Bruce & Carol Ingram
ACTION International
Dear ACC,
We thank the Lord for ACC and your partnership with us in Christ’s work worldwide!
Bruce began mentoring Pastor Christopher Kapito, a church leader in Malawi, with Biblical lessons virtually three and a half years ago. In October, he traveled to Malawi to conduct a marriage conference and encourage the mentor groups for multiplying disciples. We saw Christ’s faithfulness.
Christ Is Faithfully Transforming Lives (John 8:31-36). We met with mentor group coordinators in five districts. The following is some of what they shared:
- Now we are doers of the word and not just hearers.
- Pastors were into prosperity gospel and selling items. Now they know the truth and are set free.
- Some in mentor groups were drunkards but repented and were born again. Some unforgiving but now able to forgive. Some in witchcraft but now submit to Christ as Lord.
- Before mentor group did not know God well.
- Before the mentor group I quarreled and was violent with my wife.
Christ Is Faithfully Multiplying Disciples (Matthew 28:18-20). Mentor groups for multiplying disciples to Christ were started to meet the great need for discipleship. God provided a team of five virtual teachers. After one year there were 200 mentor groups. Now after nearly four years there are 1,000 mentor groups and Village Bible Schools with over 12,000 participants.
Christ Is Faithfully Blessing the Poor. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him (James 2:5)? Most Malawians are subsistence farmers with $620/year income. As the mentor groups multiply, there is an urgent need for Bibles. Pray for Bibles for mentor groups, bicycles for coordinators and for the virtual training of coordinators to multiply disciples and bear eternal fruit glorifying God.
Praising God with you for all He is doing. Thanking Jesus at Christmas for His willingness to humble Himself, come into our world and die so that we will live! Serving Him with you to be His light in our world.
Christmas Blessings,
Bruce & Carol Ingram
couples blessing one another at the marriage conference we conducted recently in Malawi.
couples confessing sins, forgiving one another and praying together at the marriage conference.
one of the mentor group coordinators in Malawi receiving Bibles for mentor groups.
