ICOM) for 2017.

HAITII am greatly encouraged by the prospects of es-tablishing a TEE program to develop the leader-ship of churches in the Fond des Blancs area, 75 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince. Abner Noza and most of his siblings left this area years ago to seek a better life. Brother Noza became a taxi driver in Washington, DC. He is retired, but oc-casionally drives to supplement his income.

Twenty-five years ago Brother Noza felt God calling him to help his people. He started the GSI Haiti Mission. He became a certified pastor in Haiti. Over the years he raised money to start Gethsemane Church and School in his home community. The church is well established. The school children meet under frames covered with canvas. However a massive foundation with some finished walls await funds to be completed. The church and school are impacting the community and have a great future.

The mission is reaching out to help all churches in the region. In August, I presented the TEE method of leadership development to sixteen leaders to see if they were interested. They came from two associations of churches in the region with a combined membership of 40 churches.

Their response was very positive. An ad-hoc committee was established to promote the pro-gram, develop some basic policies to get the program started, set up study groups and pre-pare for my next training seminar in February or March. At that time, I will train the study group leaders for a pilot project of 6 or 7 classes. I will meet with the members of the two church associations and invite them to become a part of the program. We want this to be a grassroots

Forwarding Agents:Bob & Connie Sheffler3330 W. Festive Dr.Bloomington, IN 47403

Contact Information:tel. 812-391-6096/cell: 812-391-4229email: robertsheffler@yahoo.comwebsite: www/grassrootsld.org www.cltigh.org

CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTEand

GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTsponsored by Ivory Coast Christian Mission

equipping leaders to train MORE leadersIVORY COAST CHRISTIAN MISSION - Fall 2013 newsletter

To learn more about TEE and how it fills a leadership gap, visit our website atgrassrootsld.org

Mission Services2004 E. Magnolia Ave.Knoxville, TN 37917

Return Service Requested

Non Profit Org.U.S. Postage Paid

Knoxville, TNPermit #374

Praise andPrayer Requests

1. Thank God for the opportunity to start TEE classes in Haiti.

2. Thank God for the growth of TEE classes in Ethiopia and Mexico.

3. Thank God for the growth of the churches in Nigeria

4. Thank God for the work of the Christian Leadership Training Institute in western Africa.

5. Ask God to provide funds for the Self-Help Tractor project and the Chamba Church Roof project.

6. Pray for the success of TEE classes in Ethiopia, Haiti, the Philippines and Mexico.

7. Pray for the development of strong leaders for the churches in western Africa.

Visit us at the following web sites:

Christian LeadershipTraining Institute:

cltigh.org

Grassroots LeadershipDevelopment:

grassrootsld.org

Bob preparing to teach in Haiti